Chicago Cinematography Scene

The shots, though the same type of framing, have different functions for the different parts of the film. In Leland’s flashback, the film’s lowest camera position happens at the point of Kane’s most crushing defeat. In one of the scenes from Leland’s flashback, Leland confronts Kane in their office. With the desks are pushed aside and the employees gone, the room looks larger and emptier that it is before. The camera is placed at the floor level and shooting from a low angle. The background of the low angle shot adds to the focus to the emotional distance between Kane and Leland and the falling out of these two characters. Hence, the low angle here functions to isolate Kane and

He starts off with a medium shot of the individual in the center of the screen; they start rapidly listing off racial slurs and stereotypes and the camera zooms in which emphasizes how violent it is. By the end of the rampage, the shot is an extreme close-up of the character’s face and you can feel the anger and hatred they have for that particular race. The climactic buildup at the end of the film was full of canted angles, shadowy lighting, dozens of fast shot/reverse shots that in full only lasted less than two minutes. The scene at the end of the movie, the hierarchy of confrontations and tensions between the characters, is a canted low angle shot of Radio Raheem and Buggin’ Out after they stormed into Sal’s Pizza Shop makes them appear more powerful and intimidating than Sal. All the shots of Sal are a counterclockwise tilt high angle, causing him to look inferior. The quick cuts back and forth between the two gives the film a sense of the tensions and anger. It is not until Sal rises up to the plate and smashes the radio, that he is being filmed at a leveled angle to show that he is not inferior anymore, but at the same

Lee makes excellent use of these shots as a way of bringing the viewer into the action of the movie. His use of high and low angle, point of view shots both heighten tension and give the feeling that the characters

Camera angles and shots are essential technique for the director to draw meaning to the character’s stories. A key camera angle is a high angle. In classic westerns the antagonists are presented in high

When this scene begins, the lookout yells “The sheriff is comin’” (Blazing Saddles) and the camera is panned out a bit with the lookout a little off to the left. The camera is also shooting from below a bit to show he is high up on the roof. When the camera turns to the sheriff riding a horse towards the town, the camera angle is shot from up above angled down to show the distance of the sheriff and the height of the lookout. When the camera is set to the towns folk the camera is set further back with a wide viewing distance to see the band, the towns folk, and the stage all in the same shot. As the sheriff rides into town the camera is used in a way to show the towns folk surprised faces. The camera is first zoomed in on the sheriff riding toward the stage. The camera then cuts to the towns folk and pans to the right, only showing the towns folks facial reaction of the new sheriff. The camera moves the same direction the sheriff is moving on his horse. This adds a sort of point of view of the

Light can make a scene look more realistic by creating shadows and highlights. In this scene Alonzo if enraged with anger as he looks for help from the gangsters and thugs he once worked with and protected but those very same individual’s no longer have the same respect for Alonzo. The “King Kong” scene is shot using a low key lighting design. Low–key lighting is often used for intense dramatic scenes which was a perfect fit for this scene. The dark lighting used in these scene

For this scene natural lighting is being utilized. The lighting is comes from the available source within the scene, which are the several lamps hanging from the ceilings throughout the pizzeria. The three point light system can also be seen in this scene. The main lighting source is the key light. An example of this is present, when we first see Sal at the beginning of the scene. We see a light coming from the left side of the frame. This light illuminates one part of his face but casts a shadow on the other half part. Here we have a high key lighting. The use of fill light is also present; we can see an example of this in the shot where we see Vito reaction that what Sal is saying. One half of his face is lit by the key light

There has been a steady decline in musicals being produced, since the 1970’s. The movie Chicago has helped to bring the genre of musicals back into public favor. With the help of the movie, and articles that have been written about the return of the musical, I will convey how this has come to be. I have looked at the history of this genre to see how it has gone down in popularity, and how it has come back.

Every character takes up a portion of the screen but the background scenery is what creates the intriguing atmosphere. The move from broad to close-up pulls the audience in and makes them take in everything in the scene by visually grasping the emotions of the characters and the scenes. A horizontal tracking shot and taken shows the emotional distance between characters through body language. As an undeniable expert at visual precision using all sorts of elements, Anderson has the ability to control our emotions just as proficiently as his

Lighting is what sets the mood for the scene it is assigned to so making sure you have the right lighting for a scene or even a movie is important. Burton displays sinister and spooky images with low-key lighting. In “Edward Scissorhands” Peg’s neighborhood is in fact very bright and seems to be perfect. Burton uses this technique to display a very obvious relationship between Edward and the Neighborhood. When peg

The movie American Gangster uses cinematography in order to emphasize or symbolize important parts of the story, giving the audience a better understanding of what is currently happening. Lighting is used throughout the scenes to represent a character's current situation. In the beginning, scenes containing Richie Richie are lit with a harsh blue light to convey his dire situation and inability to make progress in his case. As the movie progresses, the lighting around him slowly becomes warmer, allowing the audience to sense progress and hope as Richie gets closer to figuring out the man behind Blue Magic. The use of lighting in this way symbolizes the progression of Richie Richie' case without the need to use dialogue in order to explain the

The Animal Scene uses high angle and low angle shots, as well as an establishing shot. Scene 6 begins with an establishing shot of all the African animals. Larry is shown in a low angle to exaggerate

The room was very colorful and fun to watch. Without the lighting the room wouldn’t look as nice as it did. Second of all, Tim Burton used lighting in the movie called Charlie

The lighting also shows the way she has something deep inside her heart that she doesn’t want have a connection with her dad and doesn’t want to communicate with him. The low lighting shows the hate and discomfort of her dad. This is where I also notice the colors of the background and how all the colors seem to be dull and dark which, they are not warming colors but colors that make you have a sense that there is a problem. Furthermore, I think these two cinematographic techniques help the audience make a connection to the mood set in our brain to know that the film is going to be about some sort of conflict of some

They lighting was overall very simple, but it brought the story to life, it helped transport us to the world from the stories being told. Sometimes that amaze me with the lightening was that throughout the show a spotlight was never completely on a particular. The lighting stay the same for most of the play.The light on the stage was equally distributed throughout the stage. The intensity of the light was kept low by having orange and red tones to describe warm moods, and blue ones to describe cold moods. The best lighting was a combination with set designing and was really brought to life by the actors in the production. During the boat ride scene in The mock Khalifah the light dim, and the background create the night sky. I found that to be very beautiful, during my lab I create that piece, and to see it brought to life was amazing. The background a small Christmas like lights were able to transport you to being on the boat ride during