illustrates how people react to mass hysteria created by a person or group of people‚ as people did during the McCarthy hearings of the 1950s and the Salem witch hunts of 1962. Many Americans were wrongly accused of being Communist sympathizers. The activities of the House of Un-American Activities Committee began to be linked with the witchcraft trials that had taken place in the town of Salem. This provided Miller with the catalyst to write The Crucible’. Without the knowledge of the McCarthy
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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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Analyse the ways that the director builds suspense and scares the audience in the film ‘Jaws’ The film Jaws was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1975. It was a good film at the time‚ and still is because Steven Spielberg is known for creating films that build suspense and scare people. Jaws is about a shark that attacks people on the beach at a fictional holiday resort‚ called Amity island. Jaws was set on the 4th of July‚ because it was Independence Day and that is a holiday in America when
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Filmmakers use many different tools to help their audience understand the message in their films‚ and to better understand the psychological nuances of their characters. Some of these tools include acting‚ framing‚ cinematography‚ and editing. These tools can be used to show any range of emotion‚ in many different ways; extreme close ups on characters to show uneasiness‚ tears on an actors face to show sadness‚ fast cutting to make the audience feel rushed‚ or cool or warm colors to convey emotion
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When thinking about famous movies‚ many come to mind. You got comedies‚ scary movies‚ or action movies. Out of these genres‚ one action movie stands out and is an American classic. Jaws came out in 1975 and was directed by Steven Spielberg‚ after the book came out the year before. Jaws was based around three characters‚ a police chief‚ sailor‚ and a scientist seeking a great white shark. During the beginning of the movie‚ two innocent people get killed and the police chief‚ Brody‚ suspects it is
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A sequence shot involves both a long take and sophisticated camera movement; it is sometimes called by the French term plan-séquence. The use of the sequence shot allows for realistic and dramatically significant background and middle ground activity. Actors range about the set transacting their business while the camera shifts focus from one plane of depth to another and back again. Significant off-frame action is often followed with a moving camera‚ characteristically through a series of pans within
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In The Truman Show‚ the director Peter Weir uses various film techniques to have effect on the audience and make them feel different emotions. The film techniques that he uses are camera angles‚ music and sound and lighting. The major technique that is used in this film is camera angles. Throughout the film there are various camera angles‚ the main shots that Weir uses are angled‚ tilted shots to show that there are hidden cameras filming Truman. When Truman is driving in his car the camera is
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Documentary Film Techniques Ambient Sound This is sound that is present‚ or available‚ in the context of the scene being filmed. It may consist of the background sounds such as traffic‚ birds‚ wind‚ children playing‚ machines working etc. Archival footage Use of direct cinema or other documentary footage or photographs from the past in order to review events that took place in the past or provide some perspective on events from the past. Bird’s eye view A shot in which the camera photographs a
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Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat Author(s): Katherine Ince Source: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism‚ Vol. 64‚ No. 1‚ Special Issue: Thinking through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Winter‚ 2006)‚ pp. 157-164 Published by: Wiley on behalf of The American Society for Aesthetics Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3700500 . Accessed: 01/11/2013 13:03 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms
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The Help Film makers should definitely have the ability to reflect on the greatest triumphs and tragedies of our time by effectively presenting them through the use of film techniques. The Help‚ directed by Tate Taylor‚ allows us to on the greatest triumphs and tragedies. Tate Taylor presents these triumphs and tragedies in his 2011 film‚ The Help by using a range of characters and situations‚ as well as through film techniques such as dialogues‚ camera work and costume. The film maker‚ Tate Taylor
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