1) How do camera angles and image juxtaposition tell a story? Describe an instance from each video where the filmmaker uses a camera angle or juxtaposition of images to enhance our understanding of the place they are documenting. In film number one the filmmaker used a lot of long and close up shots to show the natural beauty surrounding the bridge. The filmmaker also zoomed and focused in on a lot of simple things in the park such as the leaf with drop of water to show how serene the area is
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During the beginning of the movie‚ the camera angles Browning used were always shot from a bird’s eye view. The camera is hardly ever eye to eye with the freaks and instead gives the audience the feeling that they’re being looked down upon. I think this helped Browning give the impression that the normal population in society was looking down rather than looking equal. However‚ this completely changes in the ending of the movie when the camera angles being to be at eye level. When all the freaks
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Camera angle Main articles: Filmmaking and video production The camera angle marks the specific location at which a movie camera or video camera is placed to take a shot. A scene may be shot from several camera angles simultaneously.[1] This will give a different experience and sometimes emotion. The different camera angles will have different effects on the viewer and how they perceive the scene that is shot. There are a few different routes that a camera operator could take to achieve this
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Defining Something by What It Is Not in American History X His racist cheeks are covered in tears as he is interviewed about his father’s recent death. Derek pours his emotions out to the bewildered interviewer for the local news channel expressing‚ “Decent hard working Americans like my dad are getting rubbed out by social parasites” and as the reporter is confused Derek responds with’ “…blacks‚ browns‚ yellow whatever”. Before his father passed away he had been shoving extremely prejudicial views
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American History X Application Paper Lamar Booker Drawing concepts from two theorists‚ Dubois and Weber‚ I intend to grasp their concepts out of the film American History X and draw examples to explain their concepts and how they can apply to social practices. “Stereotypes and Slippery slopes were another way DuBois approaches cultural oppression. “Stereotypes rely on categorizing large groups of people in particular ways even without any personal knowledge or experience
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American History X "American History X" is an unflattering and often disturbing look at the roots and consequences of racism. American History X is one of the best movies to address the existence of racism in the most straight forward manner. Like the hard reality that it attempts to mirror‚ there are no easy answers or simple solutions offered in this cautionary tale. Instead‚ it portrays the scourge of racism as a widespread problem‚ decaying and feeding upon itself‚ resulting in unfriendly consequences
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4. Some of the camera angles in the film are different from most movies. The camera angles depicting Truman give kind of a stalker vibe‚ because they are not normal cameras‚ and he is obviously not aware they are there. Three strange camera angles we see are behind Truman’s mirror‚ on the neighbors trash can‚ and in the radio of Truman’s car. These are not camera angles you see in most movies‚ because in most movies‚ the actors are aware they are being filmed‚ so cameras do not need to be hidden
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American History X “The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil” was a wise phase once uttered by Hannah Arendt. I love this quote because is perfectly describes the two boys from “American History X‚” Danny and Derek. These two boys have seen and done it all when it comes to hate groups‚ as both were members of a neo-nazi hate group. Neo- Nazi hate groups use authoritarian‚ scapegoat‚ normative‚ and exploitation theories to justify
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Assessment Type 1: Written Text Analysis Film Review American History X American History X directed by Tony Kaye expresses to the audience the process of change in the beliefs of Derek Vinyard. He begins the film as a violent young man and due to his father’s racist views he then develops his own‚ Derek is portrayed as becoming the leader of the Neo-Nazi organisation and claiming his leadership at a basketball game against the local blacks. There are two protagonists in the film‚ also coming from
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Chicken Run has many uses of camera angles. Camera angles can be used in many different ways‚ (low‚ high or mid angles)‚ especially in Chicken Run. In Chicken Run camera angles are used to give the viewer a sense of what is going on and influence the viewer on how a character is regarded e.g. if the camera angle is gazing directly upwards towards a character this would usually indicate that the character in question has a lot of power or they are in charge. Camera angles can be used to show effects
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