University of Phoenix Material How Films Communicate Instructions Complete and submit Part I in your first week of class. In Week Two‚ complete Parts II & III after viewing a film of your choice from the University of Phoenix Material: How Films Communicate Film List located under your Week One materials. Submit your completed worksheet in Week Two. Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film To compete Part I‚ choose a movie you have viewed in the past (this does not have to be from the University
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male and female characters. Rewind to the early 1940s through the late 1950s‚ add sharp black and white cinematography‚ and you’ve got Film Noir. Film Noir can be defined as film that conveys moral natures and real-life situations‚ usually dealing with crime‚ seductive women‚ and guilt‚ through dark lighting and shadows. Film Noir encompasses detectives‚ femme fatales‚ love‚ beautiful cinematography‚ and snappy dialogue. A famous film involving a detective is The Big Heat. Dave Bannion is the detective
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younger brother from going down the same path which he took. The beginning and the ending of the film revealed a change in the character of Derek from a hate-fuelled racist to an open-minded person who finds his mistakes. Kaye uses black and white cinematography; non-diegetic sounds and also costumes to support his message that ‘hate is baggage’. When comparing the portrayal of the beginning and final scenes of Venice beach‚ the murder Derek which had committed to that of the murder of his younger brother
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in their motives and how they express themselves is really shown throughout the movie in many different scenes and the differences grow as the climax of the movie draws closer. Meryl’s priorities clearly show this as she puts herself first‚ the cinematography helps to develop the idea that the husband and wife are distanced and when Meryl breaks the ‘fourth wall’ shows the amount of stress that their relationship is under. From the first moment we (the audience) meet Meryl‚ right up until the last
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the films you have studied for this topic. In the Channel 4 documentary Kid Criminals‚ our views and opinions are challenged through the use of certain techniques such as cinematography‚ mise en scene‚ editing and sound. The messages and values that we expect to see in Kid Criminals is challenged through the use of cinematography. The opening of Kid Criminals helps to draw the viewer in by showing the facility through the use of a panning high angle where the criminals are being held. Once the camera
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where one blocks or represses disturbing thoughts. Freud believed that one could access the unconscious mind through dreams and wrote an entire book about it. The movie Spellbound embraces Freud’s ideas and Alfred Hitchcock and Salvador Dali use cinematography to weave them into a riveting suspense filled cinematic ride. Dr. Peterson is a stifled‚ straight-laced‚ psychologist that works at Green Manors Mental Hospital in Vermont. She employs Freud’s psychoanalysis techniques with her patients as was
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framing to portray a scene or character in a way that provides information to the viewer. Throughout The Dark Knight Rises‚ (2012)‚ Christopher Nolan uses framing to convey the balance of power between characters of a given scene. This element of cinematography is most evident in shots that feature the villain‚ Bane. Even though the actor that plays Bane is 5’9”‚ he appears taller and powerful due Nolan’s use of low angle framing. During the scene in the airplane before Bane parachutes out of the wreckage
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by Michael Radford who captured Orwell’s technologically inclined society through a visual medium. Radford’s film portrayed Orwell’s idea of 1984 more effectively. This will be proven through examination of additions and deletions of scenes‚ cinematography‚ and casting. Radford’s additions and deletions leave the audience questioning his choice. At the end of the film Radford leaves the audience with unanswered questions‚ whereas in the novel‚ Orwell had clear visual clues the answered the questions
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great efficiency and accuracy‚ the movie director Sean Penn follows faithfully in Christopher McCandless or aka “Alexander Supertramp’s” footsteps with intensive research‚ and it illuminates the young man’s personality as he saw it. Different cinematography techniques‚ such as long shot‚ pace‚ building a scene‚ and monologue‚ had been used to create the dramatic scenes‚ to engage audience in the mixed feeling of the movie‚ and most importantly bring the whole message to life. One of the
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Other than that the changes made in the movie were not that significant from the novel; the cinematography‚ the actors‚ and
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