... close and medium shots in noir the background is as sharp as the foreground this was done by increasing the "depth of field" by employing wide-angle lenses. The fact that everything in the scene was given equal weighting echoed the bleakness of the narrative. "The world of the film is thus made ... after his death; and the interaction between man and the forces represented by that noir environment is always clearly visible." (Place and Peterson, 1974) Wide-angle lenses also distort the image as when the characters" face comes closer to the camera they appear to bulge outwards. As noir ph...

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... of what had happened to the aboriginal families torn apart during the 'Stolen Generation'. The moment when Riggs is driving and chasing the three girls and their mother, a low angle camera shot is manipulated to depict Riggs' serious face and reflects his power and authority as well as his strong body shape. These verbal and visual features is juxtaposed with ... another high angle which cuts to Maude's face during the conflict. It shows her vulnerability of being a female. Noyce utilizes this high angle shot in order to highlight Maude's weak and frightened image for the viewers. ...

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... see that Horner's music is deeply influenced by Celtic music. Besides, Horner was deeply interested to inculcate electronic elements to film music. From a different angle of view, the sound effect in the film leads the viewers from peace to chaos and vice versa. In addition, the sound effects contributed much to ... used to work at Roger Corman Studios. This helped him to realize that low budgeted films do not help the director to be independent. From a different angle of view, his career as a miniature-model maker helped him to be a perfectionist. Gradually, he began to co-operate with t...

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... and he is trying to bring light back to the family and especially Keller. The film also shows Keller down on the ground several times. The high camera angle suggests that Keller is at a low place, especially emotionally, and at these scenes we see Keller praying. Ironically, as soon as Keller gets up off the ... is Keller's saving grace and gives him the power to move forward and try harder. Though initially Loki is seen as below Keller at the first camera angle, the film moves forward and we begin to see the camera shift to Loki being the more dominant and having the power in the relatio...

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... Friend was followed by the 1980 essay Lighting over the Water; the 1982 Hammett by the mixed-genre The State of Things and the essay Reverse Angle in the same year; the 1987 Wings of Desire by Notebooks on Cities and Clothes. Lis bon Story could be considered as a mixed genre, ... at the same time he still takes images more seriously. He situates himself between the desire for storytelling and the deep mistrust in stories. In Reverse Angle he confesses that stories are perhaps only a pretext for making films and in his essay Impossible Stories noted: "I totally reject stories, because for...

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... , is that in film more than one perspective could be used. Moreover, such issues as framing, composition design, use of space, and angle of approach affect the presentation of a film. The way how the image is viewed, from what angle of perception, through what lens, and at what distance combine to express meaning. Each of these elements should be considered modes of ... the film production, it is a kind of communal creativity where each member has their own personal interpretation. During producing the film the preproduction, production and post-production teams choses the angle from whi...

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... be on his last day of school. This shot has Charlie in the centre, suggesting he is confident about being the centre of attention. After a short time there is an angle in which Charlie is asking to sit with his sister during break, she declines, then goes on to talk to her boyfriend. Charlie isn't the centre of this shot, but ... cliche in regards to highlighting characters significance. The film neglected to use long shots and tried to keep things close. Although, when Charlie ingested LSD at a party, there was a wide angle shot of Charlie out in the snow. The shot showed Charlie and, ...

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... science fiction genre. Moonraker used a lot different shot techniques and sequences to not only excite the viewer but also to involve the viewer in the film The use of high angle long shot in this film gave breathtaking moments during scenes. During the very beginning of the film, the shot sequences took place after a fight between Bond and Jaws. In this ... shot of Jaws, the villain, reacting to the fact that his parachute ripcord was broke. In the next shot there was a high angle reverse shot in which Jaws starts flap his arms. Then there were few other close-up shots of Jaws smiling ...

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... plot of "The Artist." In addition to the music, we also notice the important role the lighting has on the narrative. The capturers' faces are never fully lit. The camera angle is always to the side of the person rather than facing him so the face appears to be half lit: one side is very bright and the other is dark ... is torturing the protagonist. It gives a bigger air of seriousness and emphasizes the anger the capturer has because his prisoner won't speak. That's not to say that if the camera angle were different, the capturer wouldn't appear angry, but the shadows caused by the inte...

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... should be made in straight cuts between characters without using any overlaps. It's important that an editor doesn't cut back to the same camera angle used in the previous shot. Sometimes, as in dialogue scenes, there is only one angle take of each character, so doubling angles becomes unavoidable. So, to prevent repetitiveness, I vary the framing in the various takes of this ... angle and perhaps use the one take that had the best opening and another that had the best middle or ending. I may add some movement such as a slight zoom in/zoom ... ...

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... shots and angles are techniques used to convey the theme of blindness. An example of this is a camera shot in Act I of King Lear and the Fool. It is a high angle shot and both characters have equal status within the frame. This shows that the King and the Fool have equal status because of Lear's blindness. The fool is wiser than ... Lear and understands what his daughters are doing to him. Another example is in Act IV, the eye level angle shot of Gloucester's gouged eyes. This shot is used to emphasise his physical blindness. Lighting is also a film technique used to convey the theme of...

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... officer is just looking out for her. He asks her for her driver's license. We see one of the most valid examples of The Make Gaze when we see a low angle close up of the cop wearing sunglasses. As soon as he leaves, Marion drives off. Hitchcock still confuses the audience when he shows a couple of rear view mirror shots as ... much longer, more not in control and more violent. The same effect would have never been presented to the audience if the shots were presented alone or just in a wide angle. The big challenge was a set that would allow a movement like this. So they built a set in ...

