Comments by Daniel Figueroa Most recent public comments by Daniel Figueroa https://nowcomment.com/users/12973 Morgan Spurlock constructs a story which elaborates on he United States is in the midst of an epidemic of obesity and related health problems by apply himself and how it affects his own life. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338920 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338920 Spurlock is the star.Using himself as an experimental subject, represents an entertaining, and occasionally horrifying view for the audiences. He has a fun sense of humor, speaks naturally and honestly,and plays the part of human guinea pig well. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:04 -0500 The review is full is statistics because these help emphasize the issue to the audience as they can clearly see the difference in portion sizes and thus the excess of the fats, sugars and so on that would be found within the food. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338912 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30608?scroll_to=338912 Morgan Spurlock is narrating facts and statistics about obesity within the United States calling it the” fattest nation in the world”. This provides the audience with the shock factor over this portrait of America which further engages them into the film for these statistics. However, he does not clearly distinguish these effects as a separate problem from McDonalds specifically. Using Michael Moore techniques, Spurlock creates his own character to tell a story. For example, by providing close-ups of his throwing up and forcing his audience to see crumbles of chewed up slime fall across his face, showing the appeal of fast food. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:04 -0500 Welles is so interested in Clifford Irving because they share a skill, being deceitful. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338187 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338187 Canby calling Mr. Irving "small potatoes" because Irving is insignificant of making it big time ccompare to Welles. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:01 -0500 F for Fake is a film that tricks its audience and then tells them why, and why it all matters. What is real and what is fake using visually tricky imagery. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338186 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338186 The film diverts your standing opinion on the subject to get your attention, tell you a story, make you question what you heard, and go home questioning your original ideas. It succeeds in tricking you, in a way that most fiction can not separate from being fake to what is really real life. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:01 -0500 Canby contradicting himself where he express his thoughts on Welles then quickly questions the film being fake. This separating his thoughts about Welles and as a critic, reassure what he visually be fond of as what the viewers relish in. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338185 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338185 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:01 -0500 The first four paragraphs Welles style of filmmaking is far more a deludeof uncertainty. In that sense the punch line is not nearly as important as the substance leading up to it. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338184 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338184 The first sequence features Welles performing some slight of hand trickery for children in a railway station, mesmerizing them with his voice as much as with his hands, a classic example of the magician’s art of misdirection. The viewer is pulled into the act and becomes a kind of accomplice, a willing participant dazzled by the show and taken in by the banter.He places all the evidence in front of the viewer’s eye, and goes on to make them forget all the evidence they’ve seen by focusing on a distraction. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:00 -0500 What Canby meant by Welles is accountable for everything shows in the discussion of art forgery, the confirmation to be accountable could also be a reassuring victory for truth. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338173 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30607?scroll_to=338173 It could also be a statement of intent to question the nature of cinema and authorship, storytelling and illusion. The confesses is all fake which Welles show an honest and provocative declaration of the art is fake. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:47:01 -0500 Sontag's experiences being a writer has important techniques when translating to developing films. This is different from filmmakers who follow a soft of outline that guides them to develop a film. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337030 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337030 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:57 -0500 The physicals interactions thereof is the lack of interaction with the camera (besides the two individuals that are talking). Sontag presents the context of opposing sides and it is up to the reader to decide what to do with the context. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337027 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337027 Thu, 23 Apr 2015 21:39:12 -0400 I believe this paragraph which notions of purity, beauty, authenticity, and threat from a event like war characterizes Riefenstahl's method of filmmaking. It too might easily be considered fascist because of the way it is presented. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337023 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337023 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:58 -0500 In Promised Lands, shows the aftermath with a observational point of view sequences detailing moments from desert landscapes, patrols of roadside soldiers, old men and women at the Wailing Wall that allows the viewer to experience the surreal landscape. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337021 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337021 As a viewer there is a feeling of peace and unification in "Listen to Britain". The comparisons between quiet scenes from everyday life and the manic, unreal struggle of the war effort shows a balance between harmony and chaos without directing showing war. The war aftermath, shows the assembly of people in "The Way We Live" had emphasis on integrating continuity and changes a community coming together for a brighter future. