Casablanca

Casablanca was made in 1942 and is an American drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and stars Humphery Bogart as Rick Blaine, he owns "Ricks Cafe", and Ingrid Bergman as llsa Lund, and Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo.

Classic Hollywood Cinema

Elements of Classic Hollywood Cinema

•  Obscuring the camera to create "natural" flow of story - creating a believable reality using various film techniques - un realistic this makes a type of formalism rather than realism.
• Film centers on the actions of a protagonist.
• Story is about protagonist's struggle to pursue desire.
• Story takes place in linear, continuous time that is consistent connected to a fictional reality- you don't feel "disjointed" sense of time.

German expressionism. not finished

What are the key features of German expressionism?

German expressionism was a term used to refer to a number of related creative moments which emerged in German during the 1920s.

Expressionism as a movement spanned across many media to include theater, architecture, music, painting and sculpture.

The first expressionist films was The cabinet of Dr Caligari.(1920), The Golem (1920)

Sound in German expressionist films are very dark music like playing a violin very

rapidly.

Lighting
The lighting is focused more on the characters faces and what there doing or there whole body.

Camera work

The camera work is pretty much close up shots in the film always focusing on the characters facial expressions.
Mis En Scene

objects that are usually in german expressionism films are wierd things that you wouldnt have in a formalist film.

Editing

There wasn't editing when they shot these scenes.

Where can the influence of German expressionism be seen in history?

About Run Lola Run

Run Lola Run was definately a formalist film because in the film the storyline repeats itself three times throughout the film.

Setting:
The setting was based around a french city or maybe german city and the use of locations is used very wisely, using locations like a bank, a supermarket, a flat.

Camera Shots:
Theres alot of close ups in the film because most of the film is shot with the man being in a phone booth and the woman character running.

Sound:
the sound that is used is fast adrenaline music to support the woman running all the time.


one major part of the film is fate, because the film repeats itself 3 times it gets the viewer guessing whats going to change next time round

My Formalist Film

The formalist film i watched was Scarface, how Scarface is a formalist film is how it shows a columbian immigrant end up turning into a major drug lord.

Brian De Palma the director done very good camera shots including 

worms eye view to make the characters have a higher status they would have.

wide shot to include the location of where they were shooting the scene.

Sounds in the film are real, because its all the general sounds of a movie ( Guns, Cars, Swimming in a pool, People in convertables listening to Miami style music)

Class Formalist Film

Ms Flavell set the whole class a task of working together to create a formalist film. 

We got put into 5 groups including camera work, lighting, sound, editing and Mis En Scene.

 I got put into the camera group and had some ideas about what camera shots we could have used.

Heres what i thought of:

Medium shot 

Cutaway shot 

Cut in

Point of View 

When it came to shooting the film there was only one person needed so i then joined the sound team, (sort of) and helped out.