Backlight Essays

What makes The General significant is its use of diffusion and backlight. Bert Haines (1896-1991) shot the film on panchromatic film in sepia tone. Giving the film a pleasing dynamic image. Throughout the film, Haines capitalizes on the recent technological innovations in the 20’s with lighting instruments. Lighting the

the child and the world with his love. The beginning sequence of the movie was shot in a thunderstorm night. The director used backlight to introduce Lucas to the audience. Due to the backlight, Lucas’ face was shadowed, and the audience could not see clear. When Gary moved to live with Locas, he saw Lucas was on the swing. in this scene, the director used backlight again, creating a great contrast between the sunshine and Lucas. By doing this, the movie conveyed a

orange backlight, suggesting warmth, contrary to their positions and looks, while the Sex-Bob-Ombs are now covered in a moonlight blue backlight suggesting cold and calm complexion, once again totally contrary to what is actually happening. The Key light is a strong orange while the fill light is a very weak blue on the Sex-Bob-Ombs to establish the power of the Twins once again while also creating harsh and sharp shadows on them to make their faces look more serious. The strong orange backlight on the

Most of the time the script or book is better than the movie, right? Well, in this case, the movie is way better than the book. How the stories were different and how the director's choices made the movie better. First of all, the movie has way more details on why Mrs. Stevenson's husband has been gone for longer than he usually is. For example in the movie when Mrs. Stevenson is calling all of the people she calls, Mrs. Lord and Mr. Evans. They are the main people that are not in the script. Also

In 1973, Clifford Geertz- an American anthropologist- authored The Interpretation of Cultures, in which he defines culture as a context that behaviors and processes can be described from. His work, particularly this one, has come to be fundamental in the anthropological field, especially for symbolic anthropology-study of the role of symbols in a society- and an understanding of “thick description”-human behavior described such that it has meaning to an outsider of the community it originated.

obvious, that Steven Spielberg gave his 100%, because it's over three hours, yet never boring. Not a single frame is wasted. Janusz Kaminski's black and white shooting is a brilliant proof, that such films must be consistently made. Shadows, smoke and backlights are all wonderfully used for creating a terrific atmosphere. One of the controversial aspects of the is the use color. To specify, highlighting a girl with the red coat, when Oskar Schindler watches during the Liquidation of Krakow. It's not Steven

Landlines were invented back in 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell (Kevin Belhumeur). Landlines usually have cords and they are fixed to stay at a certain place around the house. That being said, people must be at a certain place to get in touch with another individual. There is only connection typically one hundred yards away, further than that, the connection will be lost (Anderson, Peter). When there’s an emergency it would be hard to connect to other people quickly since landlines are placed in a

“The Cave," a modern, lyrical dance filled with beautiful lighting, astonishing choreography, and amazing movement was directed by Estee Carrizosa and performed on December 6, 2017, in the Artist theater by students in dance 2, 3, and company. Iris Swell, the choreographer of “The Cave,” is a company dancer in the Laguna Beach High School Dance Program. Swell created the dance to the song The Cave by Mumford & Sons and was inspired to create this dance from her grandma and her sisters’ individuality

Watching the movie Casablanca in class you realize the difference between the film of the movie, how most films are directed and produced today. The movie is one of the top classic black and white films in American history. The elements of design in Casablanca, the setting is realistic during the time of 1942 and World War II. The setting shows the emotion of the people in the film during this time, with the stress of getting off the island and to America where it was safe. The people there were

Welcome to this year’s film festival. It is truly an honour, for me today, to be speaking on the behalf of the Gold Coast film society Australia; and to be elected to introduce one of the many great films in the film festival (insert film here). The film represents the marginalised group of indigenous Australians (more info) this subject is very close to my heart as growing up my best friend was an indigenous Australian she was stereotyped and marginalised within our old school grounds. This group

