E. T Film Techniques

The movie “E.T.” has many elements that contribute to making up the emotion throughout this movie. A few of these elements include music, the plot and the many camera angles. The music accomplished an impression of eeriness, spookiness and mystery. The camera angles also helped demonstrate these emotions as well. The plot of this movie was stimulating, suspenseful and heartwarming. It all adds up to create a great movie. In the movie “E.T.” a young boy named Elliot finds an alien which he calls E.T., an extra-terrestrial. He finds the alien that he calls E.T. in his backyard after he threw a baseball into the greenhouse because there were some weird sounds coming out of it. The ball then was thrown back. The next day on the way back from school he sees a weird man that he thinks is trying to find E.T. He then runs home and finds E.T. that night. He lays a path of M&M’s and E.T. follows him into his house. Elliot then fakes being sick and his mom says that he should stay home. As soon as they leave he gets E.T. out of the closet. That night when his older brother and younger sister come home he shows E.T. to

In his backyard for the first time the music is soft and when Elliot discovers the alien E.T. in his backyard, the music is at first quiet and mystifying and becomes louder or in music talk, crescendos. When E.T. steps out of the shed the music is fortissimo but still mysterious. The music will have dramatic effects on the scene, if the music collides or is opposite of what the screen shows, it will not make the movie suspenseful and dramatic. Another example is when the bike chase is happening around town and the music is triumphant, loud and exciting. It creates an atmosphere of intensity and it is full of emotion. If the music were soft and legato the music would not have the same effect. The music in this movie was one of the key factors that made it