Italiene Neo-Realism and Bicycle Thief

Italian Neo-Realism first started during early 1935, when anti-Facist journalist Leo Longanesi urged directors to "go in the streets, into the barracks, into the train station;only in this way can an Italian cinema be born". American films influenced the age of Italian Neo-Realism because American movies portrayed the good life, which only could be found in America and did not show the images that reflected [Americans] lives".Very few films showed whats was actually going on in Italy during that time period, such Italy's transition from agricculture to manufacturing, which cause people to strruggle econimicaly. Once the neo-realism age of film making began it was characterized as a anti-Fascist movement. Cerare Zavattini stated that the aim of neo-realism was to show Italian life without embellishment and without artifice. Some films that showed the Italian Life were films such as Ladri di biciclette or Bicicle Theif and The Pastman Always Rings Twice, all these films used long takes and complex shoots and as well as street shooots to show the neo-realism between characters and surrouindings. Roberto Rossellini shows most clearly neo-realism link between the Resisitance movemen, whith his film Open City,1946 because this film shows actual footage of Nazi occupation of Rome and shows the hard times people had living under that rule. Another characteristic of neo-realism is the documentary type of shooting, which is clearly seem in the movie The earth Trembles,1948, because this movie relies on a nonprofessional cast. Once the movement sarted to fade away its prints keeped on moving forward because neo-realism influenced the French New wave filmmakers, also the ideas of neo-rea;ism carried over with "the emphasis on class conflicts and the use of non-professional actors".

Job Security

In this film there are two security guards, one is concerned about a chest that is on the monitor. One guard decides to go and check out the chest while the other stays back and "enjoys" himself, these shoots provide a good example of parallel action, as the guard gets to where

the chest is supposed to be at he finds that it is missing, he then finds out that it has been stolen by a burglar, the guard accidental jumps into the back of the burglars pickup. The climax of this film is when the guard makes it out of the pick-up and into a


taxi, but then the camera pans down to reveal that the taxi driver has the key that opens the chest. This last part leaves the audience in shock and in disbelief because one is left puzzled to how the burglar manged to pass as a taxi driver, also one is left thinking about what might happen to the guard because he is still in the same car with the burglar.

Reverie and the DSLR Revolution

In this first still of them both kissing, clearly shows the ability of this camera to capture in full details in an environment with dim light. Because both the guy and the girl are wearing colors that would be difficult to catch under that type of lighting, with such a clear picture, that gives emphasizes to the cameras ability.


In this second image of the girl in the dress, again it show the ability of the camera to capture in detail the image although it is in a low light environment, also it is impressive how the camera is able to capture the shoot with out it being grainy. To add on the camera focuses girl but the background is still very clear, which also demonstrates the cameras selective focus.

In this last image, the guy is in focus while the rest of the background is not, and the camera is able to clearly show the guy in detail, and its surprising because it seems like they are shooting in a completely dark environment. Cameras ability is great when shooting in dim light.

Rhythmic Match and Master Shoot

Rhythmic Match

1.I think that my story demonstrate the concept of rhythmic matching well, because theres some parts of the film were the actions match the sound. Also in the voice over it clearly explains what rhythminc matching is, which further demonstrates the concept. Some problems that me and my partner faced in creating this film was the acual matching of the actions with the movements because it was hard matching the movements of the character to the paste of the music. something that we could have done so that our film could have come out better would have been choose the music first and then shoot the actual film because then we could have got an idea to how we want the movements of the characters to be like. Another thing that we could have done better would be the story line because towards the middle the story gets confusing, so by making the actor lok at the door first and the introducing the second chracter it could have been less confusing.
2. I think we had a good camera work.what is surprising is that in this film the camera work was all done by hand and the shoots came out to be pretty good. The only bad thing would be that we did not have enough time to prep for a good setting location but we managed to somehow pull of the shoots we wanted in this film. One of the most creative shoots in this film would have to be the last shoot, because it is a pan of the camera from the plug outlet to the computer and the to my face. This shoot provides comedy to the film because the audience laughs at the end when they see the reaction of the character after his computer has been turned of.
3. Challenges that i had on the edit was putting all the movemets of the characters and some how making them match with thee music that i choose. To demonstrate my concept in the edit i had to take certain shoots that showed the actual concept in play. But again showing this concept was not eassy because it was hard matching the movements to the music.
Master Shoot

1. I think that in this film the concept of master shoot sequence was demonstrated very good because we clearly showed what its waw giving details and descriptions. Problems that we faced in this short film production was gettting the audio to work with the film because the llocation that we decided to film was a bad location for audio, which made it very hard not only in the edit but in the actual shooting itself. Other problems that we had was that the background noice on one lacation was so loud that we could not hear the actors speaking, which also turned out to be a problem in the edit because we had to raise and lower the audio levels on several parts.
2.I think that the actors were shoot well in the diouluge sceen because it clrealy shows our concept as the camera movement goes from over the shoulder shoots to close ups. Also the way the camera was spositioned in some sceens mmade it loook like the actor was superior to that of the other actor, which was good because thatshow we envisioned the actors to appear. Themost creative shoot would have to be the panning of the lady handing the note to the girl, because the pan was done nice an smooth. Also this shoot creates a sense of mystery because the audience is left to wonder whats in the note, the reason for this shoot beeing one of the most creative shoots in this film.
3.With this film there was alot of schallenges in the edit because first our audio levels were to luod and in some parts there was no audio at all. So to edit this film first I had to turn up the audion levels in the parts were they speak and turn it down when there is no conversation because of the bockground noice. To demonstrate my concept in the edit i had to cut from a lang shoot to a two shoot waist shoot then into a over the shulder shoot and then into a close up, by doig so I clearly demonstrated the master shoot sequence because it consited of all these shoots.