So we need to do a essay and I have absolutely no idea what to write about so after a lot of time thinking I decided to write about a director’s fingerprint, which is the mark that a director makes on the viewer. So I choose 3 directors to write about, it is quite chaotic because I am a big fan and I can’t write as a fan so I am trying haha!

So my head is burning!

Sincerely, IMA

Being filled with work to do and deliver, we did a pitch for our game. Adding the storyline, the characters, and some characteristics of each one.

We added everything, 3d, 2d, sound, marketing, animations, and so on! It has been quite intense these last few weeks.

Sincerely, IMA

During sound/áudio classes, that we had with a special guest, we learned a lot about music and composing. How to mix and match the notes the right way.

Started learning sound engendering 101, which can show us weird feeling that we can get by mixing the wrong notes, and how relaxed they can make us feel as well.

And some students used different platforms to compose their own bits of music.

Sincerely, IMA

We learned in class that to create a character, it is needed to know:

• Character Web by Story Function and Archetype: Create your character web. Start by listing all of your characters, and describe what function they play in the story (for example, hero, main opponent, ally, fake-ally opponent, subplot character). Write down next to each character the archetype, if any, that applies.
• Central Moral Problem: List the central moral problem of the story.
• Comparing the Characters: List and compare the following structure elements for all your characters.
  1. Weaknesses
  2. Need, both psychological and moral
  3. Desire
  4. Values
  5. Power, status, and ability
  6. How each faces the central moral problem
     Begin the comparison between your hero and main opponent.
• Variation on the Moral Problem: Make sure each character takes a different approach to the hero’s central moral problem
• Requirements of a Hero: Now concentrate on fleshing out your hero. Begin by making sure you have incorporated the four requirements of any great hero:
  • 1. Make your lead character constantly fascinating.
  • 2. Make the audience identify with the character, but not too much.
  • 3. Make the audience empathize with your hero, not sympathize.
  • 4. Give your hero a moral as well as a psychological need.
• Hero’s Character Change:Determine your hero’s character change. Write down the self-revelation first, and then go back to the need. Make sure the self-revelation actually solves the need. In other words, whatever lies or crutches the hero is living with in the beginning must be faced at the self-revelation and overcome.
• Changed Beliefs: Write down the beliefs your hero challenges and changes over the course of your story.
• Opponents: Detail your opponents. First describe how your main opponent and each of your lesser opponents attack the great weakness of your hero in a different way.
• Opponents’ Values: List a few values for each opponent. How is each opponent a kind of double for the hero? Give each some level of power, status, and ability, and describe what similarities each shares with the hero. State in one line the moral problem of each character and how each character justifies the actions he takes to reach his goal.

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Sincerely, IMA

After having classes of screenwriting and a lecture with a family member of mine that works with film scripts I decided to write some scripts myself.

On the game we are producing, I took a place to help the script team. However, the script for games is completely different than for films, there are a lot of different endings that the player can pick.

When making a script, I found out that it’s easier to write everything that pops up on your mind, rather than trying to remember something that passed on my mind at one particular moment, so I write on my sketchbook. Like a mad aspiring writer.

I learned that it is possible to start writing a script by any part of it. I saw a quote and thought about a line that a character would say. And started by putting it at the end and continued with it to the beginning.

The biggest mission is keeping up with the characters, making their decisions exactly like their personality would make.

Looking for the “perfectly original character”.

Hope you enjoy my posts.

Sincerely, IMA

After all this research on cinematic history, I have to decide what I will write in my essay.

As a film student being a film executive producer at the studio that the university offered for the students. I had some classes to do with production and cinematography. And now I will also have game production. So this will be interesting.

Hope you enjoy my posts.

Sincerely, IMA

During the 1910s – 1940s the expressionist movement took a great step in Germany. Evolving what today we know as German Expressionism, with influenced literature, paintings, theater and even the cinema.

The genre Horror or Thriller, are different but both were influences by German Expressionism as well as the Film Noir.

This movement is very particular, shows quite a lot of shadow, stairs, distorted universe, very abstract… We can see this type of universe in Hitchcock’s movies and also nowadays in Tim Burton’s movies.

This distorted abstract world showed in the films is a reflection of how life was like on the verge of the war.

There are a lot of great directors that created some amazing films back at that time.

The film Metropolis, by Lang, has influenced most of the science fiction that we have today. And Nosferatu, by Murnau, is also a work of great impact that shows the idea of the battle between creature and creator, also used on The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, by Wiene, a lot of writers use that concept to this day.

