How Did John Lasseter Influence Films?

What were Edwin S. Porter's significant contributions to the development of early narrative film? In what sense did Porter build upon the innovations of contemporaneous filmmakers, and for what purposes?

Steven Spielberg used classic linear storytelling in his movies, the narrative in most of his movies were Plot driven and very effective. He is a storyteller always mindful of holding his audience. Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest directors of today. He is master in taking stories and incidents from the past and and rejuvinating them with his own potential.

Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is a showpiece for color. Baby, the getaway driver protagonist, is followed by the color red throughout the film. His getaway cars are nearly all painted a conspicuous cherry red; his sunglasses have red frames—red defines the way he sees the world. Wright ultimately uses red through its juxtaposition with other colors, using the context to let the audience know the scene’s content. In Baby Driver, red can create both idyllic dream sequences and harsh realities, all dependent on the surrounding hues.

1960s cinema reflected the good and the bad of the decade. 1960s cinema influenced many of the films we have today. 1960s cinema brought attention to movie musicals, which were movies that had many song and dance numbers along with dialogue and blocking. Three of the biggest hits of the decade were movie musicals. Some of the decade’s biggest hits, including the movie musicals, are still popular today. In the 1960s, there were many popular movies, both in theaters and on television, which were produced with money and lots of work. However, 1960s cinema also had a downfall.

In the fourth chapter of The Cultures of American Film, author Robert Kolker, indulges into the legacy of one of the most well-known writers, producers, and directors in early cinema – D.W. Griffith. Kolker dissects the cultural and racial implications of Griffiths most successful film, The Birth of a Nation, as well as, how Griffith impacted film. Griffith’s use of naturalism, parallel editing, and formal methods separated himself from other’s in the film business. We also get a look at how Oscar Micheaux responded to The Birth of a Nation, and became one of the first African-American filmmakers.

Toy Story is the groundbreaking 1995 motion picture developed by Disney and Pixar and directed by John Lasseter. The film was so revolutionary not only because it was the first feature length animation to be created completely by CGI (Computer Generated Imagery) but also, also the film was more rounded in all respects. The characters not only looked more sophisticated and three-dimensional but their personalities were also more human and fewer cartoons like. The film uses a constructed text in order to put across a theme of two very different characters learning to work together beyond their rivalries to rise above a common enemy and work towards a common goal. The film uses characters and imagery very cleverly to

To illustrate, director often uses red details in scenes to symbolise danger, small things such as a scarf on Dr Sattler’s neck in the beginning of the film. These tiny details indicated the audience about danger and builds a fearful mood. In addition, the weight of the evidence suggest that, colours and lights can make any situation appealing and horrifying.

The growing influence of the film industry on the everyday lives of all people can be accredited to Steven Spielberg. Starting as a young, little known director, his unique story telling abilities quickly launched his career. After Spielberg’s first major debut of his talent directing Jaws, he became an unstoppable force in the movie industry. Steven Spielberg led to evolvement of the movie industry, societal forces driving movie plots completely altered showing more of the connections that are formed between people instead of the agenda usually pushed by directors.

The introduction of colour has increased the level of realism in animation. Dumbo uses colour to define space, add depth and create a lifelike presentation of both character and space. Klein emphasises the extent to which colour makes a difference in animation by saying that, “color allowed water to ripple, wind to blow and painterliness to enclose the character” (1993: 58). The use of colour in Dumbo is not as flat as the blank ink in Felix in Hollywood but colours of different tonalities and this adds to its naturalistic quality. Colour indicates meaning in the selected sequence from Dumbo, Dumbo has a pink tent and the carpet on which he runs on is a darker shade of pink. Pink is a ‘delicate’ colour usually associated with babies and tenderness. Felix in Hollywood misses the narrative power of colour however being in black-and-white helps to keep attention on just the story and what can be seen in the frame. Colour can be distracting if the main intention and strongpoint of an animation is its

Pixar animation studios has a huge influence in the circle of animation. Almost all of its animation films no matter long or short, won desirable awards and brings optimistic profits. The attentions paid on the story makes it not only fit children’ needs, but also the adults’. After the analysis of this movie from the aspect of symbolism, the author finds some profound connotations the film reflected .

