Cinematography

someone, each family is threatened by saying that they wouldn’t see their child again if they said a word to anyone. Even though both movies have similar plots the later version of the movie is undoubtedly a more polished film, where the bold color cinematography is set in Morocco and…

Dramatic irony is an elaborate gadget that is generally utilized by storytellers, in plays, in the theater, and in movies. This produces tension between what characters say and do, and what the audience knows to be true. The use of dramatic irony was used in two dramatic productions, both the short story Happy Endings written by Margaret Atwood and the movie Chinatown directed by Roman Polanski. In the short story Happy Endings the author introduces her literature into six stories labeled from…

Chosen Scene: Conversation between Marion and Norman during Marion’s meal. “We all go a little mad sometimes” https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nv88ASiLmgk The first argument backing up my thesis involves examining the Cinematography within the scene. Right from the moment that they sit in the office Norman is portrayed as the dominant character in the room. This is first done with a low angle shot. Hitchcock then uses medium shots to portray the characters. A great way…

The overall structure and organization of this movie is really impressive. It starts off with the story being told by the narrator to his sick grandson. The movie The Princess Bride is a fairytale adventure about a young girl and her one true love. The story begins with Buttercup, a young blue eyed girl, that lives on a farm. On the farm there’s Westley, a poor farmboy. Buttercup spends most of her day bossing Westley around ,until she realizes she's in love with Westley. Lucky for her, Westley…

Jennifer Sanchez 2015SP-FILM-280-5062 April 29, 2015 Comparison and contrast of the themes. Both “Stagecoach” and “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” films are examples of masterpiece cinematography in the genre of western of their era each. Nevertheless, films can hardly be called similar even with having almost the same means of entertaining and story performance. Thus, I would like to start from the definition of classic western. Western is an art direction, common for the United States, it…

Achieving Greatness: The Definition of a Great Film And the Academy Award for Best Picture goes to…The Artist! The silent film also won three other awards at this year’s Oscars; add those awards to the wide praise the movie received from both critics and viewers, and a strong case can be made in calling The Artist a great movie. However, at the time of its nomination, The Artist had only grossed about $12 million; compare that to critical flop Transformers: Dark of the Moon, which grossed over…

Released in 1941, Citizen Kane and was produced, co-authored, directed and stared by Orson Welles. The movie was Welles first feature film and was nominated for Academy Awards in nine categories. Furthermore, the film is considered to be the greatest film of all time by critics, filmmakers, and fans. The setting takes place in Xanadu which is a luxurious mansion estate in Florida. The editing uses dissolves as the scene nears the mansion. We can see the lighting is low key and there is low angle…

While the story of Romero is set in 1977, the destruction and violence lasted for many years after, well into the 1990s. This brings us to the second temporality to consider when discussing film; the moment of production. Romero was produced in 1989, 12 years after the year Romero was set in. The same year Romero was released, the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) attacks intensified, and Arena candidate Alfredo Cristiani was voted president in the elections that were believed to…

choice to have George sitting on the floor of a train with dim light that shows his emotions an imagery . The movie had a lot of images that showed detail. The clips in the movie that show imagery are usually dark and suspenseful. Sometimes the cinematography seemed hopeful. At the end they show a clip that shows peace. That clip shows George and Lennie happy and working and having fun. The sound showed in the beginning of the movie when the young girl was running there was suspenseful…

As a child, the motion picture that frightened me more than anything was Candyman. The minor notice of the film sent me into a progression of trembling whimpers. Despite being a child at the time, I was not fearful and apprehensive of most thrillers. Truth be told thrillers and blood and guts films charmed me and dragged me into their plot with its groveling tentacles. One scene I will always remember was a man who was haunting apprehensive of honey bees, in his washroom, getting prepared, he…