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The Graduate vs. Dead Poets Society The Graduate and Dead Poets Society are both coming of age films that convey a story about growing up. The directors of these movies had different approaches to their use of camera work. The Graduate used camera work as an obvious element in the movie, whereas Dead Poets Society had more muted shots. The Graduate used different camera shots frequently to express the emotion of the scene, while Dead Poets Society used the shots sparingly, mostly to enhance the…

cinematography. Prunes (2018) suggests, in one sense, cinema is an art of selection. The edges of the image create a “frame” that includes or excludes aspects of what occurs in front of the camera — the “pro-filmic event”. Within the frame of each scene is the composition, the composition as Hall (2015, pg.68) states “ is the way we arrange the pictorial elements in the picture to provide a harmonious complete image that concentrates the viewer’s attention on the part of the frame that is most…

Every episode of The Graham Norton Show ends with the segment the red chair. This particular video is three minutes and eleven seconds long. The videos genre is in the talk show style. All genres have a distinctive style that makes them easily recognisable. The genre of a talk show is where one or a group of people discuss a various amount of topics in a short amount of time, and normally not in-depth. In this essay, I will be analysing the features of spoken language that have been used…

treatment, which was really fun for me. I was also challenged to work with a partner and brainstorm our ideas and be able to agree on a concept. I learned how to use some of the basic equipment for this project and I got to try out some more advanced editing techniques, which I really gained a lot from. What I really value about this project though, is that I was able to bring a simple idea in my head, work it onto paper and a shot list, and then eventually bring it to life. It truly is an…

In the present day, it is not uncommon to see some type of sex scene in films, especially in rated R movies. Nudity and sex used to be considered taboo, but now they are quite frequently displayed. Every once in a while a movie will go as far to show a rape scene, which is evidently a negative sex scene. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), directed by David Fincher, is a movie about a man named Mikael Blomkvist, who is hired to solve a missing person case. During his quest, he forms a…

American actor, writer, director, and producer. As well as one of the first figures to advance cinema at the time and begin a movement, both through use of camera and culture depiction of the era. Griffith was called by many the “father” of film editing, because of his ability to understand and put a movie together. This was a very intellectual individual with a specific vision in sight. Once seeing David Griffith's work in class I believe we understood the relation to the movies we see today,…

This essay will examine the discourse around historical adaptation and the effects it has on adaptation. Accordingly, this will be demonstrated by using the examples of the source films Pride and Prejudice, and their film adaptations by Joe Wright and Baz Luhrmann respectably. This essay will begin with a brief explanation of fidelity discourse in order to outline the expectations an audience has about historical accuracy in films. Moreover, the work of George Bluestone on adaptations will be…

Whipash is cinematic adrenalin. The frenetic rhythm is accomplished thanks to mainly three elements such as cinematography, film editing and sound. That is why the film has won several awards on the category of editing and sound. But in the following film analysis I will examine the two first concepts. There are multiple close ups and extreme close ups focused on the faces of Andrew and Fletcher, keeping them centered in frame. The director shows us not only the craft and precision of the…

Mise-en-scene is used in many ways in the film Edward Scissorhands. The diachronic shot played a significant role during the film, it had a variety of focuses, and point of view. For instance, in the film there are two types of focuses that are often used which are; soft focus and rack focus. Soft focus is used in the film when Peg Bogg opens a canned good, it reflects back to Edward who then has a flashback to a bad memory of a machine that makes cookies. This scene relates back to the subtext…

this essay, I will explain how La Jetee uses transitions as well as background sounds to emphasize the still images meaning of time and reality. Chris Marker creates an illusion of time and memory within the making of La Jetee. This film shows a contrast of sci-fi films compared to the more modern ones. Marker emphasizes each still image by fading in, fading out, and dissolving each image to give the impression that it is a long time…