ANALYSIS Check MateThe Cinematography and Lighting of The Shawshank Redemption The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 motion picture adapted and directed by Frank Darabont from a short story by Stephen King. This film is in the classical style combining elements of both formalism and realism. It also combines elements of the dramatic‚ escapist (prison break)‚ and romantic genres. The film’s symbolism is made apparent through the use of many techniques and elements‚ but the cinematography and lighting effects
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Django starts off as an average slave but by the end of the film‚ turns into the greatest gun slinger in the west‚ saves his wife‚ and lives happily ever after. According to Robert Richardson‚ the cinematographer of this film‚ the goal of the cinematography was to use iconic American West backgrounds as a montage to show Django traveling and growing as person and bounty hunter. Tarantino used panoramic long shots and a widescreen aspect ratio to show the vastness of the American West and to symbolize
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In the film Me Before You directed by Thea Sharrock there are many good uses of cinematography. In the beginning of the film there are a lot of shots that show Lou standing and looking towards Will while Will is in his wheel chair facing the opposite direction. This helps develop the relationship Will and Lou have in the beginning as a relationship where they don’t really like each other but have to get along. In the beginning when they show Lou and Will together there is not a lot of music or talking
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Note: This is part of a "philosophy in film" class. We watched a movie in class‚ talked about it‚ then figured out how different film concepts applied to the movie. I got an A in the class‚ but I don’t remember what I got on this paper. I am sure it was an A though. Text: Different camera positions in a movie can have a great effect on the way the audience interprets or feels about a movie. This is also done by the way each scene is composed and designed. In A Clockwork Orange‚ all these concepts
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In the film Citizen Kane‚ Herman J. Mankewicz and Orson Welles are the screenwriters. The genre for this film falls under drama and mystery. Throughout the film there were many lines from Jedediah Leland that contain a strong and powerful significant. A line that stood out the most was stated by Jedediah Leland he mentions‚ “That’s all he ever wanted out of life was love. That’s the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see‚ he just did not have any to give.” From this line I can interpret that Jedediah
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Every movie and TV show is different but they all share one thing in common‚ cinematography. Cinematography is how something is shot. Within cinematography are three categories; photographic aspects‚ framing‚ and duration. Photographic aspects are the concrete decisions that deal with specifics of the photographic elements; contrast‚ the difference between black and white and light and dark; exposure‚ the amount of light per unit area; and tonality‚ the amount of contrast there is. Framing is what
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New and Future Developments in Cinematography This transitional period in cinema is currently resulting in new and inventive technology emerging in rapid succession. Because the age of digital cinema has only just begun‚ we have yet to see the full potential of what it might bring. In camera technology there are several new companies now competing with the larger names in the business. This is leading to a democratisation of an industry that
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Vertigo directed by Alfred Hitchcock released in 1958 was nominated for two Oscars it is about a detective in California who suffers from vertigo investigates a friends wife that they believe is possessed and while doing this he becomes obsessed with her. This movies stars James Stewart as John Ferguson the main character and Kim Novak as Madeleine Elster and as Judy Barton in the end. In this paragraph we will talk about the entertainment value and how the components action and suspense are used
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terms/concepts are director‚ cinematic language‚ mise-en-scène‚ diegetic sound‚ and cinematography. In the three times Academy Award nominated film Field of Dreams‚ The director‚ Phil Alden Robinson‚ builds the film with his artistic‚ cinematic language featuring unique mise-en-scene‚ as well as depicting characters who hear voices in diegetic sound‚ and includes an imaginative cinematic vision in film cinematography techniques. The director regulates the dramatic and artistic elements in the film
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Cinematography has a major importance in giving the audience of a film an idea of where the people in the movie are. If done well‚ sometime the audience can even feel as if they are in this setting with the characters. Sound also plays an important role in films whether is is sound coming from people talking‚ a crash‚ or even a soundtrack of a film. It gives the audience a chance to feel submerged into the film and participate along with the characters. Guardians of The Galaxy‚ a film directed by
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