Monday, June 3, 2013
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Movie theater for sale! CHEAP!
The Studio
System, how did it work, what killed it and what happened next…
DA Cook summed
things up fairly well in his article for Encyclopedia Britannica; “…by
1930, 95 percent of all American production was concentrated in the hands of
only eight studios… which controlled production, distribution, and exhibition…”
So, if you weren’t one of the Big Boys and you somehow managed to get your
film made, you had a less than even chance of getting it seen and making any
return. HUGE pro for the studios; don’t like your competition? Then don’t let
him make or distribute his film. Really don’t like him? Then rent him the
equipment and studio so he can make his film and when he’s done, and out of
money, and in debt up to his ear, deny him the venue in which he might
distribute it. Problem solved; HUGE pro for the studios. Not so
much for the independent filmmaker.
They started
having problems when WWII ended and the American public lost a big reason for
going to the movies every week; the war is over, no news is good news, time to
go back to ‘normal’. Our country was once again prosperous, the war having
blown away the last remnants of the Great Depression, and people were buying
homes and moving into, actually creating, the suburbs. In the ten or so years
following the war the number of homeowners in America doubled and going
‘downtown’ to see a film became a chore. And then the deathblow…
The Consent Decree of
1948. The high court, the Supreme Court, decided that the studios had become a
monopoly and were breaking the anti-trust laws. To disband the monopoly they
decided that the studios would have to sell their theaters, which made the
exhibition venues open for everybody and broke the backs of the studios.
The biggest change in the
industry, well, for the last decade or so, now allows independent filmmakers a
piece of the pie. They do things far differently than the studios; they have
small staffs and hire out the work to independent contractors and freelancers;
they don’t have their stars on retainer, and no long-term contracts, they hired
on a per-film basis. New movie-making styles came into play, new genres came to
be and new venues became popular. And while this was not the birth of the
drive-in theater, it is when it became fruitful, and multiplied, numbering
almost 5,000 by the 1960’s. That’s 5,000 new, non-studio, exhibition venues…
Reference
Cook,
D. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/394161/history-of-the-motion-picture/52153/The-Hollywood-studio-system
Talk too much?
The first ‘Talkies’ produced in the coming era of movies with sound actually caused film quality to go down, not up…
In the web article “The History of Film; The 1930’s” T Dirks states, “Most of the early talkies were successful at the box-office, but many of them were of poor quality - dialogue-dominated play adaptations, with stilted acting (from inexperienced performers) and an unmoving camera or microphone.”
In the late era silent films camera work had become, well, almost elegant. Cinematographers were tracking their subjects across scenes or locations; they were panning, tilting, using cranes and taking moving shots from platforms or vehicles. That all came to screaming, screeching halt with the advent of talking films. Due to the need to keep the set quiet so as to not clutter up the track, and the fact that they were considerably loud, cameras became stationary objects enclosed in their own small soundproof rooms called an icebox.
Actors had become elegant, animated and very good at acting out the part… because their ability to tell the story visually was paramount. One more change that was not to the good; microphones and cameras were stationary, ergo, so must the actors be. The visual of the story took a back seat to the ‘telling’ of the tale, even though that ‘telling’ was in the form of low quality, scratchy sound that was more than likely not in sync with the story on the screen.
Backwards, in great leaps and bounds… though they did recover quickly…
Dirks, T. (2011). The history of film; the 1930s . Retrieved from http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html
In the web article “The History of Film; The 1930’s” T Dirks states, “Most of the early talkies were successful at the box-office, but many of them were of poor quality - dialogue-dominated play adaptations, with stilted acting (from inexperienced performers) and an unmoving camera or microphone.”
In the late era silent films camera work had become, well, almost elegant. Cinematographers were tracking their subjects across scenes or locations; they were panning, tilting, using cranes and taking moving shots from platforms or vehicles. That all came to screaming, screeching halt with the advent of talking films. Due to the need to keep the set quiet so as to not clutter up the track, and the fact that they were considerably loud, cameras became stationary objects enclosed in their own small soundproof rooms called an icebox.
