Architecture in Film: The Bigger Picture

By Kishan Mulji

The abundance of special effects in many of today’s major productions is indicative of the industry’s advancement in technology, and has generated much interest from audiences alike. However, the resulting plotlines of such technologically repository of thought and memory, much like a building, and it is concepts over a long period of time.

simplicity of modern art. He insisted that the interplay of sound opposed to acting as an accompaniment. ‘Rashomon’, his most renowned work, sees four individuals describe very different themselves of blame, the inconsistencies deepen and the story expands into a debate regarding the dichotomy of good and evil. The narrative’s progression captures the basis of good building design whereby different characteristics are revealed, when considered from different viewpoints. humanity utilising the interwoven plotlines regarding reality and time. The usage of trick shots helps relate to the ethereal nature of restriction in movement and activity contrasts with the liberties of his neighbours. This sense of claustrophobia associated with a limitation in space is also transferrable to large spaces. Stanley space exploration is overshadowed by the vastness surrounding a small team of voyagers imagines a huge environment to instil plays an important role in creating a more convincing setting. This in ‘The Truman Show’. The master planning of a suburban landscape portrays a seemingly perfect existence for a community undisturbed by disorder and randomness, ultimately destroying the interactive nature of public spaces.

The understated value of lighting is used to its maximum opposed to the unlighted alternative. The change in atmosphere focused solely on love, loss and despair, ‘The Fountain’ travels between the past, present and future over the course of three different millennia, and explores the depths of morality and