Glenn Close

This is found in the pivotal scene when Jackie realise that Billy can be a ballet dancer. This is demonstrated in Billy’s defiant dance, shown by extreme close-ups of Jackie’s face, his furious feeling is evident. Jackie’s point of view shots with a soft lighting reveals Billy’s enthusiasm and talent for dance. The switch to the medium shot where Jackie’s body is stiff but the volume and the tempo of the…

Glenn T. Seaborg was born in Ishpeming, Sweden in 1912, into a family known publically as being intelligent. However, in 1922, the family moved to California in order to expand their opportunities. In high school, he had no interest in science. However, a science class was required for graduation. A teacher named Dwight Logan Reid is given credit for his interest in the field. Due to his family’s finances, the nearby University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) was his only option; due to its…

Giant’s fighting scene from Spike Lee’s Mo’s better blues is a really interesting scene in terms of lighting scheme, camera composition, etc. The sequence opens with an establishing master shot #1 of Giant going to the restroom. Shot #2 is a medium close up shot of Giant. Behind him are two men peeking from the stalls. This foreshadows the trouble Giant might be facing. The director uses the division of surface in order to show the conflict between the men and Giant. The focus of the shot shifts…

Blurred and reddened close-ups of Joel screaming interfere with these cut-ins and eventually prompt him to recount his memories of Clementine, making him relive his memories as they are erased. The formerly described calamity ends with a relatively peaceful wide shot of Joel lying in bed with the apparatus attached to his head. The camera’s focus shifts to a couple of Stan and Patrick shots, finally shifting to a close-up of Joel uttering “Patrick” after Stan calls for…

the note suggests that there is indeed a 67th patient. We later learn that Teddy is the 67th patient at Shutter Island. The close up of this shot plays a major factor in a reveal in the film, which is that Teddy is in fact a patient at Ashecliffe Mental Hospital. The close-up angle shows very little background, emphasizing the importance of the note. In this case, the close up is focused on the words on the note, displaying the information that leads to the reveal. The reason the director did…

Maximizing shareholder’s wealth is the most important business managers or chief executives ' responsibility. When the company becomes public, investors supply assets and cash. In order to keep up those assets, the chief executive or manager has to make decisions to increase the shareholder 's return, which occasionally can be inhuman and unethical. In Network, it displays Frank Hackett’s willingness (Robert Duvall) to make decisions, which is in his favor but intentionally puts Howard Beale…

The DIRECTOR of the film is Joe Cornish and the release date of the film was on the 13th of May 2011 in the UK. He worked with Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, and Simon Pegg. Edgar Wright was the executive producer for Attack the Block. The BUDGET of the film was £8 million and the FILMING LOCATIONS were in the London District of Brixton as well as consisting of various estates across London such as Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, Myatts Field in Brixton, Oval Tube Station in Kennington,…

Journal 1 After the first two weeks of lecture in Cinema Appreciation I have learned a great deal more about what goes into making a film. I was under the impression that there was one magical camera that could change settings to capture the diverse range of images instantaneously. Active viewing was something, I thought I did, but it wasn’t until I took a step back and saw the variety of shots and how each one of them is put together that I realized that there is more then one way to watch a…

shots used in the fight scene (see figure 13) this technique is used a lot as you are able to see both characters full bodys and how they are reacting to one anothers pucnhes, kicks etc. Going back to the real world we are shown more medium close ups, the close ups are quite contrasting emotions, as we see Yusuf’s (see sigure 14) terrified face as he is about to crash compared to Arthur’s (se figure 15) calm and collective expressions, as he is still oblivious as to what is going…

The connection between an audience and the story unfolding onscreen facilitates a reaction necessary to create an emotional impact. The connection is made possible by the films form due to music, shots, and editing. Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) succeeded in terrorizing its viewers through such techniques, creating a fictitious environment that could very well become their actual reality. Kenneth Burke states that “any given terminology is a reflection of reality, by its very nature as a…