Movement director

Movies can be inspired by inspirational, horrifying and comical real life events, and no one can combine the elements of distorted humor, fantasy and tragedy in movies better than producer, director and screenwriter Tim Burton. Tim Burton is known for dozens of films such as the acclaimed dark romantic fantasy film, Edward Scissorhands (1990), Beetlejuice (1987), Batman (1989) just to name a few. Growing up, Tim Burton felt different from other kids so art became his escape, drawing characters…

Wes Anderson is an American film director, famous for several of his beautiful movie creations which reflect back upon his creative, imaginative, and amusing personality. He has received four Oscars alongside recognition for his costume and production design. Anderson’s childhood background contains a troubled past regarding parents divorce which led him to develop an interest towards storytelling, as a form of escape. He certainly has a unique way of inputting certain key elements of his…

It has been hailed as the best film of 2016. La La Land is a mix of music, dreams and jarring reality. Director Damien Chazelle intertwined the essence of Hollywood and an enthralling love story into one epic tale. The scenes I am analysing are Someone in the crowd, Mia is late or her date and Mia’s big audition Chazelle makes the most of basic camera movement such as tracking and panning shots. The best example of tracking shots is in Someone in the crowd scene. We track the dancing and…

its home country, France, came to be during the 1950s and 1960s. It was created by a group of French filmmakers who proved that they don’t need mainstream cinema to create and produce successful films. Even if the New Wave wasn’t really a conscious movement it left a legacy with films like À bout de soufflé/Breathless (written and directed by Jean-Luc Goddard). French New Wave rejected the idea of a traditional story in films – they didn’t follow the structure and the narrative. The French…

Technique In Kubrick’s Paths of Glory and Hitchcock’s Psycho, each director successfully utilizes unique camera movements to communicate important thematic and narrative information to their audiences. In each film, the consciousness of the camera encodes not only the director’s authorial vision, but it also serves as a device for communicating power and suspense. Kubrick begins to display his impressive command of camera movement in the opening minutes of Paths of Glory. An early scene opens up…

Lewis adopts a more expansive style than the one he used fatherlier film. He gives Gun Crazy a nervous, jagged movement” (Hirsch 134).…

movies that he directs has one character that usually stands out from the rest. An outsider and how that outsider will never fit into society. He uses cinematic elements to portray his style, like lighting, diegetic and nondiegetic sound, and camera movement. Lighting is a good element used in movies, it can show that someone is happy, sad, scary, mad, gloomy, angelic, and sometimes disturbing.It can also set the mood for certain scenes or themes. In Edward Scissorhands, Tim Burton uses low and…

She does exactly what the director asks I’m sure, being a stoic rock throughout the film. Rarely do audiences decipher what’s going on beneath her unsmiling visage, but when she does show some inner turmoil it can be fascinating. Unfortunately, she does not do this enough, instead…

effectively used in this movie to further achieve the theme. Long shot, high angle shot, camera movement- pan and tilt is sed effectively to show the town where Truman lives. Long shot is used to show Truman’s humble situation. The a high angle shot, where the camera looks down, is used in this movie to emphasize Truman’s weakness and submissive feelings that his life is being controlled by the director, which in fact is showing an unrealistic side of…

Chung King Express has been celebrated for its innovative use of popular cinematic formulas. This is because of Hong Kong new wave film movement. This movement derived from the French new wave is to rebel against conventions. It is to experiment with new equipment and styles, making a social and political statement at the same time. Wong Kar-Wai tries to make a statement about Hong Kong at the time as Hong Kong was being handed back to Peoples republic of China. Wong Kar-Wai experiments with…