Film techniques

At its core, Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film, Jaws, is a horror movie. Though the shark may seem like the primary antagonist of the film from this, as it literally eats people, such a claim would ignore the role of Amity Island’s Mayor Vaughn, as portrayed by Murray Hamilton. In the first half of the movie, Vaughn is constantly at odds with Chief Brody, wanting to push his own agenda of making money from tourism during the summer. In seeing Vaughn as another antagonist, another conflict that’s not…

SHOT LIST: The Graduate - Graduation Party Scene Shot: 1. Time: 1 min 28 sec. Shot Size: Close-up and Medium close-up. A close-up of Ben sitting in his own room. Ben is placed in the middle of the shot in focus. There is a well-lit aquarium behind him that takes up the whole background. In it, on the right side of Ben, there is fish, on the left side there is a scuba diver that blows bubbles to the surface. Ben’s face is lit on the left side while his right side is dark. He’s wearing a white…

1. The title of the film I chose is called Rebecca. The film was founded in 1940 and produced by David O. Selznick. Principle characters: (Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine) The heroine, maxim de winter, Rebecca, Mrs. Danvers, jack Favel, Frank Crawley Beatrice, Mrs. Van Hopper, ben, Colonel Julyan, Lady Crowan, Baker, Firth, Clarice, jasper. 2. The conflict between Rebecca and the narrator were one of the important conflicts that stood out to me. From the begging of the film I was trying to…

My mise-en scene of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is an analogy adaptation based on the events of Chapter 54. The setting occurs on a street of New York apartments on a cloudy, gloomy day. After a dinner in which the Bennets met Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley, Elizabeth goes outside to sit on the stairs of her porch and think about her current state of mind. The scene is symbolic for Elizabeth’s conflicting feelings for Mr. Darcy. Through the use of diegetic sounds, the scene will give the…

The Sixth Sense, a film by M. Night Shyamalan, director and screenwriter, deserves no less than 4 stars because of its great use of characters, and the sound and lighting used throughout the movie. The Sixth Sense, a thriller and a ghost story, is portrayed as much more than just that. Perhaps it’s the chilliness and coldness in the air that make you just want to shiver. Or maybe it’s the way that they use almost direct silence to add to the scary feeling. Maybe it’s the lighting that always…

Name: ANG, Jose Mari P. Title of Film: Schindler’s list 1. Summarize the film. The film is about a German businessman named Oskar Schindler, who dreams of making it big in Poland. Although at first his goal was to make money, after witnessing the massacre of Jews by the Nazis his goal shifted to saving as many Jews as he can. Schindler continued to operate his owned factory as a means to protect and house the Jews under him, even bribing high ranking officials for his goals. The war ended…

Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, offers a compelling commentary on the central idea of the dangerous and superficial nature of capitalist values. One of the most powerful scenes that convey this idea is at the end of the pageant where Olive performs her act (“the performance scene”). Dayton and Faris use a wide range of visual language features to convey this important idea in the performance scene. At the first shot of interest, Olive begins her dance. In…

what I’m going to do, that’s me.” Kane’s light-hearted “Twenty years? Well…” before he turns out to be the employer of the nine reporters; his cold “you have to sing” while ripping apart critics against Susan, etc. With extraordinary cinimetography techniques and dialogue, Orsen brings an insolent, selfish media tycoon back to…

"Black Hawk Down” Tells the story of a U.S. military raid that went disastrously wrong when optimistic plans ran into unexpected resistance. The movie was very true to the real events that occurred in Mogadishu in 1993. This movies shows a real events, so while you are watching it you feel like you are living the moment. And based on the scenes; the movie avoids speechmaking and sloganeering. So the most important foundations for the movie were sound and editing. First, the sound…

The 1931 film “M”, directed by Fritz Lang, define what it means to “show than tell” even with the essence of sound to apply dialogue. Before the film started, as an audience viewer and learning more about the history of film during this era of cinema, I was expecting sound to take more control and less visual aspects. However, this film was the complete opposite of my interpretation. Throughout this response, I’ll be exploring the story, cinema elements and how Fritz allow me and the people who…