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Maya Deren - Creating Movies With A New Dimension

After reading Maya Deren's - Creating Movies With A New Dimension, I grasped a different understanding of movie making as a whole. Deren first started off my telling us the differences between a motion picture(movie) and a still picture. Sure pictures are nice and capture a nice moment in time, but a motion picture of the same moment is alot cooler since you see all the build-up and then what happens afterwards. Just the fact that a camera can moved from a location to a different location to help build space, and that the two shots can be cut back and forth instantly is also unique only to motion pictures. The same technique can be used multiple times to further enhance the scene. Having the desire to discover even more in our filmmaking not only helps us as an individual filmmaker grow, but in the long run it also helps with our basic human developmental skills.
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Metaphors on Vision

After reading Stan Brakhage's - Metaphors on Vision, I have a greater understanding of Brakhage's filmmaking methods. You can always strive to make a work better is what I learned most from the reading. You have the freedom to put whatever you want in your works so you have the power to do whatever you wish to achieve in your film. Brakhage presents his film in his own way, a lot different than others. Brakhage dug really deep into the visualization of his works to make his work better and that's why he basically created a whole different approach on making a film.
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Methods of Montage

After reading Eisenstein's Methods of Montage, the way different clips run together is really important. There is more than just cutting away to a different scene. Some examples are: Metric Montage, cutting to an exact position to add dramatic effect. Rhythmic Montage: cutting different scenes together according to their continuity. Tonal Montage: cutting around to increase the emotions of a scene and Intellectual Montage: cutting according to a scenes intellectual concept. A montage is more than just a cluster of scenes thrown together. Eisenstein says its more "combining shots that are depictive, single in meaning, neutral in content,into intellectual context and series."
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Kino Eye

After reading the Kino eye article, I got a better understanding of what goes on behind the camera or a shot. There is a lot more than just setting up a camera and recording something. The Kino Eye taught me that theres a bunch more happening behind the scenes making sure everything runs accordingly. The positioning of an object is important as it could overshadow another element that could be going on or off screen and we'll miss it because this object is more distracting. It's almost like we're violating the camera of its work because of how much more capable it is than we think it is.
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Creating Movies with new Diminsions

I get the idea of what he is trying to tell the reader. He wants us our own ideological image in filming or for short or original style. Be someone who created the cliché not someone who follows it. This is a good final lesson to be given before I move on from this class. I will remember this one the most out the rest that I had read due to its important meaning.
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stan brakhage metaphores on vision

stan is basically saying that this world has many different ways we can look at it our eyes can see more than whats there and everything has a different perspective to
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Eisenstien method of montage

he states that the over all tone of the footage is what helps set how the montage is going be you would look at how long each clip is then peice them together to output a certain message for your montage 
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