Special Effects Essay

Hitchcock makes use of a number of techniques in Vertigo and brings them together to make a film that is considered to be one of his greatest masterpieces. Through the use of colour, lighting, camera movement, dialogue and characterisation, Hitchcock produces a film that fascinates and intrigues us.

In this color photo my eye is immediately drawn to the blue car just below the direct center of the photograph. The car’s paint is faded everywhere except the very front of the hood making the color a very pale blue. There are two men leaning on either side of the hood, on the far side the man has his back to the camera and is wearing a blue shirt and a grey hat, the man on the near side is wearing a plain white t shirt with brown pants with one of the pant legs tied in a knot because his right leg is absent. You can see the man in whites front side, he is overweight and has brown curly hair and appears to be holding something but I could not identify what it was in this picture. On the back side of the car both the trunk and the driver’s side rear door are wide open with two small boxes with handles placed on the ground right below the door. The car is parked on a bridge constructed of basketball sized rocks dirt and a large metal pipe that a small stream of dirty water is flowing through. Upstream from the bridge there is a buildup of sticks and logs that spans the whole stream. The stream starts on the left side

In the film, Gattaca, the director Andrew Niccol uses film techniques to show the significance of an event. The society of Gattaca discriminates based on an individual’s genetics. Vincent is the main character of the film who is classified as an invalid due to his genetics, however, his brother Anton is a genetically engineered valid. Vincent and Anton play a game of ‘chicken’ in the sea to see who can swim further and who turns back first. In the first swimming scene Vincent loses, however the second swimming scene is a big turning point for Vincent as he pushes himself to keep up with his brother and ends up saving him from drowning.

The extraordinary film The 400 Blows (Francois Truffaut, 1959) skillfully uses cinematic devices appropriately within the context of the theme. Part of the underlying theme of this movie as explained by Truffaut himself is, “... to portray a child as honestly as possible...”(Writing About Film, 1982). It is the scenes in this movie that are most helpful in disclosing the overall theme of the film. Within the scenes, the camera angles in this film play an important role in accentuating the emotions behind the scene. The camera angles used in this film will be the primary focus of this paper. The high angle shots utilized in The 400 Blows are effective in helping to develop the overall feel of a scene. This movie

Exercise 1: Cell Transport Mechanisms and Permeability: Activity 2: Simulated Facilitated Diffusion Lab Report Pre-lab Quiz Results You scored 100% by answering 4 out of 4 questions correctly. 1. Molecules need a carrier protein to help them move across a membrane because You correctly answered: d. they are lipid insoluble or they are too large. 2. Which of the following is true of facilitated diffusion? You correctly answered: c. Movement is passive and down a concentration gradient. 3. Examples of solutes that might require facilitated diffusion include You correctly answered: d. all of the above. 4. Which of the following would not affect the rate of facilitated diffusion? You correctly answered: a. the amount of intracellular ATP

For the photograph that I took, I decided to follow Weston’s theme and photograph an organic object with interesting features. I needed to find something with a vivid texture so that the photograph could allow the viewer to almost feel what I could. I searched throughout my room until finally, I found what I was looking for. It was a shell from the Pacific Ocean that I had brought back with me from Mexico. The shell had off-whites blended into browns and reds. It also had ridges running from the origin of the shell, to the outside. I found the situation to be somewhat ironic considering that Weston had lived in Mexico taking photographs, and also took pictures of shells.

The media has been and always will be the main source for news and information about any issue, namely the Presidential Election. The way media portrays a candidate can affect how the nation views them as a whole, but different media sources portray a candidate differently based upon their audience and who owns them. Clinton’s portrayal in the media can differ greatly from source to source. In sources with conservative heavy audiences like Fox she is looked down upon and unfavorable comparisons are made while in sources with liberal heavy audiences like the Atlantic she is both defended and questioned. This essay will compare three different articles from three different sources which will be NPR, Fox, and the Atlantic.

The Gavorrano oversized arch mirror is like adding another window to your space. If hung or placed across from a real window it will reflect the view and the light making it feel like two windows. The Gavorrano mirror is made with a reclaimed pine frame that features a lightly aged gray wash finish and wrought iron Muntins. It’s big and beautiful 48" x 80."

The small, ivory statuette of the Virgin and Child and the rich, animated fresco panels from the Magdalene chapel create a sense of reverence and promote personal prayer. The statuette incorporates both ivory and wood. The figures of ivory rise up off their wooden base. Altogether, the piece stands 200 millimeters tall. The statuette dates to the early fourteenth century in Paris, France. During the fourteenth century, ivory pieces (both religious and secular) grew in popularity, allowing craftsman to forge beautiful works of art. Ivory ornaments hold an air of quality craftsmanship because the material carries a great value and versatile nature. A devotional object made of ivory becomes precious in the

Theme: To describe theme in my video I used numerous pictures and a song that was done by Nirvana in the 90’s since that is the main character’s favorite band. For instance, I used the blonde girl rocking the headphones because Nico has blonde hair and loves music. I used the worn out Chuck Taylor shoes because that's how the character feels, pulled in every direction and tired. The picture of Kurt Cobain displays a lot of things, one of them being that the story is advertently surrounded around him, and his band.

In this C-print portrait photograph of a Saint Joseph ballet dancer from Orange County, California, the subject matter is the person, Stephany. She is pictured wearing a very intense red hue Guess sweater, an almost blank expression on her bare, natural face, and she is standing, posed with a slight lean inward to the left but her gaze is straight ahead. Her facial expression is soft, and there is a complete lack of subject matter in the background. The contrasting value difference in the Guess sweater she is pictured wearing and the whitish-gray empty background keeps your eyes focused on the subject.

Tim Burton’s films are strange and wonderful with his medium shots, eye level angles, and front or back lighting. His films have great depth of meaning and he always seems to get the audience's attention with his techniques. In some of his movies like “Edward Scissorhands” and “Beetlejuice” he used many different techniques to demonstrate sinister moods and tones. The tones of his movies are usually always dark because of his childhood experiences and past. Tim Burton creates something so odd and turns it into a work of art.

Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques to create his unique and, effective style in movies, for example the lighting he uses can help create the tone in scenes. In the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory lighting was used frequently. When the it first showed Charlie sitting in his house the lighting was dim and low helping create the effect of the the family being sad and poor. As Charlie found the Golden Ticket the house was brightened up, and was given the effect of cheeriness. However, the opposite effect was used when the children were approaching the factory. When they went from the light of the sun to shadows of the factory, it symbolized the unknown and what events are coming. The same kind of approach with lighting was used in the

Direct Cinema The term 'direct cinema' was coined by American director Albert Maysles, to describe the style of documentary that he and his contemporaries were making in the 1960s as a result of a lightweight, portable 16mm camera and high quality lightweight audio recorders becoming available. The introduction of these, together with film-stock which was sensitive enough to give a good quality close-up monochrome picture under most lighting conditions (Including hand-held lights) led to a revolution in Documentary filmmaking, allowing film crews to be much more flexible. Gone were the days of bulky, virtually immobile 35mm cameras; now manufacturers improved their 16mm stock and accepted it

The style of edit for this sequence and entire film is continuity editing which produces a logical and straightforward narrative. The sequence begins with an establishing shot of the city road setting, orienting the viewer. The editing follows real-time human experiences, for example, the Tramp enters the paddy wagon then it cuts to him sitting down on the benches with the rest of the convicted, minimizing the perception of breaks between cuts (invisible editing).