These shots contained uninterrupted course, traveling through large times without a cut between them. These changed the audience from viewers to participants in the scenes by living in the pulse of them. The shots were floating views where the actor, view, and the camera would spin and roll around one another freely. This gives the feeling of actual space performance. The opening of Gravity was a twelve to thirteen minute single shot in outer space that begins with a satellite repair mission going wrong and ends with Sandra Bullock falling into the black void we call space. They did this to help capture the environment in a three-dimensional place, giving the audience an idea of how all components in the film relate to each other. In the film you have gotten dizzy in a thrilling yet fearful way with the view through the spinning camera. They take you around, over, under, between, in and out of tiny spaces within space itself. This helps to give you a feeling of weightlessness. It is used to make you feel as if you are experiencing exactly what the character is and you are seeing it as they are. One second your view is of the scene, then you are inside the helmet of Bullock's character. Then you are out by the International Space Station hearing her only as far radio noise. After that you are up close with George Clooney's character and throughout all of that there hasn’t even been a cut in the scene. They designed equipment to…
The film is set in a modern day city where violence occurs regularly. In the opening scene, a television screen is in view and a news reporter is talking. This immediately allows people to realise the time period which the film is set in. Then there is a sequence of scenes which includes shots of scenery, people fighting, newspaper articles and loud string music is played in the background. There is a lot of editing and cutting in this sequence which makes it move very fast. The next scene is where the Montague gang is at the petrol station. Loud upbeat music is played in the background. The loud music and bright coloured costumes represent the life of this city. The use of guns and convertible cars contribute to the contemporary atmosphere. The film techniques include using a handheld camera which creates a "realistic" effect. This is used in the sequence of different shots where there is fire and helicopters and guns. The reason why it is so realistic is because the quality of the shot and the way it is presented make it seem like something that would be seen on the news. But the words that appear between the shots,…
With framing includes angles, levels, and height. There are angles such as high angle and low angle. Levels such as canted, tilted , pans, tracks, and dollies. Also height, which is how high the camera is being held. Framing also involves shots such as a birds eye view shot, a shot in which the camera photographs the scene from directly overhead; low angle shot, a shot taken from below the subject; medium close up, a shot taken from the chest up; and extreme close up, a shot that singles out a portion of the face. Of course I missed a lot but I will talk more about framing once I get more in depth with “The Game.”…
2) Write an analysis of the way that filmic techniques have been used to create meaning in this scene.…
For example, In Edward Scissorhands, Peg invites Edward into her house and is showing him pictures of her family. When a picture of Peg’s daughter, Kim catches his eye, close up shot is used to show Edward is romantically attracted to her. Edward’s feelings for her is expressed by the use of close-up shot. Another use of Shots and Framing is when Edward escapes from the town and goes back to mansion on the hill. Kim and Edward are both in love with each other at this point in the movie. Two shot is used to show expression the strong feelings and interactions the two have for each…
[Some parts of the movie are choreographed (e.g. Rosie and her friends sitting down in the cinema) to add dramatic aspects-movement]…
In this film he tended to use the stationary camera, and the majority of the film is shot in medium shots as opposed to long shots or close ups. Murnau was a genius when it came to shot composition and the majority of the shots are filmed with the characters framed inside of doors or windows in the background.…
The shot begins with a medium shot of the billboard that is advertising the horror movie and then zooms out to welcome the entrance of the boys. Then the camera slowly pans to the right to show the kids duck under the ticket clerk's window and then into the theater. There is little to the cinematography in the third segment as well. The camera starts out with a long shot on the left side of the screen and then pans over to the right to see an older Don and Cosmo playing their instruments. The most significant part of the cinematography in this scene is that in only the scene before, Don and Cosmo were a…
One example is when Lucas uses mise-en-scene to construct the prison landscape, that THX is put into after he is caught. The setting emphasizes the space of confinement, of punishment, and one without boundaries or any horizon. The lack of walls due to everything being circular introduces the idea that there is no escape. The lack of escape in the landscape creates the desire to escape, which makes people wish that there was a door. Furthermore, the prison landscape allows society to instill obedience in the prisoners, as they are unaware of when they are watched, which suggests that humans have been reduced to nothing more than tamed animals. Afterwards, Lucas uses the shot of THX and SEN as they try to escape show how dehumanizing the space is. Due to the colors of the background being so similar to the white costumes that THX and SEN are wearing, they almost blend into the surrounding. This similarity in color shows that society has almost relegated them to part of the background. In addition, the initial landscape they see as soon as they escape is a wide angle shot that is clustered with people all heading in the same direction. Lucas uses the shot to provoke the idea that humans are like cattle being herded around, and that the obedient cattle are kept together, while the ones who are not, are then…
The director uses special effects to persuade his audience his message by using distance from the subject. He displays this when he is interviewing teachers is it a close up on the teacher to show that what they have to say is important. He also uses point of view, by having the camera outside the scene creating an objective effect. I believe the special effect contribute to an emotional appeal in this documentary because it is real life stories. The happy and sad moments are all captured to show it is not an easy life for these children.…
He uses these three devices to discuss his argument effectively. Instead of using them to describe the American Dream of living a rich and prosperous lifestyle, he uses them to display just how unsatisfying and depressing that this lifestyle truly is. Welles uses these different filming techniques, not to describe to his viewers how amazing that the American Dream is, but gives them the true side of how it really…
Also, in the West Side Story, it uses many camera angles and distances. One example is the high-angle shot (B 49). In the very beginning the camera shows an overview of the West Side. I think that is shows this because it gives the audience a perspective on how large the West Side is. It also shows a distance shot (B 49) when the police arrive to the fight scene where they have each gang on one side and the police in the middle. Another type of camera distance is when the Jets and Puerto Ricans start fighting in the second act the Jets are on the right and Puerto Ricans are on the left and the two guys fighting in the middle. It shows the audience how big each gang is.…
Many effects are added to the film to make it seem more dramatic and real. It uses animated effect, zooming, and also rotating effect where it goes all the way around the area to show the setting. Animated effects were used to show different animals that the processing is done to, and also the list of stores that sells products from certain companies such as TYSON. Zooming…
There is a variety of uses of cinematography, they shoe close ups of the characters and they also eye-level shots when they are watching them trying to jump on the train. The camera pans as the train is moving and Sullivan and the girl are trying to find a place to hop on the train, its almost as if the camera is on each car of the train as it passes them you can see their face. They way they show their faces as the train is passing also has to do with the editing.…
Pangma-la’s father has named her after a mountain, that’s also called The Shining Mountain. She’s teased about her name in school, and her schoolmates are more interested in her father, who’s a famous mountaineer. He has big expectation to Pangma-la, and she feels like she’s failing. She decides that she will make him proud, and begins to practice in climbing mountains. Pangma-la and her father, goes to The Shining Mountain with the goal to reach the top. At the bottom at the mountain the meet some sherpa men, who wants to carry their bags, but they say no, and then the sherpas tells them, that now a wind will come and blow on them.…