IFC Part Two: Exercise 2.1 Part 2

The Kiss   As the course notes comment film culture would not be film culture if it wasn’t for the trivia and the gossip surrounding the life of stars. There have been many marriages that have blossomed from on-screen relationship and meetings; even from meetings surrounding the making of the films e.g. Elizabeth Taylor & […]

IFC Part Two: Love and Lust – Research Point 3 to 5

New Wave Cinema While of course, I know of New Wave Cinema I have to confess that it is a new genre to me – if 50 plus years late. From my research I feel that New Wave Cinema is a child of time; it was born out of cinema clubs in post-war France; in […]

IFC Part Two: Love and Lust – Research Point 2

  The Hayes Code The Hays Code was a set of regulations that, although technically voluntary, had a profound influence on how movies were made and what content was permitted in the United States from 1930 to 1968. The Code was established in response to a series of scandals that rocked the US film industry […]

IFC Part Two: Exercise 2.1 Part 1

  The Kiss – part one The kiss is an essential ingredient in many films. Today they are commonplace and in some cases almost through away, however, this was not always the case in the early history of cinema a kiss was then almost the equivalent of what we would today class as pornography. For […]

IFC Assignment One – Submission to Tutor

Peter Walker – 514508 OCA Photography – Introduction to Film Culture Assignment 1 – Hero’s and Villains ‘re-made’.   The has been an interesting exercise to watch five movies; three inspired by two of the others and a more interesting decision as to which two to reflect on together with the “Seven Samurai”. It would […]

IFC Part One: Exercise 1.5

Exercise 1.5 Where the Magic Happens As the title suggests, editing is what truly brings a movie together. It stitches individual shots within scenes, and then connects those scenes to create a coherent narrative. Here, we have three versions of effectively the same story, and the editing styles of the two older films—Yojimbo and A […]