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:58 -0500 Promised Lands use of sound is a visual collage with snatches of radio, bursts of church bells and gunfire. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337019 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=337019 In "Man with a Movie Camera", the music brings energetic and rhythmic atmosphere of the Soviet reality."Triumph of the Will" demonstrate the discipline, organization and unity of the Nazi Party of Germany. Hitler delivers his speeches with the power of expression was somewhat mesmerizing. A scene in" Listen to Britain" where their were soldiers on a railway carriage singing along to a guitar, and women at work singing to the radio helps emphasis that the people of Britain are setting to their work fearlessly and in good spirit. It is music which unites them even though wartime. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:58 -0500 These comments reflect in the Promised Lands is which is saturated in tragic dilemma for a promise of peace that may never occur. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336426 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336426 In a world of suffering and necessity, human beings are trapped in endless conflict. After the 1973 Yom Kippur War ended, Arab-Palestinan conflicts continues because they are unable to construct a rationale agreeable. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:58 -0500 Sontag views the world in terms of complementary opposites and the lack of physical interactions thereof in Promised Lands https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336422 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336422 Sontag expressed her ideas that the treatment of Israel presented in film was not one sided. Even though the film got banned in Israel. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:57 -0500 Sontag's absent voice lets viewers interpret the film while not being tell on what is going. I believe Sontag wanting a showing of visual images to express the situation given than to depend on a commentary. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336409 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336409 This treats both sides of the conflict with something approaching empathy and fresh intellectual engagement for the viewers. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:57 -0500 Sontag resist the term documentary because she believes it limits the filmmaker’s freedom to create something based on guidelines. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336390 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336390 There are certain expectations placed on documentary filmmakers and their films. But for Sontag events and characters are purposely kept underdeveloped, in order to generate lamentation. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:57 -0500 Lim presented this information about Sontag because she set herself a daunting task when it came to stepping behind the camera and becoming a central figure in film culture. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336388 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30606?scroll_to=336388 Even though she did not believe she was primarily a critic, Promised Lands is more clearly and fully a work of cinema. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:57 -0500 Denby accepts the documentary's point of view because the McCarthy hearing was a comedy in making, but it was so unbelievable experience for Denby and the viewers that the investigation should not happen. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335739 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335739 Denby references Monica Lewinsky because he is comparing her situation insignificant as to McCarthy was at that time. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:56 -0500 The hearings about Watergate dented Americans' faith in their government as the American public viewed McCarthy with disdain, with his appearance and actions as reckless and manipulative. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335735 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335735 Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:56 -0500 Being the first ever nationally televised congressional inquiry,I expected a strict professional meeting, instead I saw a mix of comedy/parody, believing this was a fiction hearing then a real one. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335734 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335734 Denby see this documentary as characters you see in fiction movie. Where The hearings are theatrical, Shakespearean drama and impassioned speeches are made. The audience laughter added this was to believe, a comedy stage play. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:56 -0500 Perhaps Denby is giving McCarthy a sense of credibility. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335733 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335733 McCarthy, an ambitious politician probably thought these hearings would be a stepping stone en route to a further his political career. Instead, the camera revealed to the American people that McCarthy was a fear monger. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:56 -0500 David Denby mentions Kenneth Star's investigation of the president because it sets up the comparison that both allegations are both repulsion and comical. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335732 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30605?scroll_to=335732 Denby's political views states that is does not like Starr because of his investigation being "obsessional and bizarre". This result that Denby may speculate that Denby may be a supporter of Clinton. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:56 -0500 The film's treatment of experts and the locals offers a ne­glected insight into an important aspect of politics and society as they affected attitudes toward urban reconstitution post World War Two. