Thursday, November 19, 2009

Theory nots- re-creating films stills



This film still is similar to the one of Meghan, Fabrizio, and Barbara. They are similar because they both have someone that is sitting listening to everything that the one person is yelling. The one sitting in this one is compared to Meghan in the other picture. Fabrizio is compared to the guy on the left with the grey hair who is yelling, or dictating, and Barbara is the last person who really is just there to be there, they aren't a very big part of the picture just an extra person almost.


This photo was taken from the film, "M" it was a film noir and the film photographers took many dark photos, hence the name film noir. This picture relates to the one I have of Fabrizio staring at the bottle because first of all the obvious positioning is the same, they are looking the same way and the lighting is similar. The light is coming from the right side of the photo which is the left side of the man's face. The limitations that they had back in the 1940's is that their lighting was not as sophisticated as what we have now but the low lighting causes a morbid mood, as in my photo the mood is not morbid, the person in my print is studying and focusing on something.



This photo was taken from the film The American Nightmare. This picture relates to the last one of mine where Fabrizio is smelling the object. The obvious ways that they are similar is their positioning, their bodies are facing relatively the same way, and they are looking the same way. The differences is that the woman in this picture is not as focused on what she is looking at as Fabrizio is with smelling the thing in his hand. The lighting is pretty similar but that is because the lighting in my photo was nothing really but room lighting except for the wall light coming from the reflection in the mirror. In the 1960's there weren't many limitations for what photographers could do with their photo's except to digitally enhance them to the extent that we can.

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