Review of Characterization

Concept 38 talks about how conflict arises and is fueled by the character's traits. It is impossible to continue a conflict without any character conflicting traits.

Concept 68

2. The delivery of each line would be pretty self explanatory, not much context clues or background information would be needed.

Guess Who

African-Americans are represented in movies almost the same as other races are represented. The representation of African-Americans has improved vastly in the history of film. There are movies that are mainly full of African-Americans, mostly Tyler Perry movies. In the early beginnings of film it was rare to see an African-American, now they are as common as whites.

Suspense Techniques

Dialogue Means Nothing - Use facial expressions, have one character not listening to each other, have the dialogue contradict what is going on.

Keep the Story Simple - Keep the story linear and streamlined. Story should remain simple but the characters should be complex.

Characters Must Break Cliches - Lisa breaks into the apartment in order to gain evidence. Thorwald is a respectable murderer.

Use Humor to Add Tension - Characters in ironic situations, worst possible situations.

Two Things Happening at Once - Used primarily to distract audience, Thorwald hides the knife. Miss Lonelyhearts is just a distraction, no major part in movie.

Suspense is Information - Dog returns to the garden.

Surprise and Twist - Son is the killer and dresses up as his mother in Psycho, Thorwald has instances where he looks innocent in Rear Window.

MacGuffin Effect - Item or subject that drives the storyline, rosebud in Citizen Kane, briefcase in Pulp Fiction.

In Rear Window the story is kept simple, the characters break cliche, humor is used to add tension, and multiple things happen at once. Thorwald pushing Jeff out of the window is a form of Surprise and Twist.

Using humor to add tension

Practical jokes can be used to build tension. By setting up the main character in the most ironic situation, tension is built. Tension can also be derived from a coincidence, an unexpected gag, or from the worst possible thing that could happen. All of the proceeding can be humorous at the same time it builds up tension.

Hitchcock and his Suspense

Three techniques used in Psycho and Rear Window are simple storylines, Surpris and Twist, and the characters break cliches.

Concept 66

Scary movie, Halloween, and The Great Gatsby are all movies in which the weather and environment plays a role in evoking emotions into the viewer.

Film Festival

I watched the movie No Look Pass at the Cinequest film festival. I thought the movie was really enjoyable. I liked it. I liked how the filmmaker followed the basketball player through her college career and all the way til her professional career in Germany.

Concept 65

1. Give me my food!!!
2. Hurry up!!!
3. Get some more tacos!!!!
4. We need food!!!
5. We're hungry!!!!
6. Where are the tacos?!?!?
7.

Concept 63

My favorite music video is cat daddy by the rejectz. The video evokes happy emotions. The emotions aren't that consistent with the lyrics

Twilight zone

The twilight zone writers created suspense by utilizing suspenseful music. They also included many variables that the audience didn't find out about until the end of the show. The audience never once saw the face of anyone until the bandages were taken off of the patient.

Concept 62

I would use cutaways, voice overs and reenactments in order to explain the event that took place.

Concept 61

Three films in which VoiceOvers were used are : the punisher, rashoman, eternal sunshine.
The VoiceOvers help the audience understand what is going on within the movie.