16 wishes

16 wishes is about a girl that wanted to make it real all her wishes in her 16 birthday. She had like fairytale that help her. She had a box with 16 candles and when she blow one of them one of their wishes of the list will came true. This movie was played in the TV, it had good shots, angles and sounds. This movie talks about a lot of imaginary things like fairytales, but in human beings. This movie had some parts as the first Cinderella, that change the things like with magic this movie had some parts of it. It used good sounds for every object: steps, doors, magic, laughs, etc.

Problems in films during the sound era

In the silent era the movies were very popular, because it just need a viewer to understant the jokes, terror, usual days, etc. Ecuadorian movies had good movies during this time, but when the sound appears Ecuador's films goes down. The reasons about this was first of all because the foreign language of the actors, this was a problems because there were actor of every part of the world, so they had different accents and viewers didn't liked this. Another reason was because they did't had sets that can be recorded with sounds. Also they needed to spend a lot of money during this period, because they created new sets, they by new machines of sound, they need new actors, so this was very difficult for directors during that time.

Spiderman 2

In this movie appear a lot of shots like medium shot, full, shot, long shot, close-up. Movies with action had a lot of movements, so the camera had to be in a good position to record every little detail. This movie also used a lot of computer generated effect (CGI), because there were some things that can´t be record, because of lack of place or of danger. This movie was directed by Sam Raimi and written by Alvin Sargent.

Journals of films

Making a movie had a lot of responsibility, is not just had money and create a set and find actors, is a lot of work. Before making a movie the director had to have the script, the storyboard and finally the journal. This last thing is very important, because here is where is written all the things and ideas that had be changing throw the shoots of the movie until get the final product. Here also are the types of sets that they had to found, or the troubles that they had during the filming. In the journal is where they wrote everything that they have to pass of.

Soundtrack from the movie The Bucket List

All the music that appeared in this movie was composed by Marc Shaiman. In the movie appears 23 trakcs. Each sound was created for the different envioronments that the movie had, and also depended by the mood of the characters. Shaiman created all the sound by his own voice and lyrics.
There also were others composer that created great sounds as Marguerite Monnot, Billy Gibbons, Frank Beard and so on.

Ecuadorian Movies

The Company of Ecuador was founded in Guayaquil in 1924. Ecuador had its Cinema Golden Age during the early 20´s to 30´s, but it failed with the coming of the sounds movies.
There were a lot of countries that get inspired of Ecuador and created numerous books and novels based of it, like the novel Galapagos directed by Kurt Vonnegut.
The first movie created in Ecuador was “ Los tesoros de Atahualpa” (1924) and the most talked “Que tan lejos”. This movies represented Ecuador and won Oscars.

Moulin Rouge

This movie won an Oscar with the Director Baz Luhrmann. This movie followed the success of Romeo and Juliet. This is a principal characteristic of the director, Luhrmann. The colors that the director used are the blue and red in their costumes. Also he use rapid cuts and vibrant, that identify their style in all the movies that he create.

In the movie Moulin Rouge Baz Luhrmann, the director, put one on the most important characteristics that is to make the characters contrast, in their colors, mood, passion and personality.

Sound Films

In the sounds Films was the same idea of the cinema, because it was a combination of motion Pictures with recorded sound. On February 27, 1888, Eadweard Muybridge and Thomas Edison met each other. They don’t have any agreement, but in a year Thomas Edison develop the Kinetopscope as a visual complement to his cylinder phonograph. In 1899 the Cinemacrophonograph as created, this was a Project of sound-film, this was similar as the Kinetophone. This Project needs individual earphones.

The first publicly exhibited Films with images and Clement-Maurice Gratioulet and Henri Lioret of France presented recorded sound at the Paris Exposition in 1900.

Resident Evil 4

This movie is very interesting. First I thought that I wouldn’t like it, but when I saw it I realized that was very interesting, because the makeup and sounds.

