Blog 4

     It was nice to meet an Irish Filmmaker-Donal Foreman, who shared his note of filmmaking, and the legacy of his father gave him. Through his words, I had learned the footages and background stories of this film which is a special complexity period happened in Northern Ireland. The scenes are intense and impactful, like announcement of a group of men with armed stood on the stage in dance pool, training of local armed men in wild and British army stood on the street. Also, the scenes about his father Arthur MacCaig are interesting, especially the two shots for the train that film by father and son but different time period, which makes the connection between father and son stronger. He also showed his note about this film, he would submit the proposal for the film first, then write down every idea has in his head and create a summary, from his note, even there were tons of mess and confusion, but I saw he were highlighted the important, and line those up. On the other note about filmmaking process, he was planned to surround his father shots with few his shots, after the discussion (simplified the work), it became one surround one. at the end, he talked about how the slight twist that make film interesting. It was a nice talks.

Blog 3

Me, Myself & Irene (1/5) Movie CLIP - Hank Comes Out (2000) HD - YouTube

    This clip from Me,Myself & Irene, a comedy movie about two personalities in one person. In the fist scene of this clip, A woman come up to protagonist and said she want to get ahead of him on the line in market, turn out there are two more kids and two full load cart. then through the transition cuts, the next shot is focus on the face of protagonist who going to have personality transformation.

    After the transformation, through protagonist's eyeline match to the environment around him, the shots from close up to medium shot with 30 degree rule, then eyeline match again, shot from medium to extreme close up of Anti-itch ointment. With protagonist's lines and L-cuts, lead to the next shots of female, then through J-cuts and protagonist' voice lead back to the shot of protagonist. Eyeline match again from protagonist to female, after female's responded and eyeline match, shot go back to protagonist.

    Next shot, while protagonist using broadcast, a ton of transition cut shot of people responded to broadcast. then through protagonist's eyeline, transit the shot to female and jump cut back. At the end of clip, a jump cut of protagonist leaving the market.