Visions of Light...

So we watched Visions of Light, a documetary about cinematography and the use of light in film. Now blog about what you discovered in the film. Also, you could choose one of the movies discussed in the film and blog about it for us. Again, GET YOUR TEXTBOOKS and get familiar with the terminology in it to help make your points.

Here are the movies that are shown in Visions of Light:

▪ Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1895)
▪ Repas de bébé (1895)
▪ L'Arrivée d'un train à la Ciotat (1895)
▪ The Kiss (1896)
▪ Le Spectre rouge (1907)
▪ The Birth of a Nation (1915)
▪ Intolerance (1916)
▪ The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
▪ Way Down East (1920)
▪ Der Letzte Mann (1924)
▪ Ben-Hur (1925)
▪ Napoléon (1927)
▪ Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
▪ The Crowd (1928)
▪ The Cameraman (1928)
▪ The Cocoanuts (1929)
▪ Applause (1929)
▪ The Locked Door (1929)
▪ Possessed (1931)
▪ Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
▪ Shanghai Express (1932)
▪ As You Desire Me (1932)
▪ What Price Hollywood? (1932)
▪ Red Dust (1932)
▪ Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
▪ Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
▪ Queen Christina (1933)
▪ Becky Sharp (1935)
▪ Peter Ibbetson (1935)
▪ Desire (1936)
▪ Camille (1936)
▪ Jezebel (1938)
▪ The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
▪ Midnight (1939)
▪ The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
▪ The Wizard of Oz (1939)
▪ Gone with the Wind (1939)
▪ The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
▪ Rebecca (1940)
▪ The Sea Hawk (1940)
▪ The Long Voyage Home (1940)
▪ Citizen Kane (1941)
▪ How Green Was My Valley (1941)
▪ The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
▪ Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
▪ Mildred Pierce (1945)
▪ The Killers (1946)
▪ Out of the Past (1947)
▪ T-Men (1947)
▪ The Naked City (1948)
▪ Oliver Twist (1948)
▪ She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
▪ Young Man with a Horn (1950)
▪ Sunset Boulevard (1950)
▪ The Big Combo (1955)
▪ The Night of the Hunter (1955)
▪ Picnic (1955)
▪ Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
▪ Touch of Evil (1958)
▪ Jules et Jim (1962)
▪ Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
▪ Hud (1963)
▪ Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
▪ The Professionals (1966)
▪ Cool Hand Luke (1967)
▪ In Cold Blood (1967)
▪ The Graduate (1967)
▪ 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
▪ Rosemary's Baby (1968)
▪ Easy Rider (1969)
▪ Midnight Cowboy (1969)
▪ The Conformist (1970)
▪ McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
▪ The French Connection (1971)
▪ The Godfather (1972)
▪ Fat City (1972)
▪ Chinatown (1974)
▪ The Godfather Part II (1974)
▪ The Day of the Locust (1975)
▪ Jaws (1975)
▪ Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
▪ Taxi Driver (1976)
▪ Eraserhead (1977)
▪ Annie Hall (1977)
▪ Days of Heaven (1978)
▪ Apocalypse Now (1979)
▪ Raging Bull (1980)
▪ E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
▪ Blade Runner (1982)
▪ Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
▪ Blue Velvet (1986)
▪ The Last Emperor (1987)
▪ Empire of the Sun (1987)
▪ The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988)
▪ The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
▪ Do the Right Thing (1989)
▪ Goodfellas (1990)

Some websites for you:

http://www.kodak.com/US/en/motion/support/glossary/glossary.jhtml#A

http://www.filmandvideolights.com/grip_glossary/index.html

http://www.lowel.com/glossary.html

Off you go.

Now your first movie...

You have seen and discussed some of the lighting in Blade Runner, now watch a movie on your own and tell us about the lighting.

Refer to your text's glossary for lighting terms that will help in your discussion.

Remember also to give us a synopsis of your film, in case we are unfamiliar with it.

Reminder: Everyone readBlade Runner script for next week so I can have you meet with your lighting groups.

Off you go.