Actors had become elegant, animated and very good at acting out the part… because their ability to tell the story visually was paramount. One more change that was not to the good; microphones and cameras were stationary, ergo, so must the actors be. The visual of the story took a back seat to the ‘telling’ of the tale, even though that ‘telling’ was in the form of low quality, scratchy sound that was more than likely not in sync with the story on the screen.
Backwards, in great leaps and bounds… though they did recover quickly…
Dirks, T. (2011). The history of film; the 1930s . Retrieved from http://www.filmsite.org/30sintro.html
CompSci group project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8O6V_wThlM
A group project for my Comp Science class...
A group project for my Comp Science class...
Introduction & Layout
Produced by: John Starkey
3D Viewing
Produced by: Ethan Steers
With the help of:
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eReaders
Produced by: Michelle Shipman
With the help of:
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Google Glass
Produced by: Maxwell Schopp
With the help of:
Rivington, James. (2013, April 29th). News Article Retrieved from http://www.techradar.com/us/news/video/google-glass-what-you-need-to-know-1078114
4K Viewing
Produced by: La Darieus Parrish
With the help of:
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Hi there!
Hey All,
My
name is John Starkey, I am 41 years old, married with a 5-year-old daughter and
we live in a small town called Cartersville, about an hour west of Richmond Va.
My family and I love to go hiking and camping in the mountains, our favorite
spots being Shenandoah National Park in Va and The Great Smoky National Park in
Tn. I enjoy playing golf, working on my vehicles and reading; I read a lot, I
mean A LOT. I am currently a part-time Technical Director at Powhatan Community
Church; I am self taught and good at what I do. When I started, almost 9 years
ago now, I started by doing some research, both to begin to educate myself on
all facets of theatrical production and to find a school where I could begin
taking a few classes. The most highly recommended school was Full Sail, bar
none, but alas, they did not yet offer classes online and moving to Florida
kind of defeated the purpose, as I was doing it to fill a need at our church as
we grew in leaps and bounds to reach those that are untouched and unaffected by
traditional churches.
I
truly love what I do, and my family and I have given up much to continue doing
it. So about a year and a half ago I started looking for additional work,
either to supplement my church work or to replace it with a full time gig. What
I have learned in that year + is that any serious organization or facility that
had a place for someone like me wanted not only a professional with verifiable experience,
but one with a degree, bachelors or higher. I refuse to admit defeat and give
up on my goal of joining the entertainment/theatrical production industry full
time; I have just become successful in discovering how not to do it. If you
come to know me as we venture forth you will discover that I except failure
only on pain of death; I haven’t failed, I’m just not done yet.
My wife and I had
almost decided to move to Orlando when I started looking into degrees and the
cost of enrolling at FSU only to discover that they now offered online
education. So here I am. I chose to major in Digital Cinematography because
while I am proficient in filming for IMAG and post-production editing, I’m not
very good at creating videos and the technology is changing so fast right now
with HD, 3D, webcasting, etc. that I can not keep up with the growth without
some formal education; and I think CSI will help a great deal with that,
especially on the creation and post side. So, I’m learning more to make myself
better at what I love to do and earning a BoS to add to my resume. It doesn’t
get any better than that. I look forward to traveling with you as we ‘go
adventuring’ on our chosen paths...
Scripted Short
INT. PRIVATE MEDICAL OFFICE - EXAM ROOM – DAY
MARYJANE, a cute blond haired, blue eyed 5 year-old girl,is lying on a generic examining table with a pullout step being poked and prodded by DR. JO, a small Asian woman in her late thirties wearing a white lab coat and stethoscope.
On the opposite wall, sitting anxiously, are a mildly obese mid thirties mom, BETTY-LOU, and dad, BILLY-RAY, who are intensely watching and listening.
DR.
(Looking at MARY)
Her lungs sound fine, every thing’s clear, so it’s probably just a virus causing the cough-
Now carefully probing Mary’s left side
DR.
(To Mary)
Does this hurt sweetie?
