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Star Wars Film Techniques
In the movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the director, J. J. Abrams, used many significant scenes in the course of the film to present themes and ideas to the audience. J. J. Abrams used a variety of techniques to present these ideas, which helped to change the course of the narrative, as it is the biggest plot twist from the movie. Probably, the most important scene in Star Wars which a lot of techniques were used to show an idea was "The Han Solo Death" scene. The aim of this text is to explore and analyse the idea of the fight between good and evil. In order to analyse this idea the combinations: silence and music, camera and lighting, music and lighting, lighting and dialogue and camera, will be used as examples of this idea in the movie.
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