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Moonlight, the 2017 independent film directed by Barry Jenkins, utilized lighting, contrast, and colors to tell an insightful story exploring themes including race, sexual identity, and drug abuse, among others through the metamorphosis of its central character, Chiron. One particular scene expertly directed occurred within the first fifteen minutes of the film, where Juan teaches Chiron how to swim. The scene itself retains an intimate mood and is comprised of eight medium close-up shots in…

Hamid Naficy’s work in An Accented Cinema offers two major aspects of modern filmmaking. The first, Naficy offers a clear and thorough classification of the term “accented cinema”. Naficy’s distinction between exilic, diasporic and postcolonial filmmaking in order to categorise Irish exilic and diasporic films according to their varying relationships a homeland. Second, he remarkably engages the notions of cultural politics of diasporic, exilic and postcolonial filmmaking. And at the same time,…

the films Shane and Pale Rider, the heroes save the town and the townspeople are saved from the bad guys, which is the overarching plot of many western films. The similarities and differences between these two movies are apparent, but on the surface can be hard to differentiate. During films, people tend not to see small details. Camera angles, lighting, and costumes play an important part in films, but yet the viewer does not see most of these details. The power of these production techniques…

moves to a slowing moving upward panoramic shot of a destroyed seemingly lifeless, completely quite city of New York with the caption at the bottom “Three Years Later”. 2. Is continuity editing used? If so, give examples and explain in at least one of the examples what strategies the filmmakers use to…

Picture this. The year is 1954 and you are looking to see a movie. Movie commercials on television are scarce, and you do not know what to see. So what do you do to help decide what to watch? You look at a movie poster in a theatre lobby. The movie poster for The Creature from the Black Lagoon has many different elements that help to create an image of what the actual cinematic feature may be about. By using variations of light and dark colors, the poster adds depth that creates feelings of fear…

Time Stamp: Ex Machina 1:32:54-1:38:44 TITLE Composer of the male gaze, Laura Mulvey, explains how a heterosexual male views different aspects occurring in a film. The male gaze captures how male viewers depict females within the film. In Alex Garland’s movie, Ex Machina, there is an abundant usage of the male gaze occurring through Nathan and Caleb’s perspective. The male gaze is important in this film because it reveals to the audience who truly holds the power. Throughout the film…

In focusing on a narrative form that he terms as ludic, Newman looks at the work of the teasing inside joke and the enigma of the puzzle film. The word ludic was created around 1940 by psychologists as a way of describing the play of children, and applied to film, Newman informs us that this game-like form “… offers its own rewards, its own pleasures.” As a demonstration of these “pleasures,” Newman reads Pulp Fiction (1994) as a puzzle created for spectator entertainment, that uses the form of…

Technical aspects are critical to the success of the film, as they enhance the flow and establish a style of the movie. Extreme wide shots are defined as, “ panoramic views of an exterior location used to establish setting” (Thompson and Bowen 14). 127 Hours, directed by Danny Boyle, uses extreme wide shots to its advantage throughout the movie as a means of establishing intense emotion. The technical aspect used throughout the film allows Boyle create a vivid response. 127 Hour’s pathos is…

In the opening scene of, ¨Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone¨, a white, tall, old man with a long white beard and hair is introduced taking all the lights from the bulbs on the street with a small object. Then, a cat comes into this scene who transforms into a female human. We see this transformation through her shadow on the side of the building. The two were waiting for a big guy, so they can deliver the baby. We can tell that this baby is important because, in the end of this scene, they…

In the movie, Stranger than Fiction, the director develops the major character in the film, which is Harold, by using different elements such as cinematography, visual design, literary concepts, and sound/music. By using these elements, the director guides the viewer to understand the point of view, psychology, and emotional dimension of the character. For instance, at the beginning of the film, sound is used to narrate and describe Harold’s personality. The narrator guides the audience as the…