Mary shaking her head negatively
MARY
No mam. Well maybe a little there.
Dr. Jo looks up from Mary and turns towards mom & dad
DR
Everything looks good except for this one little spot-
Turns to Mary
Turns to Mary
DR
Mary, does it hurt when you go to the bathroom? When you go poopy?
Mary shakes her head no and DR turns back to the parents
Mary shakes her head no and DR turns back to the parents
DR
She has a small lump, or a hard spot in her abdomen that is just mildly
concerning.
I would guess that she’s just a little constipated so I want you to make sure she gets plenty of fiber
and green leafy vegetables this week,
and give her a little prune juice
every day, that should clear things
out.
BETTY
So, its nothing we need to worry about? We shouldn’t run any tests?
DR
No, I don’t want to put her through the trauma of all the possible tests
we may need to run just to find out
that she’s a little backed up. We’ll
make her an appointment for next week
and see how things look then.
BILLY
Ok. That sounds good; I’ll stop by the desk on the way out and get her on the schedule.
DR
Great! I’ll go grab the nurse and have her set those immunizations up
and we’ll get you guys on your way...
Dr. Jo turns and leaves the room, shutting the door behind her.
Mary looking very concerned
MARY
Mommy? I don’t want to get any shots.
Billy smiling at Mary
BILLY
Honey, I told you that you would be getting some shots today, but don’t
worry, there’s only going to be five
of them and the needles are only –
Billy holds his hands out, about shoulder width apart
Billy holds his hands out, about shoulder width apart
BILLY
- going to be about this big.
Mary visibly shrinks and moves further back on the table. Betty turns toward Billy, attracting his attention
BETTY
Now you stop that DADDY! Last time it
took me and three nurses to hold her
down.
BILLY
What’s my name? Come on, you can say
it, MASTER. Just watch and learn
honey, watch and learn...
Billy turns back to Mary smiling
BILLY
Don’t worry sweetie, there’s only going to be six of them and the needle is only going to be as big as your thumb and –
Billy holds his hands out, considerably wider than he did a
moment ago
BILLY
- they are only going to be this long
BILLY
- they are only going to be this long
MARY
STOP IT DADDY!
BETTY
YEAH. Stop it DADDY! ...Oh!
Betty reaches in her pocket and pulls out a vibrating cell phone. She looks at the caller id and turns to Billy,
BETTY
It’s the boss honey. I gotta take
this.
Answering the phone
BETTY
BETTY
Hey Sandy! What’s up?
SANDY (V.O.)
Hey Betty, we had a meeting this
morning and I need to talk to you
about it. Is now a good time? Do you
have a minute?
BETTY
Sure! What’s up?
SANDY (V.O.)
Well, like I said we had a meeting
this morning with all the department
heads and, well, you can’t work as a
nurse tech anymore. –
Billy watches as Betty closes her eyes and tenses up.
SANDY (V.O.)
- As you know, a nurse tech is
technically a nursing student working
in the position of a nursing
assistant, and, well, you graduated
and have your license. You’re a RN
now, not a nursing student...
Betty looking down at the floor
BETTY
Well, yes that’s true, but HR said I
could continue to work as a tech for
up to three months while I look for a
new position. And you said I could
work as long as I needed and it’s
only been a month...
Betty looks up at the ceiling
SANDY (V.O.)
I know, I’m sorry but they changed the policy on the nurse tech position and told us this morning that effective today, anyone not currently enrolled in and actively attending nursing school could no longer work as a tech.
Betty looks back down at the floor shaking her head with her eyes closed
I know, I’m sorry but they changed the policy on the nurse tech position and told us this morning that effective today, anyone not currently enrolled in and actively attending nursing school could no longer work as a tech.
Betty looks back down at the floor shaking her head with her eyes closed
SANDY (V.O.)
I’m sorry honey, there’s nothing I
can do. I’ll let you know of any RN
positions that open up. Let me know
if I can do anything to help you get
on somewhere.
