Rating Movies

1.  Moonrise Kingdom-  A Visual Masterpiece.  The plot was engaging and the cinematography was filled with magical shots, and scenes, with vivid color contrasts.

2. Fruitvale Station- This film was a well portrayed and very enlightening film.  The build up of the plot was intense and well played out.  With dramatic camera shakes during intense shots.

3. O' Brother Where Art Thou-  The music was fantastic in this film and fit perfectly with the film and the plot.

4. Freaks- A ultimate story with a life lesson of karma.  Filmed with great angels and perfectly appropriate lighting used at all times through this film.

5.  My own Private Idaho-  Very aesthetically pleasing film with beautiful set up shots and also interesting landscape shots.  Interesting still shots and editing techniques done.

6. Killer Of Sheep- A very dramatic film of the african american poverty expressed during this time period.  The soundtrack of this film was absolutely perfect and appropriate for the film.  Made the movie.

7. Sherlock Jr. - A comical black and white film that was full of very interesting dream scape images with a fun story to follow along with.

8. Detour- A fun film about a scandalous drama.  This film was very interesting in terms of its play on woman and the roll of woman.

8. Awara-  A painful experience to sit and watch this story that never seems to end,  the film was bland and the story could have been interesting if it wouldnt have drug out for what seemed like forever

9. Good Bad and Ugly-  A traditional Western film, pretty un engaging in my opinion.

10.  Wendy and Lucy-  A boring film going no where with plot and hard to get into, because of lack of plot.  Filled with interesting secret messages though

Fruitvale STATION

 The first shot is a close up of Oscar and his enemy in the background perfectly coming in through the left side of the camera shot.  Oscar has a look of oh shit on his face and we can see the enemy looking angry  trying to confront him.

 The second shot is a medium close up shot of oscar and sophina looking like they are in trouble and worried.  The by standers are looking at what just happened and are wandering what is going on.

 This is a perfect shot of the cops enforcing upon the two guys with the contrast of the yellow taser popping out against the black uniform and black outfit in the dark train station.  The station is all dark and gives a sense of trouble coming on.

 In this shot we see Oscar looking as though he is innocent and throwing his hands up as though he is scared, and the look on the police mans face is fierce.  The by standers in the background are concerned and everyone is trying to see what is going on.  This is a transition shot in the same scene in which we are in the train station.

In this shot are eyes are led to the yellow of the taser gun witch is complimented by the yellow train line in the background.  We see a white man over powering all of these black men on the ground looking scared and angry.

This is the ultimate shot of perfect blur out of the phone leaving the action shot in focus, so we have enough information to no something needs to be recorded here by a phone but we are more centered in on what is happening in the distance rather then close up.