I chose Ever After for my video essay.  I really like this movie and this assignment helped me notice many technical developments within the filming. Roger Ebert’s essay on reading movies made sense to me and I like how the different positions that the characters take can determine the negative and positive outcome.  In Ever After this is definitely evident as well as the perspsctives, rule of thirds, foreground/background implications, and angle positionings. The quality of this video is horrible even though you don’t need to see the detail.  Just going through beginning scenes of this movie I found so many elements that relate to Ebert’s essay and I think it’s fun to analyze how a piece achieves it pleasing status without the audience even realizing its tactics.