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Post by Halcyon Dayz, FCD on Mar 8, 2008 11:58:03 GMT -4
Did anybody ever see Fritz Lang's Frau im Mond? I wonder what Jay thinks of it from the viewpoint of an Apollo-ogist. It is a melodramatic juvenile adventure story. Like Metropolis it was authored by Thea von Harbou, and like it I found it ideologically suspect. It is no coincident that the cabal of evil businessmen ( 5 brains and check books) is all foreign, and is lead by an American. Did I mention that I hate melodrama?
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Post by gillianren on Mar 8, 2008 16:20:29 GMT -4
I haven't seen that one. Give it maybe six months, and if my library system has it, I'll get to it. (My review of Broken Blossoms is up now, because I'm not sure I'm going to watch a movie today. If I do, I can stick that review into backlog, no worries.)
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Post by Ginnie on Mar 8, 2008 17:03:29 GMT -4
Did anybody ever see Fritz Lang's Frau im Mond? I wonder what Jay thinks of it from the viewpoint of an Apollo-ogist. It is a melodramatic juvenile adventure story. Like Metropolis it was authored by Thea von Harbou, and like it I found it ideologically suspect. It is no coincident that the cabal of evil businessmen ( 5 brains and check books) is all foreign, and is lead by an American. Did I mention that I hate melodrama? Never seen it, or heard of it - at least it isn't familiar to me. Apparently it has the first rocket countdown sequence which inspired the future rocket builders.
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Post by Ginnie on Mar 8, 2008 17:12:11 GMT -4
wdmundt, since you are making your movie in black and white: did you have to alter background colours, clothing, sets etc. so that your movie had enough contrasts? When you looked through your camera's lens, were you seeing colour or black and white?
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Post by Bluff on Mar 9, 2008 14:19:55 GMT -4
12 angry men Plan 9 from outer space The public enemy Bringing up baby
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Post by wdmundt on Mar 10, 2008 13:01:05 GMT -4
wdmundt, since you are making your movie in black and white: did you have to alter background colours, clothing, sets etc. so that your movie had enough contrasts? When you looked through your camera's lens, were you seeing colour or black and white? There are some things about making a black and white movie that are easier and some things that are harder. On the easy side, some colors that are unacceptable for a horror movie are just fine in B&W -- an example of this would be the laboratory we shot in that had peach-colored walls. We'd have had to repaint if the movie had been in color. Costuming is also somewhat easier -- as general shades have to work together, but not colors. Some aspects of lighting are also easier, as there is no need to match the color temperature of the lighting instruments to ambient light. On the down-side, many colors can appear as the same shade of gray -- so attention has to be given to setting similar shades apart with variations of lighting. As we were doing a horror movie, high-contrast lighting was the norm. High contrast is relatively easy to achieve. If we'd been doing a warm and soft romantic comedy, the lighting challenges would have been much greater. Dark and shadowy is easy, but warm and fuzzy takes more instruments and more attention to detail. I have to admit that I am just terrible with color. I'm good at set design and figuring out what types of costuming will be appropriate, but I always have to rely on others when it comes to color. We built a coffee shop set in our studio last year. I came up with what I think was a fairly clever way to maximize our space and give the illusion of depth -- but when it came to painting the thing, I was no use at all. We were shooting 24p video, so we were always seeing color while shooting. I would look at B&W on the monitor, if needed. The color is stripped out in editing.
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Post by wdmundt on Mar 11, 2008 18:42:56 GMT -4
Here is the coffee shop set I designed and built last year. I have since added one additional panel on the left and on the right and I have also added a two foot extension to the tops of each panel. I was given a free hand to design and build this, but I had a coworker do the color scheme. I have almost no color sensibility at all. My top ten black and white movies (in no particular order): 1. The Thing From Another World 2. Seven Days in May 3. Psycho 4. Casablanca 5. Fail Safe 6. The Day the Earth Stood Still 7. To Kill a Mockingbird 8. On The Beach 9. Twelve O'Clock High 10. Roman Holiday
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