Orlando : The Movie Orlando

The director mainly used eye level shots, to leave it up to the audience to judge the two main characters of the movie, although certain power struggles in the film are shown from high angles to illustrate someone dominating a conversation or argument. Figgis also uses some point of view shots to show the imbalance during Ben’s drunken periods where the camera is placed at an oblique angle to show tension and approaching movements. The images in the film are in high contrast with streaks of blackness and harsh shafts of light to underline the dramatic events that occur.

With his eyes fixated on the water, the camera shifts to each person in the water as if he is looking at each person. First, the director uses a long three shot, which contains two people and a dog jumping into the water fetching a stick. The screen shifts to a young boy running and jumping into the water with his raft and paddling further into the water. The camera then shifts back to the dog and his owner. Once again, it shifts to an old women floating, and then snaps again back to the little boy. This sequence continues a few more times until the camera position changes and is now facing Brody at eye level. With this next shot, the director used an incredibly complex editing technique called wipe. With an image of Brody at eyelevel, the camera captures an individual walking by. More individuals walk by and with the passing of each person, Brody’s face is brought dramatically closer. With this technique used three times I was able to get a close up shot of Brody and visualize the concentration on his face. The wiping continues, except this time the camera shifts from Brody to the women floating. With each shift Brody’s body language was also changing becoming more upright and ready to announce an attack. The body language of Brody and the fixation on the women made me believe that he was seeing something that I was not. This built suspense in the

I chose to analyze the movie “The Princess and the Frog” since I knew how sexist Disney princess movies in the past, such as Cinderella and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, have been, but also the interesting twists that try to hide sexism in the more modern tales. “The Princess and The Frog” really is a classic Disney love story. Tiana is a woman in New Orleans who dreams of one day running her own popular restaurant along the Mississippi River. Prince Naveen travels to New Orleans with the sole purpose of marrying a rich woman to reclaim his part of his family's fortune. His greed is his downfall when he seeks the services of Dr. Facilier, a voodoo man who turns him into a frog and turns his servant, Lawrence, into the prince. In a chance meeting at a masquerade ball, Tiana and frog Naveen meet. Naveen promises to pay for Tiana's restaurant if she would kiss him to turn him back into a human. Tiana relents, kisses him, and then is also turned into a frog. It is a race against time for them to find a way to turn themselves back into humans.

clever camera techniques which create tension and fear. The camera shots also pay close attention to detail. For example, when the man with the dog throws a stick for his dog to fetch into the sea, the camera

Burton manipulates shots/framing, editing, and music/sound to enhance the perspective of the audience and give them a meaningful and relevant story.

Firstly the directors and their team use a variety of different camera techniques to shape our view on the characters, and ultimately

This is accomplished with different camera angles as well as the movement of the camera. For example, in many scenes as the camera follows the action it is shaky rather than sturdy, as if you as a viewer are walking around and seeing the action through your own eyes. One may also notice that an escalated level of action or conversation on the screen is mirrored by the pace of the film from frame to frame. In essence, a heated argument would involve a quick paced transition of shots, going from a close-up of one character to another at a rapid pace in tune with the argument.

In contrast with interviews that James conducts as a source or witness, in which he sets the mise-en-scene, James tends to keep the camera true-to-life with the mother (Bellour, 50). James maintains a shaky camera technique to solidify his position as “the eye looking into their world.” During panning or other establishing shots, narrated sequences, and interviews with characters, a tripod is used to separate those moments from the story. Although not entirely non-diegetic, the interviews are spaces in the film shot outside of the story. The audience is given confirmation of how William and Arthur must be feeling during this time, allowing character development. Along with the ethical concerns of not tampering with reality, aesthetic efforts during the interviews was necessary to separate them from reality (Ellis, 222)

Another technique Lee uses throughout the film is treating cinema as a visual experience through the eye and also through the gaze. He sets up the film in such a way the objects seen in the movie were really present, while these objects are also used for symbolic construction, building a relationship between the spectator and the screen (Elsaesser 100). Lee also uses the strategies of alienation and identification throughout the entire film which further helps engage the audience’s emotions and makes them think throughout the film about what is the right

Throughout Die Hard, many elements of cinematography were performed to reveal character, direct the audience’s attention, and shape their feelings. For example, at the beginning of the film when the plane is heading in for landing, the film commences at a close up of John 's stiff hand around his seat 's armrest for two specific reasons. The film does this in order to reveal that his character is married; hence the wedding band on his left finger, and to direct our attention to the possibility that he either dislikes flying or feels uneasy and nervous about what is to come once the plane has landed. In the same scene where John reaches for his luggage in the overhead bin, the camera zooms in and quickly shifts from the passenger 's face, to John 's gun, and then back to the passenger 's face while continuing to keep equal distance from the mise-en-scene included in those scene changes. The film performs this to, once again, direct our attention to the passenger 's face which expresses fear and concern, then to John 's right side that reveals his

In this move, camera work plays a very important role. Since there are lots of emotional events in this story, camera work has to be able to transfer these emotions to the viewers. In fact this movie contains a rich camera work. The distance of camera, the angle and the way that camera moves toward the characters are significantly well done, because we can see all the changes that occur on face of each character. These make the movie to be more impressive and interesting.

Secondly, the variety of camera angles makes it feel like he’s being. They also change very suddenly which creates tension because you don’t know where he is being watched from because the camera

The directors chosen camera technique, a simple two composition that progresses the scene a steady pace, forces the audience to feel a part of the awkward exchange; obviously, a quality of film that could not be as profoundly achieved through the narrative in the novel.

There is a key shot where Russel uses a close up of an important way to show Bradley Cooper’s characters confusion. The close up provides a spun round frame focused on the characters face, giving an illusion for the world he perceives around him, with this angle shot the audiences response would be of empathy for the

When Making a film a director wants to draw the audiences emotions to the film to make them interested in what is going to happen. The director wants to make sure the audience is putting their emotions into a particular character or event. They can use this to give items importance and help us see who is an important character or if an event is serious or not. They basically tell us how to feel in a situation. They do this with the perspective/focus, lighting, and with the audio.