It's a bird...

                                             part II

Written parallel:  
     "Jason Dobson was a star."  (page 15)
     "Jason Dobson was Superman." (page 15)

- For many people name superman means someone "super", someone who never does bad thing, someone who is perfect! The same thing is for the word "star".


 Visual contrast:

 
These pictures shows the chnge in Jason Dobsons' life. First he was just a "shadow" in comunity. No one liked him, he didn't have friends. No one knew who he is. But all of it changed at Halloween when he dressed as a superman. People started to like him!


2. Images:
- foregrounding and backgrounding-
    1. What seems to be privileged in the image? I think it's usually the person who is speaking or makes some significant move.
    2. What dras your eyes the most? Expressions on peoples' faces. THat's the first thing I notice when I look at the picture.
    3. What's emphasized in the foreground? In most cases it's the person who is speaking or person who writer speaks about.
    4. In the background? Almost in every picture it's people who don't speak. But sometimes, when there are no other people on the picture, there are just a simple things like door or window in the background.
    5.Why? Well, I think it's just something that gives the picture complete look, if there was nothing but the person speaking it would be very uninteresting.

- shadowing/lighting-
   1. How do light and dark images function within the frame? For me it looks like all the dark framed pictures are in present and all light framed are just memories.
   2. What's shaded? Why? Ithink shaded parts of picture are usually unimportant things or just a backgrounds.
   3. What's lightened? Why? Most lightened parts are faces of people speaking. So I think it's the part of picture writer wants readerto look at with most focus.

- "shots"-
    1. Where do you see close-ups or distance shots? To me it looks like most close-ups are in the pictures with dialogues, not all of them but most of them. And distance shots are in "memory" pictures and pictures when we are just getting into dialogue- not the middle or end of dialogue.
    2. What effect do these choices have on the image? It tells reader what dialogues are more significant are which ones are not so important.
    3. Are there any angles used in interesting ways? I would say there are just some high or low angle shots. And if there are, they represent who is the "stronger" one in conversation.

                                 Double Indemnity vs LA Confidential


DI:

This high angle medium shot of Walter Neff shows him when he first came to Phyllis Dietrichsons' house and seen her again. He smiled on her with "flirting" smile as he first seen her. His body is all in light which represents that he wasn't "bad" so far, this will change in the movie. Also his clothes are light colored what shows him as a good insurence guy, not the person that would kill someone.

LA C:

This medium shot of Bud White shows him in the police station with suspicious face. The lights are set so that part of his face is light and part dark what shows his two sides- he is a cop, wants to do work of justice but on the other hand his methods are not so much "light".

Parallel:
Both Neff and White are wearing suits what represents richer and more educated people. They are.

Contrast:
Face of Bud White is very serious on the other side face of Walter Neff is smiling and happy.
In the background of LA Confidential shot are shapes of nature, circle and flowers and the shine of sun, these all are more natural shapes. But in Double Indemnity shot in the background are just squares, right angles- very unnatural shapes.

                                       It's a Bird...

                                                                   Part I


1. Written parallel:
     "My mom and dad wanted me to read comics made them a lot less interesting" (page 7)
     "Not interested." (page 11)
Steven from his childhood didn't like comic books, even tough he was writing them. When they offered him to write about Superman he refused because of events that happened when he was young.

2. Written contrast:
     "I never liked comics" (page 7)
     "I never imagined I'd be sitting here doing this...writing comics." (page 8)
Even tough Steven says as much he doesn't like comic books he still writes them.

1. Visual contrast:

"Young" Steven is reading the comic book, but "Old" Steven is writing.

2. Visual Contrast:

 Both Stevens' mom and dad are mad at him.


I. Frames:
* Size and shape of frames- Shape of frames is always either rectangle or square, there are no other geometrical shapes apearing in the first part of book. This may represent the dramatic side of book. Right angles are usually seen as something unnatural, something not very nice, so reader can easily get into the dramatic enviroment.
-Why are some frames larger then others? I think the best, and also, very simple answer is because larger pictures can show more things and these pictures are more important as well.

-What effect does this have in creating meaning on the page? Because bigger pictures are more important reader gives them more attention.

-Why are some frames smaller? They cover less things, information, and also are less important.

                                  Minority report Shot 35

         This is a medium, low angle shot. The reason why they put this shot in the scene is because they wanted to point to the light side of movie (right side of the shot) and the dark side (left side of the shot). In this shot we can see the light parts- innocent woman in light clothes, reading a book. But we also see the dark parts- two people talking in background of the shot, the light is very dark. There are many right angles and straight lines in left, dark, side of shot which represents something evil. On the other side, on the left side of the shot lines are very curved, less "plastic" which represents natural shapes and goodness.