For most of the movie natural lighting is used considering over half of the movie is shot outside. While the sun may cause there to be glares when shots are taken, they normally use special lenses to help with adjusting to the light allowing for a clearer picture. The natural lighting suggests that the movie is more realistic in most aspects. However, there are few scenes that were shot at night to where there were not any available natural lighting so other techniques were used. Lighting such as flares, fires, car lights and flashlights functioned as lighting during the night. While these lights did not offer as clear of a picture as the natural lighting it helped set the mood for their atmosphere, in which this case was war. The types of lighting used in this movie helped establish the realistic…
Description: A mob drama that was inspired by the novel written by an Italian American Author, Mario Puzo. A story of a family whose son was refusing to be involved in the famous Mafia which his family was engaged and how did he maintained the normal relationship with his wife despite the series of violence and betrayal involved and to continue the family business.…
Martin Scorsese is known to be a famous filmmaker and almost as famous for being a New Yorker. Many of his films are based in New York which are most of the time films that are gritty and about the darker side of urban life where he focuses his vision to the city’s neighborhoods, especially Lower Manhattan and Little Italy. Scorsese has a talent of showing precise and sometimes personal representation of the people and the streets of these neighborhoods. Most of his films have this bond to the city presenting accurate maps of specific parts of the city.…
For example in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” from the outside the factory looks very dark and dreary because of the dark lighting that Tim uses but once you open the door you see this bright and colorful land of candy that wouldn’t look as desirable if it didn’t have the bright lighting. Although in “big fish” everything was very dark because he was trying to create a mood of sadness for the dad dying except in the end when the dad turned into a fish. In “Edward scissorhands” the lighting around Edward’s house is very dark up until you actually get to the house then its light and whimsical to show that everyone thinks he’s so scary but really he’s a pretty cool guy that is just lonely and isolated and has never experienced the outside…
Both high-key and low-key lighting were used in the movie “Edward Scissorhands” to create a joyful and happy mood but also a sad and depressed mood. For example, when Edward is at his castle the lighting is low-key to create a mood. But, when Edward is at Peg’s families house, the lighting is high-key to create more of a happier mood. Another example is in the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, Tim Burton again uses lighting to create a certain kind of mood. In the scene, the children are all waiting outside to go inside the factory, where the lighting is low-key and gloomy but when they go inside the lighting changes and so does the mood. The lighting gets brighter, the mood gets lifted and the scene gets colorful.…
For example, in the popular movie by Tim Burton,”Big Fish”, it contained two scenes with a dramatic difference. That difference was the lighting. The first scene that was played showed the spectrum with beautiful grass and polished buildings, the mood was obviously exciting and cheery. The lightning showed me that since the scene was very bright. However, the second scene which showed Edward walking back to the spectrum and him being surprised for the reason that the grass was dead and the once architecturally detailed buildings were now at their ends. The lighting (dark) had an extra effect of making the scene sorrowful. In another case, Edward Bloom’s room was very dark and encouraged how Edward could be many seconds away from dieing. Lastly, the movie, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, when all the kids and parents continued walking in the factory, following Willie, I noticed the lighting slowly get brighter while they walked into the room with the chocolate river, which made me feel less stressed since the kids were about to have great entertainment in that…
The lightning, cinematography, narrative, and the film’s use of time are important components to the shifting realistic and fantastic views of the movie, and they affect the content greatly as well as helping to further the meaning of the film. The lighting used in most of the film is very contrasting to each other. In Donnie’s “real” life when he is in control, the lighting is bright and natural, conveying the feeling of normalcy. When the narrative delves into his more disturbed moments, the lighting becomes darker and heavier, complimenting the troubling mentality of Donnie in…
The Godfather – The film has one big arc that is then sectioned into 3. A minor transitional arc within the film is Michael and Apollonia marriage and her death marks a smooth transition to the rise of Michael as mob boss, which happens at the very end of the…
Tim Burton, in Sweeney Todd, takes advantage to the use of low key lighting in order to give the movie a constant pinch of suspense. Being the psychotic barber Burton convinced the…
Hollywood has the power to completely demolish and invade entire lives with negativity, hopelessness, depression, and emptiness. Billy Wilder recognizes these flaws that exist in Hollywood and demonstrates these flaws in his film noir, Sunset Boulevard; using lighting and the colors black and white to his…
One of the most influential film movements in the 1940's was a genre that is known today as film noir. Film noir was a recognizable style of filmmaking, which was created in response to the rising cost of typical Hollywood movies (Buss 67). Film noir movies were often low budget films; they used on location shoots, small casts, and black and white film. The use of black and white film stock not only lowered production costs, but also displayed a out of place disposition that the conventions of film noir played upon. It is these conventions: themes, characters, lighting, sound, and composition, which are seen in the movie LA Confidential (Curtis Hanson, 1997). This paper discusses the techniques used in LA Confidential that link the movie with the typical cinematic conventions of the film noir style.…
The use of lighting in Branagh’s and Tennent’s scenes contrast greatly. As Branagh enters the ballroom, the lighting of the setting remains generally well lit. For this scene, lighting is key to showing the viewer…
In the eyes of Suzanne Wong, Vito Corleone is a man who deserves to be admired. He is a man who does well and expects nothing less in return. In Wong’s essay, she constantly brings up the deeds he does for everyone. Her reasons about why Don Vito Corleone is such a great role model were very well explained and detailed. She builds up Vito’s character so others can view him as a god like figure, hence why his nickname is The Godfather. I do agree with her on some topics, but at the same time I disagree. I agree with Wong when she says friendships are important, and Vito really showed how important it was. In addition, I agree with her argument about traditional values. What I don’t necessarily agree with is what she said about success and how the Don achieved it by himself. So therefore I mainly agree with Wong but at the same time I disagree just a little. I agree with Corleone being a good role model because he values friendship and traditional values but I don’t agree that he is because his success all resulted from violence.…
I felt that lighting played a big role in The Godfather. Especially in low light scenes where the light is illuminating on Don Vito's face and his eyes are darkened. It really shows his dark personality as a character. I also notice that most of the scenes were shot in low key lighting. The only scenes that didn't have low key lighting was during the wedding.…
Lighting played a big role in the dark stories of American Me, A Bronx Tale, and American History X. All three films show indication of dark lighting in distressed situations. In American Me, for example, the rape scene of Montoya’s mother was dark, and the only lighting evident was realistic lighting. Some of it penetrated the shot from the street light, and the rest was from a very low-lit lamp inside the tattoo parlor. Even when the shot was taken outside for his father’s beating, the scene decorated with minimal lighting. Reynaldo Villalobos keeps consistent to this notion when he implements this technique in A Bronx Tale. When Lorenzo was lecturing his son about the troubles that come from a gangster life, the shot is extremely dark, even casting a shadow over Calogero’s face. This clearly foreshadowing the future of this character, and the events he will experience in the streets of New York. What was unique about this film, in contrast to the American Me, was the fact that most crimes were committed in daylight, with full lighting. The dark scenes were unique only to those special moments between specific characters. In American History X, before one of the most gruesome parts of the movie, Derek Vinyard is in his room informed by his little brother about an intruder…