When Mike Nichols, the director of The Graduate, won the award for best director, it was unusual because his film did not win an Oscar in any other category. He was simply awarded for his directing skills, rather than the actual film or the actors involved. Despite these outcomes, Mike Nichols deserved and earned the Oscar for Best Director because of his creative and unique skills portrayed in The Graduate. Nichols had a variety of camera angles, a sophisticated choice of background music, and a unique plot that was able to portray Nichols’ visions.
In The Graduate, there were a variety of camera angles and techniques used to film a scene. For instance, one of the scenes was filmed through a fish tank where the two characters, Ben and Mrs. Robinson, were easily visible. This technique was unusual to the extent where it
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The unique camera angle that was used in this scene revealed the director’s creative and risky side, instead of having a normal camera angle to film the scene. This technique allowed the film to differ from other typical films. There were also different angles when the scene would be portrayed from Ben’s point of view. As he was in his attention-grabbing costume in the swimming pool, the camera angle switched to Ben’s point of view where it made it seem as if Ben was embarrased, ashamed, and annoyed with the entire situation. He was easily uncomfortable. Additionally, there was little audio when it was in Ben’s point of view, where all you could hear is his masked breathing. The effect of having this showed the audience how the character felt and what Ben was possibly thinking. Adding on, there was sophisticated camera work with the montage involving Ben and Mrs. Robinson where each scene and or setting would move on to the next without there being a clear distinction; the transitions were smooth. This effect would easily attract the audience’s attention as it is not typically seen in movies,
The close up shot of the sheriff overlooking the people on the beach with the look of concern and distress, opposed to the family in the background, smiling and enjoying the nice sunny day. This shot of him explains his perturb feeling that he knows what awaits in the water, unlike everyone else. The long shot of the person floating in the middle of the sea exposed makes the audience feel relaxed but also cautious. Over the shoulder shot shows the attention is not on the man talking to the sheriff but on the woman in the sea, which was a false alarm, of the woman screaming, but also keeps the audience alert. Another long shot is shown when the children get up to go to sea, makes the audience anxious for danger that is about to happen.
Dennis Dugan has not won an Oscar for his directing at this point . In the 2012 he won the Razzel award . In 2000 and 2008 won the worst director award. Some of the movie that he directed like Jack and Jill did win the Razzel award.
The Graduate has greatly expressed theses themes throughout several scenes in the movie through the mise en scene such as lighting, camera angles, and sounds. Scenes such as Ben’s birthday party, and of Ben drifting in the pool contain symbolisms of water being the “isolation” and eventually “comfort” that Ben eventually submerges into when feeling frustrated or alienated. The different camera angles in the film allow us to see through Ben’s POV and also the low angles that were shot of Mrs. Robinson created a sense of dominance from her. The diegetic and non-diegetic sounds of the film including the famous song ,Sounds of Silence, enhances the feelings of Ben’s anxiety as though they are his own
Additionally, a high angle shot is used on Cruise when Renny was shot and killed in the street by a gang. The camera angle makes Cruise look powerless and helpless. The camera angles in Coach Carter were very well thought out and influential, similar to the
The Bolshevik Revolution was a defining turning point in Russian history. This overall revolution consisted of two individual revolutions in 1917 which resulted in the overthrow of the Tsarist government and the formation of a socialist society led by Vladimir Lenin’s radical Bolsheviks. For a moment with such enormous weight like the Bolshevik Revolution, there will be various interpretations on the true results of that moment and the meaning and value of these results. The film Man with a Movie Camera deals with the results of the Bolshevik Revolution and the early Soviet Society it birthed as it utilizes footage of one day in this early Soviet Union, thus making it worthy of examination. In the film Man With a Movie Camera, Vertov impressively
"Mrs. Robinson, you are trying to seduce me," says Benjamin Braddock (Dustin Hoffman). The Graduate, directed by Mike Nichols in 1967 is an influential satire/comedy film about a recent East Coast college graduated who finds himself alienated and aimless in the changing, social and sexual general public of the 1960s, and questioning the values of society. The theme of the film is of an innocent and confused youth who is exploited, mis-directed, seduced (literally and figuratively) and betrayed by a corrupt, self-indulgent, and discredited older generation (that finds stability in “plastics”) that I found to be quite clear and understanding, while also capturing the real spirit of the times and allows America's youth to perceive onscreen an image of themselves which they can both identify with and emulate. The Graduate is a significant film even today due to its use of abstract camera angles, telephoto lenses, excellent cinematography, and great acting. Few visual effects were used, however, matting and numerous point of view shots were used. These characteristics and the fabulous use of mis-en-scene, great writing and the era of the film all made The Graduate what it is today, magnificent.
