Essay On Film

The Job of a Film Director The film director has an elaborate job, classed as an art in its own sense. Its meticulous details and multi million dollar bills at the end make a director's job truly an art. How they can take the imagination and lay it on a roll of film is an array of elaborate casting, screening etc. and requires a special skill. The general meaning of the word director is:

В· The leader of a course of action or actions

В· A person who leads someone or something

In this case I shall be writing about 'Kes' a film by Ken Loach, adapted from the book "a Kestrel for a Knave" by Barry Hines. I shall...show more content...

Unsure of trust or higher power, Billy is forced to a state of neglect, beautifully represented with Loach's brutal simplicity and bland surroundings. Billy then goes out to his paper round we see that his bike has been taken by Jud. We have enough information to know that Jud is a bully and that he cares not for any brotherly bond that they might have. This is further used by Loach to show hate and despair. So Billy now has to run to the shop. This is a good chance for the director to show the viewer the environment that Billy lives in; this scene really gives 'a sense of place'. The director has established to the viewer the importance of the location. We can see now that Simplicity is now used now in every aspect of the filming, even cinematography. All scenes are broad and general, no closing up to anything, maybe portraying the views of Billy. I believe there is no studio work or specially constructed sets because it contributes to the film. It gives it an air of atmosphere, realism but most importantly Simplicity. As he runs through the dilapidated slums of Barnsley there are three layers I think to the scene. First of all there is Billy about to leave school, secondly there are the terraced houses the shabby homes of the working class. This signifies his home, his barrier; he is supported (however little this may be). He does not

A true film genre relies on shared iconography, formalistic themes and similar narrative structures and content.

'What genre does is recognize that the audience any one film within a context of other films, both those they have personally seen and those they have heard about or seen represented in other media outlets. ...In general, the function of genre is to make films comprehensible and more or less familiar. (turner 97)'.

Action/adventure, the Western, Gangster/Crime, Detective/Film Noir, Comedy, Science fiction/Fantasy, Horror/Monster, Suspense Thriller/Spy

/Heist and many others groups are usually used for marketing in stores where films are being sold. The majority of viewers, film critics, and film producers talk about films in...show more content...

One of the genre conventions is iconography, which 'derives from art history, where it only referred to visual signs. The context in which an object or sound is used is crucial in defining its meaning. For example, a crucifix is readily associated with the church as a symbol of Christ`s resurrection, and is not simply an example of horror iconography.' In terms of ahorror film a symbol of Christ would represent not only the Christ but the weapon against the evil. Another example could be a knife which is used to kill somebody rather than in comedy it is used for cutting things. In order to identify that the genre of a film is horror, such visual signs like red and black colors, blue filters in films are used. The use of blue filter is called digital color correction. It was hard and expensive to achieve this correction previously. However, since computer technologies have developed a lot, much more powerful and exciting effects can be achieved by simply editing a film sequence in different computer software nowadays. Moreover, the mise– enscene of horror films also show that this film is horror film with the help of using such things like knives, guns, axes and many others.

Another use of iconography is the setting. In horror films the setting is usually abandoned, isolated from people, the houses generally hide scaring past. The majority of scenes are filmed in night time but the plot can be

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Response Paper: The Complete Film

The introduction of sound films in the late 1920's was a divisive issue among those involved and interested in the emerging motion picture industry. Even though it wasn't the sudden breakthrough it is often perceived to be, the addition of sound and voice to mainstream cinema revolutionized movie making and led to conflicting viewpoints as to whether or not this innovation was a positive progression for film as an art and as an industry.

While the addition of sound to films was generally perceived as an advancement, some critics and filmmakers believed that it takes away from the artistic essence of the medium. Among these traditionalists was Rudolph Arnheim, an art critic who thought the technological...show more content...

While Arnheim's views on the future of film and the idea of a complete film can be somewhat insightful, I disagree with his conclusion that the introduction of sound and color diminishes the creative quality and originality of movies. He states his belief that eventually film will develop to the point where we "we have nothing to look forward to" (Arnheim , 184).

