Review Of Stanley Kubrick 's ' Redrum ' Scene From The Renowned Film ' The Shining '

Film is an artistic medium with the capability of telling a profound story and creating a feeling. Powell and Pressburger do this beautifully in The Red Shoes through their use of color and editing, capturing the struggle between Victoria’s personal and professional lives. The power of a great movie can bring its audience into another world, and allow the viewer to connect the film to their own lives. Like literature, Film utilizes metaphors, symbolism, and countless other techniques to convey its message. The result can be poetic, mysterious, funny, haunting, and all around moving.

The opening sequence of Clarice Starling frantically jogging through the labyrinth-like foggy forest in director Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs (1991), sets the visual design standard for the rest of the thrilling film. The visual design of a movie is comprised of the contents of the frame and how they are used to enhance the viewing experience for the audience. There exists a multitude of visual design elements, each one playing a major role in every motion picture. Visual design elements affect the mood and atmosphere in a film. The mood of a film is the emotion that is evoked when viewing a movie, whereas the atmosphere is external, the physical, sensory qualities of the film. Throughout the duration of the 138-minute masterpiece,

Tim Burton has a great deal of cinematic techniques that make his movie stand out more than others, but the three techniques that make it come through more to me is the Music, Lighting, and Shot. So in this essay I will be explaining how these techniques will generate a world of Tim Burton’s own.

The film I will be micro-analysing is Francis Laurence’s 2013 film “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, focusing on the opening sequence and how cinematography such as camera techniques and mise-en scene are used to create an effect on an audience. The scene opens with a high angled extreme wide shot looking down at the woods, where the sequence is set, giving a “God-like” perspective of the view to the audience. The angle could mimic that of the Game Makers during the annual Hunger Games (in which the protagonist, Katniss Everdeen, is reaped to take part in twice), giving the audience a sense of power over the scene. The scene is set in the early hours of the morning with the mise-en scene showing a dark and grey overview of the whole woods, representing the poverty and depression that has plagued the people in District 12 for many years. The only colour to break up the low lighting and grey is the dull orange of the sun as it rises in the background.

We frequently consider films in terms of their genre, a French word meaning ‘kind’ or ‘sort’. It is a very complex term, not only used in film but also in other creative areas such as music, art, and literature. However, it is often considered through various conventions including iconography, similar themes and their stylistic features, as Bordwell and Thompson (2006:357) suggest, ‘ style…is the formal system of the film that organizes techniques’ such as lighting, props and setting. This repetition of common elements across a series of films allows us as the viewer to identify genre. For example, if a film was to

The following extracts introduces us to the links between film and music, providing examples and research about how both factors intertwine to create a full experience, visually with film, and emotionally with the music that goes with it.

Filmmakers use elements of mise-en-scene to explain the significance between a shot and the story. Setting, costume, lighting, and color are some of the elements which establish relationships between themes and characters. Moonrise Kingdom uses elements of mise-en-scene within the opening scene to foreshadow the themes and mood of the film. Through an analysis of the mise-en-scene elements this paper will clarify their significance, expose their irony, and identify the connections to Susy’s feelings of isolation and abandonment. Setting and props set expectations of how audiences understand the film.

As I explore this subject, I will write about musicians and their instruments as the central part of the mise-en-scène, light as an object, the audience, camera angles, camera settings, and some technical aspects of the workflow in my upcoming posts.

Overall, it could be suggested that many different parts of a film’s composition during production are important. However, it could also be believed that different directors, and that different films place more emphasis on some aspects than others. The mise-en-scene of American Beauty is ‘crucial to shaping our sympathy for, and understanding of, the characters’ (Barsam and Monahan, 2010), whilst still also keeping the visual aspects true to the ‘essence of cinema’ (Philips, 2001), and indeed, encouraging the viewer to ‘look

I first experienced the mystical possibilities of filmmaking by witnessing the artistic genius of Mark Herman in his movie “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” and of course the one and only Alfred Hitchcock or I like to call him “The Wizard of Thriller” in movies like, The White Shadow (one of the greatest silent movies by him), Peak years and the famous Psycho. As a filmmaker, I studied nuances, character-based storytelling and building up a story from the introduction of the main till the end having misunderstanding or war within oneself or with someone else in the middle. I look to create tales that brings a thrill to the viewers in the form of films. And that’s the reason why my team and I chose to do something different with our film and that little uniqueness about our film is the Panoramic style.

I have chosen to use an extract from the film ‘Citizen Kane’, directed by Orson Wells (1941) for this assignment. The technical aspects I have chosen to explore will be the use of both mise-en-scene and editing.

Lights. Camera. Action! The terms represent the ever expanding processes of cinematography. The ‘act of’ or carrying out a variety of components to produce a larger than life scale-film. By carrying out an objective to influencing viewers, whether subconsciously or to wittingly challenge an individual’s rationality; cinematography can submit an artistic impression. Without doubt, director Nicolas Winding Refn, circumferences his own signature style within his many films. His attempt to execute a major motion picture of exceptional value is without falter. Specifically, the Movie Drive was hypnotizing, commendable, and kept me glued to my seat while anticipating each unfolding scene. In essence, it was nothing short of riveting.

Although films are a relatively new form of art, they have shaped the modern world more than any other. It is true that visual art is equally compelling, but films appear as persuasive and capture the viewer’s emotions and interests. This effectiveness is on account of a movie’s magic, which is simply the cinematography techniques that filmmakers apply. These techniques are esoteric, and so hidden from the eyes of an ordinary viewer. Only trained eyes can detect the filmmakers’ approaches and judge whether or not they are relevant. When evaluating a film, one resort to two objects. As it were, the first is to assess the film’s magic, which refers to the ability of a film to capture and demand a viewer’s attention. Design, costumes, and lighting often appeal to this quarter. The second object is the film’s content. In other words, the story matters more than the representation. Through the story, the filmmakers can postulate an argument, which the viewers can subtly engage (Winkler 13). In many cases, the audience can forget the set designs and the costumes, but not the words and actions of the characters. “Troy” is one of the movies with a powerful argument.

The stylistic analysis of this paper will be focusing on the techniques used to indicate the dream realities and the actual reality in the movie Inception by Christopher Nolan. The analysis will be based on the mise-en-scene of the movie, especially camera movement, lighting, as well as sound and editing. When analysing these techniques into detail of three different scenes, differences and similarities should be spotted between the realities. By analysing these techniques, a conclusion will be made on whether or not the ending of the movie is the actual reality, or if it is a dream.

Both underscoring and source music play major roles in our understanding and enjoyment of a film. We can see the aesthetic of film music play