Art and Technology SP 2021

Over my time here I have learned a bit about editing, as I am enrolled in the FMA major. Some of my favorite films to make are experimental, and I have picked up some cool techniques along the way. My favorite aspect of film to play with is color, and there are a lot of easy ways to manipulate color. For a general edit, I find that Adobe Premiere Pro has a good software, but if I want to spend a lot of time on color I would recommend Davinci Resolve. The color correcting is a lot more tuned on that program. Another one of my favorite effects is Chroma Key. If you plan ahead of time for osmething in your shot to be a solid color, you can use Chroma Key to replace whatever is that color in the image with something else. I have made plenty of cool shots layering effects over different images. If you are looking for free music, I recommend freemusicarchive.org, as you can search for free tracks by genre. I have found many background tracks this way. I am also looking to make my own musi...

Mise en Scene has always been interesting to me, and I think a great example of a film that has great examples of this would be The Shining, dir. Stanley Kubrick. This film is set in the mountains somewhere in Colorado, during the 1970s. Frequently does the camera pan over vast landscapes of snowcapped peaks and forests of lush green trees. The hotel itself is filled to the brim with detail, as every room has its own unique feel to it. This can be attributed to Kubrick's cinematography, as the camera guides the eye down the long corridors and hallways of the hotel. During dialogue, the camera tends to remain still. While listening to the conversation between characters, the viewer has time to examine the background of the image, which in every scene has been carefully stocked with interesting props and set pieces that really support the story's world. The film consistently looks like it’s in the 1970s, but that's not the only thing the mise en scene reinforces. The long tra...