Monday, July 16, 2012

Week 2 EOC: La Dolce Vita

What I immediately loved about the 1960 Italian movie, Le Dulce Vida, was the scenery, or the “cinematography”. Every scene, and every second was a beautiful black and white photograph to my eyes. The director, Federico Fellini, and the people working with him did a wonderful job at choosing how the scenes would be shot, the lighting, and the locations.
I can relate to the paparazzi in the movie not only because I’m also a photographer, but because I know you need to be dedicated to your craft. In the movie, the paparazzi would stalk the actress and her friends and try to capture many moments of her life, every day. Most people understand why they do this. People are so obsessed with celebrities nowadays and people make lots of money from their fame. For example, TMZ, a big celebrity gossip show live off celebrities and have offices dedicated to what they do, which is share celebrity’s problems, drama, love interests, accidents, achievements and pretty much their whole lives with the rest of the world. Paparazzi make great money doing the same thing. The take photographs of celebrities doing things out of the ordinary, or just being their selves, and they sell the photos to big magazines or shows like TMZ and profit from it big time. If I want to make money, I also have to have dedication towards my photography and photography business and be willing to do things, like the paparazzi.
What I plan on doing for my weekly photo assignment is going out to the strip, the best place in Las Vegas for this assignment in my opinion, and snapping photos of people doing things out of the ordinary or just being fascinating. I might also shoot people dressed up as celebrities; there are so many of those on the strip.

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