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30604?scroll_to=330393 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30604?scroll_to=330393 Even though Craigie did not wanted her ideas, the town planners and here were both motivated by public service indispensables. The narrative of a journalist played by Peter Willes on the population in pursuit of an expression of public opinion. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:48 -0500 Postwar audiences rather to be entertain then remember what have happen so recently at that time. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30604?scroll_to=330387 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30604?scroll_to=330387 Documentary or 'serious' films capitalize on WW2 mostly receive negatively because it was "too soon" for people to disgust the experience they may have saw. It was much later that these films were praised. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:48 -0500 The Way We Live's democratic socialism vs Triumph of the Will's Dictatorship motivates the structure of the people. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30604?scroll_to=330386 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30604?scroll_to=330386 By the war and its immediate aftermath, the assembly of people in The Way We Live had Craigie emphasis on integrating continuity and changes a community coming together for a brighter future. In Triumph of the Will Riefenstahl's captures Hitler's strict image of absolute discipline and unconditional obedience of the organizational of loyal people. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:48 -0500 Plymouth was one of the many cities destroyed during World War 2. The question why would the postwar national audience care about one city's reconstruction. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30604?scroll_to=330354 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30604?scroll_to=330354 "The Way We Live" sets out to inform rather than entertain. For example, many veterans returning from World War II returns to society by working and rather be relax than being lecture by films from a national standpoint. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:48 -0500 The quiet scenes and the manic activity of wartime are an ongoing occurrences where the sound of the radio and machines goes on in daily life during a war. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323310 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323310 The comparisons between quiet scenes from everyday life and the manic, unreal struggle of the war effort shows a balance between Harmony and chaos. Jennings wanted to sent a message that despite a war going on people are still continuing doing normal activity that keeps a individual's hope alive. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:38 -0500 Women had been working before World War II, but this era marked a significant change in the number of women entering the work force. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323307 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323307 Jennings acknowledge that women were given opportunities to prove to the male society that they could be independent and financially secure on their own. They were dependent on themselves; a sense of power for once they could support the household and the war effort. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:38 -0500 Jennings sets out to show how throughout Britain music is a unifying factor across boundaries of class, age and position. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323306 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323306 For example, the scene where their were soldiers on a railway carriage singing along to a guitar, and women at work singing to the radio helps emphasis that the people of Britain are setting to their work fearlessly and in good spirit. It is music which unites them even though wartime. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:38 -0500 Listen To Britain takes the form of an unconventional travelogue. Rather than the rousing narration or stirring score one might expect to accompany a film designed to stiffen the nation's resolve. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323305 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30603?scroll_to=323305 Jennings created an image of a diverse but united nation, united through music, work, leisure, and most importantly, the war effort without directing showing war. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:38 -0500 People sometimes place their trust in an organization, and this allows shaping and molding of opinion to happen. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321664 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321664 One can argue that individuals' trust in the media might be due to ignorance, and the belief that the Capra can be enlightening because his films are representing a image of the people he wants to target a specific audience. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:34 -0500 The comparison between Capra and the Axis power is the great use makes great use of the propaganda tactic of racial stereotyping to create a strong sense of the battle between good and evil. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321596 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321596 Capra was able to present the glory of Germany in a different light, one of fanaticism and diabolical devotion to a dictator. Why We Fight and Triumph of the Will have propaganda techniques that are symbolic of the individuals during World War II. They reflect common racial stereotypes, upright moralist tendencies, and individualist natures that were present during this time period. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:33 -0500 Capra had no experience whatsoever with factual films in which to put the war into historical, moral, and political context. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321594 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321594 Capra watched Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will and borrowed techniques and footage from her film like the shot of Hitler and two others walking up a vast corridor of party faithful toward the rally stage. The presentation in "Why We Fight" is shown in humanist documentary form, as eclectic and romantic in its way as in Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. There are devices of wartime rhetoric such as overstatement, ridicule and pathos. