Close encounter

No movie is more famous for creating a world of wonder than the Wizard of Oz. Beyond the 124 little people and it’s ten leading roles, this film broke the mold of how children’s stories could be adapted onto the big screen. The Wizard of Oz truly inspired fantasy and excitement in its era. Some believe that its inspiration was through the recent children’s novels that had been successfully adapted into Disney movies. Some of the original producers actually believed that the audience might reject…

flashback Tony also uses the close up shot used very effectively in the scene where Derek is making the black guy put him mouth on the kerb. By using this shot Tony Kaye was able to show the audience the emotion of the black guy. In the close up of the mans face we can see that he is clearly scared because Derek has a gun to his head and that he has his mouth on the kerb. We also see a worried look on the man’s face as he doesn’t know what is going to happen. This close up gives the audience…

This is found in the pivotal scene when Jackie realise that Billy can be a ballet dancer. This is demonstrated in Billy’s defiant dance, shown by extreme close-ups of Jackie’s face, his furious feeling is evident. Jackie’s point of view shots with a soft lighting reveals Billy’s enthusiasm and talent for dance. The switch to the medium shot where Jackie’s body is stiff but the volume and the tempo of the…

Giant’s fighting scene from Spike Lee’s Mo’s better blues is a really interesting scene in terms of lighting scheme, camera composition, etc. The sequence opens with an establishing master shot #1 of Giant going to the restroom. Shot #2 is a medium close up shot of Giant. Behind him are two men peeking from the stalls. This foreshadows the trouble Giant might be facing. The director uses the division of surface in order to show the conflict between the men and Giant. The focus of the shot shifts…

Blurred and reddened close-ups of Joel screaming interfere with these cut-ins and eventually prompt him to recount his memories of Clementine, making him relive his memories as they are erased. The formerly described calamity ends with a relatively peaceful wide shot of Joel lying in bed with the apparatus attached to his head. The camera’s focus shifts to a couple of Stan and Patrick shots, finally shifting to a close-up of Joel uttering “Patrick” after Stan calls for…

the note suggests that there is indeed a 67th patient. We later learn that Teddy is the 67th patient at Shutter Island. The close up of this shot plays a major factor in a reveal in the film, which is that Teddy is in fact a patient at Ashecliffe Mental Hospital. The close-up angle shows very little background, emphasizing the importance of the note. In this case, the close up is focused on the words on the note, displaying the information that leads to the reveal. The reason the director did…

Maximizing shareholder’s wealth is the most important business managers or chief executives ' responsibility. When the company becomes public, investors supply assets and cash. In order to keep up those assets, the chief executive or manager has to make decisions to increase the shareholder 's return, which occasionally can be inhuman and unethical. In Network, it displays Frank Hackett’s willingness (Robert Duvall) to make decisions, which is in his favor but intentionally puts Howard Beale…

The DIRECTOR of the film is Joe Cornish and the release date of the film was on the 13th of May 2011 in the UK. He worked with Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg. Edgar Wright was the executive producer for Attack the Block. The BUDGET of the film was £8 million and the FILMING LOCATIONS were in the London District of Brixton as well as consisting of various estates across London such as Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, Myatts Field in Brixton, Oval Tube Station in Kennington,…

Journal 1 After the first two weeks of lecture in Cinema Appreciation I have learned a great deal more about what goes into making a film. I was under the impression that there was one magical camera that could change settings to capture the diverse range of images instantaneously. Active viewing was something, I thought I did, but it wasn’t until I took a step back and saw the variety of shots and how each one of them is put together that I realized that there is more then one way to watch a…

shots used in the fight scene (see figure 13) this technique is used a lot as you are able to see both characters full bodys and how they are reacting to one anothers pucnhes, kicks etc. Going back to the real world we are shown more medium close ups, the close ups are quite contrasting emotions, as we see Yusuf’s (see sigure 14) terrified face as he is about to crash compared to Arthur’s (se figure 15) calm and collective expressions, as he is still oblivious as to what is going…