This movie had a lot of sounds, because is of suspense and this type of movies had a lot of sounds like, doors opening, screams, noise of people. As we already know this sounds are recorded in the post- production.

Another thing that had this movie was the makeup, because was zombies, so they had to make it seems almost real and make the viewer belief that there were zombies.

To get a perfect project, all the group of film production had to be united and work together to make it good.

Filmmaking

The Filmmaking or Film production is a process of creating and making a film, for a script, storyboard until get the final product. This process happened during few month to several years to get the final task. This part of the film takes place all over the world and with a lot of range of economic, social and political aspects. They used techniques of recording images to film and videos.

The film production or Filmmaking had 5 stages:

· Development: Here is when the script has to be written and the storyboard.

· Pre-Production: Here is when started the preparations for the film, sets, decoration.

· Production: Here the law elements for the finished film are recorded.

· Post-Production: Here is when the film is edited, the sounds, the special; effects, the effects, the dialogue.

· Sales and distribution: The film is ready to be on screen and sell.

Casablanca

In this movie we can see the use of different shots and angles like: over the shoulder shot, high angle, medium shot, close-up, and many others. The director used this shots and angles to make the viewers interested on those details and angles that anyone could see.
The music in this movie is very interesting because in each scene of a different problem is a different intense of the music. The music was written by Max Steiner. The interesting music in this movie was the “Duel of songs”, between Strasser and Laszlo at Rick´s Café. When each character appears were a different song, and when the movie still goes on the intensity of the songs increase and here creates a duel. In this movie are a lot of songs created by different musicians like: Isham Jones, Cecil Mack, Al Jolson , etc.
Casablanca was a great movie for me, because in that time it had almost all the things that a film have to have, like lights, shots, angles, music, etc. The lights were very interesting too, because we can see that they used a lot of lamps to reflect like a suspicious set and with lamps they created shadows on the characters and made them more interesting.

Sound effects

This refers to all the sound elements that the production creates to create the atmosphiere of the scene in a movie. There are some kinds of effects:
· Hard sound effect: Are common sounds that appears on screen like doors open, cars driving, etc.
· Background sound effect: Are sounds that don´t go at the same time with the image, but they indicate the setting to the viewers like car interiors, forest sounds, etc.
· Foley sound effects: Are sounds that goes at the same time of the image like, footsteps, movements with hand, foots, etc.
· Design sound effect: Are sounds very rare, because they not easily to record in nature. These sounds are usually on fiction films or in musical films to created mood.
All of these sound effects are used by sound editors that are professionals in the sound area.

Jurassic Park and the CGI

Jurassic Park is a science fiction of 1993 American. In this movie the director, Steven Spielberg, use computer generated effects in the computer, because it was difficult for the filmmaker to created all the set of the past and the huge dinosaur us, because they never saw a animal like those. They had to create miniatures and with the computer generated effects they can make them bigger and create the sets more realistic as it was possible. Stan Winston creates the animatronics dinosaurs. They moved all the details from the computer. The editor monitored every aspect of the movie as the rain, dinosaurs, sun, etc. , with all of this is why the movie is one of the most interesting in the moment of production, because it had to created in computer everything and that expend a lot of time filming.

CGI

The motion pictures are a visual effect and an art of illusion. Film viewers had watched a lot of effects some of them more realistic than others, but in the whole era of film it tried to created new systems and effects to make it more interesting. The computer Generated Effects are more useful for filmmakers, because is cheaper. They used the technology in computer when they wanted to created sets in the past, because there are difficult to create exactly the same and with the computer they can design new outfits and they can change the color of the skin, hair, shapes of the face, and everything related with the body. People could use computer generated effects in commercial, TV, movies. Those effects could be visible easily in movies and others that are non- easily visible.

