Backlighting: The main source of light is behind the subject‚ silhouetting it‚ and directed toward the camera. Bridging shot: A shot used to cover a jump in time or place or other discontinuity. Examples are the falling calendar pages‚ railroad wheels‚ newspaper headlines‚ and seasonal changes. Cut: The splicing of two shots together. This cut is made by the film editor at the editing stage of a film. Between sequences the cut marks a rapid transition between one time and space and another‚ but depending
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audience and his film An Unseen Enemy. As the industry developed‚ however‚ influenced directors would strategically involve the spectator‚ and vastly different filming methods were created‚ like the montage in Dziga Vertov’s Kino Eye and Man with a Movie Camera. Vertov’s usage of the newly invented montage contrasted with Griffith’s desire to create an escapist world in films by showing the lives of the citizens in the Soviet Union he lived in‚ highlighting the reality of their state‚ not the entertainment
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main object. There is cut to a tracking shot to follow Brody. An eye level camera angle is then used to show the long shot of the children by the sea‚ the camera is positioned as though the audience is actually observing the scene. We see a medium shot of Brody ’s back which is discomfiting for the audience this shows his unease about his children being near the water. The camera then focus ’ on the book and ped down towards the picture of the shark. A two shot is used when Brody and his wife are in
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Klimov uses close-ups and low-angle shots frequently as cinematography technique. He also uses lots of diegetic sounds as sound technique. Come and See also has a characteristic of a perturbative and ruined landscape which filmed in blurry color. Come and See is stunningly sincere with viewers due to close-ups and low angles. In one particular scene when Flor becomes numbs by the portrait of Adolf Hitler which is floating in a pond‚ Klimov uses low angle shot. Showing the dominance of Flor against
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climactic moments of the scene. The shots cut between Neo and Morpheus as they walk along a busy street‚ they are quick and linger on each face for only seconds before cutting away to the other. Eisenstien’s theory of ‘metric montage’ refers to the deliberate shortening of shots and how doing so reduces the time audiences have to take in and understand what is being seen‚ consequently building tension. He also states that the use of close-ups in such montages increases this tension further (Dancyger
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Texts in time convey values of their respective contexts that contain dire warnings through time‚ do you agree with this statement? Evaluate how this message may be apparent in Frankenstein and Bladerunner. Texts entail values proportional to their milieu. Composers of each era analyze and inquire the potential consequences of what their societies deem as progress. Composers Mary Shelley and Roy Batty‚ in their respective texts‚ Frankenstein‚ a gothic-based epistolary novel‚ and Bladerunner‚
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unique fashion while also using film techniques such as music‚ sound design‚ mise-en-scene and various high-angled panning shots. ’Kurt Cobain’s Suicide Letter’ published in 1994 uses techniques such as emotive language‚ rhetorical question and repetition in an evocative way to reveal his character and point of view. ’Fahrenheit 9/11’ released in 2004 uses techniques such as montage‚ voice-over and symbolism to reinforce historical and personal viewpoints in a unique style. All texts‚ through the use
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THE FUTURISTS - Embraced new technology and urbanism as expressions of the modern. more important theoretically and ideologically‚ than formally or technically - First Manifesto‚ Feb.20‚ 1909 on the front page of Le Figaro‚ Paris; important gesture for the future development of media art written by F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944)‚ poet influenced by Walt Whitman‚ who offered "a vision of a world of grandiose individuality‚ a world where machinery was an accepted part of life." Marinetti mailed copies
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colourful background of the little drama backstage and the excitement of Scott and Fran’s dancing. Notice the slow motion‚ the tracking camera‚ the shtos of feet‚ of clapping‚ of masses of people on the floor‚ the music (Love is in the Air) and the final shot of the happy faces of Scott and Fran. All are absolutely in the grand of tradition of musicals‚ which classically end with the ultimate performance (in which the starts get to show their stuff and are rewarded for
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combined together to create a visual phenomena of fresh perceptions that one will not get to see with the naked eye. Vertov was interested in creating a new world with film making and therefore uses editing like double exposure‚ split screens‚ tracking shots‚ slow and fast motion‚ because this was not how the human eye saw ordinary things. He did not want to copy what he states as the human’s eye’s work but instead liberating what we get to see by drifting away from copying by being experimental.
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