Cinematography

Gurinder Chadha directs the 2002 film Bend It Like Beckham. Chadha presents culture through her cinematography to enhance the fact that Jess is caught between her passion for soccer and the traditionalism of her culture and the predicaments she faces trying to get her traditional Indian parents to accept her life long dream to become a professional soccer player. Jess, being trapped between her desire for soccer and the traditionalism of her Indian culture is shown through many techniques…

The Matrix is a film which is both intriguing and exciting produced by Joel Silver, directed and written by Wachowskis in the year1999. In this film I’ll be focusing on the important elements such as mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing, how this elements bring about life in the film and how they affect each other or rather assist each other. In The Matrix we find that there are two major characters by the name of Neo and Morpheus, Neo is by day is a normal computer programmer and…

Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) portrays a man's (John’s) passion for control and the dangers of idealisation and desire. Vertigo; "a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height”1 is a metaphor of protagonist John “Scotty” Ferguson relationship with Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster. The narrative structure of Vertigo is fundamentally driven by the encounters between John and Madeleine/Judy. The relationship between the two progresses on the…

in many ways when it comes to cinematography, his craft and eye for cinematography separates him from the rest. Jeff with many of his movies are one colored, he usually uses green tones and yellow hues to dictate a theme in many of his movies. You can clearly see a pattern when it comes to the movies that Jeff works with. Many of his movies are very dark and filled with mystery; some of his more intense pieces of work are The Girl…

The new TV show Scream Queens premiered September 22, 2015 on FOX. Scream Queens is about the Kappa Kappa Tau sorority house, who is being targeted by several killers dressed in a red devil outfit. The shows is part slasher flick and black comedy with a modern take on the classic whodunit. Even though there is violence, gore and the use of sexual language, the show demonstrates to be more satirical than terrifying. In addition, Scream Queens is a unique show because it’s like a parody, pocking…

2.Give your personal response to Citizen Kane. Did you like it? Why or why not? Citizen Kane is one of the best film that I have watched, I enjoyed watching how politics were during that time. The film was released in year 1941 which is known as an American dramatic film which was directed by Orson Welles. Citizen Kane was nominated for an Academy Award but won only the best original screenplay that was played by Herman and welles. The story of this film is a fictionalized pastiche of the life…

are a series of formal elements that help make a film more than just what a person sees. The way you look at a film is called a formal analysis “ film analysis that examines how a scene or sequence uses formal elements- narrative, mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, sound, and so on- to convey the story, mood, and meaning” (Looking At Movies p.g 498). Everyone has their own opinions and way they perceive movies. But as a film critic, you observe a movie much more than just “oh I liked this”,…

Auguste Lumiere and Louis Lumiere were two brothers who worked together in developing the first motion picture. The oldest brother, Auguste Lumiere was born on October 19, 1862 and Louis Lumiere was born on October 5, 1864 in France. They gained inspiration from their father, Antoine Lumiere, as he ran a business of manufacturing and supplying photographic equipment. In addition both brothers attended Technical School as they were really bright in the science field. Since the Lumiere brothers…

In the excerpts from Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses, Louis Althusser aims to explain the reasons for why the cinematography has acquired its ideological nature in the first place. Although the scholar’s theories are applicable to multiple spheres of people’s activity excluding a film industry and seem way too old-fashioned, still, they promote one’s understanding of the issue discussed in the current research. In describing his concept of the State Apparatus, Louis Althusser argues…

victim, lighting, and motion of the film. Cinematography is important because it gives experience of the film. Cinematography is never usually in the audience’s conscious while watching any film. But it is a subliminal message and emotion that produce the icing on the cake. This art of cinema produces more interest and understanding of the film. The cinematography in The Babadook is the most successful criteria. The Babadook touches on the cinematography in many different ways. In one scene the…