Medium shot Essays

  • Medium Shot Anthropology

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    camera switches to a one person medium reaction shot, and then back to a three person medium shot. When they walk back into the living room, the heads form a non-physical triangle foreshadowing the conflict that will occur. Additionally, for the first time Brandon is on the left and slightly lower in frame. Then, a switch to an extreme close up to Rupert hiding the cigarette case is made. Afterwards, the camera pans to an a

  • Exploring How Hitchcock Creates Tension in Psycho

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    house next to the motel, which showed a shadow of somebody walking past the window. This makes us enquiring such as who lives is in the house or is the house owned by ordinary people which has the effect of make the audience nervous. This use of shots combines with other techniques, which creates the overall effect of tension for the audience. In conclusion, Alfred Hitchcock deserves his title of the ‘master of horror movies’ because of the way he builds up to tension to the main scene in

  • Film Summary: The Medium Shot Of Jeffries

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    film. The opening shot of this scene that the audience sees is a medium shot of Jeffries looking into Thorwald’s apartment (then the shot shows Thornwald’s apartment) and he notices that all the lights are out. We return to a medium shot of Jeffries as he picks up the phone, expecting it to be Detective Thomas Doyle but it turns out that it’s someone else. When it turns out to not be the person he expected, Jeffries realizes he made a mistake. The director, Hitchcock

  • Cannibal Holocaust: One of the Greatest Cinematography Accomplishments

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    Ruggero Deodato’s 1980 Cannibal Holocaust is arguably the most controversial film to date. The film’s plot consists of two distinct stories that are continually presented differently than their actual timeline; however, directly influence each other. The movie follows the demise of four ruthless documentary filmmakers: Alan Yates, Faye Daniels, Jack Anders and Mark Tomaso, as they adventure into the Amazon Rainforest in order to capture footage of primitive cannibal tribes. As the audience finds

  • Analysis Of Alfred Hitchcock's One More Mile To Go

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    to the garage. We have a medium shot as he is thinking and walking around looking, he turns around and reaches to grab something. The camera zooms out and we see that he has a shovel. We see him move about, still thinking what to do until he finds a sack. We get a medium shot of his hands as he puts the body inside the sack and the camera moves up with him as he lifts the body and leaves it in the trunk. In The Hitch Hiker, the gas station has a lot of movement. Long shot of exterior of the car and

  • Mediacy And Hypermediacy

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    closely examined the relations and functions of such concepts in their book, Remediation: Understanding New Media. Both immediacy and hypermediacy are terms referring to logic, the imperative on which the relationship between the engager and the medium rests. Immediacy refers to the producer’s goal of the text’s mediation being rendered transparent. Immediacy is associated with simultaneity, intuition and invisibility, and attempts to erase its representative qualities to provide ‘immediate’ a.

  • Recurrence and Resolution in Preston Sturges Film The Lady Eve

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    Recurrence and Resolution in Preston Sturges Film The Lady Eve The first scene begins with a medium shot of the lover’s usual meeting place on deck, where a cheerful and whistling Charles (Hopsie) paces up and down waiting for Jean to appear. The camera focuses on Charles pacing and whistling while diagetic sound is heard from kids playing on the deck and a bell ringing in the background. There is a change of focus when two men walk right in front of Charles while he is pacing back and forth. Muggsy

  • Medals: Symbolism And Meaning

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    in the arcade, they showed product placement with a Subway drink. Wreck-It Ralph was a very detailed film, due to the editing and use of 3D computer-animation. There was also use of a cutaway shot in the film, specifically when Ralph received a medal. Once Ralph gets the medal, it briefly shows a cutaway shot of Ralph’s vision to how is life will change with a medal. There was also technically use of off-screening as well. The characters in the video game had to show their actions in the areas of

  • North By Northwest Film Analysis

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    series of shots that creates suspense and danger. The point of the film is very vague and it ends without a resolution to the main conflict. The incredible camera work and techniques that Alfred Hitchcock did created a feeling of danger and suspense, making the audience want to see more. Also, Hitchcock's film main character Roger O. Thornhill creates suspense with his mistaken identity and fight for his escape. The film uses a handful of shots, for example, medium shots, close ups, long shots and shot-reverse-shots

  • Analysis Of The Film Barsaat

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    style indicate that they are very similar. The concept and structure, arrangement of movie released before 1950 reveals similarity of combined genre, expressive totality, and formalist approach of the movie that includes lighting, sound and set design, shot composition, editing characters, performance, theme and narrative. The movie Barsaat was directed by Raj Kapoor, who was also an actor of Hollywood industry. This Indian movie combines dual

  • Film Analysis: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

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    the idea of the removal of Clementine by the program erasing Joel’s memory. Beginning with a high angle shot looking at Joel and Clementine on the floor, of what seems to be the train station, darkness surrounds the two. They are shown under a bright spotlight with undistinguishable businessmen walking around them. The spotlight effect is more obvious as the camera cuts to an extreme long shot of them lying there, which gives the idea that they are small specimen... ... middle of paper ... .

