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Nemo Film Techniques

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The message conveyed to the audience in the film Nemo (2003) directed by, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. Andrew and Lee demonstrate the skilled use of film techniques. To analyse the scene 3 minutes into the film, I will be looking at the symbols, writing codes, audio and technical codes or commonly known as SWAT codes. The theme of this scene is, Marlin has lost everything but one egg. Marlin promises the egg that nothing will happen to it and that he will always be there. In this scene, we see and hear the skilled use of techniques to convey the message of this scene to the audience. A clown fish named Marlin lives in the Great Barrier Reef loses his son, Nemo. After he ventures into the open sea, despite his father’s constant warnings about many of the ocean’s dangers. Nemo is abducted by a boat and netted up and sent to a dentist’s office in Sydney. So, while Marlin ventures off to try to retrieve Nemo, Marlin meets a fish named Dory, a blue tang …show more content…

Audio codes are any sound that you hear throughout the film, such as dialogue, music, sound effects, laugh tracks applause. In this scene the distressed and dull music creates an overly dramatic distressed environment for Marlin. The director has used skilled use of audio codes to create this into a more dramatic scene for the audience. The director has used skilled use of technical codes to show the audience how much Marlin has lost and to show Marlin’s emotions towards what had happened. Technical codes are techniques used in the construction of the image or scene. For example; camera shots, camera angles, camera movement, lighting and special effects. The camera angle inside of Marlin’s den (where he was keeping the eggs) shows how empty it is and that he has lost all of his family. The director has showed the skilled use of technical codes in this scene to convey the message to the

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