panning shot of the countryside‚ depicting Amish farmhouses and barns‚ coupled with the free flowing soundtrack‚ depicts a peaceful agrarian community. This contrasts with the busy American city‚ with shops‚ modern style buildings and cars suggesting a highly industrialised society. Cultural clash is again achieved by comparing the community in the Amish world with the individualism in the modern world. This is shown through camera techniques and costumes. In the opening scene‚ a long shot depicts
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the most popular motion picture of all time. The flying scene in Titanic is a beautiful and romantic phase of the film because it invites the audience to empathise with the lovers. These two characters are the protagonists of the film‚ a young man of low social status without any direction in life‚ who won the ticket to embark on this spectacular ship out of an extremely lucky – or unlucky poker hand. In contrast there is a woman of high social class who is always dressed to the nines and living life
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techniques to incorporate the theme within the text. In the movie‚ when Billy is walking with Debbie‚ the composer has used a medium shot to convey the notion of moving into the world. One of the quotes used in this scene is when Billy says “ballet is for poofs”‚ clearly stereotyping the whole idea of ballet being for girls only. The composer has used a medium shot in this scene to portray that the conversation between the two people is an important point of the movie where Billy starts to realise
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The movie Out of the Past directed by Jacques Tourneur fits within the traditions of film noir because it has some similar themes associated with it‚ such as doomed love. Robert Mitchum plays the doomed‚ double-crossed ‚ ex-private eye as Jeff Markham. The femme fatale is played by Jane Greer as Kathie Moffat‚ who is trying to escape her future. Kirk Douglas as Whit Sterling plays the ruthless gangster czar in the film. The formal cinematic elements in the movie are used to vividly describe the movie
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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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Charlie Kane‚ whose performance made you both love him and hate him at the same time. The actor director Orson Welles crafted this piece of history by using a lot of techniques that we still see in films today. His heavy reliant on shadows and camera angles was how he gave such a great character and identity to every scene‚ all of these things came together so perfectly and it is what makes this classic so special. I was in awe after seeing Citizen Kane. It was the most original film I had ever seen
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homosexuality and other things that are usually looked upon as “not right “. Steven uses a range of visual techniques such as camera angles/shots‚ acting‚ and symbols to show us how people react when someone is seen as different and doesn’t hesitate to show it. Steven Daldry uses camera angles and shots in the film to show facial expression and how people are seen. By using shots such as close ups we see peoples reactions to events in the film‚ for example when Billy and Michael are dancing in the hall
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cinematic techniques to build an atmosphere of suspense in the film The Sixth Sense? The movie The Sixth Sense is directed by M. Night Shyamalan. He uses cinematic techniques to build an atmosphere of suspense in the film. M. Shyamalan uses camera angles‚ sound and colour to enhance suspense in The Sixth Sense. Some scenes where the cinematic techniques enhance the suspense are ‘Kyra’s funeral’‚ ‘I see dead people’ and ‘the hanged ghosts’. These scenes are vital in the suspense of the movie. The
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Scene Analysis – The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward Robert Ford The Assassination of Jesse James breached new heights in the western genre. It is unique in its narrative style and conventions‚ challenging the norms of the classic western‚ leading way to a whole new perception of it. Its excessively dramatic overtones reveal a part of the Western world that is so scarcely portrayed‚ diverting people’s general ideas about it. The film’s narrative focuses on a dying hero as opposed to a
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Thelma and Louise are two friends who decide to take a weekend trip into the mountains. However all does not go according to plan when in a diner parking-lot Louise shoots a man who attempts to rape Thelma. From here Thelma and Louise go on the run - robbing a bank and blowing up a gas tanker on the way. ’Thelma and Louise’ is essentially a road movie‚ which embodies the spirit of the crime‚ thriller and buddy movie as well. As the film progresses the pair become closer‚ revealing more to each other
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