Australian Film Industry

For my third response paper I decided to go with Australian Film Industry and I was really glad that I did. This was the first of the three papers that I actually enjoyed writing. I learned a lot writing this paper and did not feel like I was "forcing" anything. The first two papers were really complex and complicated and at times I had no idea what I was supposed to write about. This was mostly my fault for not keeping up with this class as often as I should, but I enjoyed reading Chapter 12 and put in a lot of effort writing this third paper.

Did anyone else enjoy writing this third paper? What film industry did everyone choose?

Blockbuster Screening

In Chapter 10 of the text book, the end of the chapter discusses the beginning of the "blockbuster" film. The two movies and directors mentioned in this small segment were Stephen Spielberg with Jaws and George Lucas with Star Wars.
I wanted to focus on Jaws because I think that people underestimate the power of this movie. I screened this movie last week and realized how much fear this movie puts into its viewers. I remember watching this movie as a child, and to this day I am absolutely terrified to go out too far in the ocean. I even have a fear that Great White Sharks hide in large waves as a sneaking mechanism. Jaws is well acted and directed doing its job almost perfectly; that job is to terrify people and provide the viewers with a story that has come true in many places around the world.
How about you? Were you terrified watching this movie as a kid? As an adult?

Chapter 9

I read through Chapter 9 of this book over the past week and noticed that one piece of information really stood to me. I read that when the television industry became popular; the movie industry in a failed attempt tried to take over creating a few of its own networks. Once Hollywood realized that the Television networks were too big to compete with, Hollywood decided to sell some of its movies for release on Television. All of this was happening in the early 1950's and it is amazing to see that all of this started over 60 years ago.

Now when you turn on the TV you could probably find 20+ movies being played on a variety of channels. You can even buy movies on your TV! So this creates my question for you bloggers out there; did Hollywood eventually succeed?

I think in a way they may have succeeded a little bit. I view channels such as "HBO", "Showtime", and  "Starz" to be "movie channels. These channels in fact did the opposite of most regular TV networks have done. They started out as channels that strictly just show newer released movies and then gradually integrated TV shows.

Essay 2

I wanted to blog about the latest essay we had to write for this Film History class because I enjoyed writing this one much more than the first one. The first one was really difficult to find information about  current events on my Birthday in 1914. I found the second essay much easier because we were able to use all the information from the book to help write the essay. It was also very interesting to be able to compare Hollywood to another Film Industry such as France.

I was wondering what everybody else thought? Maybe I just enjoy doing a compare and contrast essay?