Cinematography has a major importance in giving the audience of a film an idea of where the people in the movie are. If done well‚ sometime the audience can even feel as if they are in this setting with the characters. Sound also plays an important role in films whether is is sound coming from people talking‚ a crash‚ or even a soundtrack of a film. It gives the audience a chance to feel submerged into the film and participate along with the characters. Guardians of The Galaxy‚ a film directed by
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Anderson‚ 2012) tells a story of two children‚ Sam and Suzy‚ who feel estranged and disconnected in their small island community of New Penzance. Wes Anderson’s use of cinematography and other audiovisual elements creates a highly stylized movie that explores the concept of family and the need for people in our lives. In the scene towards the end of the movie in which Sam and Suzy make a risky climb up to the top of the church bell-tower‚ in the middle of a storm‚ police chief Captain Sharp (Bruce
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imagine and believe something that actually isn’t even there. It builds tension and the music gives a dramatic and eerie effect. Other example of how music of silence is used to scare the audience or build tension will be discussed next. The first scene‚ Chrissie strips to go swimming in the sea‚ the man from the same camp – where music is playing and the atmosphere is happy and relaxed – is chasing her towards the beach. The man is drunk and collapses; Chrissie has been in the sea already‚ for a
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Django starts off as an average slave but by the end of the film‚ turns into the greatest gun slinger in the west‚ saves his wife‚ and lives happily ever after. According to Robert Richardson‚ the cinematographer of this film‚ the goal of the cinematography was to use iconic American West backgrounds as a montage to show Django traveling and growing as person and bounty hunter. Tarantino used panoramic long shots and a widescreen aspect ratio to show the vastness of the American West and to symbolize
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Citizen Kane Cinematography is the process of capturing moving images on film or a digital storage device. Mis-en-Scene is used to represent the director’s role of what appears in the shot. This can include lighting‚ setting‚ costumes‚ props and actions of who or what is in the shot. Citizen Kane was a revolutionary film and advanced many film techniques that are still used today. Citizen Kane was released in 1941; Directed by Orson Wells who also stars in the film at the age of 25. It was him
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Citizen Kane-Cinematography Citizen Kane is about a man who is given the chance to be successful and he is but he dies with his last words being rosebud but what does this mean‚ people are trying to find out. In the end we find out it’s the sledge‚ which symbolises his childhood that he lost. Orson Welles created a new style of filmmaking by as he said himself in interview “ignorance.... sheer ignorance” One innovative aspect Citizen Kane introduced was deep focus because in lots of scenes many things
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Cinematography Classical Style ‘Hollywood style” Dominant visual language for storytelling with film History Esward Mynbridge-first ‘moving picture of a galloping horse 1880-first usage of term 1895-1907 Primitive period of cinema (developing of cinematic language) 1907-narrative display dominants over narrative absorption After 1907: Classical Hollywood style Position the viewer in a fictional space of the narrative Camera allows engagement with a character and story Development
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This scene is the intro to ‘the Departed’ directed by Martin Scorcese. It is a compression of time with narration by Costello that gives insight into some of the characters‚ mainly Costello himself and background information such as location. It effectively establishes the position of the main characters and the public’s reaction of them‚ letting us know what the movie is going to be about. I loved the camera work in this scene and the way Costello’s portrayed‚ he is later referred to as ‘the rockstar’
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Cinematography History Cinematography is an art form in the field of filmmaking. Although the exposing of images on light-sensitive elements dates to the early 19th century‚[4] motion pictures demanded a new form of photography and a new aesthetic. On June 19‚ 1873‚ Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named "Sallie Gardner" in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras. The cameras were arranged along a track parallel to the horse’s‚ and each camera shutter was controlled
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Film – 8 3 October 2013 Cinematography Woody Allen utilizes many different camera angles and lighting techniques in his movies. The way he uses lighting can affect the mood and make things seem confusing with dark lighting or‚ on the contrary‚ make things seem all the clearer with more lights. A variety of modified lenses can help tell a story on their own with color filters‚ black and white‚ as he used in Manhattan‚ and shorter and longer lenses for depth perception. These shots can tell us
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