Shot reverse shot Essays

  • 'Aliens' by James Cameron

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    making them expendable. Tension is created when Hudson begins to panic and exclaims: “Those things are going to come in here, just like they did before man…” This scared, on-edge attitude gives the audience a feeling of dread, the close up shot of Hudson’s anxiety-ridden face is unnerving for the audience, however this is soon changed when Ripley interrupts him and reminds him that Newt ‘survived longer than that with no weapons and no training.’ This relieves the audience and promotes

  • Riddle Of The Sphinx Movie

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    close-up shots of the male-coded Egyptian sphinx. The camera focuses on the contours of the creature’s sculpted face. It moves out from the face to a vast desert landscape for a drastic physiological change in scene. According to the placement of shots in this order woman are represented as sphinx in a landscape filled with mystery. Myth, which is mysterious and is unsolved till date, she tries to represent women in similar manner. Interestingly we don’t get to see much of shot reverse shot during

  • Fried Green Tomatoes Film Analysis

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    Looked at through the lens of the encoding/decoding model, we can track the presence of the heterosexual will to not know in Fried Green Tomatoes (1991) through the films’ particular uses of the butch/femme trope and through its use of specific camera shots that capture the tension between Ruth and Idgie. The importance of the novel that was the basis for the movie can’t be understated when referring to Stuart Hall’s encoding/decoding model. This model refers to the specific ways one can study film

  • Essay On The Airport Scene

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    airport and encounters Joshua again. In the airport scene the editor (Carol Littleton) combines numerous types of shots to create this illusion for you, the audience, of flying around them as they talk. The scene starts a tracking backwards close up shot of Joshua straight into an over the shoulder shot to start the conversation. From there the editor cuts in to a panoramic revers shot between Regina and Joshua but still having the camera circling counter clockwise giving the feeling of dancing around

  • General Terms 'Interpreting The Film Terminology'

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    Plans AV text and shows how each shot relates to sound track. (Think comic strip with directions - like a rough draft or outline for a film.) Montage: The editing together of a large number of shots with no intention of creating a continuous reality. A montage is often used to compress time, and montage shots are linked through a unified sound - either a voiceover or a piece of music. Parallel action: narrative strategy

  • A shot by shot analysis of a major scene in Hitchcocks Notorious

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    the camera zooms out while sweeping right to give the first full shot and view of both of the main characters. They are shown seated at a table, with many empty bottles of liquor and glasses. 2.     Then a tight reverse over the shoulder shot of Devlin’s face (Cary Grant) is next. Devlin then proclaims: “There's one more drink left apiece. Shame about the ice.” 3.     Next the shot reverses again to another tight over the shoulder shot but of Alicia’s face this time. Where she asks a question about

  • Film Adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth

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    Contrasting Cinema Languages, and Other Cinema Languages. Although there are many different film languages all of them comprise of the three basic elements outlined by Baker. Each named Language in Richards offers a different combination of Camera Shots, sometimes united with Sound and Lighting. In order to assess which Language is used and how it is used within the case study it is important to verify what each language includes. The following section will therefore be a brief description of

  • Firearms

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    pistols with revolving chamber which enables you to fire several shots without reloading. Revolvers were popular in the end of XIX - beginning of XX century because they are quite easy to use, reliable, and cheap, but were soon replaced by pistols because of their limited capacity and mobility. However, revolvers are still used by the policemen -- large-caliber bullets they use (“Magnum” 45 or 36 millimeter) can knock out an outlaw at first shot, even if fired in foot. Revolvers usually hold 5, 6, or 7

  • Comparing The Woman With No Name In Monte Hellman's The Shooting

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    the town of Kingsley, days after one of the camp members was shot dead and another ran away. On their descent into the scorching desert, it becomes apparent that the Woman has misled her employees as a hired gun joins their party and they continue their journey, it would seem, to execute somebody. The Woman from time to time physically leads the pack, and is always

  • Analysis of Pretty Boy Crossover and Flowers of Edo

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    on all the supposed "benefits" that the company that is selling this product has to offer. By going digital, all your fears of death, illness, and pressure will disappear. In the digital, you control everything including how you look, who calls the shots, and who gets to join your club. In the digital world, you are living an eternal youth where your dreams come true. "You don't have to die anymore, Bobby says silkily. Music bounces under his words. It's beautiful in here. The dreams can be as real

