Comparing Le Jetee, the short, and 12 Monkeys, the full-length movie

 Part 1: Some take aways from this video is that both La Jetée and 12 Monkeys touch on themes of time, human connections and memory. La Jetée expresses these themes through a series of still images and a narrative voice. 12 Monkeys uses a more dynamic narrative with a plot around a time travel mission. La Jetée can be seen as a photo novel, using the pictures to create an atmosphere that shows the nature of time. The video states how the film 12 Monkeys used the fundamentals from this film and adapted a more complex plot, characters and deeper structure. This video provided with me with some fundamentals that could be used inside of my film such as playing with visuals and audio. Visuals and audio can work together to create an strong atmosphere even though there may be no one talking. Just background noises and emotions from actors that can communicate something deeper. 


Part 2: My takeaway from this article is that both films are emphasizing the elusive nature in time and the way memories shape human experience. Le Jetée


uses still images to focus on the haunting power of memory on the main character until his fate. However in 12 Monkeys the main character uses the memories and time travel in a more dynamic and conventional structure. This article can help my film by providing information on genre fusion. The movie 12 Monkeys blended science fiction with dystopian thriller and more genres that created emotional depth and complexity to the plot. Using this inside my own film will be ideal because we are doing a thriller as well.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Production Blog: Filming

Image
 The group filmed today again. It's always hard to plan but the group came together and finally figured it out. The group had to film the next part of their storyboard. The next piece of the project to record was the girl walking home with the man stalking her. Imani acted as the little girl and Adrian acted as the man stalking her. Callie spent a decent amount of time trying to get them to act right for the film. Act correctly as in get into actor mode, not regular person mode. Callie considers herself the director of the film. The rest of the group believes that she is crazy, but they digress. Callie was teaching Adrian and Imani how to act due to her being able to see how everything looks. She knew what to add and knew what to take out. She also told them how to add more emotion to their acting. The group took about an hour and thirty to film. They got their filming done, but this was the longest process that it has ever taken for them. Another factor that affected the process w...
Read more

Art of the Title Website

Image
The websites that we will be researching for our title design are very helpful and valuable to the project. The first website that we used for our title design was "  Art of the Title ". This website showcased popular, award-winning movies. It also provided different designers and studios with different movies under their names and allow people to go through each movie and view the title designs. It also provides credits, presenting the different names and their jobs designing the movie. It also provides the music and artist. This website is really beneficial to our group because it gives us a guideline on how to create our own title designs. Another website is " Watch the Titles ". This website provides interviews of the designers who create the title designs. It provides different sections between featured films, student projects and more. This website provided our group block buster movies, and showed how to create an amazing title sequence.
Read more