#filmaking

[benzodiazepuppy]

Stills From Mid90s(2018)

One of my favourite films in recent time.

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[mistydayyyy]

[foxsketch6543]

WATCH THE PROCESS HERE ❄️🌨️

[depechenoir]

The manner in which certain identities and subjectivities perform within narratives help to reproduce and reassert the rewards of being a good citizen whilst concomitantly projecting the perils of being ideologically-subversive. Marxist sociologist Siegfried Kracauer engaged with some of these issues as early as 1947 within his seminal work From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of German Film. Here, Kracauer argued that early Weimar cinema and its characte constructions not only served to reflect the contemporary culture which produced them, but also served to unearth certain underlying truths that were not immediately obvious (in this case, anticipating Germany’s embrace of fascism). Kracauer depicted film and its images as a form of cultural mirror that could be studied to better understand the world and culture that produced them.

[inkher0]

I've been seeing a ton of "ooo what if MEN got pregnant?? Wouldn't that be scary?? Its like revenge 😈" scenes from movies lately (obviously in response to Roe V Wade). As a transmasc person I find these scenes just kind of ridiculous.

Like I'm sure to an uneducated (*cough* or transphobic *cough) person the idea of a man giving birth is scary or horrifying.

But like. It's not breaking news. Men literally give birth all the fucking time. I know two men who have- one who did it more than once! And so these scenes are just really silly to me because they basically REQUIRE you not to acknowledge trans men as real in order to find the horror entertaining. I see them and I'm just constantly pointing to the trans men and going "I feel like you're being just a little overdramatic about this because you don't want to actually address the relationship between men and pregnancy"

Cis Men are raised to believe that everything is property, including other people- and, most importantly, they're raised to believe that anything they have a hand in is inherently theirs, no matter how little they actually put forth. It all ties back to being TAUGHT that if you are a man, you are "owed" everything you desire, no matter what. Let me stress this: THIS IS ALL *LEARNED* BEHAVIOR, IT IS NOT INHERENTLY NATURAL FOR MEN TO SEE OTHERS IN THIS WAY. (fuck off terfs, get your own post)

And sure, you can use pregnancy to show a "well what if it was you" scenario, but... Trans men already live this life. They already have to be dehumanized, be feminized, be talked down to, have their pain ignored. There are men, right now, who live the experiences these movies are painting as horror stories- they just aren't cis, so it's inconvenient for the disturbing gore porn filmmakers are trying to make.

Like...I want to see one of these "horror" stories actually focus on a trans man's struggle with pregnancy. Give me a gripping psychological thriller that forces the audience to question the relationship between childbearing and feminity, and confronts the real life horror that is being Transgender while needing medical help.

But no, they won't do it, because acknowledging those realities are 1000x more uncomfortable than any gory thing they put on screen.

[editingmodulations]

Of the many techniques used to communicate time change in the film, the dissolve transition is among the most versatile. It can be exceptionally noticeable or weaved, almost invisibly, into the narrative. The overlapping images take the viewer to the next scene or image, seamlessly blending the present and future. An effective dissolve can communicate a few different ideas throughout a film. Let's look at some of the different ways filmmakers past and present have used this classic editing technique. - Logan Baker/Premiumbeat

Usually, dissolves are used to show the spectator a past of time; it is safe to save that this effect allows the audience to understand when a period in the life of a character goes through seconds or even minutes.

In the film The Fall, the transition goes beyond of a match cut, and turns into something else, thanks to editors Robert Duffy & Spot Welders

A match dissolve works similarly to a match cut, but with a gradual transition. Match dissolves utilize the composition of one shot to match with the composition of a second shot. 

As the dissolve transitions from the first shot to the second shot, the similar compositions create a match dissolve. 

[amertumedelamer]

Tournage de Sans Issue ; court-métrage étudiant.

Juin 2022

[cat-of-many-faces]

Why i'm never going to be a filmaker (part 1 of infinity)

I tell ya, if I ever made a film I'd have every gun, EVERY SINGLE GUN, fire in wrong and impossible ways. Double barreled shotguns firing like assault rifles. Light pistols acting like sniper rifles. Smgs acting like single shot shotguns…

Why? Because it'd make the exact right people die of an aneurysm >:)