Dichotomies in Chase
Páraic Mc Gloughlin's Chase is a beautiful exploration of interconnectivity and incongruence in the modern world.
The film was shot in both Ireland and Poland and utilizes a series of still photographs from the filmmaker's personal collection edited together at different speeds to create a mesmerizing tapestry of time and place. The film is entirely non-narrative, instead focusing on individual images—of doors, roads, railways, crowds of people, etc,—placed in progression to create a seamless flow that connects the two places showcased.
The visuals themselves, and even more so their sequence, are so essential to this beautiful film. Chase opens with a number of juxtapositions: dirt roads in countryside landscapes with a rectangular tunnel in a more urban setting, overlapping blades of grass with crowds of people. The images simultaneously point out sameness and difference. The dirt road and the subway station are aimed at getting people where they need to go; tangled blades of grass are not so different from overlapping individuals in a crowd. Chase also
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It has a fragmented quality that parallels the flickering visuals, creating unity by overlaying multiple images but also dissonance because of its disjointed quality. The film aptly uses samplings of some of the objects its showcases: sounds of trains, clanking metal, and white noise intermix with the score to give the stills a textural, immersive quality.
Chase brilliantly highlights distinctiveness while also showcasing the overall similarities of people, places, and technology. The interchangeableness it highlights could be seen as a disempowering notion—yet the beauty Chase finds within that suggests otherwise. In many ways, the images of rail road tracks within Chase are emblematic of the film as a whole—like the parallel tracks, Chase illuminates people and places on parallel courses that come close together but never
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
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The long take begins with an alarm clock waking up a couple, sleeping out on their balcony. As the camera moves from window to window around the courtyard, we see a few brief snippets of characters’ lives. And finally, the audience sees inside the apartment that has been its point of view all along. Mise-en-scene, framing, and cinematography
During the film Steve Spielberg uses music, a mysterious shark and camera techniques such as simultaneous track and zoom, long shot, close up shots and medium shots to build suspense, tension and scare the audience.
Even though the film is essentially a visual experience, the use of sound has become extremely important in modern film. The modern viewer hears a complicated soundtrack that is as meaningful as the image on the screen. Three elements comprise the film's soundtrack: the dialogue, the sound effects, and the musical score. The proper balance and mix of these elements produced the essential emphasis required, which created the desired effects. As explained by Joseph Boggs and Dennis Petrie,
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The camerawork emphasizes the sense of detachment between the characters, and Billy’s inability with connecting with others. In addition, the film has a contrasty, bleak look to it, like a faded photograph. Gallo shot the movie on reversal film stock to capture that contrast and grain, in attempt to reproduce the same look of football games from the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Nathan Alan Hunt was born on 2/1/1982 at Jerseyville Community Hospital in Jerseyville, IL to Kenneth Ray Hunt and Debra Lucille (AKA Fones) Hunt. Kenneth Ray Hunt and Debra Lucille (AKA Fones) Hunt were married on 3/27/1976 in Jerseyville, IL. They currently live at 305 Prairie Street, Greenfield, IL. 62044. Nathan and Sam are close to his parents. Nathan works for his father so he sees him every work day. He talks to his mother once a week. Nathan and Sam usually go to their house once a month. Nathan Grew up at 305 Prairie Street, Greenfield. His parents still live at this address. He grew up in the small town of Greenfield. He spent a lot of time outside riding bicycles, playing sports, and hanging out with friends. A fond childhood memory Nathan could recall was playing with friends in the open lot near our home. A bad childhood memory, he could recall was fell out of an apple tree and he broke his arm. When Nathan misbehaved as a child, he was spanked on the rear. Nathan graduated from Greenfield High School in Greenfield, IL. in 2000. Nathan was an A/B student in school. He was in athletics from grade school
Upon graduation from high school with an above 4.0 GPA and a 28 ACT score, I received the Wildcat Excellence Scholarship from the University of Arizona in the amount of $6,000. Among the friendliness, location, and pristine medical reputation, this scholarship was a large reason why I proudly chose the U of A for my undergraduate studies, because without the financial aid there was diminutive chance of being able to afford a college education. During my first semester freshman year, I struggled with common ‘teenager problems’ (low-self esteem, peer pressure, etc.), but there was also an added weight: I graduated high school at the age of fifteen, and it was at that time I left home for university life. While academically, I seemed prepared enough for this challenge, emotionally I was still only barely sixteen,
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.
In addition to camera movements, he uses camera distances and framing to create images that make the audience feel cheerful. When he frames a shot, if it takes place outside, there is ample amount of bountiful nature within the frame. The most prominent example of this is toward the end of the film when the narrator is describing the after effects of the massive storm. It is a medium close up but the narrator is only in a small portion of the frame, the rest if a
As the music goes on, the constant loud bang of the drum adds that scary effect that you don't know what's going to happen next. The sound of a train and furnaces firing up are amongst a few which add a heavier eerie feel to the sequence. The editing can be seen that throughout the sequence a filter was put on top of the film, as well as this many of the shots have a blur around the edges. This effect could connotate the feelings of the main character when he first comes out of the coma. A time-lapse shot has also been used from 0:09 to 0:11 to convey the many years that have passed since he has been in the coma. Many of the cuts are raw and sudden, the shot will go from landscape (wide shot) to a extreme close-up. Once again foreshadowing the events to come, this could mirror the act of the zombies suddenly appearing. lump cuts are also used In scenes of an abandoned house, giving a Jarring effect to the pace. The titles appear amongst the scene, sometimes moving. The final title 'The Walking Dead' flickers into shot over a green background that fades to black at the edges. The use of mise-en-scene in this sequence evokes anticipation in the audience. The post-apocalyptic world is conveyed through micro elements such as, the bare and dirty decor of the abandoned house and the low-key dingy lighting. The contrast of natural and low key
Another aspect of sound in this film was how it affected the story. By using sound dramatically in certain parts and not using it at all in other parts, sound gave this story an entity of its own. For example, during long stretches of film with mostly dialogue, there was no music played in the background, only a phone ringing in the distance, or the men's voices during their deliberation. These long silences also took place during editing shots of the town and images that surrounded this German city. This dramatic difference in sound was a revelation of how mood can be made by images and sound put together to make an incredible component.
The next shot is an establishing shot, showing the street where the main character, Leister, lives. Its fall/autumn time and the trees are bare or dying, possibly indicating and foreshadowing a death later on in the movie. Also the streets are very linear, all vertical and in uniform, as it were.
In the opening scene of the film ‘Gattaca’, camera work and the power of setting engrosses the audience and institutes conflicts. Close ups and wide shots are most frequent for camera work while colours and organisation represent setting.