Cinematography Techniques In Shoeless Joe
The five terms/concepts are director, cinematic language, mise-en-scène, diegetic sound, and cinematography. In the three times Academy Award nominated film Field of Dreams, The director, Phil Alden Robinson, builds the film with his artistic, cinematic language featuring unique mise-en-scene, as well as depicting characters who hear voices in diegetic sound, and includes an imaginative cinematic vision in film cinematography techniques. The director regulates the dramatic and artistic elements in the film, and director Phil Alden Robinson pitches the film straight to the viewer’s wheelhouse. The screen play is an adaptation of the novel, Shoeless Joe, written by W. P. Kinsella, and the same last name carries over to the character Ray (Kevin
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The cast’s film shots are filmed close to dawn or dusk, in a 30 minute window period before sunrise or sunset, which is the “golden hour”; there is a small frame of opportunity to achieve the perfect take. For example, as Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) walks onto the baseball Field of Dreams for the first time and later he plays catch with Ray, this is an example of a scene is shot in the “golden hour”. The cinematography captures the natural magnificent beauty of the Iowa skyline turning to dusk during the sunset scenes in long wide shots. In fact, the World Series in 1919, results in the historic Chicago White Sox baseball scandal against the Cincinnati Reds, in which eight players are accused and later acquitted for allegedly throwing the finals series and the eight players are banned from baseball for life. One of the eight men includes "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), in which the director characterizes as historical characters of realism in the film Field of Dreams. Along with the numerous montage scenes, for example, when Ray builds the field as the neighbors watch him plow down his cornfield for the ghostly Shoeless Je Jackson to play in a realistic baseball field, this may cause viewers to think he is as crazy as the neighbors think he may
The cast’s film shots are filmed close to dawn or dusk, in a 30 minute window period before sunrise or sunset, which is the “golden hour”; there is a small frame of opportunity to achieve the perfect take. For example, as Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) walks onto the baseball Field of Dreams for the first time and later he plays catch with Ray, this is an example of a scene is shot in the “golden hour”. The cinematography captures the natural magnificent beauty of the Iowa skyline turning to dusk during the sunset scenes in long wide shots. In fact, the World Series in 1919, results in the historic Chicago White Sox baseball scandal against the Cincinnati Reds, in which eight players are accused and later acquitted for allegedly throwing the finals series and the eight players are banned from baseball for life. One of the eight men includes "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), in which the director characterizes as historical characters of realism in the film Field of Dreams. Along with the numerous montage scenes, for example, when Ray builds the field as the neighbors watch him plow down his cornfield for the ghostly Shoeless Je Jackson to play in a realistic baseball field, this may cause viewers to think he is as crazy as the neighbors think he may