Assignment #4

Part 1: As I walked around the horseshoe, many different elements stood out to me as beautiful, but the one I chose to elaborate on was the columns outside of the old library on the horseshoe. These columns stood out to me because unlike most of the columns in the horseshoe, these are very plain. Many of the other columns I saw were very elaborate and decorated. Many of them were Corinthian columns. But, these are Doric columns and they are very large columns. They make the library look larger than it really is and it is a very neat part of the architecture of the building. 
Part 2: The film I chose go to see at the Nickelodeon was Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky. The movie began really well. There was a very unique and eye-catching beginning. The director, I believe, wanted to get the viewers very interested from the beginning. It was a hypnotizing formation of different colors and shapes all moving around, eventually panning into the beginning scene. The movie was about the famous composer Igor Stravinsky and the famous fashion designer Coco Chanel. Igor had a bad spell in his career and lost his reputation after a very controversial ballet. Trying to get his career back to it's original state, he runs into Coco Chanel, who loved Stravinsky's work. She offers to help him and allows him and his family to move into her house. He begins to write music and prepare for his next performance all the while falling in love with Coco Chanel. Stravinsky and Chanel have an affair while Stravinsky's family is staying in the same house. In the end, Stravinsky's family leaves Coco Chanel's house and Stravinsky stays there to finish his composing. He composes his ballet and everyone loves it. He and Coco both end up old and alone at the finish of the movie.
One form of filming technique that I noticed right away was the use of different camera angles. The camera angles made different parts of the film more interesting. The cameras showed different perspectives of the different characters in the movie. While showing the ballet, camera angles switched between the view of Stravinsky from the audience and then Stravinsky's view of the ballet. The director did a great job of using camera angles to make this film the best it could be.