Continuity and Dialogue Written Response

     I found all the the clips very insightful to watch. This wasn't my first time viewing Storming the Castle as I'm a fairly avid fan of Monty Python, however, I feel like I appreciate this gag a little bit more now. Cutting back to the calm reactions of the guards while John Cleese seemingly isn't getting any closer built some comedic suspense which is immediately released when he just teleports up to them in the final shot. Daydreaming was fun to watch, one thing in particular I noticed was how often two different shots are used to complete an action that Thom starts. So like if he reaches to open a door, the shot stops half way into that action and a new shot beings where he is opening a different door from the other side, completing the action of opening the door but also putting him in a new location. Usually, I've seen this type of shot used simply to enter one new location that makes sense for the character to have travelled to, so it's interesting to see how drastically changing the environment creates a very jarring, dreamy effect. The Royal Tenenbaums clip gave me some cool ideas about the use of lines in the composition of my own projects, finding parallel lines that lead the eye in a certain direction to call  attention to where the subject is moving or even how they're feeling is something I'd like to experiment with more myself. The shot reverse shot video was great, I have a lot better of an understanding with how I should be tackling the doppleganger assignment. I've seen a handful of other Every Frame a Painting videos, this one reminded me a lot of one I watched about the "Hello Clarice" scene in Silence of the Lambs and how the director switches between using low and high angle shots at different points throughout the conversation to show a shift in control between the two characters. While shot reverse shot can be straightforward there are apparently a lot of different things you can do to change the tone of that conversation depending on your blocking and compositional choices. Fugue #11 was certainly a weird watch. I think I've seen some youtube videos edited this way as well where they take an interview and cut out all the talking so your left with just the awkward pauses and looks people make at the end of what they were saying. I like that it still feels like there's a narrative being told here, but it's more of one that the viewer has to infer as the actors are no longer able to verbally just give us that narrative. Coffee and Cigarettes' wasn't as interesting to me as some of the others, but I still enjoyed how at the end once the first guy leaves the scene isn't just over but it lingers and watches the second guy by himself  for some time. 8 1/2 gave me some anxiety watching it, I think it was either the long silence, or the several POV shots banging on the car windows that kept cutting away to people watching, but either way the result for me was that I felt almost claustrophobic myself. Finally, Mulholland Drive was great! I like how he looks over his shoulder the first time and is staring at this empty space and then moments later they use the same shot of him looking over but now the other guy he was talking to is standing in that empty space. It also seemed like the camera was maybe off a tripod with some sort of counter weight being used as the camera is a little ghostly in it's movements.  

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