Wall-E Film Analysis

Benh Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild is a film about a six-year old girl go through some lessons to learn how to be strong. It is an American fantasy drama film that released in June 2012 after playing at film festivals. The film was film with the eye level shot with the main character Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and hand-held shot. Through these technique Zeitlin uses, audience can see and understand the movie through Hushpuppy’s perspective. And the had-held shot accord with the background story of the movie, which takes place in the southern Louisiana bayou community, an isolated and independent community. Zeitlin uses different lighting, shots and background music perfectly portray the mood and feeling of Hushpuppy and her dad Wink (Dwight Henry). He also uses these

Jared Hess uses elements of sound to support the film’s purpose. Hess uses the film techniques of music to categorize the characters and the atmosphere in the film. Throughout the film, the “music can suggest

Many a literary critic claims that the strongest aspect of the book 1984 by George Orwell is its plot. Indeed, there is some merit in this conclusion, as the entire purpose of Orwell’s writing of this book was not to create a literary classic, but to warn the public about the dangers of communism if it got out of hand, and what better way to do this than to write an engaging plot? Others may claim that 1984’s greatest strength is in its character development. This aspect, too, is quite strong in the book, as not only are the minor characters effected in serving the dystopian theme, but the major characters are believable and very human in their failings. Winston’s transformation from an oppressed office worker to revolutionary and finally to

He sees them coming and backs away until the cold metal bars, scrap against his back. He begins to scream. He notices his mother’s grip begin to weaken. He is grabbed and carried away. “He” is referring to Nim, a chimpanzee who has been just been taken from his mother, Carolyn. Nim was removed from his mother for a research project led by Professor Herbe Terrace. This project featured a radical experiment aimed to teach a chimpanzee sign language. Although, the documentary Project Nim (2011), directed by James Marsh, has an objective to present the progress and results of this experiment, it also carries a purpose to inform the viewer on a message regarding the components of and differences between communication and language. Marsh uses specific

The film North by Northwest is a spy thriller movie that was released in 1959. It was directed by Alfred Hitchcock and stars Cary Grant as Thornhill, Eve Marie Saint as Eve and James Mason as Vandamm. The film runs for a period of 136 minutes, giving a story on a man, Thornhill, been pursued as a result of mistaken identity by men from a spy organization.

We have all had a time in our lives when we were fascinated by a sight or sound, whether it be a song, scene in a movie, excited fans and their cheers at a football game, or just the wonderful sights and sounds of nature. Tim Burton has mastered fascinating viewers through sights and sounds in his movies. In “Edward Scissorhands”, “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”, and “Big Fish” Tim Burton uses the cinematic elements light and sound, to emphasize the characters and/or scenes.

How to Survive a Plaque by David France and United in Anger by Jim Hubbard are both historical documentary films that talk about the history of the organization created called ACT UP. ACT UP is for the AIDS activist movement from people with all different perspectives such as people from the trenches to people having the disease and fighting it. The film was made to expand the news on the movement and to try to show the effect AIDS had on people. Interviews, footage of protests and speeches from the members of ACT UP were all recoded for these films. They were all personal and true stories that were told to help the future generations and to prevent something similar happening again. The people from ACT UP battled corporate greed, social indifference, and government neglect.

The short-length feature Gerald McBoing-Boing, which tells the story of a boy who only speaks in sound effects, has been regarded as an exceptional example of what could be described as the cartoon style of heavily design-oriented and abstract-based 1950’s animation. It was one of the first cartoon shorts to gain widespread attention for its usage of limited animation. In comparison to the features of Walt Disney, which were recognized for their concrete simulations of reality and exquisite, frame-by-frame details, shorts like Gerald McBoing-Boing utilized symbolism, abstract art, and simplicity to create their own interpretations of real-life situations. This particular style of animation depended heavily on the animators’ abilities to emulate

Another of Burton's distinct styles involves the way he uses the sounds. In the movie Edward Scissorhands he uses sound in diegetic ways. These ways include the use of dialogue, the way people talk, noises they make, coughing, sneezing, and laughing. Also, the doorbell, ringtones, animal noises, door slams, scissors moving, affect the use of his diegetic sounds. Diegetic sounds are sounds within the movie that everyone can hear. In addition to diegetic sounds, Burton uses non-diegetic sounds. Non-diegetic sounds are sounds the audience can only hear, but the characters in the movies can not, which includes the background music. Background music can set the emotion, drama, happiness, sadness, anger, love, excitement, and nervousness of the characters

Tim Burton was a famous director that makes famous movies. Tim Burton was influenced by Dr.Seuss,fairytales, and Edgar Allen Poe. His films are very colorful and playful and can also be dark. Tim Burton has unique and different ways of using cinematic techniques to create feeling from sound, camera movement, and camera angles.

Welles utilized sound to make the audience feel the mood of the scenes, the soul of the characters, and the meaning of the film. During happy times in Kane’s memory, the music and sounds were of quick and light as in business implying a mood of success and forward motion in life. The sounds used in the movie assisted viewers in many ways; 1) guided attention to certain parts of the scene, 2) helped define the dimensions of where the characters were positioned in the scene, 3) conveyed the mood of the scene and the character’s states of minds, 4) helped to represent time, 5) created rhythm not provided by music, 6) revealed the main characters aspects, 7) aroused expectations about what was going to happen in the scene, and 8) enhanced the overall dramatic effect of the sequence of the movie. These are just a few of the benefits that the newly introduced sounds in the movie Citizen Kane provided. This film was truly ahead of its time and Orson Welles was well aware of that. He took great pride in his radio success and ultimate film success. Welles was pleased to be the cutting edge creator of Hollywood film sound. The outstanding sound works displayed in the film Citizen Kane would not be challenged until the

The play is about three fictional families, two of whom are Muslims and one of whom is Christian, living in Naperville, Illinois. Their lives are interrupted by a proposed Islamic Center on the site of a beloved local landmark. Khoury, the playwright, tries to present his thoughts in Mosque Alert by exploring the arguments among these families and the intersections of their culture with humor, family drama, and refreshingly blunt honesty. Khoury's experiences living in the Middle East, as well as his eleven years as a cross-cultural trainer, make him focus on Middle Eastern themes and questions of Diaspora. He as a playwright tries to explore resistance to the building of mosques in communities across the United

film. After all we don't call it a faithful adaptation not for nothing. It is too good an effort on the directors part to not be mentioned. While the visual picture shows moments of tension, the sound does justice to this tension that the viewer watches, intensifying it's effect.

Science fiction has become increasingly popular over the past few years as new innovative technology has made it possible for films to become more realistic. Avatar, being one of the highest ranked sci-fi films to be made, is a clear example of how the film industry is on a fast moving track towards a new era of science fiction storytelling. James Cameron’s Avatar exercised all new forms of cinematographic tools in order to bring one’s imagination to real life.

To have a my own opinion about Visual Effects on music videos and to prove visual effects has changed and saved time , money , efficiency , and created tons of people creativity.