Boyhood: Blog Post

Boyhood is filled with different cinematic elements in different unique ways, giving the movie some perfection with elegance and reach into your heart with family matter. The element I would like to focus on from the film is on editing.

In the film, editing was used effectively when the main character Mason was moving out from his home at a young age always from his friends and the friends that he knows with his family. The scene transitioned from Mason being at a very young age and moving out to the impact it has had on him in the next scene which taken of him the next year. It shows Mason being impacted with living in a new home in which his mother meets her new husband Bill and Mason's family moving in with them. The editing was shot well with them moving out and how it impacted the family with moving in with Bill's family and Mason personally changing with his personality and his attitude.

Another important moment where editing was important was the scene where Mason arrived home late while his mother was throwing a party. Mason has dramatically changed from the previous scene he has been in with being normal and behaving very shy and the mother being concern for her child to Mason's mother throwing a party and Mason coming back home past curfew and telling his mom the truth that he has being drinking and smoking with his friends. The editing went from Mason and his mother being innocent and having a strong between them to Mason and his mom being separated and Mason behaving like as if he doesn't care about anything in the world. The editing shows how much as one year can have an impact on the individual and who they really are.

The scene where it was least effective was towards the and of the end of the film when Mason was talking with a girl about the moment and their opinions on the subject. This coming from the previous came almost out of nowhere with this small inspiring conversation about "moment" and jus Mason and the girl talking. The scene wasn't that necessary when compared to other scenes where Mason himself was dragged into the pitfalls of his life as well as the joys. This was barely introduced when he went to college and met his roommate along with his friends. Another film that used this concept almost in a similar way was Ratcatcher. in the film, the family were relocated into a new neighborhood and lifestyle when moving out. Although it doesn't show a big time lapse, it does show the scenes where and how the family is affected with the moving out and experiencing the different scenario.

Myst #4: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

I love movies with special effects and with a lot action along with a touch of romance to show the extent of how far the characters are willing to go to protect or save or help the other character. The special effects expands my imagination as to what the director can do and bring to life. I especially love how the actors interact with the computer generated forms ranging from robots to a whole world. With that in mind, I don't like when the entire movie is based entirely on the special effects without reason. The Director Michael Bay directed all the Transformers along with "Pain & Gain" and "Pearl Harbor" which are action movies that has good editing from special effects to the editing in someone being cut in half putting the audience in amazement with seeing the effects across the movies and some wondering to themselves "how did he do that" when watching one of his movies. When I was watching the movie, I was kept at the edge of my seat while watching the movie because of how realistic the transformers looked and amount of action with explosion and special effects mixed into it despite the story line itself. I mean the storyline was good and all but it wasn't extremely good material and could've been revised a few times more to improve the story but other than it was good.

Towards the beginning of the film, we are going to take a close look at when Alice (Isabel Lucas) transformed into an evil transformer from human to a robot. (Spoiler) When Alice transformed, her face transforms and than the rest of her body follows with the whole transformation. The composition is her flash turns inside out as her metallic body comes out and overcomes eats away her flash as she is getting prepared to kill Sam (Shia Labeouf). As she transforms, the sunlight being shined through the window casts a shadow from the robot as even the smallest want to look as real as it can with her transformation and her surroundings. The camera zooms in on her at a low angle to show the dominance and of how evil she is. The close up shot indicates the significance of her and how important she is as she starts the hunt for Sam and the surprise she also brings.

Another scene was towards the end when Sam stabs Optimus Prime to revive him. What Amazes me about this scene is how Sam goes on top of Optimus, it looks like as if Optimus was actually real and not computer simulated. When Sam stabs Optimus, Optimus moves from the shock and Sam moves along with him and looks like as if he's touching him. The camera switches from medium shots to close shots to show the effect from the cause of Sam stabbing him in his heart and Optimus coming back alive. The medium shot show how big Optimus is and how small Sam and how little chance Sam has at reviving him considering Sam is tiny when compared.

In my opinion, what I enjoyed about the movie was with each different scene there's a different scenario with the special effects and how it plays and important role for a certain character and shows a different composition with the transformers. what I didn't like about the movie was how the storyline was being told. It was in a generic way with the good guy in trouble and somehow coming back to the top and beating the bad guy and saving the day. Don't get me wrong there were some funny and awesome scenes but the majority of it was just descent. I would recommend this movie to those who love action packed movies that has a lot of good special effects.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen