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?
In ‘Run Lola Run’, we see the constant visual technique of clocks re-occurring throughout the film to remind us of how time has a greater power over us than we sometimes realize and that we cannot control it. Similarly in the film ‘Next’, Clocks are repeatedly emphasized such as a ticking clock that is emphasized on the opening Logos of the two main film producers and the constant flashes of clocks when Cris views the future. In Both films, the Credits roll down the screen instead of the usual up. This could signify the importance of manipulating time within the films. The Idea of the Butterfly effect or Chaos theory is a hugely emphasized feature of both films.
HIS212 – History and Film Compare any two films which are produced in Hollywood, and which represent warfare or conflict in the Third World. Comment on the political and cultural messages in these films, and explain how they reflect the politics of the time when they were made. Film as a media has always managed to be one of the most easily accessible, both for the public and also producers as a means for conveying messages and entertainment. Many different aspects of human nature and history is detailed and documented in this fashion across many different fields, such as politics, religion, love and, with often the most poignant and obvious imagery, war. War itself has been an ever-present around the world across thousands of years and has, as the years progressed, evolved and shaped the world in many ways.
Even from the very beginning of the film, time is the most significant element explored throughout 'Run Lola Run'. In the opening sequence, the viewer observes the large, monster-shaped pendulum of a clock swinging from side to side across the screen. Accompanied by the diegetic sound of a clock ticking rapidly, the sequence implies the importance of the motif. The viewer observes another clock in Lola's bedroom when she runs from it, a clock outside Manni's phone booth, and Lola constantly asks other characters for the time as she runs. Also included in the opening sequence is the use of a simplistic animated short, which becomes a recurring technique used to further emphasise Lola's urgency and one-track mindset.
Furthermore, Daphne Du Maurier stresses important details so the suspense is evident. The film had difficulty portraying the thematic element of hyperbole because in a movie one can only shine so much light upon one subject without blurting out the obvious. There are several reasons it is so imperative that one has good use of hyperbole in media. One reason it is brilliant to use hyperbole and raw repetition is that the viewer can be of
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.
Throughout the book, Lord of the Flies by William Golding, and the movie, Pleasantville directed by Gary Ross, there were common themes. They both brought about the idea of what happens to societies when they are affected by change. Perspective also played a huge role in both. In the book and movie one observation is that when change occurs people act differently to the enviroment around them, so when this change occurs there will be two sides that oppose each other. With opposing sides of change there is always violence with lasting consequences.
Distinctively visual Question: how composers use distinctively visual techniques to create meaning in texts. Distinctively visual technique holds great ability to convey powerful message through the text to the responders. This is evident in the play “shoehorn sonata” as its composer John Misto explores the horror of war and the importance of friendship during the invasion of Singapore in 1942. Similarly Nick Ut’s photograph “The Napalm Girl” illustrates the brutality of human conflict in the Vietnam War as well as the innocent civilian that is mercilessly treated. Both texts demonstrates the atrocity that war brings using visual techniques although they rely on different ways to convey their message.
Many composers represent conflict, even though you may not recognize it. Whether it’s a song about a breakup, a kid’s movie about princesses or a news article about last nights footy game.Conflict in the film freedom writers and the song pumped up kicks is shown by different techniques like camera shots, flashback, repetition and point of view. Freedom writers is heavily reliant on conflict as a theme, but to help put it into perspective uses a lot of techniques. One of these techniques is camera shots.In the film, camera shots are used to help the audience to understand the film better and make it interesting. You have to admit, a movie would be pretty boring if it only used one type of camera shot or angle the whole movie, right?One of the shots used in the film was the panning shot, used to show the conflict during the school fight, in one of Mrs. Gruwell’s first days.
German Expressionist films and Surrealist films are on the same page when it comes to the use of bold images and the unexpected. However, they vary when it boils down to the approaches they use to achieve this goal. In order to understand how these two movements captivated their audience, it is first best to examine how these two movements contrast each other. German Expressionism exploded with artistic activity that “followed the fall of the Kaiser and the founding of the Weimar Republic; making itself felt in all the arts, especially the cinema” (Mast, 2012). The dominating presence of German Expressionism was made possible through the movement’s exaggeration of mise-en-scene, which simply means everything that a scene is composed of.