Eastwood's Sudden Impact Film Analysis

This is commonly done in Edward Scissorhands. As Peg ventures further into the mansion, low key lighting is applied when Edward comes forth from out of the shadows. As soon as the audience discovers Edward shadowed in darkness, with his sharp blades for hands, they begin to believe that he is a harmful character. It is only when Peg offers to take him home that the audience realizes that he is not the menacing man they had previously thought he was. Through the use of low key lighting along with his dark image, the audience must get to know Edward for who he truly is in order for them to be capable of understanding that he is not an evil character.

Often in a film, lighting is controlled and manipulated to achieve expressive affects that controls a viewers subconscious. Bright, high key lighting might be used to make the scene seem less threatening while low key lighting might be used to add a threat factor. In They Live, lighting is used in the mise-en-scene to shape its audience’s thoughts. The first glimpse during They Live of danger unveils itself when the viewer watches a preacher freely speaking about “them.” At first, the preachers all black suit seems like normal attire for such a profession. However, the pastors dark suit against a white, bright background gives

For more than fifty years, Clint Eastwood has been actively defining and redefining cinema as an art form. His experiences as an actor on television and in film have greatly influenced his directing style. Across his films, Eastwood incorporates several issues and techniques that help the audience to identify said films with Eastwood's directorial style. Eastwood's aim in his films is to tell stories of the human experience. Francois Truffaut and Andrew Sarris have aimed to define the qualities that make a director an auteur whose works stand out above the rest. The qualities defined by Truffaut and Sarris can be seen in Eastwood films including Unforgiven (1992), Million Dollar Baby (2004), and Changeling (2008) and help to establish Eastwood as an auteur.

In Citizen Kane there was some groundbreaking use of lighting as well. Because Orson Welles wanted to have ceilings in many of his shots, he and the crew needed a way to get light into the shots from above. However, with ceilings that is not very easy to do, so Welles put bedsheets over holes in the ceiling and shown lights down through the bedsheets. Without this innovative technique, Citizen Kane would not have been able to use many of the shots throughout the movie. Citizen Kane was used lighting in several brilliant ways which sub-consciously affect the viewer to manipulate his or her emotions towards a certain character or certain scene. Without such effective use of lighting Citizen Kane would almost certainly been a much less interesting film

Tim Burton done this to help the movie have a dark twist or to help the movie take a serious turn. In the movie Edward Scissorhands you see low key lighting when they show the castle. Nightmare Before Christmas shows a lot of low key lighting too. When Jack sings his song about taking Christmas away. They use low key lighting to show his song is dark and scary.

This is illustrated in the scene when Veruca Salt was in the front of the cameras and smiling because she won one of the golden tickets. The use of this technique points out the happiness she has after she received what she has wanted, everything was bright and jolly. This technique is also employed in the scene when the neighborhood ladies were talking about Edward at Peggy’s barbeque. This detail draws attention to what people don’t see in others when they are not looking. In the end, the high-key lighting shows what’s important on how people really are when others aren’t

Lighting is important to tell the mood of a film. Burton depicts sinister and scary images with low-key lighting. Tim Burton’s lighting techniques are completely unique. In “Edward Scissorhands“he contrasts lighting. Peg lives in a town that is bright and cheerful looking. Edward’s castle is depressing and gloomy. Tim Burton again shows off his

An example of the director using lighting to create an atmosphere/mood of entrapment is when Billy is at the boxing hall towards the beginning of the movie. When he enters there is an establishing shot which shows the dark unwelcoming looking room with only a little golden light leaking in from the windows and landing on the boxing ring which has several kids all milling about. In making the lighting land on the boxing ring Daldry is drawing the audience's attention to it so they know it is an important feature for this scene. As the room is dark and not a very friendly looking place it gives the audience the impression the Billy does not enjoy the boxing hall and feels as though he has been pressured by his father and brother to attend the classes as this what a ‘normal’ boy is expected to do. Another example of cinematography being used by the director to show the idea is through the camera angles and shots used throughout the film. A strong use of camera angles being used to portray this idea is when Mrs Wilkinson comes over to the Elliot’s house to talk to Billy’s father. While she is there, Tony forces Billy onto the kitchen table telling him to dance, “You’re a ballet dancer, then lets be having it! Dance you little twat” In this shot it shows a high angle point of view shot looking down on Mrs Wilkinson, Tony and Jackie all yelling at

expressions. Lighting was used in the film to portray this. Dim lighting was used whenever

Lighting is used very commonly in horror movies. Lighting is the control of the light. Sometimes it starts flashing and sometimes the light all sudden turns bright or dark. lt is a great way to keep you on your toes. Jaws used the best lighting, for example the dim light in the boat made you really think the shark is coming. The lighting was really well used in most part of the movie. In The Others, they only used a few lighting techniques for one example the dim lighting used in the house. Signs had few lighting techniques used too. One was in the basement when the light suddenly goes out. If you have really good lighting used in your movie, the viewer will feel the something is going to jump out. One more is that light helps you hide something that you don't want the viewer to see what' is happening in the back.

One of Rachel Perkins’ most outstanding projects was the SBS documentary series First Australians (2008), which was created over the course of six years. The series “chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people,” with an emphasis on what happens “when the oldest living culture in the world is overrun by the world's greatest empire.” The project was a milestone in Perkins’ career because of the large scale of the production as well as the significance of the story being told. When asked about the series, Perkins said, “Hopefully it will spark national interest in the people on whose lands we have made our homes." She served as the director, writer and producer. Although her

Die Hard, a film directed by John McTiernan, successfully utilized several aesthetics, which offered viewers various meanings throughout the duration of the film. Although the diverse meanings grasped by viewers may differ, it was clear to me that McTiernan effectively applied elements of cinematography and mise-en-scene that resulted in viewers being allowed to interpret a range of different meanings or functions of the elements.

In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Burton decides to have the lighting high key at the front of Wonka's factory but low key on the inside. This makes the reader uneasy inside of Wonka's factory. In Big Fish, the director uses extremely low key lighting inside the hospital, but during the story about the father's death, the son makes a extremely high key lit setting in order to communicate how much everyone loved him. Illustration of this technique is when in Edward Scissorhands, Edward is getting chased down by the police and the only real source of light is from the police car. This shows that in order to have the safety of high lighting, Edward would have to get caught by the

Most of the actors are wearing darker clothing as well which makes their faces stand out even more. This lighting style also adds to the tension and the mystery of the scene. It makes the audience on edge. The contrast filled lighting of film noir is also effective at bringing out the extremes of emotions and thought. The darkness of the genre makes anything that goes wrong seem less taboo, because the lighting of the genre sets up the norms for the world that the film lives in—and in that world, bad things happen. The lighting of the film helps the audience understand the world that the characters are in.

Lighting was a key cinematic technique that Well's used to project a character's persona in the film. He used shadows to hide or mask the faces of the seemingly corrupt characters, like the reporters who are trying to find the meaning of rosebud. He also used backlighting, when light is cast onto the characters from the opposite side of the camera, to create silhouette's .Single source lighting was another technique used to focus the viewers attention on a important prop or action that was taking place. For example, when the reporter is allowed to see the book of Kane there is one window through which all it's light is focused on the book emphasizing its importance.