Director Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (77) essays
Directors essays:
In the film Rabbit Proof Fence, We, as the viewer, are positioned to see Mr Neville as a mostly unsympathetic character. How has the director, Phillip Noyce used various techniques to achieve this?
... suffering of Aborigines and only concerned for rules and regulations. The lighting and colour in both his office (where he is seen most of the time) and whilst making a presentation, are used in the film to demonstrate Neville's attitudes and beliefs. Finally, the editing of scenes contrasts Neville ...
Alfred Hitchcock 50 Years of Movie Magic
... Alfred Hitchcock is among the few directors to combine a strong reputation for high-art film-making with great audience popularity. Throughout his career he gave his audiences more pleasure than could be asked for. The consistency of quality plot-lines and technical ingenuity ...
Compare and Contrast of POV used by Hitchcock and Poe
... and perception of events, and are therefore left suspended in breathless anticipation. In Hitchcock's Rear Window , the audience sees everything through the eyes of L. B. Jeffries, an immobile photographer who is confined to a wheelchair in his apartment, and spends his days gazing out of his window ...
An Argument Against Auteur Theory.
... of art, Cinema is the direct result of the cooperative effort of hundreds of people, of which the director and cast are merely the most prominent. To subscribe to auteur theory is to ignore 95% of what makes the production of a film possible, while also adhering to a set of ...
Hitchcocks Motifs: An in depth reading of Vertigo.
... of the film and possibly Hitchcock's most popular motif, voyeurism. This is the idea of looking at someone without them being aware and Hitchcock uses it in a number of his films, namely Psycho and Rear Window. However, the way it is constructed in Vertigo is different to that of, lets say, Psycho ...
Alfred Hitchcock
... art courses he was switched to the advertising department. There, he began to draw, designing ads for electric cables. Hitchcock was drawn to the silver screen. He read every technical film magazine he could. He was fascinated bye the mystery fiction of Edgar Allan Poe and ...
German Cinema and Murnau
... lighting, obscure camera angles and the conveyance of extreme angst and anxiety were all aspects of this high contrast and surreal depiction of life. Expressionism placed greater value on emotion than realism, and its effects were often achieved through distortion. Murnau's extensive studies of art ...
Montage: Shadyac's message in Evan Almighty
... Film Form: Essays in Film Theory. (J. Leyda, Ed., & J. Leyda, Trans.) New York: Harcourt Brace. Mayer, A. (2007, June 22). Divine Intervention. Retrieved February 7, 2008, from Canadian Broadcasting Company: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film ...
A review of the life of alfred hitchcock and all his works.
... of a mechanical art which had proven deadly to others. Not yet known as the master of suspense, Hitchcock next directed a sequence in a musical revue called Elstree Calling (1929), Hitchcock directed only a small sequence in which Gordon Harker did a couple of sketches. Hitchcock then returned to ...
Hitchcock - Master of suspense.
... lighting would not be as dramatic. In moments of suspense Hitchcock increases the tempo of the film. Through editing he changes position of the camera and the focus frequently, this masterful control of cinematography resulting in change of pace and subsequently tone signals tension to the audience ...