Lighting

The specific mood within literature can be difficult to decipher and re-creating that mood in a film can be even harder. The moods in Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare are layered and built up to produce a heightened mood. Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet face limitations in portraying this mood because of the abundant monologues within the play that lengthens the film, and differences between modern English and old English that cause misinterpretations. However,…

damaged soul, which the audience learns as being war photographer, Paul Prior. Since the film is character driven it is crucial that the characters (such as Paul and Celia) are well developed throughout the film. While production techniques such as lighting, setting and pathetic fallacy all assist McGann in the characters development, the actors themselves can also affect the way the character is developed – poor acting or presentation of dialogue can render the production techniques useless as…

Both Scarface films are gangster films which makes pinpointing the theme of both films fairly easy. They are both filled with guns and violence so the theme stands out in both films. The overall theme in both movies is the rise and fall of crime kingpins through lies and deceit corruption, and murder. In Scarface 1983 it is about the rise of Tony Montana drug-empire and how he let money take over his life and eventually be the cause of his death in the end. In Shame of a nation it is about Tony…

must confront Lord Farquad who has banished all the fairy tale characters to Shrek's swamp. In doing so Shrek is promised his swamp back in exchange for him retrieving a princess from castle tower. Shrek the musical used a combination of scenic, lighting and costume design to enhance the performance for the audience. The scenic design of the performance was done by Tim Hatley. The scenes were done on what appeared to be a Proscenium stage, which as effective because it allowed a wide area of…

All Tim Burton movies are well chosen to the circumstance. The different techniques he uses such as camera movements, lighting, and music/sound to create many intricate ways to suit the sequence of events in all of his movies. Tim's audience may feel at first his films are ungainly, and different from most commencements of movies. Most people would say his style is arousing, glum, and grim. One of few cinematic techniques used throughout all Burton’s movies is camera movements. For example, in…

Sense and Sensibility is the show about Elinor and Marianne Dashwood, sisters who separately speak to the “sense” and “sensibility” of the title. To make the show realistic light play vital role. If there is not any changes of lighting, Sense and Sensibility would not have powerful impacts on viewers. To have powerful impacts, we need to know how light function and how we can control the qualities of light. For the scene one, starting of show with costume dropping it was great to know how light…

The combination of lighting, colors of the stage and dresses were nicely organized to attract attention of the audience and were also used particularly in good positions. Furthermore, the actors used props and clothing that facilitated to the audience to imagine what, how and…

director, for instance, named Tim Burton, demonstrates his style in movies like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands and, Alice in Wonderland. Tim Burton's style uses different cinematic techniques like camera movements, music and, lighting. In Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton uses different camera movements. One of the camera movements was the pan, he used it on the ticket winners when they were all in the front of the factory waiting for the gates to be opened.…

this play was to control the character’s microphones. However, due to low tech staffing, I was offered an open position in lighting, and even though I did not get the chance to be in the booth to control the microphones, I was able to see how both sound and lighting played an important role in this play. Ever since lighting rehearsals started, I was able to see how the lighting changes the mood of the scene and how each actor, when they were in the spotlight, had their own unique story to tell. …

In film noir a lot of low key lighting is used which therefore creates effective shadows creating a sense of mystery for the audience. The lack of lighting as it is low key lighting being used, signifies and sets a dark mood for the film. In the film Chinatown the use of lighting is a great way to show the dark or bright side of the characters. An example of mise en scene would be when Evelyn Mulwray has a talk with Jake Gittes in the car outside her house. The lighting in that scene is very low…