  • Comparing Lethal Weapon and Seven

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    cop. In Lethal Weapon the first thing we see is the death of the prostitute and we get introduced to both characters after this disturbing first shot this shows the sturdiness off the older cops life and the madness of the younger cop. The camera shots used in the first scene introduce you to the genre very well. The varieties of camera shots make the first part off the story more exciting and help us establish a familiarity with the characters. In both films we see that we are in late

  • Comparing Three Advertisements for Levi's Jeans

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    the viewer the advert is serious, but boring, old, and business like. In the beginning there is a long shot of a customs hall and a mix to close-up of a poster of Lenin shows its an authoritarian regime like Saddom Husscins. There is a pan to long shot of the traveler who stands out and arouses suspicion making the viewer suspect he is a rebel as in the other adverts. A mix to medium shot of the baggage check shows a suspicious, cautious society. In a close up of the contents of the case there

  • Titanic Essay

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    camera shots for different reasons, such as:- Ø Close Up - with this shot, you can see the emotion on the face of the character; they use it to show the emotion more clearly. Ø Long Shot - The use this type of camera angle to show a large shot of the set or in the case of "Titanic" the boat. Ø Point of view shot - These are used to show you what the character can see, a good example of this in "Titanic" is when Rose is stood on the end of the boat looking out to sea, Ø Medium Shot

  • Rear Window Sequence Analysis

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    employ a traditional sound with fast beats to support the dramatic scenes. The skillful and creative use of sound produces a strong and dramatic contrast here. At the same time, when Mr. Lonely appreciates the music by the window, the extreme long shot shows us that Lisa is standing by the window too, and the murderer appears on the screen now. Jeff and Stella are extremely stressful when they witness the situation. Soon Lisa hears Mr. Thorwald opening the door and hides herself. At the end of sequence

  • How Mise-en-scene and Cinematography are Used in an Opening Sequence to an Action Adventure Film

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    How Mise-en-scene and Cinematography are Used to Position the Audience and Create Effect in an Opening Sequence to an Action Adventure Film In Entrapment the opening sequence plays a key role in captivating the audience and setting the plot for the rest of the film. Mise-en-scene and cinematography are vital in positioning the audience and creating a sense of mystery which will attract the audience to keep watching. Mise-en-scene refers to everything put in front of the camera during filming

  • Hydroponics Growing Without Soil

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    hydroponics. During the 1940’s at Purdue University, Robert B. and Alice P. Withrow developed another hydroponic method. Their process was called Nutriculture. Nutriculture varied from Dr. Gericke’s method in that gravel was used as a rooting medium. After World War II a number of commercial installations were built in the United States. The majority of these were located in Florida. Most were out of doors and subject to the rigors of the weather. Poor construction techniques and operating practices

  • Language as Freedom in Sartre's Philosophy

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    Language as Freedom in Sartre's Philosophy I argue that Sartre posits language as a medium of communication that is capable of safeguarding the development of subjectivity and freedom. Language does this in a twofold manner: on the one hand, it is an action that does not phenomenally alter being, but that has the capacity of altering consciousness; on the other hand, language, more particularly written text, is a mode of communication that is delayed, hence that occurs outside the present, i.e

  • A Bout De Souffle

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    aan elkaar gerelateerde feiten over Godard en zijn 'A Bout de Souffle' die de film tot een nieuw historische mijlpaal maken op het gebied van de kunst (met name de audiovisuele kunst). Ten eerste, was Godard extreem bewust van de relatie van zijn medium met andere vormen van expressie. Vooral literatuur, filosofie en de schilderkunst. In zijn stijl valt deze 'interconnectiviteit' tussen de verschillende media duidelijk op te merken. In een interview in 1962 zegt hij: "Voor mij is de continuïteit

  • Suspense and Tension in The Others

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    Suspense and Tension in The Others In the film "The Others", there are three scenes, which are particularly good because they show different types of shots, how the director controls the audience and various other features. Also featuring in these scenes is how music along with shots creates tension in a scene. The director Alejando Ameriabar also has techniques where he is in control of the audience this is very powerful in a film like this as it can bring up the rating of the film.