Analyse the Significance of the opening scenes in the film you have studied The opening scenes in the film The Great Gatsby by Baz Luhrman are captivating and as a result hook the audience completely into the film. They do this by introducing the stark contrasts between 1929 in the sanatorium to New York in 1922. They also begin to develop the characters of Nick and Gatsby. Finally the first two scenes introduce some of the main themes and symbols that reoccur throughout the film. The first scene
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John has broken those rules‚ as you are breaking them now”. Schaeffer manipulates the truth to make Schaeffer seem like he is good and Book is evil. The use of a low angle on Schaeffer significantly shows his dominance and superiority to Carter and the audience and adds more fear. In contrast To this Carter is shown at a low angle shown through Shaeffer’s point of view. The use of Carter sitting down and Schaeffer slowly walking around him creates strikes fear into both the audience and Carter
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Never has the fine art of cinematography been so perfectly executed than by Orson Welles in his perennial film‚ Citizen Kane. Whether a fan of the story or not‚ every true admirer of movies can appreciate the cinematic techniques utilized by Welles to capture the life of his enigmatic main character. Many aspects of the movie have been analyzed thoroughly‚ but what I would like to examine is an idea that is often overlooked. As the movie fades in‚ an eerie chain link fence and a sign reading NO TRESPASSING
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part of true love with Romeo. This is supported through a high angle shot of Romeo looking upon Juliet‚ this evokes the idea of Juliet being placed on a pedestal by demand rather than by will. The costuming of Juliet also reveals her pureness and naturalness compared to her mother next to who is artificial and fake. Baz Luhman transitions Romeos High shot with montage shots of the Capulet family‚ this is displayed through a low angle shot of the family looking down towards Romeo. This weakens Romeo
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Citizen Kane Questionnaire View the movie CITIZEN KANE (1941) for discussion in class on week four and to submit week five. Be sure to view the film at least twice before workshop number four. Read the information in this syllabus about this movie. Research it online at http://www.filmsite.org/citi.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane‚ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/‚ http://www.cinepad.com/reviews/kane.htm‚ etc. Then complete the following questionnaire A. Literary Elements
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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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of our production was the use of a large varity of shots through out our advert. Our advert starts off with the main character in medium long shot and ends on a close up of football boots. We have used shots like long shot‚ over the shoulder‚ low angle shot and others. We wanted to create an advert that has verity of different shot to show the football boots and make it the main protagoinst‚ to grab the audince’s attention. Our intended idea was to attract the audince eye and i think we have achieved
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Whenever a novel undergoes an adaptation into a film‚ the film writers (and possibly the novelist) make suitable changes to better adapt the film‚ which possibly includes changes in characterization‚ events and themes. With A Lesson Before Dying‚ both the film and the book portray a conflict between Grant Wiggins‚ the protagonist‚ and Reverend Ambroise about religion‚ the community and Jefferson‚ however‚ the book provides a more in-depth layer to the conflict. In the novel‚ not only does Ambroise
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Discovering Life In Marc Forster’s Stranger than Fiction Marc Forster’s Stranger than Fiction employs an intriguing screenplay and a diverse cast in order to explore the meaning and purpose of living life. In the film‚ IRS auditor Harold Crick lives a straightforward‚ strict routine type of life‚ all coordinated by Harold’s simple wrist watch. However‚ on one particular Wednesday‚ Harold’s watch malfunctions and needs to be reset. After asking a bystander for the time‚ Harold enters it into his
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next. Meanwhile Maman’s henchmen are already preparing the upcoming procedure‚ which is underscored by the sound of their hands clapping. Then the camera moves closer to the table showing the spoon‚ the lamp and the bottle of anaesthetic from a low angle shot. In this way the equipment appears very dangerous and frightening. One of the henchmen points at the bottle in a close-up. He wants Salim to anaesthetise Jamal. Again the spectator is left in the dark as to how Salim is going to react. There are
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