Rhetorical Description: Posters for An Inconvenient Truth Movie posters serve a variety of purposes in the entertainment world. One of the more important intentions of a movie poster is to advertise and appeal to an audience in order to sell a film. Using illustrations, typography, coloring, and attractive layouts are crucial in capturing an audience’s attention. Gaining the attention of an audience is imperative to selling a movie. In order to lure people into paying to see a movie, an advertisement for the film must succeed in capturing the audience.

The opening scene of Red Balloon (Lamorisse 1956) presents a boy walks through the street and takes a red balloon on the light pole in a morning. The first shot establishes a lonesome street by putting only a cat on the street, and using misty city as background. The director Lamorisse uses backlighting angle and cool hue to help build the quietness of this scene. The boy walks into the frame from the left bottom corner. Then he genteelly touches the cat on the street, and that illustrates that he is kind and curious. The shot cut to next shot as he walks downstairs in the middle of the frame. Lamorisse uses a tilt shot when the boy finds something and climbs on the light pole, then the audiences can see that there is a red balloon hanging.

It is the first day of summer, and the weather outside is looking fantastic. Henry, Betty, and their parents, Shirley and David, just got out of bed and ready to start their day. When they go into the kitchen they notice their parents just sitting quietly at the table. There is a paper sitting in front of David; Henry goes to look at what it says. He gets a shocking look on his face, picks up the paper, and reads out “Pack your bags, we are going to DISNEY WORLD!” The kids start screaming with excitement and their parents cannot stop smiling. Both kids race to their room, and start packing their bags right away. The man that made this touching family scene was Walt Disney. Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago. He dropped out of school at age 16 and wanted to join the army. After serving for Red Cross in WWI, he started his first company - Iwerks-Disney Commercial Artists (Jolley). Walt Disney has impacted the United States and changed the world in a number of positive ways including teaching valuable life lessons, changing the animation industry, and creating a widely known theme park.

During the mid to late years of the 19th century, a new form of entertainment emerged. Film entered the stage of innovation. New marketing and technological innovations developed for film to become the art it is today. In the 1830s, Joseph Plateau designed the Phenakistoscope. This device had a picture in the middle of a wheel made with mirrors and small openings. When spun, the Phenakistoscope made the picture appear to move. The name changed to Zoetrope in the 1860s and producers advertised the product as an accessory every home needed (Dixon & Foster, 2008). Later inventions that preceded the first motion picture camera include: Henry Du Mont’s Omiscope, Henry R. Heyl’s Phasmatrope, Eadweard Muybridge’s Zoöpraxiscope, Etienne-Jules Marey’s fusil photographique and Eastman Kodak’s chronophotographs (Parkinson, 1997). With a design by Thomas Edison, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson built the first modern movie camera, the Kinetograph, in 1890 (Dixon & Foster, 2008). In 1895, Auguste and Louis Lumiére patented the Cinématographe, a machine that combined the engineering of a camera and a projector (Bergan, 2006). Businessmen capitalized on the growing need for a place to witness these brand new films, thus they charged people to see them in their living rooms (Potter, 2014). These creations made movie-making a reality.

No matter who a person thinks invented the motion picture camera, whether it was Louis Lumiere or Thomas Edison, I'm sure they had no idea what it would become at the turn of the century. Motion pictures, has become an entertainment medium like no other. From Fred Ott's Sneeze to Psycho to Being John Malkovich, the evolution from moving pictures to a pure art form has been quite amazing. Different steps in filming techniques define eras in one of the most amazing ideas that was ever composed. Silent to Sound. Short to long. Black and white to color. Analog to Digital. All were important marks in the History of Motion Pictures. "It's different than other arts. It had to be invented"