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My viewing habits are based off of Monday April, 6th- Friday April, 10th. My viewing habits have been very similar throughout the past few years and throughout College. As for shows and live television I watch sports and the news. As well as going on free on demand and choosing from various different networks and just picking out TV shows that way. Sometimes I will throw on channels like BET or MTV or Cartoon Network. This is what I do to entertain myself when I’m watching TV in my living room at school when I have cable. I do a lot of media viewing and film viewing on Netflix Hulu and Disney plus as well. The reason I separate these two is because when I watch TV I can watch things like sports or the news that are taking place currently and that involve Society basically. So when I switch over to Hulu Netflix and Disney plus I watch different things sort of like what I watch on TV sometimes like MTV BET for example but it’s mainly movies and funny shows and crime shows that have nothing to do with engaging other people in societies or just the plain old news. On top of this my media videos and film watching also take place on my phone. Instagram Snapchat Facebook or another type of platform I watch media and videos on. For an unrelated school job I do a lot of media viewing on Instagram that helps me learn a lot and keep up-to-date on an account with my own personal goals. So that is completely different although it still is entertaining and me consuming media. The reason I wanted to describe the platforms and films I used this week and pretty much all the time before I dove into reflecting on when I watch them is because they’re all different and I feel like this makes me watch them at different times. So Monday through Thursday I typically went to all my in class classes which are now online and went to work and then would more school work out of the classroom following that. Although we don’t have class anymore inside the classroom the schedule still kind of is the same and pretty much is still the same with my viewing patterns. During the day when I would have free time and time in between classes during normal school days I would watch sports live on TV for example ESPN. As well as the news and I would do this at like 1 after waking up going to a class or two and then just taking a moment breather. Putting on ESPN or the news or just flicking to a quick show I like on free on demand is the way I like to watch media during the day. Throughout the day if I have to go to the doctors or I’m forced to wait an extra 30 minutes before I can go to the gym or if a professor is running late to a meeting I spend that time on Facebook Instagram and Snapchat on social media platforms to fulfill my viewing needs. Not only am I leisurely exploring videos and content but like I said before I actually have a page on Instagram where I don’t post that much but I like all these accounts that have to do with exercise science and it’s built up basically just an app for me with tons and tons of information and videos that I read everyday. The reason I described these times throughout my schedule is because this is when I view this type of media. For example this week Monday through Thursday that type of Ewing typically happened anywhere sporadically from 8 in the morning to 4 in the afternoon 5 at night. Last but not least Netflix Hulu and Disney plus are what I view in the evening. I separated from the TV and TV programs are typically pick to watch during the day because I feel like it’s just different vibes. I’m done with all my work and weekly responsibilities and activities so then I can just throw on movies that are serious not so serious whatever I really like. Usually this would happen at the end of busy days during the school week this semester but now that we’ve moved online it’s kind of just like every day I watch Netflix and Hulu. Although this week specifically I watched Hulu and Disney plush Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday night although on Monday night I walked Everybody Hates Chris on Hulu. In regards to covid-19 yes my viewing patterns have changed although not too drastically like I described. Obviously a million things have changed in and throughout the US at the moment so it wouldn’t be too far off if individuals weirdly started to change their media habits whether that’s increasing the amount you watch or decreasing. Or changing what you watch at certain times or changing what you watch in general and deciding to use different platforms.
For blog post #9, I decided to choose and repost from blog assignment #2. The film we were told to analyze is “to be or not to be” by Ernst Lubitsch. I chose this scene because it addresses themes that we have discussed in class. The scene is significant because it’s setting is Warsaw, Poland, right before the Nazi German invasion in 1939. Everything in Poland was regular that day and the intro scene depicts a regular lifestyle among the citizens but all of a sudden things began to change drastically. Hitler was in Poland, they added some humor to this scene that relates to showing violence on screen and how similar to inglorious bastards making light of terrible things that have happened in history tend to help the viewers stay attentive. What’s interesting here is that the facial expression on these two people is described as “did they see a ghost “, I felt as if this scene conveyed so much emotion due to the fact that the intro scene was showing regular everyday life in Warsaw and then without blinking the director sets a whole different concern for the remainder of the movie. The scene reveals that Warsaw Poland was about to be invaded and things were going to change.In terms of content cameras Focus on the people’s faces and reactions helps reiterate the point that something unjust is going to follow.
For blog post #8, I decided to choose and repost from blog assignment #5. The task assigned was to take a still from inglorious bastards and create an original meme. Although because it is the 8th week of the semester I thought I would choose to make a meme from fire at sea BY Gianfranco Rosi rather than doing one from inglorious bastards again. The reason I chose this scene and to use the phrases I did in my meme for a few reasons. In the movie Fire at Sea the first narrative conveys a descriptive picture of Samuel’s everyday life. He builds slingshots plays with his slingshot, He questions his father about his pictures of his fishing boat and spends time with his friend. This doesn’t seem like much but this is Samuel’s life as it should be simple and dandy for a little kid and his friend. Although the migrants in the second Narrative of the film are just people without character places and you don’t know their names. They board rescue boats either dead or alive and they wear the same clothing that is so with gasoline and seawater torturing their bodies and killing them. While they’re lost crying for their loved ones, with little time for themselves they pray and play soccer. This is a description of their life. A Lot different from Samuel’s, it’s ironic though because of how close in proximity this is happening to Samuel.