Alice in Wonderland

This movie as we all know was a children book, and the director Burton change this classic, to the subconscious with nonsensical rhymes and literally crazy characters. In this movie we can see effects as the head of the red queen, all the effects that they used have to shoot in a special set with just one color background, because with this they can add effects. All the characters and movements that they used are the same that we used in our film classes. The special effects used the imaginary things to make our brain fly into that time, it also put those effects, because those little details are impossible to make and are not real things, and also some parts were dangerous to do, so they used effects.

Prosthetic Make-up

The technique of Prosthetic Make-up is very interesting, because it all beings with a casting, then appear the process of taking the mold of a body part, it is more common a model of the face, this is to use a base for sculpting the prosthetic. The molds are made from skin-safe silicone rubber. This mold is not enough to get a strong mold, that´s why they have to create a plaster or fiberglass bandage to provide support.
When they finished with this part they mold points in the sculpted to make sure that the two molds they created fix perfectly. One they finished with all the molds and sculpture of the face or any part of the body they started to paint the entire make up that in that moment they wanted to put.
Is very important to know how to paint and what colors to used, because it have to seems real in a movie, that´s why every element in the film had to fix. One of the hardest parts of prosthetic make-up is keeping the edges as thin as possible. They have to worry about every little detail to make it perfect in the movie.

Transformers

If we want to talk about a movie that used Visual Effects we can talk about Transformers. This movie had 99% done on computer, when we saw the parts of the Robots all of those scenes were done on computer. The sounds that the robots made were also done by computer. There we small parts in the movie that were done by them, but the rest of the movie was done by the computer. Well, as we can see here the effects that the computer do are very useful when we want to about a fantasy story or some things that are impossible to be shoot. For example the sound bite in Air Force One when he's close up, a couple of little head turns and things like that and when he's walking and prancing, all of that were done by them, not by the computer. So, as we can see there are mixtures of things done by the computer and others by them, this relation and mixture are very important to create the background perfect with the story.

Visual Effect

Visual Effects are the process when the imagery is created. Visual Effects are a mixture of live-action footage and computer generated imagery and this is to create the environment to look close of reality, but this could be very expensive and is impossible to catch it on films, it needs the help of a computer. Also it could create simple things that are visual effects, as we as class did.

There are some visual effects that are divided in four categories:
* Models: Small sets, models and animatronics.
* Matte Paintng: These we are studying right know. Digital or traditional paintings or photographs which are useful as backgrounds.
* Live-action effects: Keying actors or models through blue screening and green screening.
* Digital animation:Modeling, computer graphics lighting, tecturing, rigging, animating, and rendering computer-generated 3D characters, particle effects, digital sets, backgrounds.

The Visual Effects are often used during Post-Production, here is when the computer and the shoots are working together to get the Final Product. In the Post Production the films are edited with the graphic designs, animation and similar software. Also there the editors use special effects that are made on sets.

The Ghost Rider

This movie is very interesting, because it all started with a normal beginning of love story, but at the end the romantic kid make a deal with the devil and all her life ends.
If we focus in the symbols of the movie had great symbols, because the first symbol that appears is the tree that the in love couple had. They met there to talk, but the thing that calls my attention was that the tree was just exactly as the tree of Adam and Eva, and that indicates me that was a prohibited love.
The sets that we can find in this movie are very dark and seem kind scary, but the make-up and the customs are perfect with the scenes.

Filmmaker

The name Filmmaker is also Film Production that is the process of making a movie, clip, film stating with a story idea. People get confuse of the things that the filmmakers captures, they thought that the Filmmaker capture videos, but the truth is that they capture images on film that is very different.

It also has many stages inside this camp as:

· Development (Is when the script is written for a film)
· Pre-Production ( They get prepare to made shoots, where actors are hired, sets are built and locations are selected)
· Production (The few final things of the film are shoot)
· Post-Production ( The film, sound, music are edited, they also put the last effects in the movie)
· Sales and distribution ( The film is distributed to the cinemas and for the home media audience)