INCITING INCIDENT

An inciting incident. This is when something happens that changes the story. My favorite example of this is in the Secret Life of Walter Mitty when he can’t find the 25th picture that is going to be used on the final cover of life magazine. This begins his hero’s journey this is what leads him to travel and go on a adventure.

EXPERIMENTAL FILM REVIEW

To begin I'm no film expert, though I would like to be. Tonight I watched my first experimental film called "Ballet mécanique" by  Fernand Léger and Dudley Murphy. My initial reaction was not one I was expecting, I thought based on my personality and interested I would enjoy the film, but alas I did not. Baseline gave me a headache and I prefer contemporary experimental because of how aesthetically pleasing there are, unlike this. That might be due to the technology of the time but it just lost me. And I personally would not consider "composed" music to be a drunk person slamming on piano or screeching on a violin, but maybe that's just me and I don't know anything about composing music. I'm still going to explore other experiments but this one was just not the one for me. I will say though for the time which it was created, 1924, I do wonder how they created some of the effects.