Cinematic techniques

murders and the killer became one of the most terrifying of all time. During this case study, I will describe some current techniques that could have been used in the investigation of the crime to help identify a suspect. In addition, I will discuss the interviewing techniques that would serve this type of case best and describe the strengths and limitations for each technique. Finally, I will explain how both the…

Composition #4 Many forms of art had existed in the times of the Renaissance, but none were as eloquent and well-crafted as those crafted by Shakespeare. His elaborate style of word play and hidden meanings helped to fully immerse the reader into his stories. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses literary devices to develop the theme of how fate cannot be escaped, no matter how hard one tries. The first literary device that Shakespeare incorporates into his writing is the element of motifs.…

Stress is a main factor in my life, constantly. You or others may think that it is normal and it happens to everyone because it is a part of life to be stressed. I happen to think otherwise. Stress causes a lot of problems in my life when it comes to work, school, family and friends because all of those I just named off, are the cause of my stress, severe anxiety and severe depression. It causes me to have major sleep deprivation, emotional breakdowns, panic attacks, and just crying all the time…

Mei Vandervelde, the author, develops the thematic conflict by using rhetorical devices to emphasize certain points, project the feelings of the character and to keep the reader moving through the piece in a way that they end up focusing on key, intentional points. The authors goal in this piece is to build to a specific climax. In the beginning there is a small climax, a foreshadowing of what is to come and to show the conflict between the character and the river. Vandervelde uses polysyndeton…

Screening Analysis: Some Like It Hot, (1959) Billy Wilder Hollywood genre is represented in the 1959 musical comedy, Some Like It Hot through editing styles and screen play. Wilder uses high key lighting when character, Sugar; played by Marilyn Monroe is in the shot. By using choosing to use this glamourous white high key lighting grants the director the aesthetic of a Hollywood genre film. The screenplay of this film includes very exaggerated behavior from the actors/actresses. By exaggerating…

to control their gaze, allowing it be dictated by a third-party. As the tension rises between the characters so does this tension with how the shot is created by exploring this somewhat unusual portrayal of power dynamics. The shift in this film technique as compared to the opening scene also creates tension and adds to the film’s notion of participation and spectatorship. Where as in the first scene the viewer can get a sense of participating in the proceedings, this scene relegates the viewer…

Though Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future is extremely successful in being a fun, blockbuster film, it does a very job in how it crafts the relationships between specific characters. Though Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) is facing a struggle to get back home, there’s another struggle occurring in the movie between his father, George (Crispin Glover), and town bully, Biff Tannen (Thomas F. Wilson). By tracing their acting and relative staging of these two in certain shots, a narrative between them…

On the surface, Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook (2014) is a horror film that uses a mythical monster to torture an already broken family. It presents the creature as a monster that one could picture originating from Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Kent introduces the idea of the Babadook monster through a twisted children’s pop-up book. In keeping with the tropes of the horror film genre, the book appears on Samuels Vanek’s (Noah Wiseman) shelf from an unknown place. When Amelia Vanek (Essie Davis) tries to…

The use of excessive STEM will not increase our knowledge, but it will prepare us and possibly our educational system. In We Can’t All Be Math Nerds and Science Geeks, Fareed Zakaria uses statistics, rhetorical questions, and hyperboles to convey how society is obsessed with STEM; he argues about how intricate it’ll be for America to be creative. Zakaria’s position is strong, and the strength of his argument is persuasive because of the rhetorical devices he applies to express his opinion about…

Danger in Tradition In Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery”, a village prepares for their annual tradition of the lottery in which the townsfolk stone a person to death. The ritual was originally conducted to bring a bountiful harvest of corn, however, the meaning behind the sacrifice seemed to fade out while the tradition itself persisted. As surprising as it may seem, one can see instances of blindly followed tradition in today’s society: trick-or-treating on Halloween, blowing out the candles on…