Although the film is set in Versailles, some scenes were taken in various locations around France. Costume plays a very big part in this film – it even won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design. The film makes use of the right clothing of that time, which lends to the film’s credibility. However, costume use in this film was not only to add a sense of realism. At the time of filming, Kirsten Dunst, the actress who played the titular character, was 23 years old.
The structure of a film has a great impact on the reaction from the viewers. There are two main aspects of a film that make it have the reaction from audiences. One is the director style which contains everything the directors choose to do to make the film flow like a book. There are directors who are known as auteurs. 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.
Road to Perdition What brings the audience into any film is the film and production elements, its what structures and takes the audience to suspense of disbelief, a whole new world. In the film Road to Perdition, it takes these elements in ways to both emphasize and respond to the characters and also to analyze and see them grow throughout the film. The opening sequence demonstrates and suggests the narrative possibilities or direction the film will take. The sound, lighting, props and motifs are used throughout the film to bring personality to the characters and in Road to Perdition. The opening sequence is basically what gives an audience an idea or what is known as a narrative possibility to what the film is going to be about, where its set, what period of time is this movie based upon.
Moreover, both composers accentuate the magnitude of every fleeting moment in life, as a split-second decision can lead to multiple possibilities and alter the course of one's future. Accordingly, the medium of film exemplifies the individuals’ capacity to revolutionize the personal world, vividly illustrating the significance of choice and selfdetermination in altering the course of one’s life. Distinctively visual devices presented in Tykwer's Run Lola Run demonstrate the conflict between the notions of fate and chance, exemplifying life as a series of volatile and unpredictable situations. This idea is apparent in the opening sequence of the film where a voiceover presents a series of rhetorical questions: “Who are we? Where do we come from?
Owing heavily to composers Cliff Martinez and dubstep superstar Skrillex, the film often exists in a dream like state. Their work is regularly utilized to juxtapose contrasting ideas and manipulate scenes and images that at first seem gaudy and simplistic. It is a multi-layered work that is rich in semiotic resources that communicates meaning and thus should leave the viewer with plenty to reflect upon. In this essay I’ll be focusing on two major scenes of the film and how, through the framework of timbre, the film uses music, speech and sound design to deliver meaning. Firstly I’d like to discuss a sequence where the director employs a non-linear way of piecing the story together, and how the use repetition and subtle manipulations of speech and phonetics are utilized.
Paris is extremely elevated in the movie with its power and influence to a person and shown as the most beautiful and inspiring city in the universe full of nostalgia and art. “Gil Pander” a Holywood screenwriter and a novel writer who visits Paris with his fiance is obsessed with Paris and he thinks he can find the true inspiration and can do better art works in this creative centre of the world according to him. The movie has many subjects which embraces: dilemma of love and dilemma of ideal life in terms of time and the biggest theme of the movie is the argument of “the past is better and more alluring than the present”. (Gallagher, 2011) Gil Pander, imagines himself living in Paris in 1920’s and believes he could be happier and more successful writer side by side with the famous artists that he admires. He loves Paris and he can not stop the feeling of passion to it and he wants to start a life in there.
Our study will explain and interpret the meaning or the significance behind those components, and by then try to connect the shot to the themes of the film. Tony Scott applies several genre specific editing techniques, which accordingly suture the audience to the stories multiple levels. Tony Scott is mixing up the sound effects, which links the audience to the drama and the history of the movie, providing a coherent structure. 00:45-1:00 In the first scene of the movie we are presented with the main character “Domino” (Keira, Knightley). In terms of Mise-en-scene our eyes are firstly attracted to Keira, who is lighting up a cigarette.
“The complex rhythms of film resemble those of music and poetry, like poetry in particular, film communicates through imagery metaphor and symbol” (Boggs, Petrie, 2008). There are many ways that motion pictures, which many people consider to be an art form in itself, differ from other storytelling media, such as newspapers, television and radio, because of the uniqueness of it’s communication style. One way is through the constant motion provided in a film, something no other medium provides (Boggs, Petrie, 2008). Film can also address a never-ending list of subjects, such as the worlds created in Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings. With the help of special effects, talented actors and staging there is no limit to the story that can be expressed on film.
I will be focusing on the different layers of sound in a film and the atmosphere it can create; for instance the iconic music in jaws. There are distinctive soundtracks which are memorable and for a lot of people are the first things they think of when the film is
The Gift of Sight In the making of a motion picture an individual must first have an idea to portray on screen. This idea is then packaged in the form of a written script for actors to follow and all is captured on film. This media has become such a huge part of the American fabric today for many reasons. Movies, offer action, adventure, drama, comedy, some history and even fantasy. The big draw, however, are all movies provide some measure of escape from reality.