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:33 -0500 Emotionalized history lessons influence the way the I understand the past more than any other medium, including school history lessons. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321592 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321592 The exposition is important because it creates the viewer's first impression and introduces the content. Historical documentary exposition very often raise a question to be answered or a problem to be solved by the film. It is up to viewers to decide what course of action that want to take while watching history films. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:33 -0500 Proto-fascism is the starting point that leads to fascism, a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control. (hence "proto" Collectivism is the political principle of centralized social and economic control. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321589 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30602?scroll_to=321589 Capra made his primary focus the creation of "one basic, powerful idea", following the bible, he compile enemy speeches, films, newsreels, newspaper articles, with a list of the enemy's hostile actions to expose the enemies with their own images. A whole nation is influence by individuals for the sake of power, being a positive or negative medium. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:33 -0500 The Gordian knot is tighten knot for Riefenstahl, the subject and the relationship with her film. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319946 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319946 The Gordian knot wanted films not to focus on morals and facts but suggest their is not right or wrong side on a subject. This links directly with the endless debate on wither Riefenstahl perceived notion of propaganda as the systematic attempt to manipulate the attitudes of others or she simply making a work of art for her of benefit. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:32 -0500 Riefenstahl's conception when filming these films could well have been to create an artistic emotional view of two events in German history through the genre of documentary. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319945 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319945 However, given the political views at that time and throughout the following years, Triumph Of The Will can be seen to symbolize the Nazi ethos of the time. Riefenstahl was an artist whose personal preoccupations were primarily artistic and technical, not political, but that her films were used by Hitler and the Nazi party for their own political gains. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:32 -0500 The power of media have been crucial for any government actively seeking to mobilize or influence its citizens. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319944 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319944 With Triumph of the Will, the instruments of communication are in most cases the mass media but also include such things as views, ideas , influences and other techniques of interpersonal communication between Hitler, the audience and the viewers. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:31 -0500 Transubstantiated is used as metamorphosis for Hitler as a self-appointed god. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319941 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319941 Its ancient heroism through the medium of one man, Adolf Hitler, the savior. A example of this is at the beginning of the film with scenes which indicate Hitler’s arrival to the rally and the sequence consist of several aspect of dramatization. It shows the sky, then modern architecture, marching, masses from Hitler’s point of view from the plane. The following scenes see Hitler exiting from the plane as the nation waits for him with sheer anticipation and enthusiasm. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:31 -0500 The film captures the Pavlovian response in capturing the emotion of enthusiastic people with hope and expectation provided by Hitler's speeches. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319940 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319940 The editing techniques used Riefenstahl often disorient the audience with quick shifts from angles and close-ups to long shots. This is again a technique used to give more power to the scene itself, with everything from a small crowd close-up to a huge stadium full of people screaming and worshiping their leader. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:31 -0500 Riefenstahl's captures Hitler's ideal image of absolute discipline and unconditional obedience. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319938 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319938 The film is made into a observational where I picture myself as a member of the crowd where there are several scenes where the shot just from the back of the crowd, or among the crowd during. the scene during the entrance when he is on the car going pat the rally and the camera was placed right behind Hitler’s back. It gives the viewers a feeling that you are looking through Hitler ’s point of perspective. The scene makes the viewers feel the anticipation of the people for Hitler. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:31 -0500 This rally serve big for the Nazi's race as well as most intensely possessing and possessed by this spirit is Hitler, not so much a god as a prophet who has been in the realm of vision and returns to inspire. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319934 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319934 Hitler in 1934 was a figure of some doubt and controversy, but generally perceived throughout Europe as a uprising leader and in Germany as the restorer of national pride, the rejuvenatory of the economy, the architect of an effective government. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:31 -0500 From watching Triumph of the Will, it is completely made up of actual footage. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319921 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319921 Riefenstahl created a cinema which transfigures real life while apparently recording it;which is essentially avant-garde while allegedly conventional. