Filming career by Julie Dash

Journal

The film Daughters of the Dust by Julie dash is a mirror of the history of the African American who typically traces his or her roots to a culturally defined system and self-conscious. The desire to self-discovery and search for a better world lands the population to a new world where everyone finds that their identity is unknown and the struggle for a place is met with hope and belief coupled with a series of shortcomings.  This film starts with a kaleidoscope indicating the ways of seeing of the African American race.
The cinematography of the very scenes indicating struggle are visible through appropriate framing that covers best scenes with close up shots, however it can be  noted that there are some scenes which have been  obstructed of their views such as the couple engaged in play whose view is hindered by clothes on a hanging line. The net, however intended to indicate the contemporary culture reduces the visibility too. The filming person fails to navigate the scene as is intended in the eyes of the viewer.
A blend of African character with unique African costumes blends to give a reality to the history of the original African culture and an assimilated African American is portrayed with elaborate change in costuming and development of a unique language. The use of the Gullah language is a true representation of transformation witnessed in the contemporary African American society. However the use of the Gullah dialect prevents the viewer to transition to understand the patois used and the dialect too. As such it can be recommended that the use of subtitles could have offered a better solution to help the viewer’s understand that part without hitch.

The narration faces some discontinuations with the images being displayed and as such the character-sound order is not edited seamlessly. This can be an editing error and as such it cuts the flow to integrate ideas into a common plot. However the use of slow transitions and long scenes is able to achieve focus and create mood within several scenes that indicated struggle. Camera angles have been used well extensively to cover the right scenes. The use of close angles and durations of scenes is correctly applied within most parts indicating good filming and editing. However some lenses angles used interfered with the image within the frame making some desired objects to miss in the scene as is witnessed in the start of the movie when a chicken is captured leaving the intended content of that frame.
The visual orientation of the narrative about family shifting identity does not reflect the femininity intended during the initial stage of the plot. The African woman who is at the center of the struggle lacks coverage in the end of the movie indicating a lack of focus in the storyline being schemed.  The narrative is well portrayed giving an original story that is hard to predict the most likely actions within the plot.
There is connectedness depicted in the present, past and future to seamlessly show a transformation of the African American race, this is well depicted by a flow in the plot and scenes that are interrupted by past scenes and fictitious future. However it can be seen as majorly a nonlinear film giving room for viewers to interpret it in different ways. Snead, hired by viola to picture them, uses the kaleidoscope to get a view of the family before they migrate. This is indicative of the different ways people may be viewed in a contemporary society; however this may also be interpreted as far sighted struggle when the complementing scene is portrayed.
The movie Le Divorce by manouchka Kelly labouba has a storyline that gives a narrative that give a clear indication of American and French taboo in sex. The compilation in the scenes is seamless with major scenes being short compared to the daughters of the dusts. A sense of action is portrayed by use of short scene times and therefore the viewer is able to incorporate different virtues brought up in different scenes to common story line. There is use of good lighting within the movie. This enables the film maker to influence the viewership by keeping viewers alert and active. Leslie carom appears in bright scenes showing a sign of beauty and distinctive personality. There is a good choice of actors with their actions showing a deserving ending as is portrayed in the final part of the movie. This is followed with a distinctive choice of attire that brings out the culture being referred in the entire plot.
A blend of suicide, stalking and murder is juxtaposed within comedy creating a lack of flow and the narrative   is distorted some times. This creates a mixed up feeling to the viewer and thus a better editing can be adopted in this part.
The cinematography involved highly achieves a virtue of cross cultural comedy between different practices and the actors attributes are presented in their best as a show of diversity. The editing and sound are of high quality with most scenes exiting in style while high quality sounds play in different scenes to create moods.  Watts and Modine, act systematically within the narrative indicating a good mise-en-scene with the actors.  However there can be seen an excess use of subtitles when in real sense such may bore the viewer or shift the concentration, I think they would work better in the Francophile parts only
 In conclusion, the two works show a velar cut edge in their capacity to portray their intended themes. As such, the daughters from the dust are seen as more adapted to the culture being involved and as such the director made a good choice that would make a unique masterpiece to be achieved.