Writing stories: NARRATIVE PROMPTS Before writing your story: Note down your ideas: write an outline of your story List relevant vocabulary you could use: verbs‚ adjs‚ advs‚ linkers‚ nouns Develop a living‚ breathing multi-faceted character (you should know more about him/her/them than your reader Choose a point of view: 1st person narrator ‘I’/ 3rd person narrator.. Use your five senses. Show (create a visual image in your reader’s or listener’s mind)‚ don’t simply
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Burton’s Stylistic Techniques- FINAL DRAFT Tim Burton is a unique American filmmaker that grew up watching horror movies and even lived near a cemetery. He was surely a self-admitted oddball. However‚ Tim Burton’s style always seems to appear in any movie he directs. A few of his movies are Edward Scissorhands‚ Charlie And The Chocolate Factory‚ and Corpse Bride. These movies all represent his interests‚ inspirations‚ and his life experiences. Tim Burton uses specific cinematic techniques to create an
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brings. He uses cinematic techniques such as emotional close-ups‚ contrasted lighting‚ and non-diegetic music in order to create gothic fairy tales revealing the cliché that not everything is the way it seems. In many of Tim Burton’s films‚ he uses close-up shots to resonate with his audience that a deep emotion or personal connection with the character is being made. This is shown numerous times in Edward Scissor Hands‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ and Corpse Bride. This technique is most often
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Robbie Schwartz 3/12/13 English 1H Tim Burton uses many cinematic techniques in his movies such as lighting and camera angles throughout his movies in order to create effects and moods. Cinematic techniques He uses both lighting and camera angles in Edward Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory numerous times. He uses them very effectively to portray different ideas such as showing strengths‚ weaknesses‚ or size in a character or setting‚ or revealing a depressing or cheerful surrounding
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Scissorhands and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ to Big Fish‚ director Tim Burton has been proving his amazing capability to weave extraordinary‚ almost dreamlike worlds. Although many directors use cinematic techniques to show or prove something‚ Burton clearly has a special gift. Burton’s use of cinematic techniques is very unique compared to other directors. Burton uses lighting‚ characterization‚ and music to show the mood of the scene. To begin‚ Burton uses lighting to create an eerie and suspenseful
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The Power of One directed by John G. Avildsen cinematic techniques are used to make the audience empathise with particular characters. For example bildungrosman‚ camera angles‚ sound‚ and symbolism are key techniques used throughout the film Bildungrosman is used throughout the course of the film. It helps the viewer feel a part of PKs life from childhood to adulthood. It shows all the highlights and lowlights in PKs life. An example of this is as a child PK was constantly losing friends and family
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to the audience in front of a bare background‚ Singer reflects briefly on his childhood and his early adult years before settling in to tell the modern romance story of how he and Ms. Annie Hall met. Throughout this film‚ Allen uses various cinematic techniques to contribute to the tone of the story. Allen makes a unique effort to accompany every one of Singers experiences in life with running commentary. Hence‚ with the use of interior monologue‚ static framing‚ deep focus and the use of natural
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Wizard of Oz Cinematic? By: Eric Svenson The Wizard of Oz was a cinematic breakthrough when it was released in 1939. It became cinematic because of many different new ideas and technologies spliced together into one film. When Frank L. Baum wrote the book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in 1900 he had no idea of what a success it would become in the motion picture industry. The remainder of this paper will touch on some of the key points that made The Wizard of Oz a cinematic breakthrough
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an investigation into film style by challenging classic Hollywood styles with a different and darker look. Citizen Kane made advances on many fronts ‚ in-regards to cinema‚ and its most significant contribution to cinema came from the use of a technique known as deep focus. In nearly every scene in the film‚ the foreground‚ background and everything in between are all in sharp focus. Deep focus is most effective in scenes that depict Kane’s loss of control and his personal isolation because it gives
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specific function within a film. These cinematic techniques work in conjunction throughout the duration of the film in order to develop the narrative. In the short film The Black Hole‚ a man working overtime hours at the office discovers a black hole allowing him to traverse through objects. Using the supernatural force to his benefit‚ he uses the black hole to enter a locked safe only to end up trapped inside after his plan fails. The cinematic techniques employed in The Black Hole are often repeated
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