They were successful and Bennett decided to write a second series of monologues, the one which I am going to study is called “Miss Fozzard finds her feet” and I will be discussing how Alan Bennett creates her character and how her story is told. The monologues were written for, and shown on television. The use of the “talking head” as a dramatic device is effective as the audience sees the expression on the actors face and then feels the emotion the actor is portraying in their role. The effect of using the monologue form is effective as there is only one character so the audience can connect and understand the character better. In the collection of monologues there are no special effects used i.e. flashbacks, distractions also helps the audience understand the character.
John Ford John Ford was an American motion picture director. Winner of four Academy Awards, and is known as one of America’s great film directors. He began his career in the film industry around 1913. According to Ellis, Ford’s style is evident in both the themes he is drawn toward and the visual treatment of those themes, in his direction of the camera and in what’s in front of it. Although he began his career in the silent film area and continued to work fruitfully for decades after the thirties, Ford reached creative maturity in the thirties.
Ben is sitting in his room while his welcome home party is going home downstairs. His parents come up to get him to mingle with their families’ friends, but Ben wanted to just be alone. As they are walking down the stairs the camera stops on the clown picture on the wall. The clown is dressed up and does not have any sign of happiness on his face. The viewer can assume Nichols was trying to explain Ben is feeling he has to act like someone that he truly is not and he is not pleased about doing what his parents are making him do. A significant shot that could foreshadow future action is when Ben is bringing Mrs. Robinson’s purse upstairs to Elaine’s room. As he walks in we have a still shot of a dark room with all the lights off except a light over Elaine’s picture. The shot cuts into a close-up shot of Elaine’s picture, but the audience can detect the reflection of Mrs. Robinson walking nude into the room. This scene, that is taking place in Elaine’s room, is the first time Mrs. Robinson approaches Ben about having an affair. The setting of this scene furthermore puts suspicion in the viewer’s mind about the
Camera angles are used as a film technique to keep the scene interesting and also shows off the directors’ skill and abilities. There is a wide variety in which different camera angles were used during this scene, for an example of a camera angle is a low angle shot, this exact technique was used quite a lot at different points in this scene. The effect of this camera angle shows dominance; dominance to the personal where the camera is facing up on them from the ground. The opposite of this would be a high angle shot and this normally shows a victim’s weakness as it makes then look small and helpless. An example of when a low shot was used in this scene would be when V comes out of the flames at Larkhill in Finch’s flashback. This shows V’s power and how he survived through the fire and symbolises his dominance. An example of using a high angle shot would be of Chancellor Sutler talking to Creedy. Chancellor Sutler is on a big screen facing down on Creedy yelling orders at him, this shows who the boss in this scene is as Creedy is getting verbally abused by Chancellor Sutler and this makes him look weak. Another camera angle that is used would be a tilt this is used when V first flicks the dominos then the camera tilts up to show the dominos as they spread the effect this has is showing how easy they spread in relation to the chaos. It all starts with one would be the
The idea of moving the camera as a spectacular embellishment probably began in the Lumiere Films like Leaving A Station by Rail in which the cameraman set up his equipment on the train rather than by the side of the tracks. Audiences were amazed by the feeling of motion that this provided (a technique that returned in early CinemaScope films like Viva Las Vegas). But with the rise of the feature, camera movement took on storytelling functions. In a film like DeMille’s The Cheat, the camera remains static until it needs to reveal something important to the plot, like when it tracks past the jurors in the courtroom scene. This is not spectacular but informational. By the end of the 1920s, under the influence of German Expressionism, ornate c...
long shots. high-angle shots, and a lot of fun. spherical camera lens. These particular devices provide a glimpse at the realities of the oppression, poverty and despair of many of the American people during this time. From the start of the film it is apparent what time frame it is taking place in and the differences in the social stratification through the lack of colors.
In the film Strictly Ballroom, the director Baz Luhrman uses many different film techniques to influence the portrayal and development of characters. Costume and makeup is used as a vital technique to show the audience the characters’ personalities and also the development of some characters. Camera angles and lighting is another technique that is used to exaggerate the characters’ personalities and the scenes they are in. Luhrman also uses character behaviors as an effective technique in portraying each characters’ personality.
The use of camera techniques in American Beauty begins with the opening scene of Jane’s video recording, and subsequently repeats again later in the film. For example, the video scene where Jane Burnham (played by Thora Birch) says