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Sincerely, IMA

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2. Cinema, art of light and shadow: a review of The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting Styles 1915-1950 | Sight & Sound. (n.d.). British Film Institute. Retrieved November 30, 2020, from https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/festivals/berlinale-2014-cinema-art-light-shadow

One of the reasons why I fell in love with cinema, was when I watched ,in 2012 ,the film: Hugo, by Martin Scorsese. The film is about a little boy who during his adventures he encounters a very interesting man. A magician and illusionist George Méliès. The film is fiction, although much of what is presented in the film about Méliès is real.

George Méliès, was a filmmaker, magician, illusionist , and manager-director of the Théatre Robert-Houdin.

After Méliès saw a Lumière Brothers movie he did not just experience the new form of entertainment, he saw the new possibilities he could create for this amazing form of art.

So, he bought a camera and built a glass enclosure in the surroundings of Paris. Why glass? Well, the glass would bring the sun light in which is great for filming.

He created a whole set, wrote the scripts, designed, hand-painted sets, and hired actors to act on the films. He brought the big screen to life with bizarre illusions, magic, and special effects.

Using his illusionist skills, he influenced the basic camera stunts: stop-motion, slow motion, dissolve, fade-out, superimposition. Méliès made more than 400 films in approximately.

Some people say that George Méliès was the actual father of cinema. In my opinion, that is correct, without his magic and passion cinema would not be so incredible and entertaining. However, due to industry growth, he was forced out of business.

George Méliès died poor, even though he was rediscovered tardily in life and he was celebrated by the young generation at the time.

If you liked this post, I would suggest that you watch the film, Hugo by Martin Scorsese.

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Sincerely, IMA

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Cinema was invented after an extended process. It all began with moving pictures and Eadweard Muybridge was the pioneer.

Muybridge was an English photographer who, was hired to photograph a horse trotting, to prove that at one point, all for legs are off the surface simultaneously. However, his camera’s shutter was not as fast as it was believed to be. So, they interrupted the studies and traveled to several places; when he returned, he decided to use a special shutter developed by him. Where the exposure was in a second.

When he finally got the pictures it proved that a horse could not stay with all four legs off the surface, and he was criticized. Not able to battle the critics he invented a lantern that projected images in immediate succession onto a screen from illustrations printed on a rotating glass disc, generating the illusion of moving pictures. The zoopraxiscope, in which he would utilize for his lectures on animal locomotion. That invention is a significant ancestor of modern cinema. Giving us a taste of the moving images we see on the screens.

Some inventors found their way closer to creating this Cinema we all talk about. Cinematography is the illusion of movement by the recording and succeeding immediate projection of numerous still pictures on a screen.

In the 1890s Thomas A. Edison invented a projector that is an ancestor of the motion picture film projector we have nowadays. The Kinetoscope.

The Kinetoscope was a projector that allowed one person at a time to view a sequence of moving images

After the invention, of the Kinetoscope, other inventors brought the idea of the film to life.

In France, The Lumière Brothers not just invented the Cinématographe, which is a camera, projector, and film printer all in one.

The invention was revolutionary, not only could it be shown to an audience, it was also lighter and portable.

The Lumière Brothers made several movies and were the first to present a motion picture to a paying audience, and it is believed that when they presented the short documentary: L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat ( Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat) people stood up and shouted in fear that the train would hit them.

Right at about the same time that The Lumière Brothers introduced the French films, the British inventor Robert Paul also wanted to create a device like the Kinetoscope.

Robert Paul was an electrical engineer, he was asked to duplicate the Kinetoscope in England, even though, Paul was not happy with the idea of one person at a time, he considered creating a camera that would develop films for the Kinetoscope.

He collaborated with Birt Acres a photographer they created the camera It was established on Etienne-Jules Marey’s Chronophotographe but utilized 35mm instant printer film as it was obtained by Edison for the Kinetoscope.

However, Acres and Paul fell apart. After hearing about the Lumière Brothers’ success he decided that the films should go on a screen so he created The Animatograph/ Theatrograph. With that invention, Paul became the Father of the British Film Industry.

Cinematography is the art of motion-picture photography and filming. And this art has many fathers.

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Sincerely, IMA

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Cinema is my life’s passion, I create a new world in my mind every time I watch a film. I love going to the movies and watching a film by myself, obviously, with popcorn and a smile on my face.

I created this blog, to show what I have been learning at film school. However, I will include some of my research and observations as well. Starting with how cinema began and how it became the art people love so much today.

Hope you enjoy it!

Sincerely, IMA