In this movie, the mise-en-scene proved to be very significant in creating the right feel and the various settings. The shifts in mise-en-scene from the McCallister’s house to the airport, the plane, and everywhere else, including the visit to Santa, were very realistic and remarkable.…
The concept of film form centers around the idea of effectively engaging an audience. Motion pictures that properly adhere to form are abundant in sensory, emotive, and thought-provoking elements. While form in any creative medium is made up of a vast number of different components, basic understanding can be met by following five general principles: function, similarity and repetition, difference and variation, development, and unity. In addition, this formal system categorizes a films ' elements as either narrative or stylistic. The film _Scott Pilgrim vs. the World_ is exemplary in its effective use of film form by not only involving its audience, but catering to each of the five principles of form.…
* Describe the film techniques (visual and aural) that are used to convey these values and ideas…
Corpse Bride. Tim Burton style is best described as a creative. He uses irony, flashbacks, and…
The Academy Award-winning director, John Ford, is considered one of the best filmmakers of all time. Ford achieved in fifty years of filmmaking a unique capacity in American culture in which he put throughout his films. The author Andrew Sinclair stated “he was a practical man who saw his job as showing the mass of the American people the truth of what he recreated about their past” (Sinclair 41). As a man, he concealed his true personality from the public, who built this whole legend of toughness around him to protect his softness as person. From his lack of emotional expression, his films are his way of expressing those feelings through emotionalism. Ford uses a strategy called docudrama. “A docudramas basis in truth actually launches the…
The classic masterpiece, Citizen Kane (1941), is probably the world's most famous and highly rated film, with its many remarkable scenes, cinematic and narrative techniques and innovations. The director, star, and producer were all the same individual - Orson Welles (in his film debut at age 25), who collaborated with Herman J. Mankiewicz on the script and with Gregg Toland as cinematographer. Within the maze of its own aesthetic, Citizen Kane develops two interesting themes. The first concerns the debasement of the private personality of the public figure, and the second deals with the crushing weight of materialism. Taken together, these two themes comprise the…
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality,” by Tim Burton. Throughout the three movies (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, and Big Fish), Tim Burton has reiterated his style, which is mystery, fantasy, and imagination. These make Burton movies extremely interesting to view because you always wonder what Tim Burton was imagining when he created his next film. His style comes from three properties that every movie should contain, music, shots, and lighting. Throughout this essay, I will explain why these 3 items make his movies so much more entertaining than a movie without those crucial details.…
Tim Burton has been appeasing audiences with his directing tactics for over 30 years. His success roots from the morbid curiosity and raw innocence that we as viewers find in other notable figures, for instance, Edgar Allen Poe and Brothers Grimm. His exceptional craft as a director is one that captures us by provoking feelings of sentiment, warmth, and dismay. Burton utilizes techniques such as close-ups, shot-reverse-shot and tracking to do just…
In the short suspense film An Occurrence at Owl Creek, the director is able to communicate many of the in depth details written in the short story to set the tone for the movie. The entire short is dedicated to immersing you into the darkness that is felt and seen by Peyton Farquhar, the planter that is the lead character in the film. The majority of the darkness is projected to and transports the viewer into the film by the elaborate use of mise-en-scene. Mise-en-scene is a French saying for "put in the scene." Yet, in the context of film, it has a broader more encompassing meaning, Mise-en-scene refers to almost everything that goes into the composition of the shot, including: framing, movement of the camera and characters, lighting, set design, general visual…
‘Julius Caesar’ by William Shakespeare and ‘Saving Private Ryan’ directed by Steven Spielberg are superlative examples of this, being riddled with conflicting perspectives and ideals. By using techniques such as symbolism, imagery and dialectical language throughout ‘Julius Caesar’, Shakespeare emphasizes these conflicts of interest between the characters and therefore extends the drama in the play. Steven Spielberg…
