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Film making is an art form. “Film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that when shown on a screen create an illusion of motion images” (Wikipedia). According to Oxford Dictionary a film is, “A story or event recorded by a camera as a set of moving images and shown in a cinema or on television.” The way the things or the plot is perceived and the way the dialogues are written and delivered all lend an authority to films being an art…

16. In The Mood For Love (Wong Kar Wai, 2000, Hong Kong) In this film, Wong Kar Wai cooperated with the two, probably best, contemporary cinematographers in Asian cinema, Christopher Doyle, and Mark Lee Pong Bing, resulting in a true visual masterpiece. The three of them used the camera in a way that gives the audience the sense that they are picking in on the action while focusing on the protagonists every move and look, through the extensive use of slow motion. These two tactics are…

When turning a book into a movie, many components need to be taken into consideration. Incorporating each and every detail exactly would challenge the directors, greatly. The Outsiders movie and book have no exceptions. People who worked on the movie did a great job portraying the book. However, the movie lacked some of the pivotal points coming from the book. To start, The Outsiders author, S.E. Hinton, wrote the book in a first person point of view. If Ponyboy had no knowledge of an event,…

Following the film chronology, this section contains the analysis of each selected excerpt in terms of dubbing constraints and strategies imposed on and adopted by the French and Spanish translators of Inglourious Basterds. IB-ST refers to Inglourious Basterds in its original version, IB-F to its French dubbed version and IB-S to its Spanish dubbed version. 3.1.1. Scene 1: I regret to inform you I’ve exhausted the extent of my French The film opens with a dialogue between Perrier LaPadite, a…

ABSTRACT In this paper, the role and function of Walter Murch’s sound design used in Francis Ford Coppola’s film Apocalypse Now (1979) will be described and analyzed through specific scenes throughout the entire film, which I consider important so to understand the narrative of this film. Sound Design elements will be covered such as: usage of sound, styles of sound, diegetic and non-diegetic sound, acousmatic sound and foley sound. INTRODUCTION Sound, is frequently made submissive to image…

1.1 Plot is an events that occur in a story, it is a series of an events which gathering from a beginning to an ending of a story. Plot is a significant factor in order to present a story, it has both of simple and complex plots in order to analyze film. The key elements that using for an analyzed will have the chronology as follows 1.1.1 Exposition is a first procedure of a story beginning, convince the audience to follow a story, introduce characters, display settings including to a…

Media Essay – Analysis of Divergent In this essay I will be analysing the film Divergent and the ways in which it links to Theory in Action. This essay will cover the links between Divergent and theories such as the Feminism Theory, Marxism, and Structuralism etc. The first topic that I will be looking at is the genre of the film. Divergent can be linked to many genres due to the narrative but the main genres that it is categorised under are Action and Adventure. There are many ways in which…

Symbolism can be found in your dreams and everyday real life. Whether it is present in a piece of art, in a book, or in a movie; symbolism’s main goal is to provide a deeper meaning. Symbols are often repeated throughout a story and their meanings are not always clear (Duckart). Critical thinking may be required to decipher a symbol, but getting a story, or artworks full message is only accomplished by reading in between the lines. Movies and art work in the same way as books, they don’t rely on…

In a movie do you wonder why a character is so close to the camera, or why it started raining out of nowhere ? The reason why is because the director is using cinematic effects. In the movie White Chicks, the director, Keenen Ivory Wayans, used many different cinematic effects. Wayans like to use long shot and close up shots in this movie, but also low and eye level angles. Wayans used different kinds of lightings like; high-key, neutral, front, bottom, and low-key lighting. Over all, the…

Transmedia storytelling has been used in films with complex narrative universe. It is a process of telling a single story or a story experience across multiple platforms using various media technologies. Some of the best examples of this process include the Matrix franchise but also, most importantly the Pokémon franchise. The transmedia storytelling is very strong in these franchises: in the Matrix, the story started as a movie then was expended into a series of animated films, a video game and…