BETTY
Yeah, thanks Sandy
Betty hangs up and turns to Billy
BETTY
I just got fired –
Billy’s eyes go wide
BETTY
Yeah, I’m an RN now, not a nursing
student, so I can’t work as a tech
anymore, period. Dot.
BILLY
(very sarcastically)
YAY!
The NURSE enters the room smiling and looks at Mary
NURSE
I’ve got something for you!
Mary, who has been watching her mom, jumps and looks up at the nurse. Seeing her, she tenses up.
MARY
What?
Still smiling and looking Mary in the eye
NURSE
I’ve got a special band aide for you!
Do you want it?
With out looking away from Mary or waiting for a response the nurse pulls a big blue crayon shaped band aide out of her pocket and sticks it on Mary’s arm. In the same motion she pulls 2 small syringes out of her other pocket.
With out looking away from Mary or waiting for a response the nurse pulls a big blue crayon shaped band aide out of her pocket and sticks it on Mary’s arm. In the same motion she pulls 2 small syringes out of her other pocket.
NURSE
You like that?
Mary smiles and nods, then seeing only 2 small needles, she visibly exhales and relaxes
NURSE
Good! I’ve got 2 more of those for
you! Where you want them? Arms or
legs?
MARY
Legs.
MARY
Legs.
Betty gets up and moves towards Mary. Before she can get
there the nurse slides both of Mary’s pant legs up and
gives her both shots, not giving Mary time to react. She
puts on 2 more crayon band aides and smiles at Mary.
NURSE
There! Now that wasn’t too bad was
it?
Mary smiles
MARY
MARY
No...
Billy looks at Betty and smiles
BILLY
See! MASTER...
Betty smiles and playfully tries to smack him.
FADE OUT:
THE END
THE END
How to...
My 'How-to' video has 2 purposes, to hopefully satisfy the requirements of this assignment and to be usable as a training video at our church. As it turned out this video, the first of a series that will encompass every system in our main room, was to be a training and a sort of emergency how-to but is actually turning out to be closer to thirty minutes in length. The version for class is cut fairly hard to get the length a little closer to 6 minutes but still ended up long. It reinforced the importance of pre-planning every single second of the shoot. I used 3 cameras to shoot this and have found in post that i'm not happy with the camera positions and angles. Didn't think about... More planning required. More in depth.
But, we had fun doing it. Chauncey, The STAR of the show,(insert really deep narrator voice here) is one of our campus pastors and my brother, the sort with the same last name. We spent 10-12 hours working together on this figuring out exactly what the church needed and the best way to go about it, then how deep do we go? Who is our audience? What do we want out of the final product? Then 5 hours spent moving equipment so we could set up for the shoot, and the realization of what we are getting into in order to make one of these videos for every system in the room....
As I said, I used three camcorders, 1 ea. Panasonic, Sony and Cannon, all digital SD's, and a Cannon Powershot for the stills. For audio I used a Country Man E6i, on a Sennheiser EW100 G2 body pack with multiple receivers; with the use of 3 cameras, old cameras, I used the extra receivers to run the audio into all 3 cameras to make syncing them up in post easier. I captured and edited the video with Adobe Premiere Pro 6.
Sony Handycam DCR-VX2100
Panasonic AG-DVX100B
Canon XL2
Canon PowerShot SX100-IS
The Iron Lady
The Iron Lady, A Historical Account
Revised
I am an avid reader, movie buff and a big fan of historical
works. Whether it is historical fiction (which is a work of fiction with
fictional characters set in an accurate period, location and/or event, i.e. Titanic [Cameron, 1997]), a historical
docudrama (think Lincoln [Spielberg,
2012]), a biography, documentary, etc., what is paramount for a historical work
is that it be historically accurate and provide enough background to allow the
audience a glimpse at the full picture. The
Iron Lady (Lloyd, 2011), billed as a biographical work on Margaret
Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of England (1979-1990) starring Meryl
Streep, is widely considered a sub-par movie brilliantly acted in by Mrs.
Streep, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance.
C.
