Film editing

The movie and audio play “Sorry Wrong Number” both have very special attributes that added to the overall meaning and plot of the piece. To make their individual genre a successful medium for the piece, both demonstrated different individual qualities. The audio play, who relied solely on sound to communicate the piece, uses tone, sound effects, and mental imagery to deliver the piece. On the other hand is the movie who uses action and flashbacks, to build character and plot. Though both have…

The concept of time, and how it can be used to alter the structure and story of a film has intrigued filmmakers for years. Whereas time's rules are usually unflinching, the creation of film has allowed these rules to be bent and broken in previously unseen ways. Stories with a non-linear structure can now be told fluently and dramatically, such as Christopher Nolan's ‘Dunkirk', or instead complex story arcs can be explored, utilising time in a unique way, like in Shane Carruth's ‘Primer' in…

The two scenes that I have analysed are significant because they are both linked by the use of the director 's film technique, which in his own way it gives us an important message. The film techniques I have analysed are the use of editing and mise en scène as well as the connections that both scenes has. One of the main themes of the film is regret and the impact it had on the Derek’s life. Derek has had a dark past which has ruined the relationship with his family and has…

Soviet Montage was a bold new theory of editing invented by Sergei Eisenstein. This new theory of montage allowed Eisenstein to make the audience think whatever he wanted them to think by arranging striking juxtapositions of individuals shots to suggest an idea that goes further than using a single shot to portray a message. It is an idea that ‘derives from the collision between two [or more] shots that are independent of one another’. (Taylor, Powell, pg 163) These montage sequences create…

Everything you see in a film is constructed to fit on a screen. Filmmakers think about every element that is shown every shot, nothing is accidental (generally, of course, I’m leaving mistakes out of the equation). By controlling what is shown in the boundaries of a screen, a filmmaker controls the understanding of the audience. All that the director puts into the scene and films is called the “mise-en-scène”. The mise-en-scène is how a filmmaker creates meaning – they use it to develop a…

Muti 11/26/17 Professor Carmen FTV The Good, the Bad, and the Wookie Akira Kurosawa’s Influence on Sergio Leone and George Lucas The post war renaissance in Japan had a great influence on contemporary American filmmaking. Viewing Akira Kurosawa’s films, one will see his influence on modern filmmakers such as Italy’s Sergio Leone and America’s George Lucas, through storytelling, cinematography and character development. Akira had a unique and genius style of creating new movies from classics,…

Mirror’s Christmas Special (Otto Bathurst, 2014). Although both films share the same purpose of applying the point of shot, to endow the audience with certain narrative’s perspective in order to arouse pathos on the character(s) or the scene(s), yet the same cinematic technique is used quiet divergently due to the changes of the cinematic editing and the interpretation of the human vision. By close textural analyzing of specific scenes in two films, as well as the article from Jonathan Crary, I…

verging on a formalist film many of the editing styles are obsured and almost too much for a viewer to handle. A writer from the site PluggedIn had something to offer on this idea. He said “is this dollhouse dramedy merely good at being quite bad?” (Paul Asay, Plugged In) He raises a good point. Is this movie just so bad that we enjoy the witty humor, the bad editing and the odd camera angles? It 's a really good review and one that makes you think. I for one really enjoyed this film. I thought…

October 2014 Trimester Essay “Battleship Potemkin is a 1925 silent film that was directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm.” The film is composed of five different acts, each portraying different concepts and meanings. Act IV: “Odessa Steps Sequence” is one of the most admired scenes of the film. “It has been described as one of the most influential scenes in the history of cinema because the concepts of film editing and montage were introduced to cinema.” Sergei Eisenstein believed…

Hailey Cummings Mr.McCann 1st period Ela 9 3/24/16 Embedded Assessment 1 unit 2 Tim Burton uses many cinematic techniques in his films. For example, he uses lighting,music/sound and editing.he uses each technique for a specific reason. His main reason for using them is so he can show the audience his style. His style is very dark,gloomy and suspenseful. So with him using those techniques it allows the audience to see and feel his style. Tim Burton uses lighting to create the mood of a…