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Hello all! I'm currently undergoing my undergrad studies in Cinema at The University of Iowa (class standing: Junior - non-traditional ) I've taken classes where I've been exposed to various formats and equipment (Canon MiniDV, HVX, HPX, Final Cut Pro, Avid Media Composer, H2, H4n, Lowell...

Oh most definitely! I'm merely commenting on the discourse we are presumably working in; the term rather than the act itself. To have a style is one thing but to be cognizant of it, to study it meticulously, it is another. Traditionally, in film studies, the group of editors over at Cahiers du...

Interesting. Did you change the shutter speed in the opening shot of the weeds? If so, to what rate? What was the aesthetic choice for using the fabric as a background throughout? Simply superimposed or did you use mattes/masks? Finally what did you shoot on? 5D? 7D? Other?

German Expressionism. Chiaroscuro. "Jimmy Valentine" lighting.

What hasn't been said yet, or perhaps I just missed it, is that the way you shoot depends on the story and your approach. If you want to use a minimalist style, like Jim Jarmusch, then you will shoot differently than what others have mentioned. Think about how the conversations were filmed in...

This comes out of the French New Wave and the emergence of the film auteur. Basically, it was conceived that no matter if the director wrote the screenplay or not, based on a consistently applied methodology of approaching the material, spread throughout the canon of their work, a certain style...