This is when people brainstorm on film ideas of their own and basically does everything from writing the script and picking their own actors to supervising the writing to make sure it is to their standards. The next important concept in a film is the musical score. Music in a movie helps provide a sense of time and place. It gives an emotional reaction from viewers which allows audiences to react a certain way. Both of these styles are greatly seen in two films.
________________________________________ ________________________________________ Concepts for Reading a Film • Try applying the following concepts to the film. Answer and consider the questions in each section and apply those ideas to the particular film you are studying. 1. The Concept of Absence. Cinema is about illusion and therefore what is missing from the screen is ‘present’ in some ways in the viewer’s mind.
Soderbergh’s contemporary filmmaking style in The Limey, breaks with the classic Hollywood continuity editing structure, making viewers feel uncomfortable with the distancing editing and construction; Soderbergh (1999) stated ‘I tend to keep looking for things that I haven’t done before’. This discontinuous editing throughout The Limey may arguably disconnect some viewers from the story or characters. The stylized use of sound overlay is another technique used by Soderbergh to disconnect the audience from the image and speech, adding to the discomfort of a broken Hollywood continuity structure. Another key element within the editing of The Limey is the use of colour strands fragmented throughout. This subtly links different parts of the film together, allowing the audience to make connections of their own about the events and characters.
What are the principal themes in Rear Window? In other words, what is the film about? Bear in mind that this is a different issue than thinking about what happens in the film (though they are closely related of course). What are the bigger ideas to which the film is pointing us? I think the bigger issue of the movie is “don’t get into other peoples private business or it could get you in trouble” and Jeff’s vulnerability.
Music makes a film, a movie as well as an animated cartoon more interesting by bring out audiences’ emotion, introducing and setting a tone of a movie, dictating characters’ action, and misleading audiences. It expresses characters’ feelings, actions, and a film’s tensions (King, n.d., Watkins, 2013, and A Brief Discourse, 2008). Due to the fact that music raises human emotion, it is that music plays an important role in film (Picardi, 2013). Music makes a film more significant. It provides the audiences with the connection of emotion, character, and situation.
With the addition of “cut-ins”, Griffith broke down the standard distance between audience and action, allowing a closer look into the drama of the piece and the reactions of actors on-screen. By editing shots of different spatial lengths in sequence to create cinematic “sentences” within a scene, Griffith successfully heightened the emotional intensity. In addition to cut-in shots, Griffith invented another effective trope known as the flashback. The flashback was a shot or sequence that interrupted the narrative to bring the audience briefly to the past. This confused and sometimes scared viewers, but Griffith compared the nature of how it worked
It means that camera is pen and the director is the author of the film. Film itself is an expression. Film is not just entertainments; it is the thoughts of director, although it is abstract. The films are unique and there are significant and character in the films. Moreover, Francois Truffaut emphasized on mise-en-scene of a film.
A Quiet Preview of Sherlock Holmes In a world where distractions are absolutely everywhere, it is extremely difficult to capture one’s attention. As technology increases and the more interesting and complex our digital gadgets become, the harder it is for a movie poster to hold the attention of an individual long enough to efficiently promote the film it is advertising. With that being said, I am completely aware that everyone’s taste is different, so what may grab my attention could completely bore the next person, but for the sake of this essay I will be focusing on my own opinions regarding this issue. In my personal experiences, I have found that a movie poster is most successful when it gives me a preview of what will come from the movie. Whether it may be the type of character(s) that will be involved or a hint at what the plot may consist of, I like to have some type of idea as to what I am about to spend my money on.
With the mixture of lighten, sound and attitude of the characters, it brings meaning to the cinematography of the film. When getting more into the film, the use of focus becomes very deep. One can tell that the director wanted you to start paying attention to just whoever is talking, no one else around them. With the help of the use of focus, the film was zoomed in, helping more with letting the audience focus on certain characters. During the first time the caged character escaped, the camera movement started to speed up.
Since the last essay I have found more things to enjoy about the films that are beneficial to my video practice. I found the Experimental Feature day particularly exciting. I have always been a Kenneth Anger fan so that may have woken me up a little bit. I have seen Cocteau’s Blood of a Poet in a few different contexts now and for some reason, this time around, I was particularly struck by the film. Every time I have seen this movie I have considered it to be cheesy.