  • Importance of Sportsmanship

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    very sportsmanlike, for numerous reasons. There are many spectators who come to enjoy the competitiveness and excitement of high school athletics and a bad sport can turn a good, hard-fought and enjoyable contest into an ugly, forgettable one. Cheap shots and verbal attacks on fellow student-athletes can forever taint a positive athletic career, and that is why it is vital that sportsmanship is emphasized from a very young age. One reason that sportsmanship is important is the fact that it promotes

  • Shock Treatment

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    point of disfigurement. Many give up the game they love for safer persist. Others overcome seemingly insurmountable injuries to compete again, proudly bearing the surgical scars that urge them onward. What this commercial shows are somewhat disturbing shots of a shark bite, a missing fingertip, missing teeth, scars from a surgically repaired knee and a shattered eye socket. The main question is what does this have to do with Nike products and services. Nike's ads, like many other businesses, require interpretation

  • Romeo And Juliet Film Review

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    Don’t Hang Up Philosophy –Philosophy Can Make A Movie Film: Romeo and Juliet Director: Baz Luhrmann Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes Plot: Two lovers of rival, disputing families take their lives. Rating: Reviewer: Claire Ginn Welcome to Verona Beach, a sexy, violent other-world, neither future nor past, ruled by two rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets... So begins Baz Luhrmann’s production of Shakespeare's beloved play, "Romeo and Juliet," from the famous opening line of "Two

  • Hedda Gabler

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    the power she once had. The only thing she has left is a large portrait of him that hangs over the coach in the inner room and a set of pistols her father left her. Hedda tries time after time to gain the attention and control she once had until she shot herself under the stress of this unbeatable battle. At the age of twenty nine Hedda married George Tesman, a scholar with a doctor’s degree and a good friend. She married him because she really had no other one to turn to and she was getting old. She

  • Letter to Frank in Eveline

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    you want to settle down right away, which befuddles me. I know you want to be with me and mean good, and I the same, but there are other things I must think of in all of this. Another possible problem is your tendency to spend all your money in one shot. We have to learn together to grow and be more responsible if we are to make a big change like getting married, not to mention moving away. You know that wh...

  • My Friend Hamilton -Who I shot

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    reads On the morning of July 11, 1804, Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton were rowed across the Hudson River in separate boats to a secluded spot near Weehawken, New Jersey. There, in accord with the customs of the code duello, they exchanged pistol shots at ten paces. Hamilton was struck on his right side and died the following day. Though unhurt, Burr found that his reputation suffered an equally fatal wound. In this, the most famous duel in American history, both participants were casualties

  • My Greatest Moment

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    understood all the rules, could pass well and put my shots where I wanted them. My third year of lacrosse was the first time I had played a high school sport so I think that I developed my skills much more than ever before. After playing lacrosse for three years I thought that I was getting fairly decent however I had never scored a goal. All of my freshman year I took good aggressive shots and most of them were on goal. In practice I would put many of my shots behind the goalie but it seemed like the goalies

  • no pretty pictures

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    trapped grown-ups sounded like the noise of insects rubbing their legs together." On being discovered while hiding in a convent: "They lined us up facing the wall. I looked at the dark red bricks in front of me and waited for the shots. When the shouting continued and the shots didn't come, I noticed my breath hanging in thin puffs in the air." On trying not to draw the attention of the Nazis: "I wanted to shrink away. To fold into a small invisible thing that had no detectable smell. No breath. No flesh

  • Training Program for Tennis

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    ====================================================================== I feel when I play tennis I play well at the beginning but towards the end I loose my game. I don't play as well as I should because I get tired and fatigued and I don't bother to try and get the hard shots. So the aim of this training programme is to improve my cardiovascular endurance so I can keep up the level of tennis I play at, at the beginning of my game. Safety Aspects To make sure I will not injure myself due to excessive strain I

  • Analysis of the Spike Lee's Movie Do the Right Thing

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    Analysis of the Spike Lee's Movie Do the Right Thing For my shot analysis I chose a shot from the Spike Lee Movie Do the Right Thing. This is the second shot following the climactic riot scene. It features Da’ Mayor and Mother Sister reacting to the hellacious events of the previous night. The block was just devastated by a melee that broke out because the police killed Radio Raheem after he and Sal got in an altercation that was triggered by the volume of Radio Raheem’s boom box. Though at a