The Dead Poet's Society Peter Weir

One of the key things in our culture that is slowly losing is the ability to stay engaged for a long period of time. Which is why tell stories that are engaging in many ways becomes important when it comes to films. The better one gets at telling stories successfully, the easier it gets to grasp people’s attention. When it comes to films Cinematography, editing, sound, and design bring the story to life. A director has the privilege of taking a story and finding the most inventive way to tell it. In the movie the dead poet’s society Peter Weir uses Micro and macro elements of the film to definite the underlying meaning of identity and individual development. He uses these elements not only to enhance the meaning of the film, but to tell a

The ones that where shot in low key lighting are the most dramatic scene of the movie. The first one is when they boy leave at night in there clocks and disappear in to the fog night. The others are when they are having their secret meetings in the cave. There was little light Even though the sences in the cave become lighter it rained a low key lighting through out the movie. Another low key light is when neal is performing in the play. The most dramatic seen in the movie which was shot in low key lighting. “Throwing a light under a character’s face, underlining, creates a spooky or sinister effect, for example, whereas positioning a light behind the subject by back lighting may create a halo around the hair, suggesting the character’s saintliness.”

At the end of each both of these movies is when the real them of the movie show the most. In the dead poets society the characters had a better understanding of who thy are and what they stand for. Once that was clear the movie end with viewer left to wonder how the character’s lives turned out. While in the dead poets society the students stand on there desk and say “oh captain my captain” a phrase their teacher asked them to to call him if they dared. Scene was also their way of showing there support for him.

Whether it’s the boy of the dead poets society trying to escape from the traditional intuition of a school that they where in or the life of Truman who needed to escampe his world of ordinary of his