The lighting within a retail environment is closely related to the atmospherics of the store (Custers et al 2010). As well as this it is a key tool for influencing consumer purchase intentions (Quartier et al 2008). The lighting plan for the Oasis Buchanan Galleries store is well thought out with these factors in mind. Oasis has a varied number of lighting fixtures all of which contribute to the overall atmosphere of the store. The primary lighting is split into three main blocks which highlight

Misconceptions The first backlight has to do with the state of events at the time of the Tower of Babel. For the reason that the exact period was not recorded in the Scriptures, some scholars speculate the Tower of Babel happened between 1757 BC and 1996 BC. Amazing Biblical Timeline with World History puts it around 2200 BC. Again, there are those who doubt the true geographic location of Babylon in Shinar. There are at least two schools of thought: whilst the first believes Shinar was in the present-day

Leonardo da Vinci was a talented scientist, inventor, painter of the Renaissance europe. Modern scholars referred to him as "the most perfect representative of the Renaissance", is unique in the history of mankind all rounder, his greatest achievement is his masterpiece of painting, "Monalisa", "the last supper", "virgin of the rocks" and other works, reflects his superb artistic attainments. He believes that the most beautiful object of nature is the human body, the human body is a wonderful work

create the look of a goddess, for she was to Edward. In that moment in time, was when Edward had finally won Sandra over from her fiance. The time where it seemed as if they were not in reality but in a fairy tale. All together, Burton uses the backlight to show a feeling that can’t be explained and shows something important in order to feel the emotion. In conclusion, Tim Burton uses multiple cinematic techniques to convey his style of a fairy tale appeal with a dark twist. Even though that Burton

Clint Eastwood’s 2007 war film, Letters From Iwo Jima, showcases the haunting events of World War II’s battle for the island of Iwo Jima. Eastwood’s unique style of storytelling through flashbacks and graphic battle scenes (a style also used in his other works such as American Sniper) combined with the intense, real cinematography, strong characters, and a lingering soundtrack make Letters From Iwo Jima worthy of its best picture nomination. The theme song music from the film is meaningful

The use of a backlight on the women as they’re being taken throws them into semi-darkness as they shrink beneath the attack of the soldiers; once again, it gives off a feeling of fear because although the women aren’t purgers themselves they have unfortunately become victims

Fox Mulder, a believer, and Dana Scully, a sceptic, are FBI agents faced with case assignments which may involve the supernatural. These cases can usually not be explained any other way. Together they run the X-files, a sector of the FBI dedicated to investigating unexplained cases. From the first episode, it is apparent that Fox Mulder’s belief in the supernatural is heavily influenced by the trauma of watching his sister get abducted by “aliens” when they were small children. This event was so

From the brilliant work of the Citizen Kane (1941) with all the spotlights to his last work of classic film noir the Touch of Evil (1958). The contributions of Orson Welles (Orson Welles) on transiting the traditional Hollywood film style and developing the film noir in the 1940s is irreplaceable. The genre Film noir was well known for showing a degenerate and dark underground world. The masterpieces of Orson Welles for example the Citizen Kane(1941), The Lady from Shanghai (1948) and The Strangers

It is necessary to eliminate the possibility of contamination of the starting materials and/or products of other materials and products. Increased risk of accidental cross-contamination contributes to the uncontrolled spread of dust, gases, vapours, aerosols or micro-organisms present in the materials and products, equipment, and clothing (Coyle, et.al, 2004, 179-186). The degree of risk depends on the type of contamination and product exposed to contamination. The most dangerous pollutants are sensitizing

Case Study: Waterstones vs. Kindle In 1982 Tim Waterstone opened his first bookshop on Old Brompton Road in London. Waterstones is presently one of the biggest book-selling chains in England. It operates 275 stores in the UK and Europe. Waterstones has some features that make it unlike any other book retailer. As the chain proclaims, "no two Waterstones bookshops are the same". Local market is what matters most, so the assortment of books differs in each shop, as well as their order, reflecting