Casablanca -An indepth look into the lighting techniques employed and the context in which they were used‚ caught between film noir and the classic Hollywood style. Casablanca (1942)‚ directed by Michael Curtiz‚ is a perennial favorite‚ depicting unique Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman characters caught in situations out of their control. While the film’s story is engaging on many levels‚ Curtiz’s use of lighting is an integral tool he uses to help tell of the story. Previously (1930’s)
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Although that the film is a rural comedy‚ Berlanga imitates some of the most important film genres: western‚ film noir‚ epics and Soviet Realism. These different genres‚ most of them American‚ are used in the dream sequences of the film. With those dreams‚ the director tried to explain the fears and ambitions of the characters and to make a relationship between the genres and the ideology of the characters. The first character that we see dreaming in the film is Don Cosme who is the priest of the
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Priestley use dramatic irony and entrances and exits to create the dramatic tension in the play ’An Inspector Calls’? In this essay I am going to write about how J.B.Priestely used dramatic irony and entrances and exits to create dramatic tension. I will tell you what dramatic irony is and how it is used in the story ’An Inspector Calls’. In addition how Priestley uses entrances and exits to create tension as well. The play is set in 1912 but actually written in 1945‚ which created more dramatic irony
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Williams creates dramatic tension in ’A Streetcar Named Desire’ through the interactions between the important characters in the play‚ such as the conflict between Blanche and Stanley‚ and their contrasting styles of communication. The first instance of this occurs in the second scene. Blanche is bathing‚ whilst Stanley questions Stella about the loss of Belle Reve‚ referring to the so-called "Napoleonic code". As an audience‚ we sense the tension being created when he says "And I don’t like to be
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Director Kenneth Branagh aimed to set the visually stunning tone for Thor with the introductory scene that was filmed in New Mexico. The state’s huge expanse and open landscape was the ideal setting in that it was able to convey the vastness of the Marvel universe that the film is based upon. With regards to the visual aspects of the movie‚ one of the early challenges that the visual design team faced was choosing the type of texture to depict Asgard’s “Bifrost Bridge”. The team spent months researching
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Comparison of the use of a dramatic monologue. In ’Porphyria’s Lover’ and ’My Last Duchess’‚ Browning uses several features of dramatic monologue in order to engage and sustain the interest of the audience. This style of monologue is spoken by a character‚ which is not the poet‚ and is usually projected at a critical moment‚ as in the case of ’My Last Duchess’ and ’Porphyria’s Lover’. The speakers unintentionally reveal their insanity‚ in both poems‚ through their separate accounts. By studying
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CAMERA SHOTS By: Wanangwe Josephine 23rd January 2015 Email: josephinewanangwe@gmail.com Moi University. INTRODUCTION Cinema is a visual medium and thus it should communicate or tell a story to its audience through the use of sound‚ lighting‚ editing‚ and the camera together to create an illusion of reality. These are the elements that a video editor uses to realize the filmmakers dream from script to screen. Shots are an important part of camerawork that are used to send messages to the audience
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The Life of Alfred Hitchcock "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible". Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was one of the first celebrity director. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13‚ 1899 in Heytonstone‚ England. His early life could be compared to a Charles Dickens novel full of hard work. The Hitchcock’s were a hard working strict Catholic family. His father William Hitchcock was a store owner in Heytonstone. With three children‚ his mother Emma Jane Hitchcock stayed at
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INTRODUCTION: Matchmoving is a cinematic technique that enables computer generated graphics to be placed into a live-action footage. The graphics should be placed into the real footage where they appear to move as if they were part of it with the correct position‚ scale‚ and orientation of the photographed scene. It can simply be describe as the process to match computer generated graphics into a real scene. There have been great developments in VFX especially the film industries due to evolving technology
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feelings enabled in the audience when something happens to the victim. Authors‚ Conan Doyle‚ Ronald Dahl and Sherryl Clark creatively take the advantage of literary techniques while leaving no stone unturned in order to established suspense and construct an atmosphere for the audience through the use of setting and foreshadowing. Suspense is shaped through an expressive setting on all accounts in the three short stories. Authors Sheryl Clark‚ Ronald Dahl and Conan Doyle each have an individual way
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