to show detail • Can be used to show hand activity or something important on the subject’s body Extreme Close Up Shot When the camera focuses on a part of an object or face in detail. Effect: shows tension‚ focuses on a clue‚ draws the audience into the emotional engagement between characters. Medium Shot A medium shot focuses on the figure in the frame and shows a person from the waste up. Effect: Shows both the facial expression and some of the action. Shows who is talking and where. Shows
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(about 5-7 slides for week three‚ about 7-12 for week four). The grade for each assignment is based on the resulting PowerPoint presentations. Start with a given film’s name and its genre‚ describe its theme in one sentence‚ and describe the story in up to four sentences. From each worksheet‚ provide a brief description of how each element was used. (For example‚ if you selected the film The Shining‚ you will explain how the film’s settings were used and provide two specific examples.) Describe
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‘Perfect Day’ by Lou Reed‚ is the soundtrack used when Renton suffers from an over-dose of heroin and is dragged out on to the road by the Mother Superior‚ waiting for a taxi to take Renton to hospital. The camera angle is seen from Renton’s point of view‚ appearing as if he is in his own Grave. This signifies his near death experience as when he is injected in hospital‚ he returns back to reality‚ and to life. Underworlds ‘Born Slippy’ is played while Renton embarks on his betrayal towards his friends
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Instructions for Sequence Analysis A. State the "message(s)" of the scene or sequence‚ i.e.‚ what is the filmmaker trying to communicate? B. Justify your statement in A by explaining how the five main channels of information in film--visual image‚ print and other graphics‚ speech‚ music‚ noise (sound effects)--work together to communicate it. Note that not all films make use of all five channels (e.g.‚ print and graphics were common in the era of the silent film) and‚ further‚ that the intermittent
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“THE JOURNEY NOT THE ARRIVAL MATTERS.” HOW IS THE CONCEPT OF LENA AND VAUGHN’S PHYSICAL JOURNEY REPRESENTED IN THE FILM? A physical journey is predominantly interpreted as a mere distance travelled‚ although it is also layered with extending ourselves emotionally‚ spiritually or intellectually. In the text Beneath Clouds‚ the director Ivan Sen ingeniously explores the concept of a physical journey mirrored with the emotional growth of the main characters. The essential motif that the journey‚ not
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Hanks)‚ the drive that kept him up until the end was hope. The hope to return to his old life‚ to be back together with his long time sweetheart Kelly Frears (Helen Hunt). The movie Cast Away (2000) – in which Robert Zemeckis had directed in it – had shown perfectly a goal-driven kind of journey. They managed to emphasize how much Chuck wants to see Kelly again‚ through a long series of scenes previewing Chuck’s battle against the wilderness‚ how he had almost given up‚ but then again remembers the
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his friend before he losses all" (2 seconds). Cut to Shot 2 (medium long shot‚ slightly low angle): • Front of house‚ with stairs slightly to the right of shot and potted plant on either side of stairs. Friend (man) enters from right and walks up stairs (2 seconds). Cut to Shot 3 (medium shot‚ straight-on angle): • Interior of living room where foreground is pretty vacant but background has a study and a desk with a vase with flowers in it. There are three ladies standing: Two nurses
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become more aware of his environment‚ Blake’s size relative to the rest of the shot diminishes‚ and he is finally pushed to the edge of the frame as he stares at a lake for an extended period of time. Where the director could have decided to cut to a close-up shot of Blake’s face for dramatic effect‚ he instead decides to make Blake appear small and boring. It is also important to note that at this point‚ Blake has
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The Reason Behind the Scene –Why We Keep Choosing “If the outlaw hero’s motto was ‘I don’t know what the law says‚ but I do know what’s right and wrong‚’ the official hero’s was ‘We are a nation of laws‚ not of men” (Ray 62). A Certain Tendency of the Hollywood Cinema‚ by Robert Ray‚ looks at the various opposing values in America through the history of Hollywood films and cinema‚ which one vital value is the dichotomy of outlaw hero versus official hero. Official hero tends to be an idealogy
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He gets up from his chair and begins to walk around the courtroom. The camera follows him wherever he goes through a series of pans‚ making sure to keep in him frame as he continues to keep his attention at the camera. Finally‚ the camera becomes stationary
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