Roman Polanski’s 1965 thriller film, Repulsion, follows the character of Carol Ledoux, a single manicurist living in London with older sister Helen. The film captivates Carol’s transition from a serene woman to a psychotic who falls victim of insanity Her illness causes her to break apart from reality, endure personality changes, and experience hallucination all leading up to the death of two men. Through the arrangement of mise-en-scene, visual elements, the film helps filmmaker’s captive audiences. The specific combination of acting, sound, and lighting in Repulsion work together to construct tension and terrorize audiences.…
In the 1950’s film Rear Window, director Alfred Hitchcock sets his entire work looking through a man, L.B. Jeffries’ rear window. Because of his broken leg, Jeffries is confined to his apartment, and even to his wheelchair. It is here, in his apartment, that the protagonist watches, or even spies on his neighbors. He draws conclusions on these people, but from a distance: across the apartment-building courtyard. In addition to this physical distance separating Jeffries from his neighbors, his perspective, too, distances him from his conclusions. Only seen through the glass of a window and the lens of a camera, Jeffries’ point of view is confined to only a single vision. We see that this single vision, however, provides Jeffries with an ample amount of information. The avant-garde cinematography combined with the original plot creates a new mean to film. Alfred Hitchcock’s innovative Rear Window allows the audience to bring their own experiences to the film: just as Jeffries draws conclusions on his neighbors from a distance, man too establishes his own perspective in the real world, and brings this experience to the film to understand its meaning.…
This experiment contains three separate procedures in which Aluminum Potassium Sulfate(Alum) will be melted, massed out and mixed with Barium Nitrate, along with distilled Water. Procedure one we completed two trials of melting two separate 0.01g of Alum and making a comparison to the literature temperature of 92.5, to do this we attached an Alum filled capillary tube to a thermometer and inside a beaker placed over a Bunsen burner. Procedure two consisted of placing 2.00 grams of Alum into a crucible and heating it over a Bunsen burner while making sure to take the separate masses as well as the masses of the Alum before and after heating. Procedure three was determining the outcome of mixing the Alum with distilled water and Barium Nitrate…
This report is about how films work. In this report, I will give examples from the book and movie called ‘The Outsiders’. I will be using examples from ‘The Outsiders’ because the film has a lot of examples on camera movements, for example, close-ups, camera turning around, downward views, colored screen, camera edits, etc., and how films work.…
In Chapter Twenty-Five Mulvey discusses the pleasures of looking, and how film producers utilize this to create films. Mulvey explains that the instinct of looking can be defined as the “construction of ego, it continues to exist as the erotic basis for pleasure in looking at another person or object” (Mulvey, 1999). Mulvey explains that the viewer seeks satisfaction in a dark auditorium, and the contrast between the light and dark stimulate an illusion of “voyeuristic separation” (Mulvey, 1999). The women in the films are displayed as sexual objects and…
The four requirements for minerals are that they must be naturally occurring in other words they must appear in nature something that that was formed by the earth and not man made. It must be inorganic which means I must not be formed from an organic substance like a fossil of any other living creature. It must have a specific crystalline structure that is formed from simple salts and complex silicates. And it must have a definite chemical composition which defines the minerals structure. The way that you differentiate between minerals is by the way they react to specific tests like for instance the acid test some minerals will have a bubbling action and other one will have no reaction and by color minerals come in many different shades an colors. The six methods to tell minerals apart are the color test by looking at the mineral it can be classified by its color. Another method is the streak test which is the color of the mineral in its powered form this is the true color of a mineral specimen as it lessens the impurity impact and eliminates the light distortion from the crystal. The luster test refers to the absorption, refection, or refraction of light by the surface of a mineral. The fluorescence test in ultraviolet light, some mineral specimens appear to Florence due to the fluorescent mineral impurities or due to locality. Chemical composition is another method because minerals have a fixed chemical composition it is easy to test mineral with this method. And hardness minerals are identified by their hardness based on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness based on their ability to scratch any mineral with a number lower than theirs and their inability to scratch any mineral with a number higher than theirs. A mineral is naturally occurring crystalline solid with a specific chemical composition and characteristic geometric shape. A rock is mineral partials…
While researching on the different techniques applied on previous notable films created by distinguished filmmakers, I learned that they all similarly applied their understanding of human perception into the creation of their craft. To give a better point of comparison among the films cited in this section, all of the movies presented below share a similar technique: the uninterrupted shot. This method was preferred by this researcher in order to identify the differences in styles that were incorporated by each director in presenting his version of the uninterrupted shot. In the 1980 film ¬of Stanley Kubrick entitled The Shining, a long uninterrupted shot of the young boy Danny was shown as he explored the endless hallways of the…