Barsanti states in ‘The Iron Lady’ is
Historical Mush, “There are some honest moments
in The Iron Lady... in between is a film that does nearly all it
can to test the patience of the audience and to see exactly how little light it
can shed on one of the most important political figures of the 20th century”
(Barsanti, 2011). The Iron Lady is
not a chronological portrayal of Mrs. Thatcher’s life or career and instead
begins with her seen as a confused elderly lady, appearing to be suffering from
dementia, and begins to jump around the timeline of her life and career. Margaret Thatcher has had an
extraordinary life; in fact she is “…a woman whose influence extends far beyond
Great Britain…” (Berlinski, 2011) even though the majority of it has been
considered, by many, profoundly controversial. In the words of J. Mayén,
The Iron Lady simply
never works as a movie, given that Abi Morgan’s screenplay and Phyllida Lloyd’s
inadequate direction turn Thatcher’s life into a series of political ‘greatest
hits’, which essentially means that we never get enough time to figure out who
the title lady was as a human being, or even who the politician was, for that
matter (Mayén, 2012).
But
lets leave the writer and director out of this and focus on the film’s billing
as a historical, biographical account of Margaret Thatcher’s life and political
career.
The thought that the film is just a small
collection of her greatest hits is wide spread and mentioned in many reviews,
both stateside and in the UK. In her book, There Is No Alternative: Why
Margaret Thatcher Matters, C.
Berlinski states, “you must understand where she came from to understand what
she accomplished” (Berlinski, 2011). The
film does do some justice to a few of her accomplishments but it just plods
along denying the audience the chance to get to know PM Thatcher for who she
really was, learning what she did to help make the world the place it is today.
Because of this I could not go so far as to call it a biography, as it does not
introduce you to Mrs. Thatcher. Nor does it allow you the freedom, or even the ability,
to find out whom she was; which is a controversially brilliant leader who will
remain in our memory for years to come. It is with these thoughts in mind that I would like
to propose the remaking of the film in order to correct the inadequacies of the
original.
In the
proposed remake I would attempt to use most of the actors in the original, and
specifically Mrs. Streep, but that would be where the similarities end. Instead
of portraying Lady Thatcher as a doddering old woman with few of her faculties
intact while trying to tell her story though a series of confused flashbacks, I
would tell her story chronologically. Starting during her time in her father’s
grocery and following him in his political career to give the audience a little
of her background, her scholarship to Oxford which was practically unheard of
for a woman of her class, I would include her early days in Parliament and her
remarkable ‘against all odds’ climb through its ranks from a relative nobody as
a Member of Parliament, the lower house or House of Commons, to junior
minister, education minister, leader of her party and finally as Prime Minister
(PM).
My goal would
be to arrive at her election as Prime Minister a little over 1 hour into the
film. At this point I would also begin to include snippets of the economical conditions
in England, or its fall from grace, her achievements and her failures, what she
believed and fought for, her fight against being judged as ‘less than’ because
of her sex and then, the respect she earned from the leaders of other
governments, including the Soviets who first dubbed her as the now famous ‘Iron
Lady’. I would include this in depth look at her time as PM because, as
Berlinski put it, “She achieved things that no woman before her had achieved,
and she did so in a remarkable fashion, simultaneously exploiting every
politically useful aspect of her femininity and turning every conventional
expectation of women upside down” (Berlinski, 2011). I would bring the movie to
a close with her resignation from Parliament in 1990 and the writing of her
memoirs. The original film came in at 1 hour and 45 minutes long and an
in-depth retelling of it chronologically would be longer, in fact I would
expect the remake would come in at closer to 3 hours in length.
Berlinski
states that “Among the more
muddled ideas … is that “Thatcherism” led to the financial crisis. The
suggestion reflects significant confusion about what Thatcher stood for and
what she actually did” (Berlinski, 2011). My hope is that this successfully remade biopic would clear up this kind
of confusion and along with others, such as Lincoln, it would show the
film industry that their audience will happily pay for, and sit through a long
but well made biopic, docudrama or historical work that leaves them feeling
like they know the person or were there for the event.
References
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