#cinematography class

[lovelisara]

— 10 january 2024

today i had my four hour long cinematography class. it was awful, i forgot my lunch, and forgot my keys as i was leaving. our instructor spent so much time talking i was getting sick. the only highlight was a guy from my scriptwriting class recognizing me and asking if i wanted to be in his group with his friend. i’ll see him again tomorrow. always love making new friends!

3 things i’m grateful for:

friends.

books.

my water bottle.

— love, lisa.

[rihon-scribe-some-writer-guy]

Cinematography 324: The Deaths that Disney Bought

Years ago, the film theorists channel posted a series of three videos that speculated the kill count of the all Disney movies with the only exclusion being sequels. The channel pulled in multiple factors of scientific speculation; ranging from the extreme hunting scenario found in the Lion King and the war featured in Milan to Animal Casualties from forest fires and the historical decimation of Ancient Crete. The conclusion fell on the forgettable movie titled Dinosaurs by calculating the population of the lemur society that was wiped out from an asteroid collision.

Now the first episode speculated that the series would look at other properties of Disney, such as Pixar, Marvels Universe and Star Wars. However, these projects never saw the light of day. I assume that the kill count of these franchises couldn’t compete with the tragedy of over 300,000 ancient lemurs. Like how could any film from any franchise surpass the figure of- where is that music from?

Infinity Wars. Thanos wiped out half of all life in the universe. Easy post.

Except Infinity Wars is prohibited from competing. (Oh snap!)

You see, I’m choosing to abide by the same rules that was posed by the film theorists, and one of those stipulations was that sequels films are excluded from this death count. Avengers: Infinity Wars is a sequel of The Avengers series.

Since I’m adhering to the rules set by the game theorist: it would probably be best to list them out here:

A Film cannot be a sequel of a preexisting movie.

We can only count life that meets MatPat’s definition of sentience.

If a being can speak, they are considered sentient.

If a being can act as a intentionally driven character, they are sentient.

We can only count deaths that happened within the run time of the movie.

Implied deaths of background characters totally count. MatPat was able to justify Dinosaurs as the Disney winner by using estimations of prehistoric lemurs

I’m also going to say that we can only count implied deaths that occur due to events of the movie. MatPat didn’t factor what animals could have died naturally in Bambi based off of Bambi’s time frame of growing into adulthood. In order for the death to count, the cause has to be imply by events of the movie.

With the rule revisited, Let’s get back to the Avengers in the MCU. Along with said movie, the only possible contenders are movies depicting origin stories of individual superheroes.

Listen, I don’t have the luxury of meticulously picking apart every film to show why the folks who didn’t make first… didn’t make first. The theory staff makes their living off of answering the questions that nobody asked, while I have to scrape by teaching literature and writing.

I’m just going to say that Captain America: The First Avenger takes the top spot for Marvel.

The movie shows Rogers’ involvement in World War Two. An estimated total of 70–85 million people perished, or about 3% of the 2.3 billion (est.) people that consisted of the global population in 1940. Now, I can’t count all those deaths because the film starts in March of 1942, when Steve is trying to enroll. By that point the war is 41% of the way through Still, we can say that a rough estimation of 45,234,838 folks died in WW2 during the run time of Captain America: The First Avenger.

The Marvel Cinematic Universe easily surpasses the entire death count of Disney without Thanos having to lift a finger of the infinity gauntlet; hinting that man might be one of the greatest evils out there.

(Super Sarcastic tone) Cool, the superhero franchise beat the kill count of children movies. Who could have predicted that the MCU wins in a kill count?

Um… actually… it… doesn’t win.

Wait what-

On October 30, 2012, Disney acquired Lucasfilm for $4.05 billion in the form of cash and stock with $1.855 billion in stock. Now, by the declared rules of film theory, Episodes 5-9 are out of the running. I’m also going to rule out the prequels because while they are technically not sequels, it’s just easier for me.

This leaves A New Hope as the sole contender.

Along with Obi-wan, Uncle Owen, and Aunt Beru, we see the explosion of the Death Star and the entire planet of Alderaan. So… 1+1+1… +1,148,309… +~2 billion… equals 2,001,148,312 deaths in the span of the film where faster-than-light travel exists.

(Super Sarcastic Tone) Wow, Who could have predicted that a franchise about a galactic war has the highest kill count?

It doesn’t… though.

What the-

Pixar?!?!? You’re telling us that there’s a higher kill count in Pixar than in the destruction of a planet?!?!?

I am. There is.

Finding Nemo is a film where Marlin, a father clown fish, travels to rescue Nemo, his only son, who has been kidnapped by a Australian dentist. The Australian dentist has a name, but I can’t recall it.

In his travels, Marlin comes across a band of sharks… that have given up eating fish and only threaten him and Dory when one of this relapses hard and fails to eat them. They encounter an Angler fish that fails to eat them. They cross a field of jellyfish and survive. After all that, it was smooth surfing the EAC with Crush to Australia.

Upon reuniting with his son, Marlin and Nemo then have to rescue Dory from being captured by a large fishing net. The movie introduces the audience to industrial fishing l. While no fish were caught in the scene, it leads me to wonder how many fish died from industrial fishing.

Based off of old research from 2003, the release year of Finding Nemo, 4,320,000 tons or 8.64 billion pounds of fish were caught that year. Random research also found that the average weight of fish comes to 64.5 pounds. Therefore; I have a rough estimate of 133,953,488.372 fish caught in 2003.

Wait. That’s… not enough deaths. Not enough to outclass Marvel or Star Wars. And that figure is going to be far less since the film didn’t cover the entire year. I guess I was wrong in claiming that Pixar had an extreme kill count.

