Ellenie's Blog

  Hi! Today in my blog post I am going to be writing about Sofia Coppola and her film Maria Antoinette. Sofia Coppola has a different take than many other directors when writing a film. Sofia wants to be able to write and film about what she wants to create, not always what the audience wants to see. When watching the film Maria Antoinette you could see how Coppola used her cinematography to demonstrate a coherent and intentional vision. In the movie Coppola created scenes with lavish desserts and drinks of all different colors. These scenes from the movie stood out to me being that in most films the audience would not pay much attention to these items, but in her films she made it almost the center of attention when Maria and her friends would be getting ready to go party. The film Maria Antionette also demonstrated cultural awareness. In the beginning of the film Maria was careless with her and her husband's fortune by spending it on parties, gambling, clothing items, plants, and...

Hi! After reading chapter 2 the video I picked was Stanley Kubrick and his use of one-point perspective. In the reading it talks about composition which is the arrangement of people, objects, and setting within the frame of an image. When reading this I thought back to myself also doing this when I am taking photos and never realized that what I was actually doing was called composition. Filmmakers that master this technique are able to then use composition to help tell their story. Many filmmakers use composition to tell their story through repetition. In Kubrick's film you were able to see this unfold being that he would go back and repeat the same locations throughout the course of the film. The film also gradually speeds up which made things more dramatic and also included having people in the center of the frame. Kubrick also included some of the people in different frames doing the same motion repeatedly. I enjoyed this short video because it was so intense and also cau...