chilling tag-line of multi award winning American Beauty has great relatability‚ from the lives of all of the characters to the hidden beauty on showcase throughout the film. It cannot simply be filed into one genre‚ instead being a drama‚ comedy‚ tragedy and more. Director Sam Mendes and screenwriter Alan Ball fine-tuned the film‚ resulting in a triumph of writing‚ acting and directing. The movie follows the last few months of everyman Lester Burnham’s (played by the seemingly ideal Kevin Spacey)
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Visual Techniques in Film and Television Visual Literacy in Business (ACB0918A) May 26‚ 2009 Visual Techniques in Film and Television Television and film run hand in hand in this day and time. While film or motion pictures are created for the “big screen‚” television was created to be viewed at home. As it states in World Book Advanced‚ “television is one of our most important means of communication. It brings moving pictures from around the world into millions of homes” (Curtin
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In the adventurous and comedic film‚ “Stand by Me” directed by Rob Reiner‚ follows the tale of four close friends‚ all around twelve years old‚ who live in the small fictional town of Castle Rock‚ Oregon‚ in 1959. Vern Tessio‚ known as the childish one‚ overhears his brother discussing a dead body of Ray Brower located just outside of town who was supposedly came in contact with a train. The four friends decide to leave Castle Rock with hopes of becoming heroes for finding Ray Brower’s body. On their
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In the film Half the Sky‚ filmic elements cinematic techniques are used to produce the meaning of raising the awareness of women abuse through documentary. Several filmic elements were used in the film‚ including interviews‚ narration‚ the use of sorrowful music and the use of close-ups. In terms of effectiveness‚ interviews‚ music and close-ups are more effective in bringing the meaning of the movie. However‚ narration is less effective in my opinion. To start off with‚ one of the filmic elements
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never buy them. She sits in her car thinking about how she is going to sell her merchandise. She tilts her side mirror to look up at Edwards castle. She walks into his home and then finds Edward in a dark corner. There were a range of different film techniques used to show how Peg and Edward felt. There was a wide shot which included both characters and the background which changed how the audience felt at that moment. Peg doesn’t show any fear because she wants him to feel like he’s safe. This is showing
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In the film ‘Remember the Titans’ directed by Boaz Yakin‚ there is an important character named Gerry Bertier. Throughout the film‚ we see Gerry Bertier mature‚ become less narrow-minded and more accepting of his football playing counterparts. We see these qualities come out when Yakin uses film techniques such as dialogue and camera shots to show how Gerry Bertier develops as a character. ‘Remember the Titans’ is a film set in Virginia‚ USA‚ in 1971. This film is about the integration of a school
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Could Eddie have succeeded without the help of Netta ‘Mabo’ is an Austalian TV film which was released in 2012 which depicts the life of Eddie koiki Mabo utilizing narrative techniques and elements in which a typical drama consists of. Eddie Koiki Mabo is played by Jimi Bani and his wife Bonita/Netta Mabo was played by Deborah Mailman‚ the film was directed my Rachel Perkins and produced by BlackfellaFilms and the ABC. The principal story of Eddie’s journey from an exiled Murray islander to a justice
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The lighting techniques used in Edwards’s film influence greatly the meaning of the shot. Tim Burton used a dreary light‚ an expression to display the mood of the movie. Lightening made the characters’ setting and several things look mysterious. The first appearance of Edward happens to be a dark corner of an empty room. In a mare look up‚ Edward is clothed in stiff black fabric encaging his upper body. The dark character of the room makes the Avon woman stare and want to come closely to examine
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Identify a character in the film that presented both their public and private self  I believe that Anthony is a character that showed both his public and private self throughout the film. He was very opinionated about not liking white people and he did not care about what people thought of it. Anthony was very proud to be an African American and it showed throughout the movie. You also got to see a softer side of him towards the end when he discovered the van full of foreign women and children
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Changeling is a 2008 inspiring film directed by Clint Eastwood. It is based on an American drama known as the "Wineville Chicken Coop". Christine Collins‚ played by Angelina Jolie‚ is a single mother in the 1920s whose son mysteriously goes missing. The film goes on a journey with Collins leading her to discover the corruptness of the Los Angeles Police Department. Though the film incorporates multiple plots‚ the main narrative revolves around Christine Collins and her unbreakable spirit as she attempts
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