Eldon Booth and The Movie Elephant

On thursday 18th August, one of an old student from M.I.T that use to study here, came to our class and told us what he dose and love to do in his life. His name is Eldon Booth an film screening, his techniques are to deal with experimental films and to investigate film conventions of documentation/ drama techniques that he looks in to fact and fiction. What I thought about Eldon mix of fact and fiction experience was useful because he gave showed us ideas, to make short films. He gave us experience how to shoot short films, by showing us examples from his channel and his work that he has been working on. While I was watching his short films, I did not know what was his footage was about but as i follow through I started understanding what was short films about. Eldon showed us a lot of useful shots that he told us, how to use the camera, the angle of the camera, wide shots, long shots etc.. I know this because he is my teacher in studio. I like Eldon work because he inspirers me not to give up in class and keep working on when he tells us funny jokes.(he talks about him not making it to HOLLYWOOD in a funny way) :D

After Eldon presentation, Telsa showed us an movie. The movie was called Elephant, an drama film that is an true story, the film takes back in an high school called Watt high school, in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. This epic drama event surrounds a school shooting massacre. The movie is an achieve(my point of view), because it has many main character in the story, so in this movie, every body in this movie has there own story to tell when they wake up in the morning to go school but didn't expected that they were gonna die. This movie is an example to what Eldon was talking about, an genre, camera angles , wide shots, etc.. What I like about this movie is the ending because it felt alive, shocked, sad, and angry because he killed people for no reason. The reason why I didn't like the beginning because i felt confuse? board? didn't understand? and LOST!! but at the end i understand what this movie mean. This drama movie is kind of similar to Eldon work, because this is what i feel when i watch Eldon work and the movie, confuse in the beginning and at the end it all comes together. But i really enjoy watching the movie and especially the drama movie.