Amelie

there was a very interesting use of color.The characters were all developed in an interesting way.
The emotions on the people were always very well apparent from one person being very involved with their lawn gnome collection to someone wanting to find someone else.

Yojimbo

The movie had a slow-moving plot but this was a good thing because it allowed for character development within the movie. It had many aspects that allowed for it to work more into detail in terms of character development and to show better use of costumes and it needed to keep the viewers interested. The use of lighting was perfectly placed, The use of sound had no mistakes. The movie had perfect choreography for its fight scenes. Also well placed were the scenes where they progressed storyline, there was never even a scene where the lighting was a little bad. There was always even a little bit of suspense during the movie.

Guillermo Del Torro interview

Del Toro puts much thought into the monsters that he creates. He takes concepts from visual art, literature and his real life experiences. Sometimes he uses concepts that he received from dreams or even just ideas that pop into his head. At times he would use Real life creatures for example one of the creatures in Pan's labyrinth was based off of the manta ray. Some creatures were based on insects because insects have strong exoskeleton causing them to in some ways mirror warriors. This gave them a sort of poetic strength. Also, in The devil's backbone the monster always appears in front of the children and no one else because when he was younger he would always see a monster in a lucid dream so he for a long time thought that monsters were real. Which he later in his life was quoted as saying that this is part of what let him keep his sanity.

Hero

The movie was very well thought out through it's use of color as well as well as the use of sound to convey emotions. The fight scenes were very well rehearsed and the color was again a very important aspect of these scenes. They consistently gave the people who were supposed to win their matches a slight glow wen they were fighting. This was probably to help boost the effect the viewer's perceptions of the warriors. the camera constantly zoomed in and out during the fights. The sets were well designed in the sense that they looked authentic.

Peach Orchard

The story behind the movie was interesting in that there was a lot of foreshadowing in the movie especially in the beginning. The first thing that is focused on the screen is the vase containing a peach branch that was blossoming when it was picked. The lighting from the short film also tends to focus on the pink at the beginning which is the color of the peach blossoms. The dolls at the beginning show that there will be a hierarchy later on. Afterward the little girl shows that there will be a miniature at the end. Then when the real dolls appear the color becomes a shade of blue when the dolls begin to dance and then as the dance progresses the color changes to white. afterward it becomes pink again when the dolls disappear and the only tree left is the small one

The child is warned by his mother that foxes get married in rain when the sun shines and that they don't like human guests. The child then ignores his mother and goes into the forest. when he arrives he hears music and looks to see where it comes from. He gets home and his mother tells him that he is cursed and that a fox told her that he was seen then hands him a knife and tells him that he must kill himself or ask for forgiveness. He is told that foxes live rainbows. He eventually finds the bottom of the rainbow and there is nothing there meaning that he has to die.

The point of the film is probably to illustrate how curiosity the most primitive human emotion can hurt you or even kill you. In the end there is a lot of white which symbolizes death in the japanese culture. The foxes symbolize curses in the culture so they were probably used for a main theme for this purpose.

2/19 journal

Today I awakened to my alarm clock which I had just changed because my old alarm tone was not affecting me anymore. After this I took a shower, brushed my teeth and decided to head out the door. I slept on the bus for an hour and a half before getting to school. Here I interacted with my peers, Had lunch at an unreasonably early time came back and ended up typing this essay.