JK. They also encounter a whale. Now probably in a weird sense of humor, the writers have Marlin fear the whale due to his traumatic history with bigger fish. Luckily; Dory is there to comfort him with facts.

So, sentient Krill are being digested by whales. So how many die within Finding Nemo? Rather than counting the krill on screen, we can predict the figure by whales eating habits. It a little tricky because most sources report that a whale consumes 3600 kg of krill per day, so now we need to know how much a krill weighs. Most sources say that a krill weighs 1 gram. So, a whale eats 3.6 million krill in one day.

Yeah but that’s in one day, and the movie is only two hours long. And that whale stop eating krill to give Marlin and Dory a lift.

While the run time is two hours long, there’s evidence that the film takes weeks to transpire. While Marlin is making the trip from the Great Barrier Reef to Sydney Australia, Nemo aids Gill with his plan to break out the Tank Gang by clogging up the filter with a pebble and allowing the tank to become filled with green algae. Source claim that it would take at least 15 days for the algae to cover the tank. We also know that Nemo only acts to clog the tank when he received word from Nigel that his father was coming to rescue him. So fifteen days plus the time it would take for the word of mouth to reach Nigel.

Okay… okay.

For word of mouth, let’s say that the sea creatures are effectively talkative to the point where the fastest creature can do most of the leg work? Well… not leg work. Fin work? Actually it would be wing work. Pelicans can fly at speeds of 48 kmph. The word of mouth could reach Nemo long before Marlin finishes riding the EAC.

However, the distance from the Great Barrier Reef to Sydney Australia is about 2000 km if we were to assume the best case scenario the pelican would have caught ear of Marlin’s story around 1904 and flown straight to Sydney. That would be about a two day flight with a reasonable 15 days for Crush to cruise 112 kilometers each day. However that would mean that Merlin spent had to cover 96 km on his and Dory’s slower speed.

Let’s assume that murder whale shaved off 36km traveling faster than average by doing short bursts but could only carry Marlin and Dory for an hour at most before needing to breathe. Now Marlin and Dory have to cover 60 km.

While clown fish can swim as fast as 18 km per hour Dory was probably averaging about 4km. So fifteen more hours rounded up to a day for the deadly encounters.

So from Nemo’s fin-napping to Marlin arriving there would be 18 days. In 18 days, one whale eats 64.8 million krill. With the film set in present day and the estimated blue whale population of 2300 in 2003, that figure comes to 149.04 billion deaths of krill by blue whales alone.

And there you have it. Pixar has taken the current #1 spot thanks to overextended marine biology research.

But Hey, That’s just a theory.

[saucy-mesothelioma]

Ok so I had to watch Nope for my film class and I haven't been able to stop thinking about the movie since. Oh my God all of the little references, implications, hidden gems, and the fucking CINEMATOGRAPHY AND SOUND DESIGN ITSELF. I am actually vibrating I need to infodump on this movie so bad Jesus Christ.

[dbguidebook]

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[chaoswillcalmusdown]

i know most people haven't studied film like that but i am BEgging on my knees for people to stop using 'cinematography' if you don't genuinely know what it means

[leonardcohenofficial]

wow have you guys ever heard of this movie called faces this john cassavetes guy is a real up and comer

[theoscarsproject]

Flashdance (1983). A Pittsburgh woman with two jobs as a welder and an exotic dancer wants to get into ballet school.

More music video than movie, this feels like a late night special on VH1. It does make me wish Jennifer Beals had a better career, but we'll always have The L Word. 4/10.

[hannibalismos-jaaneman]

just finished watching monkey man and gotta say casteism definitely got the better of me

[24hrfrog]

“Dagger two defending!”

“Break right!”

“Talk to me BOB!”

I will never forgive TGM for making that scene so intense with the fast cut aways, slowly growing music in the background signifying SOMETHING is going to happen, the panic on the actors faces as they look around so spastic, the shouting, not giving the audience a damn break until boom, hit.

[lovelisara]

— 17 january 2024

had my really long class today. 4 hours of YAP. tired of this week, just wanna party honestly. worked a bit on some projects that’re due next week, but a wifi outage fucked me over. besides that, i got the strongest urge to get back into animal crossing so tomorrow i’ll do that.

3 things i’m grateful for:

my switch.

my bedroom.

treadmills.

— love, lisa.

[majestyeverlasting]

Hi. I’ve been occupied with school and extra curriculars, but I have a few WIPs that I NEED to finish and REALLY want to post. I think aiming for a shorter word count might help. I promise I’m still alive! I pop in every day, but haven’t gotten around to posting anything. That will hopefully change really soon. Bucky, Eddie, and Joel are all in the line up. Gonna try to make things more cozy and fall-coded. I hope you all are well. 🤍

[subskz]

the comeback…. i currently have no thoughts…. -🐾

literally where to begin…the number of fake outs in s class was not good for my heart 😭 that tone shift for binnie’s 2nd verse is my absolute fave though i love the old school vibe to it!! there is so much else to say but my biggest and most important takeaway is KIM SEUNGMIN!!!!!!! 😓🙏

[how-to-be-a-tree]

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[munamania]

oh you would not believe how opinionated i can be about lighting. am i by any means a camera person no am i gonna be like hmm you wanna know what you really need. better lighting. come on guys it seriously makes all the difference

[ravenkings]

one thing i truly do not understand is how tumblr has not discovered the servant (1963)

[kimtranssexler]

The film I’m assistant producer on (as well as supporting actor in) came out today. Two years in the making. 50 minutes long. Unfortunately as much as I want to I cannot share it with you all because it would dox me. But we had the premier today and it was fucking glorious, 7 entire people were there. Hijacked a huge auditorium at our college to show it, it was like a full size movie theater. It was genuinely so fun. I hope we get to make a third one.