The Film War Horse By Michael Morpurgo

Almost every piece of cinema seeks to give the viewer an understanding by intricately assembling shots in a coherent, and a sometimes muddled, manner; the techniques used in editing places various shots in purposeful sequences, to emphasize certain relationships between shots. The shots can be arranged smoothly and logically, or shift abruptly from shot to shot; different methods of the aforementioned arrangement of shots are utilized in either discontinuous or continuous editing. Sherlock Jr. and The War on Drug’s music video “Holding On”, are two motion pictures that offer spatial relations, by applying techniques of both continuous and discontinuous editing.

Literary devices will be a primary source used to compare and contrast the narrative and stylistic choices made in the short story, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, and the film 2081 directed by Chandler Tuttle. In the film the director is able to express visuals, sounds, and physical characters, to establish a firm idea of how the characters within the story act and feel based on their surroundings and what is happening around them. However, an Author in a short story is reliant on his words alone to paint the picture for the reader to understand the movement of the plot and its impact on the atmosphere. The literary devices used in creating and shaping pieces of literature will heavily impact the point of view of the

Camera angles and shots are essential technique for the director to draw meaning to the character’s stories. A key camera angle is a high angle. In classic westerns the antagonists are presented in high

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

Charlie Chaplin’s movie “The Immigrant” shows his mastery as a Director in the use of Mise-en-scene. His artful use of framing, movement, set design, props, and acting in this silent movie, artfully communicates emotion and story to the audience in every scene. The lack of sound did not hinder his ability to tell the story in a straight forward, inventive, and hilarious way, and in this paper, I’ll point out a just a few of the scenes where I feel I see the best use of Mise-en-scene. According to Robert Kolker of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, “Mise-en-scène can be defined as the articulation of cinematic space, and it is precisely space that it is about”.

The non-fiction article, “Children of War” by Arthur Brice is about four children who were forced to flee war and relocate to the U.S. First off, children in warzones are not a big part of what caused the wars, but are still heavily, negatively affected. For many, life was great and jolly for children before times of war, but when war came about it changed their lives, they lived in fear and terror. They lost family, money, and most devastating, their homes. So they were forced to flee, to many countries around the world, but ultimately they came to the United States. At first life was tricky in the U.S, they struggled with language, culture, and homesickness. Although these teens are living in the U.S today, they hope to go back to their

To the United States, World War II is believed to be a good war, and why wouldn’t it be considered as such? During World War II, in addition to stopping mass genocide and stopping the spread of Nazism and Fascism, the United States beat Japan after their attack on Pearl Harbor. As a result, the U.S. was no longer in the Depression and the United States became a world power. However, in “The Best War Ever,” Michael C.C. Adams argues that as a result of Hollywood’s glamorization of the war, government propaganda/censorship, and the widespread of economic prosperity, Americans were kept in the dark about the truth regarding World War II resulting in the popular belief and myth that World War II was a good war.

Whenever books are adapted for film, changes inevitably have to be made. The medium of film offers several advantages and disadvantages over the book: it is not as adept at exploring the inner workings of people - it cannot explore their minds so easily; however, the added visual and audio capabilities of film open whole new areas of the imagination which, in the hands of a competent writer-director, can more than compensate.

Being one of the world’s most popular art forms, it was inevitable that these archetypes would find their way into film as well. In this essay I will argue that the

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.

A stylised moment was when Joey met the tank during the war scene; this moment was very intense as Joey was faced with a huge big tank that he cannot compete against. It shows the old technology in this case the horse meeting the new technology the tank. As Joey meets the tank he screams and gallops fast past the tank, while doing so Joey breaths rapidly. This is shown when the actors controlling the horse move the stomach inwards and out. There is a use of strobe lighting effects into the audience to make them feel Joey’s fear and panic that he is going through. In addition there is loud classical music playing in the background to intensify the emotions that the horse is going through. When Joey is first faced with the tank he runs, this is shown by the clever use of the revolve. The use of juxtapositioning occurs here, as it shows the old warfare facing the new warfare.

Theorist Vsevolod Pudovkin claims that narrative films are mainly a “product of construction” and cautious compilations of “selections of images that have been shot” (Renée).

During the process of envisioning and designing a film, the director, production designer, and art director (in collaboration with the cinematographer) are concerned with several major spatial and temporal elements. These design elements punctuate and underscore the movement of figures within the frame, including the following: setting, lighting, costuming, makeup, and hairstyles. Choose a scene from movieclips.com. In a three to five page paper, (excluding the cover and reference pages) analyze the mise-en-scène

Sergei Eisenstein's film theory often reflects on the capabilities of allowing film editing to create the essence of the scenes. With the work of Arthur Penn's "Bonnie and Clyde" viewers see aspects of the formalist concepts while comparing Eisenstein interpretation of artistic cinematography. In “Eisenstein Cinematic Principle and Ideogram-Dialectical Approach” the article discusses the way cinematographic traits help revolutionize the way we view different forms graphically. The article maintains that cinematography is simply a montage of scenes in frames timed together to create a picturesque feel that is often left open to interpret by the viewer. The form of the film will associate different dimensions to an object that is used to be the

A single camera production is the use one single camera to film all of the diverse shots. An advantage of single camera production is the flexibility with shots due to other cameras not being in the frame and also the low budget. On the other hand, single camera production comes with disadvantages such as being time consuming and difficult to consistently reposition; furthermore if the camera is damaged all work may be lost. Within this essay, I will be discussing the elements in which make up a single camera production along with indicating an understanding of the codes and conventions that relate to this area of media. Single camera productions can use certain narrative structures such as linear, where the narrative runs in chronological