The two stills I chose to analyze for blog post number 7 come from the film Fire at Sea by Gianfranco Rosi. I chose this film because the themes conveyed from the motion picture film share significant correlation to many of the ideas and topics we discuss in class. Fire at Sea is not the documentary one would typically expect but because it takes place on the Sicilian island of Lampedus at the same time of the European crisis concepts from the film intrigue me.
I chose this still because it’s from the beginning of the film and displays the beautiful red sea. The tone was set, dangerous Meditation traveling is not acceptable, Having people die on their journeys across the sea to escape from tragedy. The technique of establishing shot was used to show the coast to set the president of location. Wide shots are then also used here, to show it’s intended surroundings. Nature also plays a large role in this still because it doesn’t seem like after viewing this scenery later on we would be able to imagine 860 people on a boat insinuating who or who may not have made it.
I chose this as my second still to analyze because of the irony and how both stills connect within the entire film. The first still displays the beautiful Red Sea although 200 passengers died on the journey on the Sea later on in the film. In the first still we were conveyed images of escaping tragedy when maybe they brought themselves into the worst possible triumphs of them all. In the scene they use the strategies of close up shots and dutch angles. Conveying strong emotions allowing us as the viewer to experience both humane and why they are objectified.
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I chose this scene because Fatma is accepting farewell presents before leaving for her journey to Germany. The scene is a reflection of not only a bond and relationship but how it’s going to be necessary to conform to German culture and climate. Cannan gave Fatma a handkerchief like material, after she was gifted a sweater. l feel like this shows more than just the gesture. She mentions how Germans are so dirty, so with that being said this gift symbolizes seeing the lighter side of cultural change. While you will have to adapt to your new surroundings you can always keep things and characteristics from one’s true culture.
I chose this scene because it conveys the emotion from Shosanna Dreyfus facial expression. She realizes how unfortunate she is because Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the number two man in Hitler’s Third Reich is asking to meet her and she is introduced as the leader of all German cinema and put under immediate pressure. Especially after sternly being escorted by the Nazis from outside the cinema in the car, suspense was building up. She then realizes that those exact Nazis specifically Hans Landa killed her parents and now they are trying to move their exclusive event to her cinema. The flash back of the scene of Shosanna running away from the house amplifies the emotion and the justifies the facial expression she shows. The tension she shows as well in the current and in the later scenes is explained because of the still undisclosed past.
“Out of all the gin joints, in all the town, in all the world, she walks into mine”. In this scene Rick Blane is talking to his piano man, Sam, about his ex lover Ilsa Lund and the emotional torment she put him through. Lund left Blane in Paris, after falling in love with him, because she found out her husband was still alive- this also was the start of Blanes cynical personality and why he was such a lone wolf. This plot line to me is the most important line of the whole movie, because it captures the deeper essence: love. Though the movie is about world war II and refugees, movement, and liminality- it is also a love story between two people who experienced it at the wrong time. It shows Blanes obvious torment over Lund, and his emotional struggle about her leaving him. The set up of this scene also does a great job of portraying the mood of Blane- the somber lighting, the drink in his hand, the close up on Blanes face. I really like how the producers and the directors set this up- the movie itself captures the somber mood of the plot. This is why I picked this scene.
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The significance of this scene is Maria is about to be rescued by her husband Joseph Tura. He is wearing a false beard and glasses to disguise as professor Siletsky. Maria sabotages the report on the Polish underground but Joseph is in disguise of professor Siletksiy and is asked to meet the real colonel. The beginning of the meeting goes as planned, but is destroyed once the real professor is found dead. This is when Joseph decides to hide the dead body in a plot to protect his identity along with saving Maria. The reason I think this scene is significant is because the film “To Be Or Not To Be” can be considered a satire- connecting both drama and comedy. The comedy comes from the obvious sarcastic tone, however there are dramatic elements that occur after this scene. Joseph tried to disguise himself as the professor and Maria eventually becoming a nazi spy through the element of seduction. In my personal opinion, one could even describe this film as a spy/thriller. This still from the movie captures the plot that Joseph disguise did work and that he captures the essence of a spy. Another important element to this still is the colorization and accent of the photo. Obviously the movie was made in a different era of ours- of course movies now-a-days are shot in black and white but the graininess of the photo proves its time period. Something else that stuck out to me was the lack of advance movie productions that film crews had in the 1940s. Without advance custom teams, prosthetics, or technology they were able to still capture the disguise that Joseph wore. And of course this costume added to the plot of the movie in regards to tricking characters. The still is a basic close up shot,but it captures the characters expression and essentially tells the story within itself.
