Cinematic techniques

Many people have wondered about Director Tim Burton’s movies and how come they have a childlike innocence. Burton uses different cinematic techniques to create a peculiar, and childlike innocent mood. Some of these cinematic techniques are, lighting, sound and camera movements.. Burton used many different lighting techniques throughout all of the movies he directed. For example, Tim Burton uses a mix of high-key and low-key lighting in the cookie factory flashback scene. In the background during

Response How the film techniques used by Baz Luhrman to influence the portrayal and development of characters in the film Strictly Ballroom? In the film Strictly Ballroom, the director Baz Luhrman uses many different film techniques to influence the portrayal and development of characters. Costume and makeup is used as a vital technique to show the audience the characters’ personalities and also the development of some characters. Camera angles and lighting is another technique that is used to exaggerate

Cinematic Techniques 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

The 1940s film industry favored films that were based on reality, such as Citizen Kane. Orson Welles is the director of the 1941 film, Citizen Kane, which uses the cinematic techniques of long takes and deep focus shots. Long takes and deep focus shots are associated with space and time. I will be writing about scene D where Susan, the second Ms. Kane, is in the middle of a singing lesson. Scene D contains examples of long takes, deep focus takes, and camera movements. Firstly, a long take is

Through the movie, we can see into the lives of a family that is so different from ours. The film focuses on teaching the audience about the Mongolian culture through a mixture of reality and drama. The film techniques used in The Weeping Camel set apart this movie from others as a cinematic masterpiece. The values that are shown in The Weeping Camel greatly differ from common values in Australia. The family believes in generosity. This is shown as when travellers pass through, they are given a

the ability to create an emotion in the viewers of the film and by the means of and imagery. Alfred Hitchcock, for long time, has been a household name since he began filmmaking. Hitchcock has been able to accumulate a well known and distinct cinematic techniques making him stand out as one of the best filmmakers around the globe. What makes Hitchcock’s films ‘must watch’ movies are how he draws his viewers’ emotion and leave them in suspense (Maher 246). Hitchcock’s The Birds is an American horror-film

Luhrmann’s evolution of cinematic techniques as well as philosophy of cinema. This essay will examine Luhrmann’s use of postmodern film techniques, by analyzing the, “red curtain trilogy”. From Strictly Ballroom’s, “flattening of affect” as Scott’s rigid false perception of winning the San Pacific Ballroom dance completion. To Romeo + Juliet’s multi-voiced narratives. Climaxing to The Great Gatsby’s intertextuality of the book to the current movie. All of these techniques and much more discusses

different from you. This was all achieved by using cinematic elements such as lighting, sound, camera an-gles, and wardrobe. This film’s message really made the audience think and feel as if they were playing a role in the movie themselves. The fantasy film Edward Scissorhands offers insight into reality using immoderation, to show people’s prejudices, which were created by the deficiency of knowledge amongst the towns people. The first technique that plays a key factor in the moral of this film

One of the many comedic plays written by William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, was produced into a film. The key actors within this film are Frances Barber, Chris Hollis, Caroline Langrishe, Christopher Ravenscroft, and Richard Briers. The 1988 film, directed by Paul Kafno, kept an almost perfect faithfulness to the text and it was very easy for me to follow along in the book. Although the film was not the most entertaining one, it did a great job of portraying the famous Shakespeare

Alejandro G. Inarritu utilises an extensive array of literary techniques to display the main themes of greatness, power, and the struggle between reality and madness in his cinematic and literary triumph Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance). Inarritu explores the nature and pursuit of greatness through the character of Riggan using a multitude of techniques. An intertextual allusion to the story of Icarus is a motif throughout the film, appearing in the opening shot and subsequent times