media literacies presentation

Media Literacies

Presentation

By Batoul Amhaz

Area of InterestIntroduction

• Film• What is Film? • History & Changes• Directors• Film examples

What is film?

• A work of art

• A Form of entertainment

• A Business

Changes

• Silent to sound• Black & white to colour• No blood to excessive blood• Evolving technology• Had to change due to new media, eg. Digital

media and 3D technology• A new film industry emerged with new media• Audience’s expectations of greater visual

effects due to technology

Change of Vision?

From this...

To this...

Some of my Personal Favourites • Quentin Tarantino films

http://www.everythingtarantino.com/http://www.tarantino.info/

• Jim Jarmusch (American)-Coffee and Cigarettes -http://www.jim-jarmusch.net/

• Daniel Askill (Australian)-We Have Decided Not To Die

http://www.wehavedecidednottodie.com/preview.html

• Wes Anderson (American)-The Dargeeling Limited-The Royal Tenenbaums

Quentin Tarantino

Jim Jarmusch

Coffee & Cigarettes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggqrEMtA3TU&feature=related

Australian DirectorDaniel Askill

• We Have Decided Not To Die-short film

Art House Films

• They have a sense of realism

• They are non-commercial – unlike

Hollywood films

• Unique features

Art House Films...

Foreign Films...

What makes a good film?

• Realism

• Non-commercialism

• A Reflection of the Audience - Personal

Experience

• The illustration of great artistic visions

References

• http://images.google.com.au/