The question of how to make music at home used to be a big issue several decades ago when only big studios could afford expensive analogue equipment to start a music recording business. Nowadays with the invention of digital audio workstations and affordable digital sound cards almost anyone with some reasonable budget can make his own home studio to make music. Studios are differently equipped depending on their demands and abilities, but there is a basic setup everyone needs when making a home studio.
I am a filmmaker and a big movie fan, and Charlie Chaplin has always been one of the most admirable figures for me, so I could not resist writing down my thoughts about the film "Chaplin" made in the memory of the great actor and film director.
In the following article I will try to analyze "Ivan's Childhood" by one of the greatest Russian film directors Andrey Tarkovskiy. The unbiased analysis is mostly own observations of some cinematic aspects of the film like cinematography, acting etc. I compiled them all together hoping to help somebody better understand the film. Enjoy!
If you want/need to analyze a movie, but have no experience in film analysis, then this fiction film analysis guide is for you. Yes, the strategies described here work well only for fiction films, since they have everything that and analysis would require - plot, narrative, protagonist vs anatagonist relationship, etc. Documentary films or other contemporary forms of visual media are usually structured differently and thus need more specific approach to the analysis of structure.
The following is my personal unbiased analysis of Akira Kurosawa's epic masterpiece "Rashomon" (1950) and it is mainly devoted to the narrative structure of the film. This is one of the greatest films ever created, so I strongly suggest watching it before drawing any further conclusions from the analysis.
The following article is my personal analysis of "The Man from London," directed by a great Hungarian director Béla Tarr and co-directed/edited by Ágnes Hranitzky. This is a totally unbiased view on the film, so everything written here is not to be taken for the only truth. I recommend to watch the film before drawing any further conclusions.
Visconti's "Rocco e i suoi fratelli" is one of the brightest examples of Italian cinema of the 1960's and with the following article I will try to point out some strong points of the film to help readers understand why this film is a must see for every movie fan.
In the following article I am planning to analyze the movie relating to Kristin Thompson’s neoformalist approach to the film analysis. I will try to find the most significant aspects of the given approach and explain them in relation to the film.
The following is my personal brief analysis of the film "Girl with a Pearl Earring." I did not refer to many other sources of information apart from watching the film, so the following is just my personal interpretation of the film as a work of art, mostly from the point of view of 17th century Dutch art.
Antonioni’s "L’Avventura" (1960) is one of the most importand products of both European and world cinema, thanks to innovations in the narrative structure that had never been introduced before in films. With this analytical article I wanted to explain what in my opinion makes this movie worth watching.