Tuesday, August 16, 2005
Filmmakers Without Roots:
I do this class on preproduction were I show a whole lot of film and talk about camera angles and visual storytelling. I show lots of classic live action films to my students and try to get students to think like filmmakers.
Every semester the class has at least one film buff in the group that kind of saves the day and teaches the rest of the group on a peer to peer level with lots of after hours video watching. Every time but this semester, John Ford who? Hitchcock who? Akira Kurosawa does he do Anime? My gods, these guys are doomed.
It has got me to thinking, a Top 100 Live Action Films that all animation students should see. Who and what would be on it and why?
I am working on putting a list together. If you have any ideas what should be on it then give me an email (if not then I will have to do all my work myself). ¶ 8:37 AM
I do this class on preproduction were I show a whole lot of film and talk about camera angles and visual storytelling. I show lots of classic live action films to my students and try to get students to think like filmmakers.
Every semester the class has at least one film buff in the group that kind of saves the day and teaches the rest of the group on a peer to peer level with lots of after hours video watching. Every time but this semester, John Ford who? Hitchcock who? Akira Kurosawa does he do Anime? My gods, these guys are doomed.
It has got me to thinking, a Top 100 Live Action Films that all animation students should see. Who and what would be on it and why?
- Sam Peckinpah - The Wild Bunch?
- Vittorio De Sica - The Bicycle Thief
- D.W. Griffith - The Birth of a Nation
- Orson Welles - Touch of Evil
- Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
I am working on putting a list together. If you have any ideas what should be on it then give me an email (if not then I will have to do all my work myself). ¶ 8:37 AM
