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    Horror films have been around since the late 19th century to terrify audiences by engaging them with visual and auditory language such as using lighting‚ camera techniques‚ sound and music. These elements have been used effectively in the 2013 American supernatural horror film‚ The Conjuring‚ directed by an Australian director‚ James Wan. His film is based off a true story about a family with five daughters who move to a dilapidated farmhouse. As paranormal events begin to occur they contact demonologists

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    The film American Beauty‚ directed by Sam Mendes is a film about imprisonment and escape from imprisonment (Mendes‚ 1999). American Beauty explores the breakdown of a suburban family man whose life journeys from self loathing and emptiness to freedom and liberation but at the ultimate cost of his life. Mendes effectively employs a range of techniques to help convey the meaning of this film such as set design‚ camera angles‚ colour and soundtrack. Cinema often uses structured set design and camera

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    Jaws Film Techniques

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    Jaws Media Essay “Jaws” is a thriller film directed by Steven Spielberg. The film is about a great white shark that cause havoc to the small township of Amity‚ New England. The film is set around the 4th of July with the shark’s first victim dying only a few days prior to one of the busiest days of the year‚ t. This is significant because in the USA the 4th of July is one of the biggest national holidays of the year‚ nearly all Americans will not be working and as it is in the middle of summer

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    cinematography techniques differ from The Wachowski Brothers’ The Matrix (1999). One of the first major differences between the films is the amount of close-ups that are involved in The Matrix and Metropolis. Metropolis consists of very few close-ups and an abundance of wide shots. The wide shots linger‚ giving the audience the ability to see everything happening within that frame composition instead of cutting away to a new angle. One scene in particular stands out with close-ups from this film. While

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    How does the director Steven Spielberg use filmic techniques to build suspense and tension for the audience in the film Jaws? Steven Speilberg directed the epic blockbuster film‚Jaws‚ alongside producers David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck. He is an American film director‚ producer‚ screenwriter and undoubtedly one of the most influential personalities in the history of filmmaking. Additionally‚ Spielberg is the highest grossing filmmaker of all time and his movies have earned in the region of four

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    tHE POWER OF ONE

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    The Power of One: Why and how may power corrupt a leader? In ancient Rome‚ in the peak of development of the empire when faced against great perils‚ one man would be granted with all the power. They will be named Julius Caesar‚ the head of the republic. But there was a time in which Gaius Julius Caesar rejected to give up his power and became a dreadful tyrant. The history of mankind is full of examples of man being corrupted by the taste of power. The story of the Caesar is but one of the vast

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    Analyse how techniques were used to create impact in one important section of “Once Were Warriors” Directed by Lee Tamahori. In the film‚ “Once Were Warriors” the visual techniques camera shots and angles‚ lighting and sound effects were used to create impact in the party scene. The impact created shows us‚ the audience‚ that alcohol can lead to violence. Firstly‚ the director uses camera shots and angles to create impact in showing us the relationships between the characters and how they become

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    imaginations to provide his audience with entertainment. Looking at the two films My Left Foot and Gangs of New York‚ we are presented with two controversial characters played by Day-Lewis. Presented in these two films‚ Day–Lewis allows the audience to forget that they are watching a film by allowing them to become part of the world that has been created by the actors as well as the directors and their incredible filming techniques. Day-Lewis in My Left Foot took the idea of preparation of portraying a

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    In The Power of One book 2‚ Bryce Courtenay brought a deeper meaning into each of the many quotes used to express the character’s attitude and the atmosphere of the scene to the audience. In fact‚ in the beginning of book 2‚ the author elaborated on the previous quote from Hobbie‚ but this time from a new friend/ mentor of Peekay‚ he rants “First with the facts then the trust”(340). In other words‚ the author overlap these 2 quote from to show a similarity between the two characters. He exemplified

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    The Life of Alfred Hitchcock "Always make the audience suffer as much as possible". Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was one of the first celebrity director. Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born on August 13‚ 1899 in Heytonstone‚ England. His early life could be compared to a Charles Dickens novel full of hard work. The Hitchcock’s were a hard working strict Catholic family. His father William Hitchcock was a store owner in Heytonstone. With three children‚ his mother Emma Jane Hitchcock stayed at

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