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    Cinematic Techniques

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    Action How do directors create emotional and powerful scenes? Directors use Cinematic Techniques to create the audiences’ thoughts into the film and to get them into what is going on. Cinematic Techniques include shots‚ framing‚ camera angles‚ camera movement‚ lighting‚ editing‚ and also sound. In Tim Burton’s film‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ one can just notice all the sounds and the camera movement. These techniques are used in many ways. Whether the movie is a nice and loving romance or intense

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    The variety of cinematic techniques are used throughout the paragliding scene played 3/4 of the way through The Intouchables to augment the key theme of friendship prevalent through the film. It works as a powerful scene‚ cementing the strong bond shared between Driss and Philippe‚ especially through the techniques assisting the audience to temporarily forget their differences and focus on their friendship. Sound The use of sound‚ through music‚ is a crucial component to the paragliding scene

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    TOPIC: ‘Kazan uses a range of cinematic techniques to reveal the emotional and moral struggle of Terry Malloy’ ‘On the Waterfront’ is an‚ award winning film‚ directed by Elia Kazan‚ whose audience is faced with Terry’s moral dilemma and emotional battle‚ that forces them to think about their own beliefs about what loyalty‚ love and friendship mean. The films protagonist Terry Malloy‚ portrays the tough-guy attitude‚ in order to try protect himself to from the degradation that surrounds him. Trapped

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    important settings in the 1981 motion picture‚ ‘Gallipoli‚’ which enable us to gain an understanding of the key ideas of the film; which are‚ the destructive puissance of war propaganda and the brutality of war. Throughout the film‚ a plethora of cinematic techniques are employed by the director Peter Weir‚ in these settings‚ in order to not only expose the key ideas of the film but‚ more importantly‚ to impart messages of great relevance and significance for people in society today. Contextually speaking

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    Atonement Film Techniques

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    In the 2007 film Atonement‚ director Joe Wright uses characterisation and explicit symbolism to explore the themes of truism and misconception. He uses this to comment on how the abuse of power is carried out by people who are seemingly civilised. Wright used both non-diegetic and diegetic sounds to draw comparisons between the seeming civility and the actions of Briony and Paul Marshall. Various mis-en-scène elements‚ such as the characters’ appearances and speaking style‚ are effectively used to

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    and the way he sees the world. In his films he creates a recurring theme about outsiders and how they fit in this crazy‚ mixed up place. It is clear in Edward Scissor Hands‚ Charlie and the Chocolate Factory‚ and Corpse Bride‚ that people fear change and the great unknown. Burton gives light to vastly suppressed outsider perspectives and teaches an important lesson about difference and all that it brings. He uses cinematic techniques such as emotional close-ups‚ contrasted lighting‚ and non-diegetic

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    Burton’s Stylistic Techniques- FINAL DRAFT Tim Burton is a unique American filmmaker that grew up watching horror movies and even lived near a cemetery. He was surely a self-admitted oddball. However‚ Tim Burton’s style always seems to appear in any movie he directs. A few of his movies are Edward Scissorhands‚ Charlie And The Chocolate Factory‚ and Corpse Bride. These movies all represent his interests‚ inspirations‚ and his life experiences. Tim Burton uses specific cinematic techniques to create an

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    Cinematic Techniques in Film Narrative How do movies carry us from scene to scene? The answer is in the screenplay as well as the cinematic techniques used in the film. Scriptwriters will start their script with a series of meaningful cinematic techniques. Cinematic techniques such as the act structure‚ choice of shot‚ scene transition‚ and camera movement‚ can greatly influence the structure and meaning of a film. These techniques include the hook‚ establishing shot‚ montage‚ leitmotif‚ foreshadowing

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    McEwan in his novel Atonement explores deceit through the character of Briony. Briony is presented as an overly ambitious young girl whose actions are mainly done to gain some recognition in the adult world. McEwan structures his novel in such a way that the reader is presented with the deceit in the first part of the novel and the atonement for the deceit is later on in the novel. Ibsen in his play A Doll’s House also explores the theme of deceit through the character of Nora. Nora at first is

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    Major Themes In Atonement

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    ATONEMENT Major Themes Guilt / Atonement The theme of guilt‚ forgiveness‚ and atonement should be extremely obvious to anyone who reads the book. The entire plot of the novel centers on a woman who devotes her entire life repenting a crime she committed while still a young girl. Articles of note that are not as obvious to the reader that have to do with this theme are things like‚ is Briony the only person who should feel guilty? Who else is at fault for the crime committed on that hot summer

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