Aesthetics In Film

An Analysis of The Sound Track For The Movie Wall-E This essay will give an analysis of sound design used in the movies and how it is as important as the moving pictures to the movie. When you use the processes of recording, editing and mixing of sounds you greatly enhance the quality of the movie. This essay is an overview of producing high quality sound from elements like music, the recording of common every day sounds and the use of hi-tech equipment. Whether it takes place in the production stage or the post- production stage of sound design. To help explain this analysis I am using the animated movie Wall-E made in 2008 by Ben Burtt as a case study .

Mise-en-scene is often cited as one of the most important indicator in a film of the director’s personality. It is the way how the director control and create his individuality into his own film through expressive cutting skills, camera movements, slow or face pacing, the direction of the characters and their placement in the film and decorations, the angle and distance of the camera, and even the content of the shot. Nowadays audience would observe and detect the mise-en-scene of the film as a way to determine or indicate whether the film is directed by the same particular person. On the other hand, Almodovar film’s normally can be spotted easily for its striking mise-en-scene, its bold attractive colors and glossy decorations. He also sometimes may uses unusual and shaky camera angles, specially costumed made outfits and his prevalent uses of LGBT themes in the film.

Kylie Mawn Professor Rodais CINE 121 Midterm 4 March 2018 Question 1: Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) is a film that is well known for pushing cinematic boundaries in many ways. One commonly recognized technique in Welles’ film is deep focus photography. Deep focus photography is used in films to allow everything in a shot to be in focus at once. Typical, only specific characters or objects are in focus in any given frame in order to guide the audience’s attention in a scene, but deep focus can bring a new level of sophistication to a shot. While using deep focus photography, a cinematographer may have to rely on framing, lighting, or composition to guide an audience in a way that typically would be done by focusing on objects or characters in the foreground of a shot.

The opening credits of a film have developed immensely since the inception of titles on a black background. Contemporary title sequences have become a product of artistic excellence through the usage of typography, animation, complex narrations and breath-taking aesthetics. Title sequences have become an avenue to set the genre and create audience expectation for the film that is to follow. This article is a brief recap of the history of title sequences with a view of demonstrating the evolution of the medium by referring to Inceer (2007:5-16), Bhowmik (2014:12-16) and Matamala & Orero (2011:12-36). The study splits the timeline of title sequences into four eras: Silent films (1860s – late 1920s), 1930s – late 1950s, The Saul Bass era: 1955 – 1970, and The digital age: 1980 to present.

There are many transitions in the film Big Fish. A film transition is a switch between a setting, character, narrator, lighting, music, etc. that helps set the mood, view, and aspects of the film itself. Tim Burton does a phenomenal job of his use of transitions in this film, he is able to make the film well structured due to these. Thus a great transition is that of the swap of narrators throughout the entire film.

Recently rising instruments are engaging enormous studios to change over gigantic amounts of motion picture goer responses into important, noteworthy bits of knowledge into what works and what doesn't. With huge information investigation, motion picture officials are keeping one ear to the gathering of people and the other to the art in a way that is drastically adjusting how films get made, advertised and

Light reflects off of the person, place, or thing you are trying to create a photo of. The light being reflected will reflect in many different angles. A film is placed where the image will be projected to. The lens then focuses these rays of light behind the focal point and forms an image. Science is used in the development of the film or special paper so that the pictures are able to develop fully and properly.

The French New Wave was a film movement in the 1950’ and 60’s that consisted of an explosion of new film techniques, values, and styles that became a defining moment of cinematic innovation that’s impact is still present in the modern film industry. An influx of new, young directors sought to narratively, ideologically and stylistically veer off from the dominant, traditional mainstream cinema production standards and redefine the French film industry. The movement didn’t happen overnight and its origins and influences stem back to the occupation of France by Nazi-Germany during World War II, the subsequent Italian Neo-Realism movement, and a combination of previous film periods. During World War II, Paris was occupied by the Germans. This was a

It has the power to enhance, expand and supplement upon the significance of a films narrative. Music can express the unspoken words of a character and it provides the audience with the inner thoughts of characters. Music also has the ability to create a sense of (or give the illusion of) depth within the picture i.e. make a small space appear larger than it actually is. Music is a useful tool in indicating a certain era, an example of this is in The Great Gatsby where the music played at the party scenes is very much based on the music of the 1920’s.

The genre of the film tends to be categorised on the basis of themes as well as topic around which the film revolves. At the same time, genre categorisation is also dependent on the mood, tone and format of films. In addition, other ways of characterising genres of films is associated with the target audiences and production type. Different types of film genres involve action, comedy, suspense, drama, cartoon, horror, musical, dance, history, war and others. Genres of films are further categorised into different subgenres such as drama films are further categorised into women, children, legal and romantic drama.