Cinematic techniques

Masters of Cinematic Technique In Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and Hitchcock’s Psycho, each director successfully utilizes unique camera movements to communicate important thematic and narrative information to their audiences. In each film, the consciousness of the camera encodes not only the director’s authorial vision, but it also serves as a device for communicating power and suspense. Kubrick begins to display his impressive command of camera movement in the opening minutes of Paths of Glory. An early scene opens up with a medium shot of two generals, Broulard (Adolphe Menjou) and Mireau (George Macready), in an opulent, cavernous ballroom. The two men engage in a friendly, but slightly tense exchange, during which Broulard instructs Mireau,…

Tim Burton Cinematic Techniques Tim Burton uses cinematic techniques such as music and sound, lighting, editing, and camera movements. Cinematic techniques are basically used to explain how the editing, music, lighting, and camera movement are used in the movies. All three of the movies connects with the cinematic techniques by showing different aspects and how the techniques were used in the movies. Also they connect with the techniques by showing how the mood is developed like in the movie…

The Shining Stanley Kubrick was regarded as "one of the greatest and most influential directors of all time". He was best known for his brilliant signature themes and cinematic techniques. Kubrick’s adaptation of the film The Shining help us get a clear understanding of his directorial style. The use of slow, protracted shots, long tracking shots, extreme camera angles and sound effects were effectively used in some scenes that help build a special kind of suspense allowing the audience to be…

an omniscient narrator. But in a film, the scheme of things changes and the narration can be done in many different ways. The cinematic techniques can be used creatively and effectively to become sources of narration. In The Old Man and the Sea (Sturges) and Samskara (Reddy), the filmmakers have resorted to flashback sequences as tools of narration. Both the film adaptations have rather linear plots, which are very similar to the original novels. But with the change in the medium of expression,…

The auteur theory is the assumption that the director of a film is an artist of their medium in the same way that a writer is the author or their book. Writers often use similar themes, have similar characters, and write in a stylistic manor that is recognizable. The auteur theory suggests that the same can be said of directors of films, that they will be recognizable as the creative force behind each film they produce. There are three premises to auteur theory that film viewers can use to…

manipulates bud to tie up some loose ends.In training day Alonzo manipulates the society and his colleagues for personal gain These films are all set in LA from this it helps us understand that LA the township is a very manipulated and corrupted town. In the film ‘double indemnity’ and ‘night crawler’ it appears that greed seems to be an important factor in the manipualtion of charcters.In the film ‘double indemnity’ directed by billy wilder we see this theme of manipulation and influence…

Hitchcock starts off by using the panning techniques and pans the large city, which sets the scene and establishes the date and time. After panning the city film it starts off in the afternoon and the camera moves from the view of the city and goes right through a window of an apartment. More camera work of Hitchcock that was observed was the angles and the use of mirrors to evoke thought about the lack of privacy that was shown during the film. One specific scene that I could recall was when…

After a series of well- written scripts, it is the film that will test the star power of Kangana. Katti Batti could have been an important film. Designed to exploit Kangana Ranaut’s rebellious image, it is a film which examines the perks of a live-in relationship. It is also a film which tries to put a girl in control of the relationship. In a role reversal of sorts, she wants the relationship to be a time pass when the boy is looking for eternal love. When he talks of values, the lissom lass…

character. Throughout the movie we will be able to compare and contrast the changes we notice in Theo character from this event. The director has incorporated film techniques into this significant event to engage the audience so they can create a first impression of Theo’s character. When Clive Owen first walks into the café the director used the film technique of body language on Theo’s character to create first initial impressions. We see him push through a crowd of crying people, their eyes…

Scissorhands and Corpse Bride. The director uses the cinematic techniques throughout these movies to give it that special effect. Without these cinematic techniques throughout these movies it would not have the same effect it gives for the audience to feel. Every audience member knows that each director has their own style to give of each movie. The director Tim Burton has a dark and creepiness style in each one of his movies. But the cinematic techniques that achieve that effect the most is…