In all forms of art there is a natural inclination to explore and experiment within the medium. The resulting methods and formats can be seen as alternatives and additions to existing ones. I do not believe that, in terms of technical decisions, there is a superior style of film making that the industry progresses to on a set path. I agree with Arnheim's statement that "there is no objection to the complete film as an alternative to the stage" if it exists with the other types of films (Arhheim, 186). In some cases advances in method and technique are used to fix the problems of technological limitations. In other cases these advances provide alternatives. The introduction of color is described by the latter. Color was introduced as an alternative to black and white movies but never completely replaced them and didn't stop the use of black and white as an effective technique in modern cinema.

The use of sound, on the other hand, was a solution rather than an alternative. Since the early

Film and Video Production: Becoming the Future of the Silver Screen

Every so often a movie is released with such tense anticipation and glamorous visual art that the public is drawn to this dramatic rendition of life in the theatre. For even just two hours or so, you are put into a different lifestyle. Action, drama or comedy it may be. We are thrust into a different way of thinking. We are forced to learn the characters thoughts and feelings. Thehard work and artistic skill that goes into these magnificent films is not an easy thing to mimic. Out of the thousands of movies released worldwide each year only a handful are truly worthy of the label film art. Most of the great movies are either produced by a multi million dollar...show more content... Even if one plans on becoming a director and not a screenwriter one needs to know what kind of scripts to look for. This is very important for a beginning small movie director since the reader will most likely be writing their own scripts to get some recognition. A script is a document that outlines every aural, visual, behavioral, and lingual element required to tell a story, according to the dictionary definition at www.Wikidpedia.org. It is crucial to remember that film is a visual medium. One doesn't tell the audience the story, one shows them. So what one will be writing is not a novel but more like explaining a dream on paper. One must learn to write a screenplay visually. As famed director Darren Aronofsky said in an interview with a struggling screenwriter trying to get published, "Most of what one writes that doesn't work on screen will just be improvised on the movie set". There are many important requirements for screenplays that may seem like minutia at first glance but the format of ones script is extremely important since it will be submitted along with hundreds of others to one producer. For example, the main font in use in the U.S. by both publishers and the Hollywood film industry is Courier 12 pitch According to AFI (American Film Industry) the basics of screenwriting. Though this seems unimportant, when a publisher is looking at a manuscript he is going to look for things

The History of Film Essay

A major change that has occurred in the development of film is the linearity of narrative. The history of film spans over one hundred years ago, with classical narrative emerging in Hollywood around the nineteen thirties. The classical narrative period had a strong emphasis on linearity and coherence, where characters where goal centred and consistent in personality and action. In the nineteen sixties a change began to emerge in Hollywood, with Breathless (Jean–Luc Godard, 1960) breaking the editing rules, and narrative coherence, with the introduction of jump cuts. This film among others greatly contributed to the outburst of non–linear narratives, a narrative technique wherein events are portrayed out of chronological order. In the...show more content...

Rather than accepting the outlined narrative, as with classical narrative, the unpredictability and shifting structure of non–linear narrative forces the viewer to question and evaluate the sequence of events. Sudden shifts in scenes or stories keep the viewers concentration. Media, for example news headlines and YouTube, provide bursts of information in a very short period of time. When browsing the internet, the twenty–first century has become accustomed to skimming, and flipping between different matter. As we have become accustom to Medias influences, our desire to concentrate on one subject for a long period of time is diminishing. This has contributed to the popularity of non–linear films in the twenty–first century as many people are finding the suspense more pleasing than the classical narrative structure. This shifting of structure can also greatly help to portray how we remember things. Memory is our ability to store, retain and recall information and experiences. As memories are not always accurate and different points of view can lead to different interpretation of situations, stories are often complicated and therefore can be difficult to portray in a linear fashion. Non–linear narratives, especially perceptible in thriller or detective films, provide bursts of memories, and previously accumulated emotions, in order to place the viewer in the characters

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Essay on Film Making

Film Making

Film production phases

Film production is the process of making a film starting from the story or idea through scriptwriting, shooting to the distribution of the movie to the audience. There are four main phases involved in film making.

Development phase

In the development phase, the film is written from the story (Cones, p. 195). The story may come from a book, a play, another film or an original idea developed by the film producer. During the development of the film, the film producer works in corroboration with the film writers to develop the film message and a theme of the message. They then prepare a synopsis of the film. The film producer and the writers then prepare a step outline of the film that break the whole...show more content...

