Swimming Upstream Film Techniques

Analyse of the Film Techniques used by director Paul Goldman to explore the social issues in the Australian drama film, Australian Rules. This essay will look into the Film Techniques used by director Paul Goldman and cinematographer Mandy Walker to explore the social issues of violence, racism and alcohol abuse in the 2002 film “Australian Rules”. The film was originally the debut novel by author Phillip Gwynne “Deadly, Unna?”.

“Analyse, evaluate and compare the techniques used to dim the horror of the real life events discussed in the novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and the film Life is Beautiful.”

is a fight just to survive for the next day . As a child David is taught a very harsh way of

1. Describe in your own words the events, actions and characters depicted in the animated sequence, the use of both on-screen and camera movement, and the general colour scheme. What might these elements be suggesting to us about the content, mood and themes for the rest of the film?

As Chrissie continues swimming, the frame changes to a point of view shot, accompanied by the same music as in the opening shot. The audience’s thoughts change immediately from the images of the cheerful beach party to the earlier reference of the shark in the opening sequence. This provides a very effective contrast. The audience's expectations are realised when Chrissie feels a sharp pain, and then begins splashing about in the water as she is attacked.

Adding to the difficult relationship between John and his father, John always try to seek for approval by trying to make his father proud but hardly he could received it. Constantly John was beaten by his father in the form of punishments for failures or things committed such as accidentally damaging the car engine. John was often accused of being stupid and dumb in comparison to his sister, making through all his

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

Throughout the story, his parents and grandparents do numerous horrible things to him. His grandmother abused him, his mother lied to him and was constantly mean towards him, and his father gave him cancer. David’s childhood was incredibly rough, and in order to make it feel a bit less overwhelming he painted the city of Detroit as the ‘bad guy’. In this story there are numerous examples of this ‘neglect’ and other tragedies David is faced with. For example in chapter two David discusses this neglect, “Around that time Dad must have gotten a promotion or a raise.

2) What are some of the themes that are central to the film? How have they been communicated?

The character David Experiences threats from his Father. David does not really like this because he's still just a little kid and to be told he can't play because of their

his father and dead mother. David's father has an idealized vision of his son as

As Davis starts to tell about his life as a young boy in America, he lets us know about his mother dying far too young, and him being raised by his father and aunt. David's dad is stereotype of a man and their emotions. He and his son never have a close relationship. Even when David gets hurt in an accident, his father doesn't want him to cry. He wants him to be a man, a manly man and

The purpose of this essay is to analyze the short story “The Swimmer” by Jon Cheever and it’s film adaptation. Overall, the film and the short story use different dialogue, different characterization, and different visual effects and imagery to provide the reader and the viewer with the allegory of Ned Merrill’s life. While both works focus on the fanciful nature of moving across an entire neighborhood using swimming pools, there are more differences between the film and short story than similarities. Firstly, I will begin by describing the usage of visual effects in the film and imagery in the short story. Secondly, I will describe the differences in dialogue. Finally, I will conclude by describing the ways in which both pieces leverage their characters.

When you speak about successful auteur directors it is almost impossible to leave out Wes Anderson. He has made his mark in Hollywood creating movies full of quirky humor and one of a kind visual style. His career breakthrough came from third full-length movie The Royal Tenenbaums. This led to movies such as The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Moonrise Kingdom and winner of a Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy; The Grand Budapest Hotel. These movies have similar thematic elements, plot/character elements, visual/stylistic elements and editing tendencies that show up between one or two or even all of them since Wes Anderson uses the same style throughout his movies. Some thematic elements that come across in his movies

The cinematography of this film features numerous close-ups of its adolescent protagonists as well as point-of-view shots acquired predominantly from their perspective, thus making the viewers position themselves firmly on the boys’ side of