Styles of flims (western and eastern hollywood)

Me and Ian have thought of diferent but alos its about which type of media we are going to use east or west hollywood, with this we can loook at backgrounds of film editing and find more ideas and examples in our progress of our project.

East Hollywood: East Hollywood is a community that forms the eastern portion of the Hollywood district in the City of Los Angeles, California.

Is part of "Hollywood East" of Western Avenue and north of the 101 Hollywood Freeway. The northern border is Hollywood Boulevard, and the eastern boundary is North Hoover Street. This includes the smaller communities of Thai Town, Virgil Village, and Little Armenia, and borders Los Feliz and Silver Lake, about 4 miles from Downtown Los Angeles.


Looking at the place of east Hollywood e.g. the lifestyle and society background we found this:

"The area has an exceptionally diverse population, both in terms of ethnicity and income. While some parts of the district still suffer from the usual inner city problems, residential areas to the east - especially to the north of Melrose Ave and east of Alexandria - are predominantly filled with well kept middle class houses and this is reflected in the high property prices compared to the rest of the district. The 90029 zip code had a median house price of $925,000 in 2007, almost double the $550,000 Los Angeles County average".

So looking at the research from eastern part i find it old and runned down and abit of a rough area which may affect the film products they produce, but looking at the film aspect we found out this and my and Ians views towards it:

Hollywood East takes your event out of the oh-so-familiar realm of "Grandma's Home Movie" and into the world of big time Entertainment Television! Their exceptional style painted an exhilirating and touching representation of the evening that was."
Hollywood East Video specializes in providing entertainment style professional Audio, Video & Still Photography production for Special Events, Broadcast TV, Corporate promotions, Music showcases/videos, and Web broadcasts.

http://www.hollywoodeastvideo.com/roll-video.html

Looking from these parts of roll video me and Ian found ideas of the quailty of the picture and the quailty of settings so with this eastern hollywood type we have found quailty in sound mise en scene (which I think is a good gander). Also its a another form of film making in different techinques and effects which if we generate ideas we could make our film more affective and successful =).

Western Hollywood:
Now looking at western and the culture we found this:
West Hollywood is bordered on the north by the Hollywood Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles, on the east by the Hollywood District of Los Angeles, on the west by the city of Beverly Hills, and on the south by the Fairfax District of Los Angeles.

The unique, irregular border of the city, which is highlighted in the city logo, was largely formed from the unincorporated Los Angeles County area that had not become part of the surrounding cities.

West Hollywood benefits from a relatively dense, compact urban form with small lots, a mix of land uses, and a walkable street grid. Commercial corridors include the nightlife and dining focused Sunset Strip, a largely gay area along Santa Monica Boulevard, and the Avenues of Art & Design along Robertson, Melrose and Beverly near the Pacific Design Center.

Now looking into the outlook of this enviroment i think there's a more creative part as is in a urban type of place, as i do art urban places are covered art ideas and successful drawing or whatever ideas which i think may link to film coroperation in the same aspect. Also "belevery hills" is a very rich and famous place and is a big steorotype for a rich town, so looking at it in film they can afford affective techinques and resourses etc etc.

Me and Ian found out these:

Western Films or Westerns are the major defining genre of the American film industry, a nostaligic eulogy to the early days of the expansive, untamed American frontier (the borderline between civilization and the wilderness). They are one of the oldest, most enduring and flexible genres and one of the most characteristically American genres in their mythic origins. [The popularity of westerns has waxed and waned over the years. Their most prolific era was in the 1930s to the 1960s, and most recently in the 90s, there was a resurgence of the genre.

Looking into the flims that me and Ian research we also found these useful crackers:
Western Film Roots:

The roots of the film western are found in many disparate sources, often of literary origins:

•folk music of the colonial period

•James Fenimore Cooper's novels such as his 1826 story The Last of the Mohicans (re-made as a feature film at least three times - Clarence Brown's 1920 version, a 1932 version starring Harry Carey, and George Seitz' 1936 version with Randolph Scott, and most recently as the popular film The Last of the Mohicans (1992) starring Daniel Day Lewis as the heroic white frontiersman scout named Hawkeye, raised as a Mohican)

•Francis Parkman's The Oregon Trail (1849)

•Samuel Clemens' (Mark Twain) Roughing It (1872)

•Bret Harte's short stories

•dime novels about Western heroes

•Owen Wister's influential The Virginian, published in 1902, the first modern western novel

•prolific Zane Grey's (1875-1939) 60+ novels that inspired dozens of films, including his best-known western Riders of the Purple Sage (1918, 1925, 1931, 1941); also The Rainbow Trail (1918, 1925), George Seitz's The Vanishing American (1925) - the first film made in Monument Valley, Rangle River (1937), The Mysterious Rider (1933, 1938), Lone Star Ranger (1942), Nevada (1927, 1936, 1944), Western Union (1941), Gunfighters (1947), and Red Canyon (1949)

•other mythologies (tales of Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Jim Bowie, Gen. George A. Custer, Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody, Calamity Jane, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson), and outlaws (such as the James Brothers, the original Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Billy the Kid)

•screen cowboy Gene Autry's "Cowboy Code" (or Cowboy Commandments) written in the late 1940s - a collection of moralistic principles and values that cowboys reportedly live by, including such tenets as: the cowboy never shoots first or takes unfair advantage, always tells the truth, must help people in distress, and is a patriot.

So from this useful imformation we can see different type of directing and what is more successful and easy that me and Ian can work upon and achieve more in, I say the more styles we have the easier we can pick up on and go back on errors to sustain and keep the project flowing :),the more evidence and thing we investigate into the more better the final project is going to be.