Kubrick's Effect Of A 'Black Monolith'

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

This is the scene where Blacky and his younger brother lay in their beds before waking up to an argument and struggle between their parents in another room. The camera focuses on the younger boy as he calls softly for his mother as he can sense her distress but besides the subtle sound effects of the boys turning in their beds the main audio the director draws your attention to is the argument in the background. The audience can’t see the fight, the camera holds steady on the boys, putting the viewer inside the room with them. It’s a disturbing scene that lasts less then 30 seconds but really takes you in to what it would be like for the children in the unfortunate

From this scene until the end of the sequence, Kubrick plays with different editing techniques. When this ape is observing skeleton, the shot cuts to a low angle shot of the monolith. This shows the audience that the ape is thinking about the monolith. When the ape smashes the skull with the bone, it cuts to a shot of a dead tapir. The quick-cuts of the crushed bones and another cut of a beaten tapir illustrates that the apes are no longer scared of tapirs or any other predatory creature. It gives the apes a sense of power and dominance over their so called predators. This method of editing not only becomes an insight to an ape’s thoughts but it also seen as a depiction of mankind’s predatory instincts. The music also invokes the feeling of power because it indicates a connection between the outskirts of space and this major breakthrough of human evolution. As a result of evolution, the apes have a newly-developed intelligence as well as a dietary change that primarily consists of

The beginning shots of the movie are of an African American man walking alone at night through a suburb while talking on the phone. The audience can hear the external sounds that are associated with night-time. As the man walks the neighborhood is quiet, you can only hear the ambient sounds crickets chirping and the sounds of him talking and breathing. Peele combines sound effects and dialogue initially here to start to develop the scene and provide realism. The quietness demonstrated through these sounds in the scene creates an eerie tone. Peele creates

When Karamakte blows the caapi into Evans’s nose, Evans goes on a journey above the amazon with a birdseye view of the lush scenery. In the background chants of the native tribes resound over the forest. This lasts for quite a long time and represents the importance and significance of nature to the indigenous people. This sequence is shot over ominous music which tells us something about the dire nature of the environment, of the rainforest and the necessity of its preservation. In the chants there is even an element of despair, the voices seem to be calling out for help, almost crying. The filmmakers have brought the entire plot of the film to culminate at this exact moment. It may be easy to think that the shots of the Amazon are just an aesthetically pleasing backdrop, but actually they are sending a direct message that the forest is the center and source of the destruction of this civilization. This whole sequence is a metaphor, when Kamakate gave Evans the Caapi he told him that it would take him on a journey. This journey is one of

The small glimpse of the aliens harboring their ship made them appear horrifying; whereas, when they properly make their first appearance in the camps, they are accurately shown as pathetic and sickly. The different mise-en-scène in these two shots uncovers the two interpretations of the supposed threat. This informs the audience’s perception of the aliens as vulnerable and lost due to their imprisonment by the Multi-National United (MNU) Security Force. The mise-en-scène of the camps further captivates the viewer with images of destruction, barbed wire, and dilapidated homes in a Johannesburg slum. The choice of the setting being Johannesburg sets a different expectation for the viewer, as most Hollywood alien movies take place in major American cities; the foreign setting clearly establishes the film’s unique tone. This tone highlights the film’s clear allusion to the South African Apartheid by depicting comparable events. Mise-en-scène plays a huge role in this connection, as the camera rolls by a chain of signs that say, ‘For Humans Only’, ‘No Non-Human Loitering’, ‘No! Not Welcome’. This communicates that the human population is against the alien presence, preferring segregation instead of unity. These images have a direct connection to South Africa’s past, while also being reminiscent of the European refugee camps and the Jim Crow laws in America.

Rice describes how these monkeys that are living in an artificial world and still remain detached from reality. The monkeys play and interact with each other in the exhibit as if they were in their natural habitat. These monkey continued to play on the fake hill oblivious to the fact that it was synthetic. Rice writes: “when out of the concrete slabs piled to resemble a hill/a splendidly squealing chaos of monkeys/ rushes, some trespass or crime in mokeydom.” These monkeys are unaware or carefree about the fact that they are being watched by many people. They act as they would anywhere else in the world with each other. Another part in the poem where Rice shows that these monkeys are oblivious to reality is when the mother is standing staring at nothing in particular. Rice writes: “The mother will stand on all fours and stare into space/and we will see by her eyes that all of this is beyond her.” The mother demeonstrates how unfased and unware she is by all of her surroundings. Rice uses imagery in this poem because he describes these monkeys playing on the “concrete slabs piled to resemble a hill” and helps the readers clearly visualize this fake hill and the fake life that these monkeys are living. He also describes how the mother monkey “stands on all fours” and “stares into space” in order to show the readers how unmindful the monkey is to her surroundings.

Through this assignment, we will see how primates express their behaviors and understand the meaning behind them. For my observation, it will be based on the orangutans, which is classified in the genus Pongo. The San Diego zoo itself is set up with a lot of ropes, balls, hammocks, rocks and more for the animal to interact with in the grassy area. There are many levels of ground elevations that allowed the primate to have maximum space to explore around and live in. After seeing how the specie interacts and behaves, I can relate it to human behaviors and how we gain our roots from them. One of the small orangutans I observed was very active and kept climbing on different levels of the ropes and interacted with many other of the inhabitants.

The first topic addressed in this book that I will focus on is the social behavior of apes, specifically on courting rituals and mating behavior, such as the love dance performed by the “humans” in the novel. The second topic is the (in)capability of apes to produce human speech. In the novel, the apes all speak human language, but in reality, this is not a likely possibility.

This is evidence in the film when the prisoner gets back into the cave the narrator says “he is blinded to the darkness” which is evident to through the image of the prisoner squinting his eyes to adjust to the darkness, and when he tries to tell the other prisoners about the world outside of the cave they neglect him and try to throw him out of their sight because what he is saying is opposite of what they see in the cave. This scene in the video is evident to proving the theme because the importance of the scene overall is that the prisoner's eyes cannot adjust to the darkness now that he has stepped out of the cave, the comfort zone. It also serves as a eye opener to see that the darkness of the cave is what has been keeping them from ever seeing the light and they have grown to be comfortable with the darkness they don’t believe there is something true other than

The story begins at the dawn of time. The setting seems to be a location in Africa. Apes surround the setting in a pack. This pack represents the beginning of civilization. As is commonly known, mankind has always had a sense of greed. This first act of greed is displayed when one group of apes take a source of water from another group. The morning after the instance of greed, a monolith appears. Confused with this perfectly geometrical object, the apes begin to examine.

Nevertheless, the appearing of the monolith is an indication of apes advancement in higher orders and knowledge, with the ability to hunt and search for food in a much more efficient fashion. Which resulted in their first murder.

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.

‘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.

Keisuke Kinoshita's 1958 film tells its story with deliberate artifice, using an elaborate set with a path beside a bubbling brook, matte paintings for the backgrounds, mist on dewey evenings, and lighting that drops the backgrounds to black at dramatic moments and then brings up realistic lighting again. Some of its exteriors use black foregrounds and bloody red skies; others use grays and blues. As in kabuki theater, there is a black-clad narrator to tell us what's happening.