The Cameraman

Equality, according to Dictionary.com, is the state or quality of being equal; correspondence in quantity, degree, value, rank, or ability. Ability, as in strength, intelligence, talent and other human qualities. A world where each person is equal to every other person in every which way, even ability, is the world created in the short story “Harrison Bergeron” and film 2081. Both follow the story of the Bergeron family and the man Harrison Bergeron: a large, strong, intelligent man who is under…

The advancements in technology have had an extreme affect on the popularity of current superhero movies and media. Today we do not pay attention to how the innovations and inventions in production technology has changed over the past few decades and how superhero movies were so much different in the past. Without the special effects movie producers use today, superhero movies would definitely not be as exciting and action packed. So, these movies would not catch the eyes of many people.…

shortly after Shawn was born because he couldn’t bear to see Shawn having his seizures). He goes to school but is in the Severely/Profoundly Handicapped Special Education Program, which he calls the retard class. His dad came in one day, with a cameraman from the local PBS station and started talking about disabled kids who can’t be educated. Even though a seizure came over Shawn, he still picked up the words “end his…

Quarantine I chose a 2008 movie “Quarantine” for this extra credit assignment. In this movie, a television reporter and her cameraman are shadowing two fire fighters during their night shift and while they are touring the facility, an emergency call leads them to an apartment from where the 911 call was made by the apartment manager. Upon arriving of the 2 firemen, 2 police officers and the television crew the apartment manager explains that a woman has been screaming upstairs in one of the…

English Assignment 1 Romeo and Juliet Olwethu Masiza 16013255 Question 2 : Filmic devices This essay will discuss the different filmic devices in Romeo and Juliet, namely extreme close-up; low angle shot; tilt; zoom and flashback, and why Baz Luhrmann has chosen to use each one of these filmic devices. Luhrmann has chosen to use all these different camera shots so that he creates a meaningful scene full of mixed emotions. Extreme close up is when the camera zooms in very closely…

In the article, Koinange Killers it talks about how child soldiers killed a reporter's camera man as he was approaching their camp. The Koinange reporter says, “[The cameraman] was killed when child soldiers opened fire on the vehicle he was traveling in" (Koinange). The cameraman was in an innocent truck and a group of child soldiers open fired at the truck for no apparent reason. Criminals who take advantage of the use of guns should not be given amnesty because they misused…

aspects in the film are looked at carefully and put back together they can tell you a lot about a culture and how participants of the culture behave in a private and social environment. The film style is Jean Rouch influenced in the way that the cameraman is infiltrated and films people casually having conversations as a way of interviewing Locations and adding images during the interviews were all editing decisions I made. I wanted to create some sort of sense for the audience what it was like…

“What if my problem wasn’t that I don’t understand people but that I don’t like them? What if I was the kind of person who was obliged to hurt you?” Lou Bloom, a hungry, sociopathic freelance crime cameraman played by the magnificent Jake Gyllenhaal is deeply unsettling. He’s a man on a mission; hell-bent on growing his ‘company’, he takes to the LA streets and hires a lowly intern (Riz Ahmed) to assist him in Lou’s endeavours to make as much money as possible by capturing horrific incidents.…

direction I want to go in which was being a youth minister. He had an excitement like no other for Christ. One time I can remember his excitement got the best of him. It was one night during last year crossroads summer camp and I was working as the cameraman. He began to talk about his past and his glory days of playing football. Which also lead to some hard time in his faith. One night before a game he was in the locker room with his teammates. Unfortunately, they were not all playing the same…

film’s themes surrounding the slaves’ harsh reality demonstrate the purpose of creating a unique culture to identify with, as well as the way we define ourselves based on a socially constructed hierarchy. The story begins in present day with a tacky cameraman directing a seemingly fashion model Mona on a beautiful beach. Taken…