It is aimed at making the film ready to be distributed to the viewers (Barbara and Sphor, p. 1–3). In this phase, the production scripts and items are assembled to make a complete movie. According to Barbara and Sphor (2002), activities involved in the post–production phase include film processing and printing. Moreover, the pictures and the sound are synchronized in the post–production phase, and an assemblage created. After the movie has been completed, it is then ready to be distributed to the viewers.

Narrative films

According to Pramaggiore and Wallis (p. 8), narrative films produce comedy or tragedy. Therefore, in narrative films, viewers expect the stories of human actors that produce comedy or tragedy due to circumstances. According to Pramaggiore and Wallis (p. 8), viewers of narrative films would expect to see stories about people who in the attempt to achieve certain objectives or goals undergo through various obstacles on their way.

Mise–en–scene

This is a term used in film production and that is concerned with the way the story is told in a film (Gibbs, p. 5–10). As such it refers to all the elements of visual styles used in the film. Mise–en–scene refers to all components of the film composition including the film composition, film framing, camera and character movement, film lighting as well as the sound used in the film composition.

Three important attributes of the image of a film shot

One of the

When the task of creating a film trailer was first put to us, I had several ideas for the movie's context. The first was of a movie in the action genre that dealt with revenge, whilst the other two were in the horror genre. The horror genre appealed to me more, as a low budget film can still have the desired effect by use of different filming techniques, and I wanted to depend more on a psychological aspect. My first idea was to do a film about a poltergeist. I had watched several films such as "Poltergeist", but wanted to create a film that relied less on visual effects, something that leant towards the style of Albert Hitchcock, who is still seen today as the "Master of...show more content...

I purchased the Exorcist DVD, which featured a making of documentary. Here I learned of Friedkin's strict attention to detail, and also uncovered some of his secrets that made the film so effective. The film features two main techniques throughout the film that I immediately thought about adding to my own film, those being the use of lighting and sound. The film moves from very bright light scenes, such as the films opening in the Middle East, to the darkness of "Georgetown" (the films setting), or from the clean and well–lit living room of the house, to the black and gloomy mist of the girl's bedroom. Why?

The sound was used similarly, from eerily quiet to sudden loudness, one scene that uses this is the sharp cut from the Priest's gentle dream of his mother, to the piercing scream of the little girl. Why

The use of restful music as the main soundtrack in "The Exorcist" added to the "loud and quiet" technique Friedkin used, to create the sense that everything is calm. I myself began my trailer using this technique, with some gentle music, so that when things begin to go wrong, the impact is more substantial.

The voice that was created for the "demon" in this film was dubbed in synch after the scenes had been shot. I used this technique to dub in the voice of the priest in my trailer, the line "I dare not say" was recorded by microphone input

Film Trailer Portfolio

Everyone lives in a different reality, that is why people enjoy watching movies. It gives insight into the world's of others. Film directors strive to portray their characters' lives as believable as possible. Many help set up the authenticity with costumes and such.

In The Governess Goldbacher sets the historical reality with subtle elegance. In the scene where Rosina enters the dining area to inform her employers of her departure, all are dressed in attire associated with the English Victorian era. The son in an oversized baggy shirt, the father with a smart suit and a string bow tie. The daughter is sporting a child like dress which drops just below her knees, and the mother in a high neck lace dress....show more content...

Towards the movie's beginning we see Elizabeth being interogated on treasoncharges. From a God's Eye view she is seated alone in the middle surrounded by three men moving around her. The shot mirrors that of the opening burning at the stake. When the camera recedes to her eye level, occasionally cross shaped windows are visible on the back wall of the castle. This piece illustrates how she must continually stand alone against those are out to oust her as their rightfull ruler, the caslte's vast open space also helps to confirm her lack of support amoung the nobles. The windows portray the on going religious battle.

In Raging Bull Scorsace portrays Jake LaMotta's life as a constant battle. At the turning point with the montage sequence of flashbacks we see many short clips of his numerous bouts mixed with colorized home video of his late courtship to early marriage with Vicky. This shows that he has no distinction between the boxing ring and life in general. The home video having color only means that this was the point in his life where he was most happiest, and he will always remember it vividly.

In Rocco and His Brothers Visconti conveys Rocco's strength through his self and moral sacrifices. This is most evident in the scene on the bridge where Rocco denies himself and breaks up with Nadia by telling her to go back to his brother Simone. It's not that Rocco doesn't love her, it's that his "moral law"

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