Breaking Point In The Film Touching The Void By Kevin Macdonald

The film techniques used in this film changes the entire landscape and changes the mood during the scene. The colour reflects on a charters feelings and the camera angles and

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

Harper introduces a beat at the climax when she asks his husband whether he is a homosexual and ends it when she threatens to fill the house with smoke. (Tony 37). The minor objective is coaxing Joe and pushing him to show the truth about his sexuality. In addition, Prior introduces a beat when he tells Louis about his disease symptoms like new lesions then it ends when he says he “shat blood” (Tony 39). The minor objective is to show to Louis his state of health and what he has been enduring in his illness state. The scene has a beat when Harper yells to Joe to “SHUT UP!” (Tony 36) The dialogue reaches climax at this utterance. The beat begins when Joe starts to prove why he has been late for dinner and ends when Harper tells him to stick to the project. The minor objective is to divert the conversation, from Joe’s explanation and lead him to the big question that Harper wants to ask

The waterfall scene, a moment of final peace, had an impact on holling’s mind. “The river was a sudden ribbon of silvery, light flickering and sparkling and flashing..”(257) this little snippet of the scene

In the search of what war has taken from both Joe and Charlie, they find auspicious halfway points that give the impression that their main goal is coming within reach. Joe realizing that through the finding of time, he can begin to reconnect himself to the world, starts to formulate ideas on how he can accomplish this. After weeks, months, maybe years of trial and error, Joe finally conjures up the idea to use the few exposed patches of skin on his neck to feel the

This film’s mise-en-scène shapes my feelings by visually being straightforward and realistic. Visually the film makes me feel like I am a part of the character’s different paths in life, including the citizens of the small towns that are equally being affected financially. This is evident in the visual decay of each town. This film, despite the tense and criminal scenes, has the power to make me pause my scrambled thoughts as the camera pans to a West Texas inspired sunset that expands across the bleak earth. This ultimately makes me feel warm and experienced as if I was one of the citizens that face such harsh economic conditions during the day yet an alluring scenery at night. Another aspect of the mise-en-scène in Hell or High Water is the use raw lighting. Through the use of hard lighting, such as the bold shadows and sunlight beating down, the movie truly captures a sense of

The extraordinary film The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959) skillfully uses cinematic devices appropriately within the context of the theme. Part of the underlying theme of this movie as explained by Truffaut himself is, “... to portray a child as honestly as possible...”(Writing About Film, 1982). It is the scenes in this movie that are most helpful in disclosing the overall theme of the film. Within the scenes, the camera angles in this film play an important role in accentuating the emotions behind the scene. The camera angles used in this film will be the primary focus of this paper. The high angle shots utilized in The 400 Blows are effective in helping to develop the overall feel of a scene. This movie

Bart Layton built this doc not from one perspective, but from a collection of them. Some stories, like “The Imposter” need a panoptic approach to connect the audience to the film. The themes of manipulation, identity and love are the main themes conveyed by Layton. These themes are communicated through sounds and visual imagery.

A sequence of events leads up to Joe becoming almost completely isolated from the outside world. During his time in the isolated continent, Joe becomes addicted to narcotics; he escapes his pain and anguish by succumbing to detached and paralyzed state of mind. Throughout his journey in this secluded continent, he is faced with his hatred of the Germans and his desire to enact vengeance upon them for all that he has lost. When he meets a German geologist exploring the frozen tundra, he inadvertently kills him. Joe experiences ironic feelings of remorse after so many years spent obsessing over the destruction of the Germans. There was no gratification or fulfillment, for Joe, in the German man’s death. Joe felt repulsed and an abhorrence in himself for his

Moore uses emotion to move the audience and this was intensely effective when the screen goes entirely black and the audience is left the soundtrack of the tragic events of September 11 plays and imposes an insistent presence of cries, sirens and radio communications. This is followed by the image of New Yorkers terrified by the inexpressible horror of the collapse of the towers. Moore keeps only the faces, contorted with tension and fear. The terrible reverse shot of this scene, certainly known and engraved in all memories. The director does not believe in the simple force of the image. The audience is already conquered upstream. This emblematic sequence gives the general tone of the documentary.

The journey of Rachel and Samuel Lapp to Boston to visit Rachel’s sister becomes quite an experience. The varieties of camera shots give the audience Samuel’s perspective of Philadelphia station. Harsh and loud noises from large crowd contrasts with the high level angle shot of people walking around independently in the train station, increase the individualism of the modern world. In contrast, Amish community is a collective group. Within the murder scene at Pennsylvania train station, Samuel, a young, innocent and naive Amish boy views a horrific murder. The close up shot of Samuel’s terrified eyes is strongly contrasted with the camera shots were moving back and forth from Samuel’s face and the horrific event happening in front of him, the shots kept increasing in speed demonstrating Samuel’s beating heart. This is an unnatural scene to Samuel, one he would never have to experience within his Amish world. This emphasises the culture different views on violence in such a violent way. In the Amish society everyone is considered to be equal and taking of another people’s life will be shunned. However, this scene reinforces that violence has no place within the Amish culture, whereas the Western world would resort to whatever is necessary. Weir’s choices of urban

The opening scene of the film utilises multiple aspects in order to display the hopeless that looms over the dystopian world that the audience is presented with. The film uses a mix of both visual imagery to show this along with verbal features in order to convey this to the audience.

Martin Scorsese’s film “Raging Bull” is considered by many to be one of the greatest “sports” films of all time. The plot focuses on the professional and personal life of boxer Jake LaMotta. In the opening sequence, the film uses narrative, mise en scene, cinematography, editing, and sound to provide a framework for the rest of the picture. These elements also help to establish the film’s themes of nostalgia, isolation, loneliness, and suffering. In addition to setting up the film’s themes, these elements also help to create two distinct personas of the main character Jake LaMotta.

‘Touching The Void’ is a documentary based on a true story about two men called Joe Simpson and Simon Yates who climbed on the west face of Siula Grande (6,344m) in the Cordillera Huayhuash in the PeruvianAndes. The first five minutes of the documentary is very effective because it draws you in and makes you want to watch the rest of the documentary, the director does this by using a lot of effective techniques. The techniques used are Photography, Camera angles, Music and sound effects, Narrative, Language, Tone and Structure.

Furthermore, Lumet uses the film technique of different 'camera lenses and angles' to emphasize his intentions during the film. He employs numerous methods to enhance the ever-building tension throughout the room, including physically moving the walls in on the actors to enhance the feeling of claustrophobia. One case of this occurring is performed throughout the whole movie. As the story continues, Lumet gradually changes the lenses of longer focal lengths, so that the backgrounds seems to close in on the characters as the movie progresses, this gives viewers the feeling that there is an increasingly amount of pressure and tension filling the room as the decision becomes more uneasy on the jurors. Another example employed by Lumet to raise the tension level of the film is by using various camera angles during the film. Lumet shoots the first third of the movie above eye level, shoots the second third at eye level and the last third from below eye level. In that way, as the film begins we look down on the characters, and the angle suggests that they can be comprehended and mastered. By the end, the ceiling is visible, the characters loom over us, and we feel overwhelmed by the force of their passion.