Film Review: Possum Director: Brad McGann What makes a good film? Well according to most Director’s a good film must have at least a few elements that allow the viewer to ‘look into’ the Directors mind - to see the ‘point’ of the film. Brad McGann’s drama “Possum” is the story of a broken family living in the wilderness of New Zealand in the 1890’s. It focuses on a young boy‚ Little Man‚ trying to make sense of his dysfunctional family. A family who moved to the wilderness to hide the fact that
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different aspects of a film’s setting‚ characters and themes. As a result‚ camera shots are very important in shaping meaning in a film. Reviewing the examples on the right hand side of this page should make the different camera shots clearer. An extreme long shot (animation on right) contains a large amount of landscape. It is often used at the beginning of a scene or a film to establish general location(setting). This is also known as an establishing shot. A long shot (animation on right) contains
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performance again. Three rehearsal techniques that a director should employ in rehearsals are: isolation‚ disassemble/reassemble‚ and disguised practice. Isolation involves isolating a tricky part in music‚ slowing it down‚ gradually speeding up‚ and then playing it back into context gradually. This technique works well for sections or groups who are struggling with a difficult part of the music‚ and need more attention and troubleshooting from the director. I believe this technique should only be used if students
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Sequence Analysis for Casablanca “Play it again Sam” Shot 1 - Establishing shot shows Selective focus on Sam as piano wheeled in focus‚ within Ricks bar - Black and white color scheme with hard lighting and low-key illumination effectively recreates bar image - Sam face fronting camera‚ well lit‚ Ilsa back to camera - Background out of focus‚ thus centering the scene around Sam and Ilsa - Diegetic sound of conversation between sam and Ilsa - 2 planes of action -Sam and Ilsa conversation
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University of Phoenix Material Film Matrix Worksheet 1. Complete a film matrix worksheet for each movie the team reviews by filling out each category shown and answering all of the questions below. 2 Create a Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation (about 5-7 slides for week three‚ about 7-12 for week four). The grade for each assignment is based on the resulting PowerPoint presentations. Start with a given film’s name and its genre‚ describe its theme in one sentence‚ and describe the story
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Merchants of Cool Assignment 1. Discretionary Income (chapter 13): The money available to a household over an above what it requires to have a comfortable standard of living. This is also known as disposable income. How it relates to the movie: The movie discussed at the beginning that teens have a lot of disposable income. There is 32 million teens that spend 100 billion each year. 2. Looking-Glass Self (chapter 5): The process of imagining the reaction of others toward oneself How it relates
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the shots mentioned above. Throughout the movie the technique of
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From the opening scene of Bend it Like Beckham we the audience are introduced to the main characters‚ the storyline‚ the settings and themes of film through the use of some well-chosen film techniques that the director used. The main character Jesminder is portrayed to us as a tom boy through costuming we can see that she is deliberately dressed in boy clothes in particular a soccer Jersey and shorts. This is to communicate to us the audience that she loves soccer. We also can see that she isn’t
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small son. Riyo continued the laundry business‚ and the story ended with Riyo and Matsuji making love; symbolizing that they were finally husband and wife. Key film techniques used in Picture Bride were setting‚ costume‚ makeup‚ camera angles‚ lighting‚ and sound effects. The setting of this film was the 1800s. To establish the time; the film had wagons instead of cars‚ and it displayed the cabin-like home of Riyo and Matsuji without electricity. Also‚ they had no
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Romeo + Juliet Modern day audiences expect a film such as Romeo + Juliet to contain themes such as action‚ impressive visual aids and music. Baz Luhrmann uses elements of cinematography to entice a modern audience into his adaption of William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet. Luhrmann uses a modern day audience to make the movie appealing to teenagers‚ whilst including modern day themes such as Love‚ violence and gunfights. The camera shot used to introduce the city of New Mexico are used to draw in
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