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:31 -0500 The geometry of mass rituals in Triumph of the Will transforms continuously inter-cuts Nazi Socialist imagery and fanaticism figures with a human touch. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319654 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319654 Riefenstahl techniques are a social memory of the singular totality of the German nation by giving a collective meaning to a mythological aura of Hitler. The whole nation possessed by the symbolism and hierarchy of form,by a national public figure Socialist imagery. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:30 -0500 For Leni Riefenstahl, Triumph of the Will demonstrates the power of the image to represent the historical world. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319653 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30601?scroll_to=319653 Her influence and style of filming inspire young German filmmakers to express their ideas rather than devolve ideas from existing artists. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:30 -0500 Sound and music may be the most powerful tool in the filmmaker’s arsenal in terms of its ability to draw movie on-goners to watch thier product. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315758 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315758 The presence of sound and music makes time pass more quickly in the movie, making it less boring and more enjoyable because music is inherently arousing or it can be distracting. Sometimes a sound or music seems to be out of context of a scene/shot, but it could be a design choose to help understand the situation surrounding the scene. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 Ebert's point about the frames you capture was a way to express ideas not only through images but through editing and juxtaposition. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315757 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315757 The question is after you capture something that captures reality what can you do to show what your idea of reality to others in its documentation of common human experience. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 Vertov wanted to show the world that the cinema could break free from stage plays and move on a much faster pace of speed. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315756 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315756 Vertov wanted audiences to undergo a free-association process which processes information as fast as our brain. The film is simply a series of images that is creating an absolute language of cinema by separating the language from the theater and literature. This resulted in a eye candy felt to it with its visual images that are surreal and entertaining but intellectually undemanding. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 The camera is controlled by a human being, meaning machine a society can control as they see fit. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315752 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315752 The technological advances of that time were not not a big impact as today. The camera shows how production, machines, and people enjoyment fascination never stop. There is always this sense of progress. The camera shows that there is always two sides to every part of life, whether it showing fiction or reality. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 The cameraman is a craftsman of seeing, a organizer of visible life. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315747 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315747 The cameraman produce the inter lays and montages of the camera lens and the human eye emphasis the camera’s role as an active observer and reporter of human activities. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 In the first 5 minutes of the film, I witness a every day action of people movements towards the theater. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315743 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315743 It is the camera and the editing that gives us this sense, and we are very aware of the importance of the man making the decisions about each shot. Our minds make us believe that this a film within a film itself, creating self awareness. The viewer can learn about how Vertov through his choices, possibly because with our observations by making the theater almost come to life as the films reel is put in place; as the film screen-er pulls a rope on his camera set, the seats open up to accept those who would populate the theater. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 A jump cut is an indirect cut that appears to be an interruption of a single shot. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315730 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315730 Vertov use of jump cuts representing the people of everyday life. Rather than presenting a film as a self-contained story that seamlessly unfold in front of us, Vertov reason of using jump cuts are like utterances that evidentiates both the artificiality and the visualization of telling such a story though image. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 Vertov's film sought to portray both the inhumanity of czarist rule and the revolutionary potential, daily labors, and communal bonds of the Soviet people gaining a sense of modernism and surrealilsm. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315722 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315722 I believe Ebert meant that all people could become artists through the democratization of both technology and creativity. Vertov wanted his audiences place themselves in his situation. He is our eyes as directed by human interest and motivation.e. The overwhelming and exciting portrayal of the public life upstages the domestic life through this careful editing, creating a aesthetic transformation of the city. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 Ebert is referring that the shots is what is recorded from the time Vertov turn the camera on to the the time he turn the camera off. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315717 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315717 Vertov use several shots (edited or not) to compose a scene. A scene can have a series of seemingly random shots for viewers to get a visual appeal, but it is the editor, Elizaveta Svilova who pieces these random shots together to create and change some very important things. