Cinematography Essay

With the sheer magnitude of architectural elements that are needed to provide this exploratory tale through Kane’s life, Orson Welles was able to really take advantage of the details to amplify the story. This use of architectural elements and design not only helped reinforce the specific scenes that they were in at the time, but went so far as to help illustrate the character of Charles Foster Kane and relate Kane’s story to modern day events. Throughout the entirety of the film, the architecture

Before the cinematically revolutionary Citizen Kane, filming techniques before were not quite as advanced, and were rather banal in terms of movements and lighting. Scenes were captured rigidly and provided the viewer with a constant eye-level view, which gave no sense of artistic design. Orson Welles' Citizen Kane rejects such triteness, and instead employs a new, imaginative filming technique known as the deep focus. Citizen Kane does more than just a unique camera trick, however, as it also provides

Orson Wells´ film “Citizen Kane,” has long been regarded as one of, if not the greatest film of all time. It has been beloved by critics for decades and will be at or near the top of any list of great movies. Part of this appeal lays in the fact that, “Citizen Kane,” challenges many of the preexisting narrative and technological aspects of filmmaking in the 1930s. “Citizen Kane,” defied or adjusted these traditional conventions in order to suit its own narrative and because of that it is still one

A very special person in my life is, my grandmother. Back home in India I have a joint family. My family stays in different floors of the same building. She is what you could call “the Queen Bee” of our family. I learn a lot of life lessons that define me as a person from her. When I was still in my childhood years, I was not interested in studies and my grades were going down. My father was unhappy with my falling grades. When I was ten years old he decided to send me to assist my grandmother daily

Citizen Kane was rife with innovations in cinematic technique and introduced many new and unique aspects of mise-en-scèné that would thrive in films to come. Orson Welles was a young visionary whose career had been limited to stage production and radio until his first film, Citizen Kane. Uniquely, as someone new to the film industry, he retained full creative control of his very first project, co-writing, producing, directing, and starring as Kane himself. This unfounded level of trust for a newcomer

Prenom Carmen uses a academy ratio of 1.37:1. Starting with the first shot, it begins with a man, named Uncle Jean, in the hospital staring out of the window. Godard’s use of a middle lense, a straight-on camera angle along with high key lighting all made the visuals seem somewhat muted. The colors are all “soft” or “subdued” with no other prominent lighting effects in this first shot. Yet while the visuals does not necessarily capture my attention, Godard’s use of sound and framing certainly

This paper argues that the semantic and syntactic elements of the American West commonly used in most Westerns creates a tone for a more contemporary version of the popularized American Westerns intertwined with a bit of thriller in the ‘Tracked’ scene of the 2007 Coen Brothers’ film, No Country for Old Men. I will prove that said scene establishes new aspects against the traditional westerns known internationally by incorporating Rick Altman’s analysis of semantic and syntactic themes in film genre

When a person watches a movie, and a scene with dim lighting shows up on the screen, that usually makes them feel tense and scared about what is going to happen next. Directors use cinematic techniques to convey feelings or connect with the viewer. In the movies Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses flashbacks, diegetic and non-diegetic sounds, and high key and low key lighting to show a characters’ thoughts or past, create the mood of a

Cinematic techniques help a movie become more entertaining therefore everyone uses them. Different elements can create different moods. Directors all have unique styles of making movies. Tim Burton uses lighting and different angles to contrast fantasy with reality and show the strength of different characters. Burton uses lighting to show fantasy and reality in his movies. In the film Charlie and the Chocolate Factory high key lighting represents fantasy. The lighting is used in Willy Wonka’s factory

Nights of Cabiria and La Dolce Vita left me absolutely stunned, in awe of what I had just witnessed. I found both of these films to be unspeakably beautiful, and in my opinion, the best out of all Fellini's major motion pictures which I have attempted to view this semester. Both films are unmistakably "Fellini" in the characteristic that define his films, especially through the world of fantasy, and deserve a thorough comparison. In La Dolce Vita, we are given a glimpse of a filmmaker