Acting and Acting Styles-Training Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKTVQPOH8ZA 

 

 

The film I have chosen is Training Day (2001) directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by David Ayer starring Denzel Washington as Alonzo Harris, Ethan Hawke as Jake Hoyt and Scott Glenn as Roger.  I think Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and Scott Glenn fall into the interpreter type of actor category.  Each actor in the mention filmed strived to make their character real, believable while putting their own spice to it.  Ethan Hawke and Scott Glenn had more of a variety in the roles they portrayed on screen.  Ethan roles vary from science fiction to sensitive and shy to animation.  Scott Glenn also has appeared in a variety of films depicting both good and bad guys as well as tragicomedy, socio-political and independent projects.

In the past the roles Denzel Washington were casted in were mostly the good guy with virtuous morals and values.  Always doing what is right no matter who is looking.  According to Goodykoontz (2011), “Personality actor an actor whose own personality tends to define all the characters he portrays, so that the actor’s name alone lets audiences know what their screen character will be like” (section 3.9).  I think for the most part if Denzel did not break away from his traditional good guy role and played a hard core corrupted cop tired of the bad guys living the life of luxury.  He also shows his diverse talent in the Flight (2012), where he plays a pilot abusing substances.  Which made the audience think and question do pilots truly have lifetime additions and are still able to function as capable members of society.  Denzel has starred in numerous films and had received a lot of accolades for his portrayal of his many characters.  I think that based on the film and the actor they could easily fit into any of the five categories mention in our text.  Although some actors are more refined and experience than others.

 

http://www.biography.com/people/denzel-washington-9524687#acting-career

http://movies.msn.com/celebrities/celebrity-biography/ethan-hawke/

Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2011). Film: From watching to seeing. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001277/bio

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=training+day&FORM=HDRSC2

 

Categories and Function of Sound-The Lion King Movie Clip

 

The Lion King Clip (The Lion King: Diamond Editio

1. The three basic categories of sound are dialogue spoken words by two or more characters in a scene. Sound effects is any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.   Music is broken down to include the score the background mood music that accompanies the action on the screen, usually composed specifically for a film but sometimes partly or entirely compiled from existing music. Soundtrack the part of the film containing all the recorded sound (music, dialogue and sound effects), typically recorded to a digital, analog optical, or magnetic format that may be on the film itself or played in synchronization with the picture.  Also used as a term for a separate compilation of songs and music selections used in the film and sold as a promotional tool for both film and the songs.
2. The score can be heard in the background at the beginning of The Lion King movie clip of Simba being given the right to become king after his father in a ritual performed my Rafiki one of King’s advisors. The score and sound effects help to enhance the culture of the ritual being performed.  The singing of different songs throughout the movie makes the movie enjoyable.
3. Sound played a major part in the overall film. The music drew you into the different scenes and they help to tell the story.  The song hakuna matata which meant no worries in one of the scenes aids the audience the better identify with Simba as he decides to live a care free life not worrying about anything.  I think the sound effects were realistic for being in an animal kingdom or a national park with the exception that the animals can speak like human beings.
4. If the sound effects and score were removed from this particular scene then it would be hard to understand what is going on. The sound, color, camera shorts all interweave into each scene the support the films story and plot.  How can you have a jungle scene without the various sound effects to heighten the audience feeling of being right there in the middle of the jungle with the character.

Reference

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=the+lion+king+image&FORM=HDRSC2

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sound%20effects?s=t

https://content.ashford.edu/books/AUENG225.11.2/sections/sec6.6#

Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2011). Film: From watching to seeing. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi1984076825?ref_=ttvi_vi_7

 

Blog 2-Lighting

There are three type of lighting used in the movie Shallow Hal that was released in 2011.  Traditional three-point lighting, low-key lighting and high-key lighting were used all throughout this film.  In the scene where Hal and Rosemary share a milk shake high-key lighting was used.  When very bright lighting cover everything, with few shadows and relatively low contrast between the lightest and darkest parts of the scene is known as high-key lightening.  Traditional three-point lighting is based on careful controls of shadows using three main light sources.  The movie in essence is about finding true beauty in person no matter what their exterior appearance looks like.  A person can be pretty on the outside and ugly on the inside and a person can be pretty on the inside and not very attractive on the outside.  People should not judge another person just based on their outward appearance because people are valuable.  Like that old saying goes do not judge a book by its cover.  The benefits of the lighting throughout the film helped to tell the story of the average guy trying to find and maintain relationship based solely on the females outward appearance.  He eventually figures out that beauty is on the inside first and it then comes outward.  There is more to an individual then his or her physical looks.  Yes I believe that using that technique contributed to theme.  Since this a romantic comedy the lighting technique is suited for genre for this film.  If the film was cast mostly in low-key lighting then romance and comedy would be have not have been very effective.  Low-key lighting overall appearance is dark in comparison and uses extreme deep shadows with a single source of light.  It is mostly used in horror and mystery films and dramatic scenes.

 

Multiplicity

Title: Multiplicity

Writer: Chris Miller, Mary Hale, Harold Ramis, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel.

Director: Harold Ramis

Year: 1996

Actors: Michael Keaton (Doug Kinney), Andie Mac Dowell (Laura Kinney) and Eugene Levy (Vic)

Story: Multiplicity is a 1996 film, about a man that does not have enough time in his life to take care of work, family and himself.  He tries to clone himself in order to have time for his family and work but the clones end up taking control of his life.  He ends up in a worse predicament than when he originally started.  He intentions seems feasible, however they did more harm than good and created more problems.

Plot: He is a construction worker and one day his coworker destroyed the wrong driveway and that created tension

He boss is reasonable upset and wants him to fix the problem he created.  After arriving home after work his wife wants him to fix a few things around the house and this adds to his already hectic schedule. Working a remolding jobs a few things go wrong and a doctor approaches him with a solution to his seeming overwhelming problems.  The doctor convinces to clone himself and he agrees.  He take his clone home to live in his upstairs garage and work out a plan where the clone goes to work and Doug finally get to do work around house.  Doug wife Laura decide to take her job back and this is where complicated.  Dough ends up doing household chores that his wife used to do and he begins feel unappreciated and no longer wants to take care of the home but wants to go back to work. This leads into another clone being created to take care of the house and household chores.  The clones end up throwing a party and create a bigger disorder. Doug decides to go away too clear his mind and leave one of the clones in charge and while he is gone he loses his job and his wife leaves him.  He came back to the disorder he created with his clones and he realizes the only person that can fix his life is him.  He uses the clones to help him get his life back on track by fixing the house and getting his wife to come back home.  Finally, the clones go their separate way and he live a happier life.

Chronology: The film was told in chronological order.  You get audience gets to identify with Doug as a provider and protector of his household.  Like many people finding the right balance between work and home is a needed or things become unstable.

The chronological storytelling draws the audience into his life and how when one area is focused upon more (such as work) other areas in life and marriage suffer.  Some people will be able to identify with this storyline.

Had the film been told non-literally, the story would have lost the meaning that sometimes while meaning to do better bigger problems get created.  When these problems are created some people look for other means to fix what is broken and end up finding out they had the solution all along.