Archive for the 'Film' Category

He’s Got Some Bad Ideas in His Head

April 27th, 2012

  The first image the viewer is presented with in Taxi Driver, aside from theimage of a taxicab slowly slithering through the smoke from a sewer, is eyes. The eyes are those of the main character Travis Bickle—the man who would not take it anymore, the man who’s got some bad ideas in his head, […]


Super Fly: The Sights of 1970s New York

March 2nd, 2012

Gordon Parks, Jr.’s Super Fly is an experiment in realism rather than expressionism in the way that it does not purposely alter or distort any of Block’s Visual Components—Space, Line, Shape, Tone, Color, Movement, Rhythm—and only aims to recreate New York as realistically as possible on-screen, using previously released films like The French Connection or […]


What does visual design mean?

January 9th, 2012

Visual design, regardless of whether or not one can actually provide a clear definition of the term, is crucial to cinema. Cinema, as you obviously, is a purely visual art form. When composing images for a film, the filmmaker must have the vision and tenacity of any great painter, composer, or writer. Composing images takes […]


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