Essay #1 Voyeurism In both films‚ Rear Window and Vertigo‚ film director Alfred Hitchcock requires audiences to put themselves in the position of voyeur as they witness the action of the film through the eyes of the protagonists. Hitchcock introduces to us the meaning of the word voyeurism and the control it can possess over a person. The main characters in both films are voyeurs’ and get their excitement from invading others’ life. Hitchcock was an English-American film director‚ writer‚ and
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Title :Cinematography: Everything You Need To Know Essay :Cinematography is the technique and art of making motion pictures‚ which are a sequence of photographs of a single subject that are taken over time and then projected in the same sequence to create an illusion of motion. Each image of a moving object is slightly different from the preceding one. Projector A motion-picture projector projects the sequence of picture frames‚ contained on a ribbon of film‚ in their proper order. A claw engages
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In the film Casablanca‚ techniques within cinematography and editing are utilized to help carry the story forward while effectively capturing each character’s centrality to the overall storyline. In cinematography‚ close-up shots work to place emphasis on each character’s dialogue by centering their faces in the main frame of view. This allows the audience to follow their lives‚ conflicts‚ and stories on a more personally engaging level as the film digresses. In editing‚ the film is tracked by transitions
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Cinematography and the Concept of Ownership in Il Posto Il Posto (Ermanno Olmi‚ 1961)‚ on the whole‚ makes a statement against an immerging consumer and corporate culture and its dehumanizing effects. The main character‚ Domenico (Sandro Panseri)‚ is a young man looking for employment in lieu of education or some other form of self-enrichment. During his quest he becomes infatuated with a fellow applicant‚ Antonietta (Loredana Detto). After the initial phase of their application process‚ they wander
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Analysis of a scene in La Haine (homework) The scene I am going to analyse is the ending scene of the film La Haine (Mathieu Kassowitz‚ 1995). In the beginning of the scene‚ the camera gives us a longshot of the protagonists pulling the gang members body into the room‚ this shows the audience a view of what is going on in the distance. The scene then progresses further‚ and we see that the gangmember the protagonists have pulled into the room has been thrown onto the bed‚ Vinz‚ one of the protagonists
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Cecilie Skogheim FS 101 Term Paper VERTIGO Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock‚ 1958) is an American film noir psychological thriller. Hitchcock made Vertigo during a very creative period (1958-1960) of his life. In that time period he released three historic films‚ Vertigo (1958)‚ North by Northwest (1959)‚ and Psycho (1960). Each film took a radically characteristic approach to the genre suspense thriller‚ and Hitchcock made a massive change to the thriller genre. His films were not black and white anymore
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There are many different elements in the movie Jurassic Park that make the movie interesting. This film plays with the question What if dinosaurs were alive today? The director‚ Steven Spielberg‚ uses sound‚ lighting‚ camera angles‚ comic relief‚ and even combines some of these different things to make this film a spectacular one. Not only that‚ but it is a unique kind of action/adventure movie because it is about dinosaurs‚ which makes it even more interesting. The sound in the movie was used fantastically
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Gary Lawrence 17/10/2009 Movie Analysis of Alien (1979) Cinematography Alien One was created in the late seventies by Ridley Scott and is set in deep space post 2000. The Science fiction based movie is still highly respected today as a recent time classic and holds a fierce cult following. One of the main reasons for this is that the cinematography has been extremely well thought out and planned down to fine detail. The beginning sequence hooks viewers with an array of suspense that
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Rear Window and Vertigo are two Hitchcock films in which the main character shows voyeuristic behavior‚ experiences relationship problems and suffers from some sort of a handicap‚ be it physical or psychological. Rear Window has to do with a group of peeping toms. As his broken leg heals‚ wheelchair-bound L.B. Jefferies becomes absorbed with the parade of life outside his window and soon fixates on a mysterious man whose behavior has Jefferies convinced a murder has taken place. Many would believe
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images that the audience will see in the finished film. . Cinematography means “writing with movement.” (Goodykoontz‚ & Jacobs 2011). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM5fqZr7jdA&list=FL3gNmTGu-TTbFPpfSs5kNkg&index=2 I chose a scene from The Godfather. In this scene‚ Alfredo is in a boat with a member of his mob family; he is about to be assassinated‚ by his brother’s order (one of many taking place simultaneously). The cinematography helped to create a somber mood. The choice of the Golden
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