career as filmmaking/actress

Be inspired.
for the world is indeed among change.
Be still in yourself, find your happiness
and make time to engage and be part of the change going on in the world around you.

Artists seek to involve the audience's emotions, imagination and intellect directly

Art differs from life by stripping away irrelevant details and organizing events so that they compose a connected pattern.
Thus, a play illuminates and comments on human experience even as it creates it.
a way of knowing and understanding.

How can imagined stories be ways of knowing and understanding?...the key is offered by shakespeare in As You Like it (11, 7): "All the world's a stage, /And all the men and women merely players."
Not only does this speech state that we may think of the world as a stage upon which each person plays a role, but conversely, that the stage is a symbolization of the world where we can see reflected the patterns of human behaviour.

Art lifts us above the everyday fray and gives us something like a "gods eye" view of experience.
Some attributes of art: methods of discovering and presenting patterns that provide insights, perceptions and understanding about ourselves and our world,; art is one form of knowledge.
It is an imaginative reshaping of experience that operates directly on our senses..allowing us to be simultaneously at a distance from and involved in the experience so that we participate, gaining insights from it

Hamlet (111,2), "the purpose of playing,..is to hold...the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure."

To a certain degree all people are actors; they vary the roles they play (almost moment to moment) according to the people they encounter and their relationship to them (parent, priest, friend, lover, enemy) in doing so they utilize the same tools as the actor- voice, speech, movement, gesture, psychological motivation and the like

(theatre; as in life, episode us experienced, then its part of the past, within the memories of those who were present.
also the most objective of the arts...as in life, it is through listening and watching that we come to know characters both externally and internally. what we learn about their minds, personalities and motivations comes from what they say and do/ and what others say about them.

Theatre draws on all the arts; literature in script, painting, architecture and sculpture...
simultaneaous presence of live actors and spectators, the audience may choose to watch where they like

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the first moving pictures, 1920's, transfixed pieces of reality for the worlds wonderment, a train arrival to disgorge passengers, and a rowing boat out to sea, historical re-enactments
deeply touching bc they are humanities first home movies
(1914, medium of communication and propaganda, nazis realized the potency of film in a generation addicted to the cinema)
Olympia (1938, great documentaries of all time, presented the olympic games as a paean to the physical being of athletes and, by association, to the supremacy of the third reich...pinnacles in the development of nonfiction cinemas potential
(1959, 'the savage eye' uses hidden camera to chronicle LA, a city made of 'postwar greed, spiritual emptiness and brutality.'

1939, set up a film producing entity that would become the 'eyes of canada'...patriotic brief grew out of the need to 'define, preserve and project its own identity. expand Grierson's taste for epic, socially concerned cinema.
placed canda squarely t the center of international culture...wanted people to see 'Canada whole; its people and its purpose.'
providing a high-minded stable for filmmakers, set the stage for succession of fine films

individual, holistic and emotionally committed perspective
placing our life experiences into an ever larger pattern of shape and meaning
reshoot in a way, could tell a story
(eskimo daily life) makes us more conscious of a much larger theme, that of mankinds ancient struggle for survival
documentary inevitably reveals a lot about its makers, an autobiography

creative treatment of actuality (nfb definition

silent film offered the new republic a universal language through which it could apprehend its own diversity, history and pressing problems

experimental films, labeled 'city symphonies', of europe, treated busy rhythms of daily life lyrically and empathize with those living in poor, cramped quarters. ordinary people show earthly vitality and humor of the medieval ancestors whose hands originally created the environment

Learning to be more perceptive
everything that affects senses

accompanying music and the distancing objectivity of a travelling narration

learn the elements of your environment that influence your perceptions
look for various techniques used in film
learn to appreciate the aesthetic qualities in film, acclaimed for works of art
learn to observe the beauty of the world around you, that you may not have noticed,
water droplets from the leaves

learning to identify and measure your responses to a film,
verbalize, describe what you have seen
think of words that describe your experience
you should notice you usually respond to a film both intellectually and emotionally