Film techniques

Director John Hughes utilises his film, The Breakfast Club, to explore several teenage themes through the use of film techniques. Hughes explores the way that teenagers are affected by pressure from their parents and peers, and furthermore explores the creation and destruction of stereotypes in a school environment. The film follows five protagonists through an experience that displays these themes clearly to audiences. Throughout the film, each character is faced with different pressures from…

incident, the story-worthy problem, the initial surface problem, and finally the setup (Edgerton, Les). These elements are all apparent in the opening scenes of Shutter Island. In the opening moments of film, an extreme long shot can be found, which shows Ashecliffe Hospital, the central set of the film. The Ashecliffe Hospital is a facility for the criminally insane. The facility is located on Shutter Island, which is set in Boston Harbor. The view is set from…

viewers a better understanding of how dangerous malware can be, the director equates the fatality of guns to malware using multiple copies of images of a gun to construct the word, "code". Using various distinctive colours and eye-catching graphics, the film was able to retain…

captivity, as captivity is detrimental to both humans and whales. The film establishes this point is with contrast. Blackfish opens with former trainers on picturesque backdrops, speaking fondly of their relationships with killer whales. Cinematic music ties the scenes together, and this, in addition to footage of killer whales interacting with young children, utilizes ‘warm fuzzies’ with startling efficiency. But midway through the film, footage from the Sealand attack is incorporated and the…

Vince Gilligan’s American crime drama television series called Breaking Bad can be categorized as an addiction for many viewers. Walter H. White can be considered as a genius chemist, but instead of working as a scientist and earning his well deserved fame and money, he works as a chemistry teacher in an Albuquerque, New Mexico High School. His already pathetic life is turned upside down after being diagnosed with stage three terminal lung cancer, and given a short amount of time left to live.…

Atonement Essay- Symbolism, narrative structure, and special effects are significant features of film. Focusing on one or more of these features, discuss the extent to which you agree with this view. Based on the novel written by Ian McEwan “Atonement”, directed by Joe Wright has four distinctly different parts. Part one is set on one glorious summer’s day in 1935. Parts Two and Three are set in overlapping times in 1940 during the war, first in France and then in London. The Coda is set in…

American thriller film released in 1975 that had swept the nation with its iconic story about a ginormous man-eating shark attacking the poor citizens of Amity Island. Cue creepy, terrifying shark music. An action! Duunnn dun…. dun…dunn…dun..dun..dun..dun.. Jaws is more than a successful film, it is a film that is renowned with the title of “film history’s highest grossing movie of all time” (Gottlieb 11). However, aside from begin a timeless hit the process of making the film was far from…

V for Vendetta the film adaptation by director James McTeigue, portrays the message of political activity and tells the group of onlookers it could soon happen to their government one day on the off chance that they permit it to take control and not stand firm against their legislature. The film fixates on V, a terrorist out to devastate the rightist legislature of tragic future Britain. While the film itself makes numerous critical focuses about opportunity, freedom, singular decision, and the…

Forensic techniques are the Scientific methods that detective use to carry out investigation to detect the criminal who commit the crime. The detective will take all the evidence they collected at the crime scene to forensic lab for proper examination including the dead body for autopsy. However, the fictional shows exposes idealistic competencies of forensic science. Furthermore, in the movie “Seven”, written by Andrew Kevin Walker, the movie is about the serial killer who is killing people in…

In the film American History X directed by Tony Kaye, he tell the story of morden day narzi’s (Neo Narzi). Tony uses many film techniques to portray the life of Derek Vinyard and his brother Danny Vinyard. In this movie Derek goes to prison and the experience changed his view on black people. The purpose of the first scene was to show how dark and twisted Derek’s past was. For example the kurb stomp scene, where Derek brutally murders a black man. The purpose of the second scene was to show how…