JAKE COSSEY - A-LEVEL FILM STUDIES

0:00-1:05 – Backstory and introduction. Text.    1:11-1:20 - An establishing wide shot of the train and location. We are introduced to Buster Keaton with a medium close up shot and then the camera pans along the train to introduce The General the train as it is the second most important character in the film.   1:20-1:30 – wide shot establishes location and the time in which the film was set e.g. Horse and cart shows the time. The General then swipes left to right through the scene destructing the shot (connotes to how the train is always a disruption.) but also connotes how the movement in technology is happening as the horse and cart is in the foreground, presenting the past and then in the background is the train which is connoting the future.   1:38-1:50 – Further develops Keatings characters as he has an encounter with two young boys.   2:03 – Introduced to the two loves of his life “his engine and Annabel” shown with a close up to a frame of her.  ...

With the BFI London Film festival just starting I thought it would be a good time to research about it. After flicking through the programme a lot of the galas look very good but a few caught my eye, one being Decision to Leave  a  South Korean  romantic mystery film produced, co-written and directed by Park Chan-wook. The film is about  a  detective who is investigating a man's death in the mountains of Korea, on his journey he ends up meeting and developing feelings for the dead man's mysterious wife in the course of his dogged sleuthing. The English. I also liked the look of The English a Western TV series starring  Emily Blunt. The English is about this sweeping tale of love and revenge from award-winning television auteur Hugo Blick. At the BFI London Film Festival the first two episodes will be shown.  I have embedded to trailer below.  

I created this power point on the pioneers of film and what they all contributed to film. Within the powerpoint there are clips of the films. 

  Yesterday we watched the opening of The Story Film an Odyssey, I really enjoyed the documentary and liked how the whole of the film history was given in a visual representation as before we were just reading about it. I feel it really helped me understand all the events in a conrological order as I prefer seining things visually.  I also liked how we saw all the early cameras, locations and cinemas now and it gave me a better understanding of how everything worked e.g the moving studio which rotated and had different panels to let light in, it was called The Black Maria, it was owned by Thomas Edison's film production studio in West  Orange, New Jersey. This was the worlds first film studio.