of French cinema‚ numerous directors have chosen to set their films with the background of a traditional‚ nostalgic France‚ especially when set in the city of Paris. These films tend to feature a setting of a “stereotypical France” -or with elements people tend to think of when France is brought up- with prim and proper people and brightly colored‚ clean streets devoid of any trouble or complication. A countless amount of these films also tend to star a fully white cast to portray the old‚ outdated
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Amelie: Technical Considerations to help you appreciate the film This resource is designed to be used with clips from the film Amelie‚ as part of an ‘Auteur Study’ of Jean-Pierre Jeunet‚ director of Delicatessen‚ City of Lost Children‚ Amelie and A Very Long Engagement‚ as well as his Hollywood foray‚ Alien Resurrection. The techniques used by director Jean-Pierre Jeunet and cinematographer Bruno Dubonnell are primarily used to create the tone and atmosphere appropriate to the genre of this
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Amelie is a French movie about a young twenty something girl who’s world opened up to her when her mother dies and she is allowed to venture out. After a health misdiagnoses at a young child Amelie is stranded in her home away from all people and relationships until her mother passes away and she finds herself free. She becomes a waitress and decides to help all the people around her until one day she herself finds love. This film shows a French cultural pattern where the people are open minded
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Cinematography History Cinematography is an art form in the field of filmmaking. Although the exposing of images on light-sensitive elements dates to the early 19th century‚[4] motion pictures demanded a new form of photography and a new aesthetic. On June 19‚ 1873‚ Eadweard Muybridge successfully photographed a horse named "Sallie Gardner" in fast motion using a series of 24 stereoscopic cameras. The cameras were arranged along a track parallel to the horse’s‚ and each camera shutter was controlled
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Narration Amelie is partially told by an omniscient voice-over narrator and partially tells by itself. The voice-over narrator introduces a character or summarizes a length of time in the character’s life that the film skips over. For example‚ the voice-over narrator introduces Amelie’s parents and other characters at the beginning of the film by relating some oddly humorous character traits. The voice-over narrator is also arranging the parts of the narrative. In other words‚ he is telling the
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Running Head: USING VISUALS 1 Using Visuals To Communicate A Message CGD218 01/20/2014 USING VISUALS 2 Business is the only thing that comes to mind when I can think of success. It is where people enter the work place‚ and begins their careers‚ or even starts their own career for others to follow along. The main idea in a business is getting the meaning of your company and what it stand for‚ so all can see and understand
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Film – 8 3 October 2013 Cinematography Woody Allen utilizes many different camera angles and lighting techniques in his movies. The way he uses lighting can affect the mood and make things seem confusing with dark lighting or‚ on the contrary‚ make things seem all the clearer with more lights. A variety of modified lenses can help tell a story on their own with color filters‚ black and white‚ as he used in Manhattan‚ and shorter and longer lenses for depth perception. These shots can tell us
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Visual Literacy Just as there are techniques and a vocabulary for techniques to analyse the written word‚ so equivalent techniques and terminology exist to analyse and compose visual texts. You must be able to: a. Recognise and interpret these techniques in visual texts of various kinds b. Analyse and evaluate the effect of such techniques for a variety of purposes c. Use these elements to compose a visual text which communicates a textual concept or theme d. Annotate
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Amelie Title of film: Amelie Genre: Foreign Films/ Drama/ Comedy Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet Year: 2001 Actors in principal roles: Amélie Poulain (Audrey Tautou)‚ Mathieu Kassovitz (Nino Quincampoix)‚ Claire Maurier (Suzanne) Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou)‚ is a young woman‚ quite and shy she goes around hoping to pass un-noticed‚ yet she pay attention to all that goes on around her. A wide-eyed girl she looks at the world in a magical light‚ and from the beginning you find yourself submerged
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vital to our health and well-being” (Matter 2010‚ 1). The French film Amélie is a romantic comedy from 2001 directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Amélie is a highly engaging quirky film which tells the story of Amélie‚ a waitress in a Parisian café who sees it as her mission in life to right wrongs and improve the lives of others. Set in present day Montmartre‚ Paris this film sets the stage for a film about love and adventure. The film follows her journey from her initially sheltered‚ solitary life from
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