Robb Oler’s Hum210 Blog

The source that I found for Cutaway gives an overall description of what it is used for in filmmaking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaway_(film)
  
This source I found gives different processes of montage and film editing and the general background of how it is used.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montage_(film

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This article I found was about comments about Top Gun. It is not the most informative article but I think it is nice to see other people’s opinions.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092099/

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I found this source that I thought was pretty interesting about the reading. It wasn’t about the chapter but it had some interesting information about actors and what they could expect in the business.
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos093.htm#training
  

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When reading the Talent II I was fascinated at how much of a change has accrued since the 50’s. I did not realize that the studio had set wages and contracts that lasted years and could be cancelled at the discretion of the studio if the actor/ actress was not bringing people to the box […]

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I responded to Denise Bedwell
http://www.dbedwell.uniblogs.org/
  
Heidi Wilhite
http://hwilhite.uniblogs.org/
  
Nora Martinez
http://nmartinez.uniblogs.org/ 
I really enjoyed the reading The Talent. I was surprised by how much film school played a role in coming out of directors. I do believe if it was not for a lot of the directors they mentioned in this chapter there would not be such a high bar […]

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The director that I choose for my report is going to be Mel Gibson. I have always enjoyed him as an actor, but as a director I hope to find out more about how he directs. He has only made three movies Man Without A Face, Braveheart and Passion of Christ. Mel Gibson has made his […]

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The three individual film elements that I researched were Lighting, Film Stock, and Zoom Lens.
  
The page that I furled for Lighting talked about a basic lighting setup, which is called the Three Point Lighting. This setup can give your images more depth and clarity. The three types are the Key Light, Fill Light, and Back […]

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In the recourse that I found for Scareface it manly talks about the story of the film and the sequences from the beginning to the end. But it does dabble a little on De Palma’s entry into a territory he has not explored. It was also a first for him in another sense; here he […]

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The two directors that I pick to review movies on were Brian De Palma and Francis Ford Coppola.
            The films that I chose for Brian De Palma were Scareface and The Untouchables. The two films that I chose for Francis ford Coppola were Apocalypse Now and American Graffiti.
 
            The first time I saw Scareface was […]

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