films, Moonlight, is the chronicles of a gay man growing up and showing the hardship of being an African American man in a drug-riddled Miami. Every single part of the film was flawless, from the storytelling to the acting, down to the music and cinematography. It left me feeling raw and vulnerable and I didn't know whether to hate director
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Jason Poplin CINE 102.01 Fish Tank Fish Tank is an edgy, vulgar story about how a young girl named Mia struggles between choosing the path of following her passions or what’s best for her sister, Tyler, and her mother, Joanne. The various narrative elements, such as the conflict between Mia and Joanne, included in this film help illustrate this combating relationship, and directs the watcher to imagine how it would be to view the situation from both Mia’s perspective and Joanne’s. Another
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Enter an era in Hollywood’s most imaginative and speculative science, both classic and modern periods known as the science fiction genre that cinematically altered the conventional based narratives of filmmaking and character definition with elements of fantasy and horror. When French filmmaker Georges Méliès made Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip To The Moon) in 1902 it was considered to be the first science fiction film ever created. The next tremendously influential and landmark film came from
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Paper 2 Amistad The second scene I choose to discuss is the scene when Cinque and the others are captured and bought over to Cuba on the middle passage. As I was watching this scene I almost teared up. The cinematography made it feel real, like you were really there witnessing the brutality and the whole process of the slave trade.
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A SAMPLE FILM ANALYSIS SHEET FILM TITLE: The Conversation DIRECTOR: Francis Ford Coppola WRITER: Francis Ford Coppola YEAR: 1974 1. NARRATIVE FORM Here we have the opening scene with Harry who is a private investigator. We see and hear the conversation being taken upon 2 individuals where we finally hear, “He’d kill us if he had the chance”. This sets up the plot for us to watch who would kill them and why. The turning point is when we find out who Harry is hired by, “The Director”
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the cover and reference pages) of an American feature film of your choosing. Use the list of critical analysis questions provided in your textbook as a guide while writing your paper. Areas that must be covered: • Storytelling • Acting • Cinematography • Editing • Sound • Style and Directing • Impact of society on the film and vice versa • Genre • Application of at least one approach to analysis and interpretation • Overall textual themes Writing Tips: • Students must select
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“O Brother Where Art Thou” review by Nicholas Drake “O Brother Where Art Thou” is a film, that if you have not yet seen it, you should do so. It takes little to know time to recognize the influence of Homer’s The Odyssey in the film, as it is based off of the epic. Set in rural Mississippi in the 1940’s, we join the story where Ulysses McGill (George Clooney), Pete (John Turturro), and Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) are escaping prison in a search for a “hidden treasure”. Along their journey, the three
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Scott Hicks is the epitome of ingenious when it comes to channelling his creativity into his wonderful creations. Some attributes of Hicks directorial style demonstrated in my chosen visual text Shine include camera work, music, and the terrifyingly subtle use of lighting to develop the atmosphere and create apprehension in the audience. On the contrary, Stephen Chow’s ostentatious special effects, camera work, lighting and sound in Kung Fu Hustle in no way waned to present the same ideas and rivet
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woman if she would like to learn how to tango. She accepts his offer and Charlie directs him to the dance floor. This scene is an example of diegetic music, where the characters in the film can hear the music being played (Yale, para. 5). The cinematography used to put this film together relies on two types of shots. One shot is a close-up, featuring only one person. In the most compelling scenes of the film, Thorin zoomed in very closely to the actor's face. In one shot, Thorin zoomed so closely
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Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane has been consistently ranked as one of the best films ever made. A masterpiece of technique and storytelling, the film helped to change Hollywood film-making and still exerts considerable influence today. However, at the time of its premiere in 1941, it was a commercial failure that spelled disaster for Welles' Hollywood career. Within the maze of its own aesthetic, Citizen Kane develops two interesting themes. The first concerns the debasement of the private personality
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