Essays Tagged: "camera angles"
Casablanca
ictures. One such technique which these director's implemented was a new approach to the use of the camera and camera angles. 'Casablanca,' an Academy Award winning film of 1942 saw director Michael C ... les. 'Casablanca,' an Academy Award winning film of 1942 saw director Michael Curtiz manipulate the camera in ways others had not. He uses the close-up, point-of-view shot, and creative shot motivatio ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Dead Poets Society
conversation with the girl he loves, Kris. The scene starts with Knox at the telephone. The camera closes in on his face and his fingers dialling the telephone. The camera stays on his face as ... up the phone, Konx's facial expression changes from one of ambition to one of much nervousness. The camera swings to show Knox's hand as he promptly hangs up the phone. Next, the camera swings around ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Hello, My Name is Orson Welles
iked low key lighting. He liked the grotesque side of life, blocking actors in groups of three, low camera angles and especially pointy bras. He also liked to open his movies in a certain predictable ... the action. After the initial focus on the time bomb and its intrinsic importance to the plot, the camera moves away from the action. At the same point, Mancini's score begins, providing intrigue and ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Analyse some of the ways in which the visual elements of the text such as camera angles, backgrounds used and framing present ideology.
1)Analyse some of the ways in which the visual elements of the text such as camera angles, backgrounds used and framing present ideology.Ideology is often referred to as the sy ... efs which an individual or group holds to be true or important. The use of technical codes such as, camera angles, use of background and framing clearly reveal ideology, for example consider a short s ... Chandler, so you assume he gives the tip, and then another cut back to Joey. This back and forwards camera action serves to identify the discussion between the two characters. We learn that Chandler h ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
"A Raisin in the Sun"
very good because all the actors were extremely dramatic and good at expressing how they felt. The camera angles were very nice too. You could always see the face of the characters when they were tal ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Hamlet Video Comparison. This review compares the Branagh and Jacobi versions of Hamlet.
phasize different aspects. In the nunnery scene, the differences between the two versions' setting, camera angles, and characterization accentuate the different points the directors are trying to pres ... eceit and appearances are emphasized in the Jacobi version.Jacobi's direction in the setting of the camera angles are very different from those in Zeffirelli's version. In the nunnery scene, Jacobi ut ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study
Drama and how it got started
the Victorian era. Today the effects used by the directors of movies are changing the lighting, the camera angles, and the computer generated Special Effects.During the Elizabethan era in England, Sha ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Drama
Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho and his interaction with the audience.
ers the bathroom in order to have privacy while counting her money. "Hitchcock, however, uses upper-camera angles and the convenient placing of a mirror to convey the sense of a lingering conscious mi ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
The film Witness with Harrison Ford.
loped, and characterized.The film Witness utilizes the idea of point of view through use of various camera angles and shots to convey different meanings throughout the film. In a way, the director Pet ... shots to convey different meanings throughout the film. In a way, the director Peter Weir used the camera as the narrator of the film, manipulating what the audience sees on the screen through those ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
12 angry men movie to book analyisis.
m Friedkin many characteristics shine through in both films. Both directors chose different actors, camera angles, and lighting, but the essence of the film stays the same. Each film also is greatly i ... are what create the tense atmosphere where the debates begin and where they end. The variation of camera angles and of quality angles provides the viewers with something more to devote their attenti ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Steven spielberg.
ng age, Steven took the divorced very well.Steven, by the age of 13 he had learned may things about cameras, camera angles, and film making. When Steven was 13 he had made a forty minute film "Escape ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Directors
The Usual Suspects - Critical Film analysis.
music is used in many scenes to emphasize and to sustain the eerie atmosphere. Excellent choice of camera angles achieved added symbolism by showing the full sight of the landscape, a harbourside doc ... ourside dock through a sustained extreme long shot. The composer deliberately uses a whole range of camera angles to contribute to the overall sense of mystery, sustained through the film. High angle ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
A review of Kenneth Bragnahs "Hamlet" the movie. Hamlet review.
e. From start to finish, this is a stunningly beautiful film, filled with vibrant colors, startling camera angles, and costumes and production values that are among the best of the year. Even if the s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History
Swinging to the Left: A film critique of the mid-90's movie Swingers.
dent film, Swingers doesn't have the best script or award-winning actors. It doesn't have high tech camera angles or flashy soundstages and costumes. This movie does, however, have a strong plot and a ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Analysis of the cinematography of Jurassic Park
question What if dinosaurs were alive today? The director, Steven Spielberg, uses sound, lighting, camera angles, comic relief, and even combines some of these different things to make this film a sp ... 't and they are being chased by this ferocious dinosaur.Spielberg really knows how to use different camera angles to his advantage. For example, going back to before, when Timmy was stuck in the tree ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
What are the important features at the beginning of the film Punitive Damage?
the ideas, storylines and atmosphere. Some of these features are the soundtrack, visual techniques, camera angles and characters. Assisted by executive producer Gaylene Preston, cinematographer Leon N ... within a small window and the rest of the screen is black. This is a strong contrast with the jerky camera movements and the blackness also suggests death, danger and people hiding and scared. Because ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
An analysis of the cinematic techniques that are used in the portrayal of the 'outsider' in films. Why are such films popular and what do they tell us about society as a whole? GCSE A grade.
eresting choices for main characters. Films can use cinematography to show an outsider. Things like camera angles, composition, lighting and music are examples of successful techniques to show an outs ... feel quite voyeuristic and uncomfortable some the time as if you shouldn't be watching his life.The camera angles make not only John Merrick look like an outsider but Treves as well. You get shots fro ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
Dead Man Walking.
ncelet a human face. The director Tim Robbins has employed the use of dialogue, montage soundtrack, camera angles and specific casting to try to make the viewer accept his view on the death penalty.Ti ... rrent, as both movies depict the animal instinct to kill is in all of us, even children.The closest camera shots of any character in the film are the ones of Sister Helen and Poncelet. This could be s ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
How do the filmmakers of Chicken Run use presentational devices to reveal the good and evil in the characters of Ginger and Mrs. Tweedy?
different ways in which Ginger and Mrs. Tweedy are portrayed. I will use the characters to discuss camera angles, costumes, lighting, settings, music, sound effects and character interactions to crea ... heir hopes of freedom to him.One of the presentational devices that Chicken Run uses is the type of camera shot. There are many different angles of the camera; different angles suggest different perso ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
MEDIA COURSEWORK
re. Audiences of the horror genre expect the pattern of spooky non-diegetic music, distorted camera angles to change the audience's view of the world there is often a dark, dingy, sinister sett ... t away so it keeps it fairly mysterious. Another good effect is when Van Garret is running away the camera keeps switching from being the horseman. This is effective because it makes it an exciting an ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis