Journal 1

There is a lot to say about the film we watched in class on Monday titled "Wavelength". At first, I found this film to be rather boring and irritating. It annoyed me to just watch a room being filmed and nothing else. The only thing that may have kept me interested was the changing of colors by filters I am guessing. So, as I started to fall asleep, by my surprise, an annoying sound took over the film. But then I took a closer look and realized the film had actually zoomed in just a tad. Now that I was awake due to a sound that I thought would make my ears fall off, I started to concentrate on the camera's movement. It slowly started moving in on this yellow chair that obviously was the main object of the room. As it got closer and closer to the chair, something out of the blue happened. A man was murdered! He laid and died in the bottom of the screen, but soon enough the zoom of the camera passed him by, telling us that he wasn't important. So moving on, the camera kept getting closer to this yellow chair. But who would have guessed, Michael Snow threw in a twist as the zoom passed by the yellow chair! It wasn't what he wanted us to concentrate on. As the "nails on a chalkboard" sound continued louder and louder, our anticipation for what we were supposed to see got bigger. Finally, I realized we were zooming in a picture on the wall. This was the only point in the film where I caught myself on the edge of my seat trying to beat the zoom in to see what it was a picture of. I guess about three different things and was all wrong. And who would have guessed it, it was a picture of waves! This film, in a disturbing way, kept my attention only because it kept changing what you thought the who film was slowly focusing on. I thought the filter changes added for eye candy, but beside that the first part of the film made me sleepy.