Film Techniques Essay

“Citizen Kane,” a masterpiece film of Orson Welles' creation, utilized a number of film making techniques that in 1941 were nothing short of revolutionary. His use of unorthodox narrative styles and film making techniques convey nearly as much to the viewer as the narrative itself. Traditionally, films were shot in an easy to follow, chronological format. Films began at point A, proceeded to point B, and ended at point C. “Citizen Kane” turned the chronological narrative on its head. Orson Welles

In the 2005 neo-noir film Hostage, directed by Florent Emilio Siri, Chief of police Jeff Dailey helps negotiate with three hostage keepers to save his own family and two kids. The thrill-seeking, crime plot is executed very intelligently and you can't often infer what will happen next. The darkness of the lighting, darkness of humanity, darkness of the setting, visual motifs and archetypes are all elements of this film that shape it into a neo-noir style. All of these different elements illustrate

Cinematic Analyses Quarter 2 The movie The Untouchables directed by Brian De Palma illustrates the theme that determination is necessary to achieve a goal. The movie takes place in Chicago in the 1930’s during prohibition when all liquor is deemed illegal. Gangster Al Capone has taken advantage of prohibition and uses the ban of alcohol to create a business selling illegal booze. Capone has a grasp on all departments in Chicago and is the most powerful man in the city. The movie starts with the introduction

The film “There Will Be Blood” was released in 2007. Paul Thomas was the director and the screenwriter. The main actors in the film were Daniel Day-Lewis who starred as Daniel Plainview, Dillon Freasier as Plainview’s son H.W., and Paul Dano as the priest Eli Sunday. This is a great film that shows the life of an oil man during the early days and how he cared so much for his money. The film is more of a drama than anything and it is done very well in the way the camera angles are moved in and

Questions So Jason will your idea of a remake be economically appropriate for the remake of this film? Why do you believe that they need to show more themes and mateship throughout the film? Thanks Jason! In 1981, Peter weir directed a now iconic film on the mateship, tragedies and the affects that war had on people. In particular he focussed on Australians fighting at Gallipoli. Through his cinematography, characterisation and symbolism, he demonstrated Australians as a bunch of comrades going

The message conveyed to the audience in the film Nemo (2003) directed by, Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich. Andrew and Lee demonstrate the skilled use of film techniques. To analyse the scene 3 minutes into the film, I will be looking at the symbols, writing codes, audio and technical codes or commonly known as SWAT codes. The theme of this scene is, Marlin has lost everything but one egg. Marlin promises the egg that nothing will happen to it and that he will always be there. In this scene, we see

Meirelles. The film is based in the slum of Rio de Janeiro 1950s and 1960s. It is a story of about how two boys growing up in the slum take two very different paths; the young boy “Rocket” becomes a photographer and “Lil Zie” becomes ruthless gang member. The director used many different technical features in this film with editing. There were many scenes that used flashbacks, flash forwarding and flash forward replay to build up and intensify the film. In, fact the start of the film is with a flash

Making Citizen Kane (1941) The manipulation of time and space in the film of citizen cane is different from that of Pulp Fiction in that it considers formal elements of film technique such as Mise-en-scene where it essentially involves a costume, setting and makeup staging and lighting (Belton, 46). The very important scene that happens in front of the camera appears in the final shot of the film. The setting function of the film has highlighted the key aspect of Kane’s life compared to Pulp Fiction

1959 moviegoers were gifted with Alfred Hitchcock’s new film North by Northwest. North by Northwest was Alfred’s 44th film followed by his biggest hit psycho. Hitchcock also created hit films like Rear Window, vertigo, strangers on a train and the birds. Back in his day Hitchcock had a massive fan following creating a distinct style that pleased all who watched them. (Mystery.Net, 1998).Hitchcock was a film lover and didn’t care whether his films were too serious or not. He embraced the psychological

to make sense of the tycoon's dying last word, “Rosebud”. The film is considered one of the greatest of all time, not only for the story, but also for its many cinematic advances. There are many reasons why the movie challenged the traditional techniques and elements of classic Hollywood cinema. Citizen Kane made significant contributions to cinematography. One of the most notable contributions came from the use of a technique known as deep focus (Dirks, n.d.). Deep focus refers to having