


Five things I learned about film:
(1) Camera proxemics-this is the relationship of organisms in space, and there are four of them: intimate, personal, social, and public. The greater the distance of the camera from the subject, the less intimate the proxemic is.
(2) Angles-the camera angle can tell you a lot about a frame. If the angle is tilted up towards the character, the character looks overwhelmingly large and powerful. If tilted downwards, the character looks smaller.
(3) Lighting-the lighting in a film tells you a lot about the mood of the film. A frame with a sepia tint might give the film an old feel to it. A blue filter could give a gloomy and dark feel to a film.
(4) Rhyming elements-there are certain objects or images that show up in film repetitively and these objects are representative of certain feelings or situations in the film.
(5) Form-there are both open and closed forms. Open form is more informal than closed form and is used for natural scenes. Closed form is for a more formal setting.
Five things that I have learned about politics:
(1) Everyone is working in their own self-interest. (TRUE STATEMENT)
(2) There is a lot of corruption of the people who are in government, not necessarily in the system itself.
(3) There is a stop-loss policy in place that can legally force a soldier to serve another term even after their contract is over.
(4) There is a policy called extraordinary rendition which basically outsources torture to other countries for suspected terrorists.
(5) Marijuana should be legal.
Thanks to this class, I am completely unable to watch a film without analyzing, in depth, everything that is happening. I am, however, able to better understand what is happening in film. In addition, the things that we have been talking about in class have educated me as to what is going on in politics because I was unaware of many things we have discussed in class.
Camera proxemics relate the camera to the people it is how far the camera is from the actors.
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