Blogging Assignment #8

Am I Bluffing? - Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

The overall theme of this movie seems to be of an imperfect duo of investigators trying to find the whereabouts of a missing girl. While they have the means to solve it, their lack of computability continuously gets them into trouble and delays their findings. I believe that the movie itself is very didactic with explaining this to the audience.

The lines of this piece are mostly virtual between the three characters shown in this particular scene. Following their eyes and where the gun is placed and pointed, the audience knows exactly where to look even though another character may be speaking. The lines themselves are also very straight rather than curvilinear, though there are a few that show up in the background of the car that slope and still draw more attention to the straight lines the characters are creating. The space varies within the scene whether on the captured man or on the two men in charge, but it continuously puts the audience from a higher angle to weaken the captured “bad guy” and empower the two protagonists.  The movement in the scene is very limited to the confined space they are in, most of the movement being made by the camera as it moves back and forth and the characters shuffle around. The rhythm of the scene is steady and continuous until is speeds up and becomes faster and more intense in the end after the captured man in shot.

Blogging Assignment #7

Transformers

(Bumblebee)

VS.

Iron Man

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Relatively, the Transformers trilogy and the two Iron Man movies are of similar genres, but in the way they were created and animated are extremely different, though while housing a few similarities. Both of these movies highlight the use of live action, but the majority of these films implement the use of high definition animation and visual effects. For their explosions and visual effects, both follow the same realism. The major differences come from the creation of their characters. The characters in Transformers and the suit created in Iron Man are of the same metal look, but their design is completely different.

 The Transformers suits and armor far more intricate in design and complicated, showing moving and working parts of their bodies while the Iron Man suit is merely flat and smoothed over metal. The Transformers also stand out far more than the Iron Man suit, the colors that highlight their faces much brighter with a higher saturation, especially with my example of Bumblebee above compared the darker and less saturated suit of Iron Man.  The color scheme for Iron Man is much simpler and duller than that of Bumblebee, while Tony Stark’s suit is very sleek and neatly painted, Bumblebee looks far more realistic and worn with his intricate contrasting colors.

The lighting is also very different between the two here. The shadows are much darker and more concealing of Bumblebee, hiding some of the intricate workings of his face and other parts of his body, which also draws the viewer to his bright blue eyes that emit light. Iron Man’s suit is brightly lighted with little to no shadow, even light emits from his chest piece. The symbolism I think this could really pose is that the transformers have to hide because of being of alien origins, so Bumblebee is going to be more hidden in shadows out of the publics view while Iron Man, aka Playboy billionaire Tony Stark craves the attention of the public and openly presents himself out in the open. 

Blogging Assignment #5

Listening Framework

"Brother" by Murder By Death

Listening Phase 1 (Rhythm)

Tempo Fast

Source Drum kit

Groove Very upbeat and continuous with little to no ritardando until the ending of the song. It is very articulate and accented throughout the song with loud hits and and obvious crescendo at the peak of the song and a decrescendo back to the original state afterward.

Listening Phase 2 (Arrangement)

Instrumentation Drum kit, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, Cello

Structure/Organization Starts at a fast pace and continues to get faster and crescendo toward the peak of the song, where it decrescendos and slows down to the original pace and upbeat feeling till at the end it has a ritardando and stops slow. 

Emotional Architecture It is very fast as it builds up to the peak til the point it reaches that climaxes where it is very articulate and impactful, then returns to the upbeat until the end where it leaves the listener with a slow and last insightful thoughts of the song.

Listening Phase 3 (Sound Quality)

Balance

-       Height Both high and low frequency.

-       Width Little to no panning, stays pretty situated in the middle.

-       Depth Several instruments that complete a very deep and complex sound that is sometiems hard to realize with the loudness of more important instruments layered above the ones that have less impact.