Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet. Extra Credit Assignment


Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet.
Martin Lucas

This movie examined the financial situation of two different cities in the late 1970's. the two cities that Lucas concentrated on was Cleveland and New York. Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet.
Martin Lucas

This movie examined the financial situation of two different cities in the late 1970's. the two cities that Lucas concentrated on was Cleveland and New York. At the beginning of the movie there was a lot of information to grab onto but as the movie panned out I started to understand more about the financial and political structure of the two cities. 
I like how the filmed used characters to drive the story, in New York it was the citizens in Greenpoint and the fire houses, in Cleveland it was the historic mayor who refused to sign the city of Cleveland over to the banks. The pop up facts and text narration between the shots and stories really helped me understand the dire state that these cities are in. The most emotional part of the film was when they went into the
I was really interested in the editing process because it was a 16'' reel and I have only edited on digital footage. The question and answer session afterwards with Prof. Lucas was 
At the beginning of the movie there was a lot of information to grab onto but as the movie panned out I started to understand more about the financial and political structure of the two cities. 
I like how the filmed used characters to drive the story, in New York it was the citizens in Greenpoint and the fire houses, in Cleveland it was the historic mayor who refused to sign the city of Cleveland over to the banks. The pop up facts and text narration between the shots and stories really helped me understand the dire state that these cities are in. The most emotional part of the film was when they went into the hospitals and daycares that are in the process of closing down, or are closed down. it was very interesting to see how those are the first things to go when a city looses money. As well as the CUNY system not being free anymore. 
I was really interested in the editing process because it was a 16'' reel and I have only edited on digital footage. The question and answer session afterwards with Prof. Lucas connected a lot of dots when he was talking. How the editing process was, how he pieced the composer, the narrator, his crew etc. Over all it was alerting that this movie related so much to the financial and political status that the city is in today. 

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