Film Report Correction - Help Needed

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Film report needs a bit of help. I have completed the corrections with spelling, grammar and punctuation. Please review highlighted note for instructions.

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Running head: The Great Train Robbery Film Report 1 Zanta Stroud-Simmons University of Maryland University College Instructor: Ross Nugent June 1, 2015 Running head: The Great Train Robbery Film Report on The Great Train Robbery GRADE (when revised) 8=B. You offer good examples from the film that support your discussion of the editing, but the focus on cinematography was a bit vague. I would suggest that you find a way to summarize the plot to give the reader a better sense of what actually happens in the film, which will strengthen your argument overall. You do touch on some elements of social commentary near the conclusion, but be sure to develop this further in your future efforts. See my comments below regarding spelling, punctuation, and grammar. Edwin Porter’s, The Great Train Robbery, was probably the most anticipated action movie of the 1900s. Director Edwin Porter completed about 11-13 sequences for the film that was release in 1903. The film contained close camera shots along with many scenes of raw action. The Great Train Robbery is one of the earliest films to be Western based. Actors Gilbert M. Anderson, A.C. Abadie, and George Barnes establish the setting for the train robbery. Cinematographers James Blair Smith along with Edwin Porter do a wonderful job in showing the audience the details of the story unfolding, almost like you are there. Ultimately the story can be described as such: the good guy catches the bad guy, almost like good triumphs over evil. Editing helps the audience to go on a journey of the masked men throughout scenes of crime. The opening scene starts with the masked men knocking out a telegraph clerk. Other scenes include split screen shots which offer the excitement of the storyline, allowing you to follow each character very comfortably. At one point in the movie, it feels as if the robbers would get away, but the cinematography is so well executed the editing soon goes back to scenes showing other parts of the story unfolding, such as the telegraph clerk being found by his daughter. If noticed, you Running head: The Great Train Robbery could even see the editing of the replacement of the engineer with a fake dummy thrown off the train. Edwin Porter should be commended for the outstanding work on this film. The ability to direct and shoot so many frames consistently allows the audience a realistic view. As being one of the first films to explore the life of an outlaw, it was bold and exciting.
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