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... impression of only the outcome of an expansive catastrophe. Though Gojira underlines the creation and arousing of this creature and clarifies the science and engineering behind it, Godzilla distorts this angle and depicts Godzilla pretty much as this awful animal that shows up all of a sudden and brings pulverization upon the world. The stress on exploratory examination and engineering is forgotten ... as a beast film class; the thrilling, detached, massive animal decimating the world and a sudden arrangement out of the blue to slaughter it. The American film does not consider the scien...

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... led humankind to become progressively impersonal and emotionally withdrawn. In the beginning of the film, the protohumans in the wilderness were prone to violence when given power. There are wide angle shots of the apes and animals working and gathering fruits alongside each other, creating a sense of unity in the struggle to survive. A monolith arrives from the sky in the middle ... technological innovation. For example, there are many scenes in the beginning of the film where Dr. Floyd is the only one sitting in a room full of chairs, either in wide angle shots or long shots. The purp...

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... of social and moral responsibility in the ball scene and the dance scene in 'Emma' and 'Clueless' respectively. The high angle camera shot on Harriet as she is approached by Knightley emphasizes her vulnerability, while the low angle and middle shot on Knightley, subtle as it is, gives us a sense of his powerful and heroic nature. Knightley is acutely aware ... ...

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... director used many camera techniques and film techniques to express things such as: Jim being older, and the PTS that Jim suffers at the final stage of the movie (high angle to make him look weak). In the end, however, Spielberg does a great job in showing how Jamie had changed over the course of the movie, which was his intention right ... he is trying to "make sure" that it is really her. In addition to the actions of the actors, Spielberg has placed the camera looking down on Jim, creating a high angle between the camera and Jim thus makes Jim look weak. This furthers the idea of a p...

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... to their as yet unknown destination. We next find out that they are playing a guessing game, of what piece of music is playing, we see from a point-of-view camera angle, the stack of CD's that they have in their car. The fact that they are listening to this kind of respectable, sophisticated music suggests something about them as people and ... entire screen and blocking our view of the actor's faces. We see that the type face is Arial, as given away by the S in "Games" due to its slightly jagged angle at the beginning and end of the letter. This also makes it clear that the text at the...

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Gallipoli - Peter Weir In the film Gallipoli, there were a series of excellent production features, particularly the film techniques such as angle shots and freeze frame shots used, and the type of music that was played during each separate scene. Each technique used showed Archy's stages during, after and before the war, ... over the trenches portrayed the terror, fear and sadness, this was important as it showed exactly what was going on in each soldiers' mind at that moment. A particularly good high angle shot used was during the scene when Frank and Archy were lost in the desert, while n...

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... Greg to entertain us. But we forget about all of the other shows that are out there containing much more than jokes and laughs. Shows like LA Undercover and Dark Angle contain tons of great entertainment, but, with shooting, fighting, drugs, and killing. And yet, we watch Friends at seven and flip the channel to watch Dark ... Angle at eight without even twitching a muscle beyond moving our thumb to push the remote buttons. Even worse yet, is the fact that most of us allow our children to do ... ...

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... the first one. The computer automatically interpolates additional frames between the selected key frames to ensure smooth transitions. The key frames contain information about a figures shape, location, altitude, and facing angle. Key framing provides the ability to create a path using an object. By transforming the object at each point on the path, each point can be assigned a rotation, scale, shading, and ... clip watched it over and over wanting to make sure the chip was hitting the character at a perfect moment. Questions stirred around such as; should the chip be bigger? Which angl...

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... entrapment. Indeed, this is the thesis of the film: Kane is trapped in childhood. Wells and Toland dug holes in the floor in order to create extreme low angle shots. The extreme low angle shots after Kane's political campaign suggest the end of the once heroic Kane and his men. We also see the bashing heads of Kane and his friend for ... ...

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... Marion stepping into the shower and proceeding to clean herself. Hitchcock uses the camera strategically during the initial part of this scene, giving the audience a view of Marion from every angle of the shower, essentially to relieve the audience of the confining effects of film. Hitchcock didn't want to hide anything from the audience, but rather create an environment that would ... shots lasts for about forty seconds with seven main editing cuts involved. Hitchcock then sets up for the main action of this scene as he provides the audience with a camera angle that captures both Mario...

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... editing of the film, there didn't really seem to be too much of that for the length of the film. The takes seemed to be very long, having the camera angle stay the same for a really long time. During the scenes, the camera didn't seem to change from one to the other very often. It seemed to have stayed the same ... editing all of the cameras cam be used, making the audience see from all angles of the shot. Well in this film, in each scene, we usually only saw one angle. We saw either her front or her back. On the rare occasion that we saw all different point of views, it was probably wh...

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... By and in Ashes of Time; the camera movement and Mise-en-scene in Days of Being Wild; the slow motion and hand-held camera in Chungking Express; extremely wide-angle lens in Fallen Angels; black and white images mixed in Happy Together; and the slowly moving long take in In the Mood for Love. From Wong's explanation, "the not-so ... is to describe distance among people's hearts, which looks very close but actually extremely far, although all of them meet thousands of others everyday. Even in some seemingly simple shooting angle, such as some of the still images in Ashes of Time, the aud...

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... Fortinbras walks in to see all the royal family lying dead, (5.2.363) the camera pans the room to show the breadth of the destruction. The most explicit use of camera angle in this scene is after Fortinbras has spoken the last line of the text, "Go, bid the soldiers shoot." (5.2.404) The camera quickly cuts to an aerial shot of Hamlet ... his head felled back. It begins as a close-up of his face and then extends out to a medium shot. The camera then cuts directly to the same scene but a different angle of Hamlet, this time an aerial shot of him being carried but in a 180-degree orientat...

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