"Star Wars" was arguably the first in a new breed of high concept‚ high budget sci-fi action films. It was directed by George Lucas and originally released in only a few cinemas in 1977. However‚ the buzz around the film grew‚ and it is now one of the highest grossing films of all time‚ and along with its sequels‚ prequels and re-mastered re-releases‚ has a large cult following. I feel this is because of Lucas` ability to engage the audience through careful use of sound and camera technique; The
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a neo-noir crime film‚ marking the directorial debut of Joel Coen‚ as well as the Director of Photography’s (Barry Sonnenfeld) first big hit. It was released in 1984 in theatres‚ where it was ranked very highly among critics. It tells the story of an affair which has all sorts of crazy and unpredictable effects on all parts of all the characters’ lives. It stars John Getz as Ray‚ Frances McDormand as Abby‚ and Dan Hedaya as Julian Marty. I have chosen to analyse the first scene‚ starting with the
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‘The Truman Show’ is a comedy-drama film directed by Peter Weir. The film talks about a man - Truman Burbank who’s unaware of being in a reality television show for the whole of his life. The scene of Truman in the cellar is significant in the film because the audience is able to see the feelings deep inside of Truman and how it raises the tension. The camera shots and angles used in this scene illustrate Truman’s emotions perfectly. Meryl’s unreasonable clothing and voice elicits curiosity from
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Show how the opening scene introduced ideas that were concluded in final scene. The movie Gattaca directed by Andrew Niccole‚ it a dystopian film a bout a man Called Vincent Freeman who is known to be a “God child” which in certain cases you would think to be a good thing but in this movie natural born children are considered the bottom of the heap. In this film discrimination exists not based on skin color‚ socio-economic class‚ culture or religion‚ but on whether or not you were genetically
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Citizen Kane Scene Analysis The scene we’re analyzing starts off with a shot of the New York Daily Inquirer. It’s a close shot‚ taking up the entire screen. I feel this close up is to show the viewer that the newspaper company is going to be the primary focal point for Kane‚ and his two partners at this point in the film. After the close up‚ the camera pans down to show Kane and Leland sitting in a car looking up at the building. Kane says “Take a good look at it Jedidiah‚ it’s going to look a
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metaphors‚ rhythm‚ point of view‚ and much more. In general‚ a viewer comes to understand scenes by making detailed models of events. What might be termed the “classical” camera stands in for those procedures that have been successful in the past. When a viewer’s confidence in his or her predictions is high (i.e. the viewer’s constructed‚ mental models are well developed and reasonably supported by evidence)‚ the film achieves a high degree of “reality...” (Branigan‚ 2013) People watch; it’s what they
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Rosalie del Valle ENC 1102 Film Analysis Essay Prof. Abbondanza Word Count: 2‚ 970 Minority Report: An Alternate Future It is perhaps a natural proclivity of man to pry into the future. Will there be space invasion‚ variant life forms‚ intergalactic wars‚ or robotic domination? Will there be flying cars drifting into the skyways‚ holographic transport‚ non-earthbound domicile‚ or even time travel? Might there be abomination instead‚ or catastrophic calamities‚ subsequent regeneration‚ or mankind
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years old‚ I was watching a film with my father and it was the first time when a film had made me cry. The film was “Green Mile”. Since that time I have been fascinated and surrounded myself by films. I always used to say that one day I will make a film‚ which makes people cry‚ but for this task I chose a film which not only made me cry‚ but also changed my view of the world and made me see previously unnoticed things. I’m not saying that it was easy to decide what film to analyse. It took me quite
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HARSHEEN DYAL ROSEWOOD FILM ANALYSIS The film “Rosewood” has a lot of impact on black and white people throughout the century. This movie is directed by John Singleton‚ and is based on the real incident that took place in 1923 in Florida. Rosewood is based on the massacre that took place in 1923 in Rosewood‚ Florida that claimed many African American’s lives. During that time‚ segregated African Americans felt unprotected from the hatred of the white people. It is a story about how middle class
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Module 7 Film/television genres Objectives: In completing this module‚ you will be able to: - understand and apply different approaches for analyzing genre: formalist‚ audience analysis‚ and ideological. - understand the history and evolution of advertising and the forces shaping that history - devise different genre analysis activities for use in the classroom - understand and analysis characteristics of different types of genres for the genres described in this module - present specific
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