Maylynn Ton's Blog

Transitions 1. Fade      I combined an extreme close-up shot that zooms on a piece of paper with a big F and 50% in red pen as if I had failed a test and then faded into white onto another close-up shot clip of me waking up from my sleep, shocked by the dream. In real life, I would be terrified of getting an inadequate score on a test, so I decided to implement that as if it were a nightmare. The white fade-out is typically used for dreams, so I thought that this would be a perfect transition. The hardest part was definitely the filming because of the part where I woke up. It made me and the filmmaker burst out laughing every time we filmed, so it took multiple tries, but the test paper part was easy. My acting was poor, and you can still see me holding a laugh a little bit. Of course, editing was easy since all I did was add a transition from my editing app and cut the video to my satisfaction. 2. Dissolve     For the two-shot and over-the-shoulder shot, I...

Movie Analysis Movie: Parasite by Bong Joon-ho 1. Overhead Shot      Toward the end of the movie, after the explosive bloody fight the Kims and Parks experience when Geun-sae comes out from hiding in the basement, the director uses an overhead shot to really display the mess created at Da-song's birthday party. In more detail, overhead shots are usually used to establish what is going on below. In fact, it makes Ki-taek seem isolated and abandoned as he is the only one in this large grassy backyard after everyone runs away. It shows Dong-ik on the ground after being stabbed by Ki-taek, and the food spilled everywhere and napkins flying around. It remains in an overhead shot as it follows Ki-taek as he is walking around in the mess he created, looking frantic. As he approaches a pair of stairs leading down, the audience can assume that he is fleeing from the crime he committed. 2. Low-Angle Shot and Over-the-Shoulder Shot      Yeon-kyo, who is the mother of...

   Classmate Critique      I commented on Jason Truong's and Jadon Nagelbush's camera shot blogs. I loved how they experimented with different camera shots, and I could feel the different emotions and what they were trying to display. It was also a bit funny. Overall, they both did a fantastic job and showed their understanding of this topic.      For Jason Truong's blog, I commented on the two-shot, which showed a friendly greeting between two people, and the follow-shot, which followed a person looking around. I found the two-shot nicely filmed and established a friendship, and its purpose is usually to show an interaction between the subject and the relationship. I could feel a casual, friendly, and happy emotion while watching it. Next, the follow-shot, which is utilized to capture the movement and illustrate the story, had a person walking around while doing the looking-forward gesture that signaled that he was looking for something. As a res...