The Band of Outsiders is a hallmark of the French New Wave Movement. The movement was based on challenging the normal conventions of filmmaking and cinematography. They increased the power of the director during movie production, and changed several essential components of a film. The French New Wave Movement switched up editing conventions such as …
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Memories of Matsuko
The movie Memories of Matsuko manipulates music in a way that sets it between being a musical and being a regular movie. Scenes are filled with drama and sometimes humor interlaced with musical moments, sometimes small and sometimes large. The audience gets a riveting preview of the musical nature in the first scenes as the …
The Babadook
The movie The Babadook best exemplifies the fear of the unknown. In the movie a widower and her son are haunted by the supernatural Babadook who slowly destroys their lives. Horror movies fixate on phobias and this movie prominently features the phobia of the dark. For most of the movie the Babadook is camoflaged by …
Production Design
Production design is an essential component of every movie and it is comprised of various elements combined into one large umbrella term. Almost every aspect of what the viewer sees is a part of production design. Production design covers such topics such as color, use of space, props, outfits, and architecture. Some prime examples of …
Children of Men
The 2006 thriller “The Children of Men” was at the forefront of cinematography in the early 2000’s with its impressive use of long takes, tracking shots, and other cinematographic techniques. The impressive use of long takes must be discussed before other techniques. Many instances throughout the movie when the protagonist and others are in the …
Jurassic Park
The film Jurassic Park is an amazing example of the merging of practical effects with visual effects. The film was one of the first to popularize the use of computer generated imagery in filmmaking. Jurassic Park used ground-breaking visual effects to supplement its use of practical effects, which truly brought the dinosaurs to life on …
Whiplash
The motion picture Whiplash was a bothersome to watch film. Witnessing the appalling and unnecessary abuse the character suffered from his teacher, Terrence Fletcher, and the sense of loneliness that permeated the movie unnerved me. The movie appeared to have the desire to create discomfort and sympathy for Neiman, by using cinematic techniques to put …
Blackfish
When most people envision Seaworld they probably remember their spectacular orcas. For years Seaworld promoted the orcas heavily in their advertising, but heavy promotion was disastrous for them in the end. Ever since 2014 the Seaworld orcas have been associated with scandal. This association is thanks to the movie Blackfish, which exposed the terrible treatment …
My First Blog Post
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.
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