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:23 -0500 Stage conventions I think is tradition practices that recur over a number of works within a specific genre. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315711 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315711 A stage takes in one place that has limit options for backgrounds environments, and characters performance for script in a play to adjust too. When making a film, you can modify scenes you want the viewers to make a connection too. It is more challenging for a filmmaker to do because of the ability to change something if it doesn't present their idea before presenting it to their target audience than a stage play. Fri, 06 Mar 2015 04:06:26 -0500 Viewers are brought into a world that focuses on the association of man and machine; how man not only controls the machine. it's out put and maintenance but also how man is like a machine. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315707 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315707 It is output and maintenance that is also how man is like a machine. As technology helps society influence today's society. Man is the driving force of modern society; man is the backbone behind production and advances technology that grabs humans' attention. Fri, 06 Mar 2015 04:06:26 -0500 The tradition of stage plays has live performance of scripted drama has been a part of almost every culture. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315541 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315541 These can be useful for demonstrating to agents, producers, and publishers that one wants a straight forward concept, but in the world of aspiring filmmakers, each individual wants make something that don't follow the tradition norm of filming in the earlier 1920s. In "Man With a Movie Camera", the film lacks a scripted narrative , as if the camera eye and the editor did not need direction to express for viewers to understand what is going on. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:21 -0500 Dziga Vertov regards machines equal to humans in rest, work, and purpose. The way the film was shot was to give machines the same amount of space, camera angles. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315513 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30600?scroll_to=315513 Ebert suggest that these quick shots revealed the joys of work, the rhythm of workers and machines, he also felt that film-making was also a component of that mechanical reality. The shots can represent the pacing of what way life back then, comparing how long can a individual watch something without tuning out. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:21 -0500 Nanook and his family were real, but the documentary is not a clear-cut recording of their everyday life. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313673 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313673 The biographical mode shows that Nanook and his family felt real as their performance show honesty and instinctive was their playing that it was undoubtedly truth of a sort. It is a man and his family performing a usual day of surviving against nature. Though Nanook has no conservative plot, it tells a articulate story through its astonishing images. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:16 -0500 Ebert praise Flahery for his methods about how humans as portrays trials of man in the hands of nature. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313671 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313671 The staged action in Nanook of the North is as real as it gets.Flaherty merely made them act out scenes from how everyone already thought they did. Nanook remains important for its representation of the an assortment of actions and positions of a workaday life. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:16 -0500 Ebert's definition of authenticity is the capture of humanism and response by the social actors of Nanook. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313670 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313670 Flaherty achieves to distribute this sense of reality by giving details of everyday life and intimacy. By shooting a complete action from the end to the beginning, Flaherty creates the impression of the presence, an actual reality. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:16 -0500 Ebert's definition of "the real" is the performance is real but the story fake. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313667 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313667 Nanook of the North had actually ambitioned to show a part of the world from a diverse viewpoint, this means, not portraying it through a fictional story or through a plot modified from literature, but from real life. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:16 -0500 Ebert wanted to state rules and techniques do not make a documentary reality. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313655 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313655 Flaherty's methods involved total fascination in these cultures in order to realize the basic patterns of life. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:16 -0500 Ebert states the realism in Nanook is assist with a false pretense. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313649 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313649 Ebert is stating that Flaherty's documentary hadn't been proclaiming absolute authenticity, if the film had been presented as a slightly fictionalized account of Inuit life which separates the reality from fiction as it eventually was. Flaherty images show how would be talking about how close to reality the story lies. He also wanted to capture the Eskimos' essential nobility, to portray them as they saw themselves. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:16 -0500 Ebert express the human dimension, craftsmanship and artistry all in within one shot. https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313602 https://nowcomment.com/documents/30240?scroll_to=313602 Ebert grabs the reader attention by briefing explaining what type of character Nanook is. A scene explain in words can often be a draw in a striking image for the readers to picture. Sat, 20 Feb 2016 08:46:15 -0500