Close-up

The scene then uses the audio and visual cues of the police siren being turned as both a graphical match cut and a sound bridge to the following cut, a close-up shot of two crows feasting on an animal carcass in the middle of the highway as the camera tilts up towards the two police cars. The focus of the staging of the two crows in the transition acts as foreshadow in the show’s narrative, as evident a few scenes later at the end of the fast-paced shoot-out…

the car. As the shot begins, Biff is in the middle ground in an extreme long shot; the camera seems to be elevated above where Biff stands, at maybe a normal shoulder level. After being yelled at, Biff comes around from the car with his hands up and flailing up and down as he profusely apologizes to George, addressing him as “Mr. McFly.” Moving into roughly a three-quarter shot, he clasps his hands together, speaking in an explanatory tone that’s permeated with a nervous laughter throughout. He…

witnessed Moses, Ron, Brewis and Moses being arrested at the scene by the police to where he then begins to cheer for Moses which resulted in the crowd of other residents cheering and shouting out Moses’ name as well played by Simon Howard. Quotes: “Hurry up guys, we gotta catch ‘em all!” “It was like some Gears of War…

In fact, all of the protagonists are aware of their unhappiness from the beginning but show different degrees of fighting, denying or covering it up. Lester’s conscious resistance, for instance, increases from the beginning to the end of the film, whereas Frank’s and Brandon’s change develop less gradually. While one can observe this one significant setback in Frank’s journey induced by a safety…

Photography is the key element of mise en scene that determines how an audience will interpret the visual information in film. Orson Welles used the photography of his 1941 film Citizen Kane to emphasize aspects of the film he wanted viewers to focus on, and to remove non-essential information from the frame. This was accomplished through various camera tequniques including manipulation of angles and proxemity. Approaching the end of the film there is a scene just after Susan (played by Dorothy…

Welles used sound to establish and further enhance the viewer’s attention to the meanings of what is portrayed on screen. Another impressive use of sound in Citizen Kane is the sequence after the end of the newsreel announcing the death of Kane. We are exposed to a room, dimly lit and shallow (unlike the deep and wide banquet room), full of men. The camera focuses on Mr. Rawlston, who, while he speaks, performs a myriad of motions towards and against the camera – all of which are enhanced…

While the concept of the close-up feels commonplace to viewers now, its introduction to film was nothing short of revolutionary. For theater-goers who were used to seeing stage productions from afar, films brought audiences closer to the actors than ever before through the use of the close-up. While many theorists covered the close-up because of its novelty, perhaps the most interesting among those were Lev Kuleshov and Jean Epstein, due to their direct relationships with the technique through…

moves them in some manner. A close-up is one such tool to use in cinema. A close-up of a face is so raw with emotion that, the proximity helps build this intimacy between the audience and the actor. The beginning of a close-up was merely used for the purpose of giving information, but through the years it developed as an artistic expression in cinema. I will trace the journey of the close up through several decades of film making. I will show the ways in which the close up has flourished and…

This book, Up Close: Ronald Reagan, mostly focused on the fact that Ronald Reagan was awesome. Ronald grew up with an alcoholic father, this one time he came home to his father passed out in the yard, so he brought him inside and took care of him. He had a girlfriend who left him when things were getting distant, she got engaged to another man. Then Ronald hit the big time, Hollywood actor. Then his father passed away after his second heart attack, but Ronald kept moving forward, living his…

It is a record of the conversations between Confucius and his disciples, which were later written down by his disciples. It is one of the major parts of Four Books. Confucius’s philosophies are based on the principle of good conduct, wisdom and proper social relationships. Confucius was the person who said that country should be ruled by moral values rather than with military powers. In the Analects Confucius says, “By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them…