Establishing shot

Tim Burton really loves to use establishing shot in Charlie and the chocolate factory , Edward scissorhand, and the Big Fish Charlie and the chocolate factory, when entering the factory. Seeing the waterfall of milk chocolate, grass you can eat and other things delicious, surprised and amazed the characters. Setting the mood as happy, cool, and mysterious. Edward Scissorhands, when Peg was walking into Edward’s house. Seeing the mysterious and spooky things in the house, not being fully…

handling of the mise en scène amplifies the feeling of loneliness, vulnerability and defeat. This scene takes place near the end of the film and is arguably the film’s climax. It starts quietly, with Kane’s anger slowly growing. Welles uses a low angle shot to make the…

shoots Harrison, the screen goes bright, showing a shot of Harrison’s last point of view. Then there is a transition, a fade-in cross-cut, to a slow pan of the audience. Prolonging this shot has the effect of marking this as a solemn occasion and enables the audience to focus on the appalled expressions. Also the fact that the camera points away from the body heightens the horror by leaving the aftermath to our imagination. When Harrison is shot, the orchestra music becomes slow and sombre. This…

Fade-out is a cut that gradually darkens the end of a shot to black, fade-in lightens a shot from black, dissolve cut briefly superimposes the end of a shot with the beginning of another, and a wipe cut replaces shot by means of a boundary line moving across the screen. Graphic relationships are created by displaying patterns of light/dark, line/shape, volumes/depths and movement/stasis…

interest towards storytelling, as a form of escape. He certainly has a unique way of inputting certain key elements of his signature within movies which serve to enhance his character as a director. He uses several cinematic techniques such as tracking shots, symmetry and color palette to give his films Moonrise Kingdom (2012), The Royal Tenebaums (2001) and The Grand Budapest…

Kieślowski as a technician - Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Blanc & Rouge case study Kieślowski discusses about a close up shot of a sugar cube that is about to fall into the coffee in the film, Bleu. He further explains the purpose of the shot and its relation to the character’s emotions. It is somewhat a point of view shot of the protagonist. Her focus is all on the sugar cube and coffee, nothing else matters. The sugar cube is her form of escape, shutting everything out from her immediate world,…

shallow dept of field, so when they were pointed at the human face, they would only get probably get only one feature on the face in focus. Over the years, the close-up shot began to be used more artistically than as a shot for just information.(Schrader 2014) Carl Dreyer's 'The Passion of Joan of Arc'(Dreyer 1928) was primarily shot in close-ups. It often kept cutting from one close-up to the other revealing very little about the setting of the character but revealing more through their…

film when Hutter arrives at Count Orlok's castle, his fate seems given and dark immediately. The first camera shot of Count Orlok himself consists of him emerging from a dark and cave-like arch. This mysterious and unknown space is the first background to accompany Orlock's presence, which allows the audience to draw appropriate conclusions. As the door behind Hutter closes, the next shot visualizes his future by providing little to no route of escape. There is no visible view of the sky, or…

In this shot, the characters are of the same size and level, portraying equality, which was what Lionel requested at the very start from Bertie when he decided to take on his case. Here, after several meetings and interaction with Lionel, Bertie is slowly learning…

emotions that are going throughout the minds of the children. A long-shot technique is used when Jem runs from the Radley house with the others behind showing the distance that they had traveled and the way that they were distancing themselves from their previous destination. The children of Maycomb are less significant to the scene than the Radley place making them look vulnerable to the viewers. In the scene there is a shot of the children where the camera is high- shooting down, this gives…