Citizen Kane, in what is considered by many to be the greatest film of all time, showcases the genius of Orson Welles and the talent of Gregg Toland with its remarkable scenes and performances, cinematic and narrative techniques and experimental innovations in editing, photography and sound. In viewing the “Love Nest Confrontation” scene, Welles and Toland used a combination of different techniques that include deep focus cinematography and exotic camera angles to give the audience an in-depth view/perspective of the exchanges and dialogue going on between characters; the leveraging of character’s movements to control who and where the audience focused on; and the use of both triangular composition and chiaroscuro lighting to provide a sense of mystique to the audience.…
Movies have long been known to create a portal through which its viewers can transcend through their own realities and experience the unimaginable. The visual, sounds, and narrative of great movies immediately attract the focus of its audience as they move into a trance for those 1-2 hours of screen time. While many great movies introduce their audiences to varying experiences that heighten their senses and grasp their focus, some measure of relatability is necessary to connect with audiences. Such concepts of implementing elements of realism into the various facets of a film help establish a relevant connection, through which audiences can relate. However during the Hollywood Classical era, introducing such techniques of intensifying realism in movies was often unconventional and not an achievable goal for directors and cinematographers. The techniques required to implement such elements were either not well known or plausible. There were some movies during this era that did defy such tendencies and broke barriers in terms of delivering a movie that differentiated through such concepts like realism. Two famous films that have utilized certain techniques in creating an intensified form of realism in their own ways are Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles, and Double Indemnity, by Billy Wilder.…
The first time a saw the movie I really didn’t see the voyeurism of the film, mostly because it was in my high school humanities class and was told to figure out the story behind the thriller. The teacher told us to find out the mystery of Mr. Thorwald. But after refreshing myself of the movie a noticed that Hitchcock was a very smart, nosy man, just like the rest of society. I pictured Hitchcock in the wheelchair watching all those people out of his window, and then myself and came to realize that anyone would watch if it were open to you. This led me to recognize that the movie, behind the crime investigation, was all about voyeurism and how people love to see without being seen. I watched it with my brother, who is a film major at UCF, and he too thought the same thing. We discussed the movie afterwards and he came to appreciate the movie for being shot in one area.…
attention to his film techniques and themes, you start to discover a bit about him. He uses…
The film Koyannisqatsi (1983) had opened the public’s eyes to the possibility of extensive time-lapse cinematography and the non- verbal style of filmmaking. Filmmakers such as Frances’ Jean Painleve made similar films before but nothing had been made such as Koyannisqatsi (1983). The other films where similar but made more towards the experimental film audiences. Godfrey Reggio the director of Koyannisqatsi (1983) and Ron Fricke the cinematographer showed how the modern world was moving from a natural environment to a society occupied and controlled by technology. The film is known for two main things besides its message about technology: 1) its use of time lapse cinematography which was ground breaking and 2) its use of non-verbal style which no actors, or linear narrative structure.…
The Cameraman directed by Edward Sedgwick and Buster Keaton is about a man who is smitten with a women who he just meet. This 1928 silent movie is a not only a comedy but also a romance which stood the test of time and is relatable to modern audiences. (2) A shot that contains the essence of the film is when Keaton arrives at MGM after filming the street war, only to see he has “forgot to put film in the cameras”. To me this movie showed that what can go wrong will go wrong, for Keaton, but that is what made it so funny to audiences then and now. He was so determine to get the shot and impress the girl he risked his life, only to return with an “empty” camera. Everyone is gathered around him with his new monkey on his neck, and it is unveiled that the…
1. Buster Keaton---------------leading actor; projectionist in the reality/ Sherlock. Jr. in the film (I will call him ‘The projectionist’ in the following text.)…
The key props that I found in this film Cronos by Guillermo del Toro that plays a huge role in the movie is that there’s Golden Mechanic scarab device called Cronos. This Cronos device was invented in the 1536 by an alchemist, that gives eternal life. The characters in the film tell a story about a dying old man Dieter de la Guardia and his nephew Angel the bad guys, where they want this device for eternal life. In the other hand there’s Jesus Gris and orphan granddaughter, Jesus is an antique dealer middle class that is the protagonist in the film, play a roll in the story that he found this Cronos device that change his life accidently with not knowing the consequences of the device. The character did change over the course of the film,…