Feature film

Throughout recent history, thousands of films have been created by a large amount of directors. However, few have made as big an impact as Frank Capra. His work has been regarded as some of the most inspiring pieces of cinema and should be looked to for inspiration. Even though he was an underrated director for his time, Frank Capra was one of the biggest influences on modern cinema. He was able to accomplish this by creating a series of films that all followed the same, unique recipe…

non-literary texts and help gain an understanding how text structures, language and visual features are used in order to influence an audience. The film that I will be analyzing and evaluating is called ‘Remember The Titans’ . Directed by Boaz Yakin and released in 2001, Remember The Titan addresses the moral issues and dilemmas surrounding the ‘black’ and ‘white’ community of Virginia. The characters in this film will face many moral dilemmas/issues as they have been forced to work as a team…

visualization and sounding of the movie, which offers charm and dramatic portrayal used to draw the thrilling effect of a narrative film. The Visualization and Sounding the Movie In the movie, the director utilizes the motifs as an emphasizer for the crucial scenes. As the title of the movie, darkening shadows are often depicted. During the era of its screening, this noir stylistic film capitalizes on contrasting shades and silhouettes to integrate the variety of shades. In one of the scenes on…

Four Films: How Spielberg Starts a Movie Steven Spielberg is one of the most celebrated directors of our time. Nobody can match his unique, friendly, magical, and epic style of telling a story through the film medium. He captures our attention through action, suspense, humor, and dialogue for the full length of every feature film through his exceptional understanding of the language of film. But every brilliant filmmaker gets inspiration from somewhere. Spielberg himself tells of how…

archetypes and themes with the classic film genre of film noir. Both Greek tragedy and film noir feature femme fatales, women portrayed as devilish or in the role of a killer, the topic of the inevitability of fate is highly prevalent, and both genres incorporate mystery into their stories. “[Film noir is] a low-key black-and-white visual style, with a hard-boiled detective, a femme fatale, rainy streets, murder, and a downbeat ending” (Jukes). The genre of film noir is a cinematic genre that…

ENGLISH FILM STUDY Cinema is a sounding board for directors to express, reinforce and challenged ideologies, representations and stereotypes within society. Film makers often rely on cinematic techniques such as symbolism, metaphor, settings, events, props, costuming, characterisation and even deconstruction of stereotypes to isolate particular ideologies and themes to convey and challenge audience interpretations and opinions related to historical and political events. Baz Luhmann attempts to…

“movie within the movie” has earned him high recognition in the film industry to the point where he has been referred to as the “master of title sequences” (Pulver, 2013) Saul Bass was born on the 8th of May 1920 in Bronx, New York. He started out in Hollywood in the 1940s by designing print advertisements. He was discovered by Otto Preminger, the director of The Moon Is Blue (1953), when he did the advertising designs for the film. He then collaborated with him for designing the poster for…

Unlike horror films, action films are not produced to scare or frighten the audience. Some action films could be produced just for entertainment or to tell a story of which was true. Others could inspire or courage the audience to be that one person who acts like that “hero” type person in the film. The sub-genres of action films are epic movies, spy movies, disaster movies, superhero, thriller, martial arts, and video game movies. Some examples of action films are Braveheart, James Bond,…

Accompanying with three films indeed marked a new beginning in French cinema and then in the wold, The 400 Blows By Truffaut and Breathless by Godard, as well Hiroshima, mon amour (1952) by Alian Resnais. I will try to explain part of this movement in cinema and what made it so famous. The main person in this amazing movement is Jean-Luc Godard who he is a French-Swiss film director, known for his prominence in the New Wave film movement in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In this…

Steven Allen Spielberg began to grace us all with his presence. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, He is the son of Leah Adler Posner and Arnold and the older brother to three sisters. We began seeing glimpses of his future greatness after his prize-winning film ‘Escape to Nowhere’, which he directed at the tender age of 13. It was at Arcadia…