Movies have long been known to create a portal through which its viewers can transcend through their own realities and experience the unimaginable. The visual, sounds, and narrative of great movies immediately attract the focus of its audience as they move into a trance for those 1-2 hours of screen time. While many great movies introduce their audiences to varying experiences that heighten their senses and grasp their focus, some measure of relatability is necessary to connect with audiences. Such concepts of implementing elements of realism into the various facets of a film help establish a relevant connection, through which audiences can relate. However during the Hollywood Classical era, introducing such techniques of intensifying realism in movies was often unconventional and not an achievable goal for directors and cinematographers. The techniques required to implement such elements were either not well known or plausible. There were some movies during this era that did defy such tendencies and broke barriers in terms of delivering a movie that differentiated through such concepts like realism. Two famous films that have utilized certain techniques in creating an intensified form of realism in their own ways are Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles, and Double Indemnity, by Billy Wilder.…
In terms of mise-en-scene. In reality Coraline's house is very dim, it is portrayed with dull shades of white, grey and brown exacerbated by low-key lighting. The Kitchen seems barren of food and the bedroom features very few home comforts such as a photo of friends and a string of birds around Coraline's bed. Her father’s office is full of unpacked boxes and a dated computer on which her father is droning away with bags under his eyes to show how tired he is. All of these contribute to the very dim outlook on their life. As night time arrives the rooms become very dark using chiaroscuro lighting. To show the connection between the real house and the 'other house' Coraline goes through a tunnel consisting of entrancing purple and blue lighting, almost as if to show that something magic is happening.…
Costumes are important signifier of setting.Everything in the setting of “Pleasantville” was clearly understood; everything was either black or white no shades of grey, no doubts. Our first introduction into Pleasantville the mise en scene shows us that Gary Ross has dressed the residents of Pleasantville in old fashioned 1950’s clothing. Big poodle skirts, tight sweaters, rigid bras all emphasised the figure of the ladies in pleasantville.They all sported similar hairstyles like the typical hair in a ponytail or flipped bobs and for the boys, short brylcreamed hair,or crew cuts. As for clothing they wore letterman sweaters;plaid shirts or sleeveless sweaters. The introduction of colour within the film is an obvious technique used to signify the idea of ‘The importance of change’ within the town of ‘‘Pleasantville’’. The introduction of colour signifies that the ‘normality’ or the ‘pleasantness’( as the mayor quotes ) in ‘‘Pleasantville’’ has been broken. As more…
The Man without a Face is just another movie in the countless that illustrate the four major themes from the exodus story, slavery, exodus, covenant and Promised Land. In the beginning of the movie, the main character, Charles Norstadt. or Chuck feels a lack of freedom. He has a dysfunctional family with two annoying half-sisters from different fathers, and a mother who is on the brink of a fifth marriage. His mother tells him that marrying his father was a mistake, and he fails the exam to the boarding school he wanted to go to, and doesn't know who can help him study for the makeup exam.…
The opening scene fades in to a black and white overhead shot of a wedding chapel amidst a vast desert plain. A womans (The Bride) voice overlaps a slow tracking shot of the chapel. The progression of the camera is steady and calm, while the voice-over explains a massacre that occurred within the walls of the little, white chapel. The sequence begins slowly and uses deep space for a reason. By doing this, a startling contrast of the masochistic massacre and the seemingly peaceful ceremony is formed. There are no cuts or abrupt shifts within the establishing shot. Sally Menke purposefully chose not to use cuts because the lack of an edit can be just as effective as using one. The voiceover is in perfect pace with the continuous camera movement. The audience feels as though time is passing through the narration, all through one simple camera movement. The tracking shot begins with the chapel in the right corner of the frame and ends with it being centered. The axis of action guides the audiences eyes to the location where future action will occur. Once the shot is fixed on the immediate outside of the chapel, the viewer notices another contrast. Graphic patterns are present such as dark trees and a white chapel with a deep, black door. This serves as a transition into the next shot.…