Man With The Movie Camera: Shot Change Constructs A New Perspective

For instance, The Cantina Scene had a very long shot of the Pirate City and then zooming into the Mos Eisley Cantina. In addition, the film also had an abundance of close-ups of the actors faces to enhance their emotions to the audience. Lastly, they had a lot of point-of-view shot to put the audience in the characters’ shoes. Close-ups and point-of-view shots are used lots when the characters were on the escaping from the TIE Fighter in the Millennium Falcon, to show the characters’ concentration, pressure and point of

Spike Lee does many fascinating things from a directorial standpoint, which makes his film (dare I say, joint), Do the Right Thing so interesting to watch. Writer, director Lee makes much use of the high and low angle shots. He does this to draw clear contrasts between the two elders of the block, Da Mayor and Mother Sister and to make conflict more apparent.

The working conditions in 1800’s factories were terrible. These factories were vats for diseases, sickness, and injury. They had overly long hours and minimal breaks. The people in working in these factories must have been mad.

I knew before this book that editing is vital to the storytelling process. But I never thought about the relationship between cuts and the human eye. At first I thought Murch’s theory was a little strange, humorous. Then I thought about it, does not our eyes cut from one object to another? Murch’s best explanation for his cuts and human eye theory is an excerpt from an interview featuring John Huston by Louise Sweeney, writer for the Christian Monitor.

By utilising a variety of filmic techniques, both Scott Hicks and Anthony Fingleton created a key action scene to engage and connect the audience to their films. To convey the intensity of the scene, Hicks and Fingleton used a vast range of filmic techniques, however the two key features used, were sound

Factory jobs of the time usually included harsh physical labor and heavy machinery equipment. Another job of the time was working at bread lines. Many jobs of the time had massive work strikes that would put them out of business for days, even weeks. “Labor felt grievously short-changed during the war -- hence the bitter strikes during the reconversion period.” (Brody David, p.236).

They also worked when they were very old. Most of the worker’s lives were dedicated to working in the shops which was very boring and miserable for them.

First, shooting method is an important way to show the emotion of characters. In this movie, the director uses

Also, the moving camera constantly shifts and changes relationships helping me engage in the film and think about what was going on.

One thing that this movie did exceptionally well was the constant feel of suspense. The way the director decided to frame and show-off his dead was

Another technique that is used that brought this film to its full potential was the editing. Kurosawa used his editing skills to tell the story. Every cut that was made took effect. When looking at the battle scene, the majority of the shots were action packed and were quick cuts for the progression of the battle. These edits were made to intrigue the audience and to help them make insight of not only the plot, but also what was going on. Using such edits created lively movements that help to create visual interest for the audience and kept them on the edge of their

The Soviets realized that through editing, two shots could provoke an emotion or idea that was not originally present in either of them. Eisenstein described it perfectly: “Everyone who has had in his hands a piece of film to be edited knows by experience how neutral it remains, even though a part of a planned sequence, until it is joined with another piece, when it suddenly acquires and conveys a sharper and quite different meaning than that planned for it at the time of filming” (Giannetti 163). The invention of Soviet montage editing allowed for filmmakers to develop a new power in which they could psychologically manipulate audiences. Earlier studies of montage cinema have solely focused on its visual and technical properties; however,

Nonetheless, Eisenstein’s technique, quite similar to Kuleshov’s theory known as the ‘Kuleshov effect’, brought the power of montage to a higher level, consequently making it a efficacious tool for propaganda. Due to its immanent drama filmmakers will naturally be enticed by politics, but possibly also because the stakes

Stanley Kubrick was one of the most smartest and strangest directors in history. He once said, “If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.” There are other directors that I admire whom I feel fall under Autheur. However Stanley Kubrick has a crazy trademark with the way he shoots his movies that somehow captivates audiences. One of the hallmarks of Stanley Kubrick’s films were his protracted, uncompromisingly slow scenes. With any other filmmaker I would dismiss such scenes as tedious and self-indulgent, and I do generally prefer breezy pacing, but I must admit that these slow scenes in Stanley Kubrick’s films have really grown on me and have an undeniable charm of their own. For example, 2001: A Space Odyssey – The scene in which Bowman disconnects HAL (the computer). There is no montage here, no time-compressing cutting techniques: instead,

Since this film was created by Aleksandrov, a russian filmmaker, then it is of no surprise that his film was a compilation of the political juxtaposition style called Soviet Montage. This technique was used many times throughout the film especially with concrete,