Film Analysis Essay

Task one Horror is a sub-genre of film there are three main sub-genres to horror 1 psychological horror – the story will be about the character’s fear, guilt and beliefs 2 supernatural horror – these films have ghosts and demon’s aliens etc. as the villains with impossible abilities 3 slasher horror – they have a psycho often in a mask killing high school kids in an isolated buildings or towns they often set ate night time to made it scarier. Often the villain will jump out of closets and…

SYNOPSIS The film Ladykillers (2004 film), directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen tells the story of Mrs. Munson who like to report to the police if there is someone suspicious behavior. Professor Marcus and his group, Cohort had hired a room in the house Mrs. Munson. Mrs. Munson did not realize that there is a hidden agenda by Professor Marcus and his comrades. Conflict arises when attempting to get money to no avail. The incidence of suicide has occurred and one by one was dead and Mrs. Munson…

1. Introduction FILMS are method of expressions .Directors, Actors and Cinematographers use this medium as a method to speak an exactly crafted plot. This communication operates at many levels; expressly, with the delivery of lines by the actors, and implicitly, with the backgroundmusic, lighting, camera movements and then on. They typically follow well-establish rules, normally referred to as “film grammar” in literature, to communicate these ideas [1]. Movies contribute to the major portion…

Unit 3 Assessment 1. Perform a rhetorical analysis (focusing on the criteria of your choice) of the U.S. Government film about the Japanese & Japanese-American internment camps in class. I like focusing on the objects in the background of propaganda, and think of all the ways it can affect an audience like I did with The Thrifty Pig film. The first time I watched it I noticed the multiple American flags, the globe in the man’s office. Flags showing that the man giving you this information is…

compare the film Sin City with the classic style of film noir to see if there are any differences or similarities between them. The analysis focuses on four concepts that I believe are the most classic film-noir associations. Lighting, Femme fatale, a dark world and the protagonist. Already in the first scene a couple of things are established. The first scene is part of a side story that we only get to see in the beginning and again at the end of the film, and it frames the whole film. The…

According to the film, Max Cady is a sexual predator of young girls. Gregory Peck acts well by playing Sam Bowden, a lawyer, under which an ex-con terrorizes his family against whom the lawyer had initially testified in a rape case. As the tensions become more intensive, it is clear that the intended victim by Cady is not actually Bowden, but Nancy, a fourteen-year-old girl who is his daughter. Therefore, the main point of the film in regards to suspense is whether a man can assault a…

The development of sound in the cinema happened around the time two major social commotions were going on: the Great Depression and World War II. Before sound came about, most silent films were accompanied ranging from a piano/organ to a full orchestra. Inventors tried joining images to reproduce sound through phonograph records, but it was too difficult to synchronize the sound due to the inadequacy of loudspeakers for theater auditoriums. Finally in 1927, the Warner Brothers released The Jazz…

troops at their base called Armadillo in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. Armadillo is a film revealing the young volunteers experiences of the highs and lows of combat. This essay will discuss the filmmaker’s techniques and the various ways in which he structured the story and whether his techniques allowed him to express his viewpoint. Documentaries are thought to be one of three basic creative modes of film. While neither narrative fiction nor avant-garde, documentaries are often the…

The concept of time, and how it can be used to alter the structure and story of a film has intrigued filmmakers for years. Whereas time's rules are usually unflinching, the creation of film has allowed these rules to be bent and broken in previously unseen ways. Stories with a non-linear structure can now be told fluently and dramatically, such as Christopher Nolan's ‘Dunkirk', or instead complex story arcs can be explored, utilising time in a unique way, like in Shane Carruth's ‘Primer' in…

There are many ways to classify film noir, but in order to condense it for the purposes of writing the EE, I have chosen specific aspects to asses. Roger Ebert, noted film critic and former writer for the Chicago-Sun Times classifies film noir using 10 distinct aspects (some important ones are listed below) (RogerEbert.com): o At no point does the film trick the viewer into thinking there will be a happy resolution, there is always a sense of a bleak outlook o Love and death are highly…