Footage Essays

The Bad Kids uses an assortment of techniques to create a way to get the viewer emotional involved in the story. The techniques involved in the film are shots of the weather, the way voice overs are used, and the overall structure of each child’s conflict. The director’s purpose in using these techniques is to get the viewer to see that these kids, who have had a hard life, are largely victims of the circumstances that they were born into. These kids are just a few in a country and world where millions

Sydney Johnson Professor Crisafulli AR 446-I01 26 March 2023 Semiotics Major Project I I Typically titles are used as a clue to what the content is within the work, though nothing can truly prepare someone for the narratives of this video. Unedited Footage of a Bear aired on Adult Swim in November of 2014 at 4 in the morning and was created by Alan Resnick. This short film itself indirectly delves into the topics of depression, motherhood, and addiction. Resnick utilizes film techniques to perfectly

bottom line, but it did affect the lives of hundreds of women. From 1989 to 1994 alone, 140 current and former professional or college football players were reported to police for violent acts against women, the Washington Post reported in 1994. Footage was released in the media, showing a violent attack on a woman in an elevator. The video showed the women being struck with a closed fist, so hard; that the blow caused her head to hit the guard rail. She

reality, directors use editing techniques to control what the audience feels and concludes, just like they do in other forms of film. In Grizzly Man, director Werner Herzog uses cuts and the order of sequences to borrow from the reality of found footage and develop his argument that Timothy Treadwell decided to live with the bears to create a new identity, but that he knowingly made a poor decision because nature is brutal. Throughout the documentary, Herzog effectively develops the idea that Treadwell

is going to end, but the cinematography is extraordinary and keeps you engaged the entire time while addressing issues of race, class, and identity in one film. The opening scene of the film is footage of the shooting shot by a passenger on one of the trains at the Fruitvale Station. The actual footage shown does not show how the film ends, with Oscar getting shot, but it leads up to it. The film cuts from the

archival footage that shows the audience the horrific murder of Emmett Till. By using archival footage, the documentaries serve as rhetoric functions providing pathos for emotion appeal and logos to convince the audience. In The Untold Story of Emmett Till, I noticed there was a strong usage of applied specificity. One of the examples of applied specificity is Mamie Till talking about Emmett Till and while she speaks his baby pictures surface onscreen. The filmmaker showing this footage humanizes

documentaries ultimately display documentary filmmaking, styles and issues that occur while making a film. The Missing Picture is Rithy Panh’s latest work in which he uses voiceover narration and clay figurines as a substitution for the non-existing media footage to depict the personal experiences him and his family faced during the Cambodian genocide. He also uses other typical documentary devices such as archival

in through the whole footage. I made sure when I selected the footage not to cut the person voice. I then work on the audio making sure the levels were arrange to the right levels. I then work on selecting transition to make the footage run smooth. I actually like it when the reporter did not give me instruction because I was able to be creative. Sometime the reporter provided in the script the interviewees name and tittle on the script. If not I had to find it on the footage. I was able to do three

stand trial for his actions due to conflicting testimony and a lack of evidence against him. This case became the perfect example of why these cameras are necessary, the footage obtained from

reoccurs throughout Freeman, most obviously through the use of found footage, observational footage and interviews with Cathy Freeman and her coach. At 12:23 a.m. Cathy Freeman won her race at the 1994 Victorian Commonwealth Games and got a new PR and to celebrate she brought out a half Australian and half Aboriginal flag. This act from Cathy Freeman was mostly

Gabriela Cowperthwaite’s Blackfish (2013) and Louie Psihoyos’ The Cove (2009) both use music and sound effects to reinforce and compliment the visuals, keep the audience engaged, and highlight conflict, as well as employ interviews and archived footage to add a degree of credibility to their films and persuade the audience to sympathise with their cause. Both documentaries focus on animal rights activism, more specifically Blackfish is centred around the captivity of killer whales at SeaWorld, whereas

During this film he raises and explores the issue of gun violence in the United States and uses a variety of techniques to showcase his thinking. In the two excerpts “Columbine” and “Fear of Black Men”, I will be discussing how he uses archival footage (stock footage) and non-diegetic sound to help to steer his audience into thinking a certain way or to make them

may not have an idea of it. This article is for them. * When the couple demands you Cinematic Wedding Videography, keep in your mind that they don't want a lengthy footage. So, never shoot too much footage. In other words, it should be a highlight footage of the day. Which means you should not waste time on videotaping tons of footage. * Choose the shots

whale experts as a vehicle to explore the gap between the conglomerate SeaWorld’s public image and its palpable reality. The wild orcas that researchers describe as highly socialized, gentle animals are juxtaposed with the creatures portrayed in footage from SeaWorld’s marine parks. The latter are abused, confined to dark cages, and live in small concrete pools that are nothing in comparison to the one

be very helpful on patrols and investigations, on duty police officers should be required to equip themselves with a body camera so they have an accurate description of the suspect, which can lower the amount of unsolved cases, and provide video footage

Actuality is the “showing of unedited, unstructured footage of real events, places, people, or things” (The Museum of Modern Art, 2023). For example, at the timestamp 23:25, Chagai goes back home to visit his family due to his mother’s illness. Via this footage, the viewers areinformed about what Chagai is currently doing as well as the portrayal of his culture which entertains the audience with unique cultural dances, clothing, norms, etc. Seeing footage of Chagai being joyous and blissful with his family

dependent on real people and events, as evident from his shadowing of the various street artists and their production and installation processes. On the other hand, Banksy’s narration was largely based on his own interaction with Guetta and with the footages that he shot. According to Nichols (2001, p. 68), such a speech-oriented film like Exit through the Gift Shop (2010) convey meanings that may be worlds apart than what was literally expressed. The narration then, presented different accounts of the

The music video for Kanye West’s song “Bound 2” was released in 2013 and features Kanye’s now wife Kim Kardashian. Throughout the video, numerous landscapes, such as parts of Monument Valley, are featured alongside Kanye riding on a motorcycle. The song’s subject matter revolves around Kanye’s explicit sexual desire for the female subject of the song, which in the video’s case, refers to Kim. The music video subverts the wilderness story trope of the value of authenticity by distorting the images

quite farfetched, I believe one may be moved by the footage shown

inspiration for writing a book can come from anywhere like watching a show about people competing for money or watching footages from the war in Iraq. Suzanne Collins developed the Hunger Games series on these current inspirations and also from her relationship between war and media. Her life influences the way she wrote her books, The Hunger Games Trilogy, with a TV game show, footage from the war in Iraq, and from her knowledge of a battlefield from what her father had taught her. One of Suzanne’s