The Cameraman

The Farm: Angola is a film based on a prison named Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) located in Louisiana.The film looks into the lives of six inmates in the prison. All of these inmates featured are sentenced to life, except one who is on death row. The central messages of the film shows how the criminal justice system is corrupt, survival and freedom is the central goal for every inmate in the prison, and how racism is portrayed in the prison. The film does a great job on displaying how…

abandoned and forgotten. In addition, many people also believe that anger and hatred are the utmost symbol of evilness. Although many people believe so, indifference can even lead good people to do nothing in the face of evil. In Hotel Rwanda, the cameraman makes it clear to Paul that people in the Western world would apathetically watch the news and move on with their lives. Being indifferent is therefore more severe than people who hate and angry because it also leads good people in the…

their daily routine, but they are unable to do so, and totally frustrated. Eventually even the lights cut off in the house and the screen turns to black, leaving the fate of the two undetermined. It’s a black-and- white film. Fred Kelemen, the cameraman of this film completed the film by shot in only 30 long takes and shows the repetitive daily lives of the horse owner and his daughter. The film’s interior lighting scheme—including dimmer boards and dozens of fixed small lights—directly recalls…

through a series of six photos which showed beyond the dispute that the blow happened almost seven yards away from the ball carrier. The series of photos were reprinted in papers across the United States and made the cover of Life magazine. The cameraman also awarded the 1952 Pulitzer Prize as the photos showed the depth of racial disorder in the…

energy provides the viewer with a succinct yet informative insight into the areas of nuclear power that is often kept in the dark from the public. In The China Syndrome, two of the main characters - a news reporter named Kimberly Wells and her cameraman, Richard Adams - witness firsthand a reactor SCRAM during their visit to a nuclear power plant. The SCRAM, which entailed an emergency shutdown of the nuclear reactor, allowed Wells and Adams to observe the reactor slipping out of human…

The actors where supposed to act on their own behalf because they did not get very clear instructions, neither did the cameraman. The camera should react on instinct and not be prepared to the very next move of the protagonist. The movie did not follow the Dogma 95 rules, but still was imperfect in many ways. Without following the strict rules von Trier had much more freedom…

Usain Bolt a Jamaican sprinter, was born August 21, 1986, he is the fastest man alive. Bolt is unusually tall (6 ft. 5 in) for his sport. Usain St. Leo Bolt. He won the gold medal for the 200-m sprint at the 2002 world junior championships and then broke the record he had set at the nest two world juniors. Usain St. Leo Bolt Recovering from injury, he did poorly in the 2004 Olympics, but won the silver in the 100-m and 200-m at the 2007 world championships and ran a record 100-m sprint in 2008…

Many journalists believe that “emotional power can be harnessed” through visual media. One real-life journalist believes that television news has the power of “connect[ing] with the viewer’s heart” through storytelling. This charismatic, heroic image of the journalist is often portrayed in popular culture: a visual media that promotes accuracy and fairness while championing conscientiousness. But popular culture also reveals an unflattering side of visual media that can abuse its power to…

In Nightcrawler there are a few aspects of surveillance portrayed but they are very subtle. The first one is the use of diegetic sound that comes from the police scanner. Throughout the semester multiple films of the surveillance genre were viewed and many of them introduced a “bug” that was used to listen in on different characters of the film without them knowing. As Lou listens to the police scanner it is relatively the same as “bug”, except the police scanner only listens to police…

It seems like every person in America knows how bad fast food is for them. Yet, when was the last time you went through the drive-through of the nearest McDonald’s, craving a Big Mac or shake? Last month? Last week? When you last bit into your first handful of a large fry, were you really thinking about the impact on your health, or were you just too hungry to care? In the documentary Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock brings the issue of health and fast food from the back of American’s…