Choice Night is a short film shot in 2010. Film tells the story of fifteen-year-old James, overnight faced with two options, one is with Jenny crush working to meet second-hand bookshop, and the other is his companion in his new football game first show with him for the night. However, James lost a lot in the night. The movie on the screen handling more special, the whole movie lines well, the lens expressing a lot of significance, highlighting the theme of the film, but also render the protagonist's emotional, this article will analyze the film's unique visual style has the different effect. The whole movie uses a lot of close-ups. At the beginning of the film, the close- up of hand shows the actor James writing something on a paper, then …show more content…
punctured his finger with a compass, painted red on the heart-shaped on paper with his blood finger on paper, and finally copied a sentence from the book with the underline next to the heart-shaped which sentence is “ tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…” A close-up shot on the sentence with underline shows the important of this sentence for him or for the person who he wants to give the paper to. All of these actives use the close-up, and the close-up on his face illustrates his serious attitude on this thing. And also this is a hint of the plot development. The shot on this part on film sometimes clear and some times fuzzy with the music shows his expectation for the thing what he is doing. Then he put this paper into CD box and took it to Jenny who is a girl he crushed on.
When he gets on the car, he holds the CD for a little time. The shot on his hand with CD box shows his nervous. Jenny looks at the sentence she likes and asks James does he also like this sentence. James nods and they smile to each other. Two people smiling close-up when Jenny’s happy and James’s shy. Jenny drew something on James’s arm, the whole picture is very quiet, two people smiling at each other, let the audience feel the feelings between two people. There is a tracking shot with James when he does the Rugby competition. It shows the fierce competition. When James changed his clothes after his first show on Rugby competition, he wiped the paint on the arm carefully. When they in the second-hand bookstore, Jenny returned the CD cartridge back to James, and implies something inside has changed, let him checked later on. They talked and nearly kissed with each other. The bell ring beat the picture. They set an appointment to meet at ten o’ clock. Then James and his Rugby mates went out to play in honor of his debut in the team. There are many close-ups on James’s expression. These shots show the pair now face James curious scene, but also a little nervous and looking forward to the feelings. At this time, James has a very complex feeling, which also later made a hint of plot
development. At the time of ten past ten, there is a close-up on the clock. James and his Rugby mates listened others talking. He looked at the clock at this time, but he didn’t choose to leave. His false choice started from this time. Because the alcohol he drunk, bargirl sexy performances and fellow instigation let him lose his mind when faced with the choice, he chose the wrong road. There are some comparison shots between Jenny and James. Jenny stood in front of second-hand bookstores and other James, and James sexual with another woman. At the time he got out from bar, he saw Jenny on the bus and also Jenny saw him at the same time. James’s surprised expression and Jenny’s disappointment in stark contrast at this moment. James watched the bus's departure is a long shot for about ten seconds, it explains the feelings between him and Jenny does not exist. The next day on the car, James opens the CD box and understands his wrong choice makes them relationship to an end, and the story of two people to an end. The final shot is the perspective of James, and the performance of his lonely mood. The film uses a large number of close-up shots from the beginning to the end, including close-up hands and face close-up. The performance of the protagonist's state of mind and mood, but also played a role that put the plot of the film in the series. It belongs to a very unrepresentative close-up on use of movies.
Inside Out is a film about a young girl named, Riley, whose world gets turned upside down once her family moves from Minnesota to San Francisco. In this film, Riley’s five main emotions are personified. Riley, who is only eleven years old, is known for her joyous attitude but with the drastic change of lifestyle, she begins to show and feel many other emotions. As Riley and her family are adjusting to their new surroundings, she becomes more irritable and rebellious. As depicted in the film, Riley’s emotions, Joy and Sadness, get lost trying to find their way back to Headquarters. While Joy and Sadness are gone; Fear, Disgust, and Anger are left in charge of Riley’s actions. On account of Joy is not being there to help Riley make rational decisions, Fear,
poster typically has the white cowboy large, presented front and center, with the antagonists and co-stars all behind him. An iconic western, The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, has a poster picturing the white cowboy alone. Clint Eastwood stands there tall, stoic, and singular. Typical of most other westerns, the white cowboy is the center of attention. Here, however, there are two non-white figures presented: Bart, the Black cowboy, and a large Native American chief. This movie poster has the same style as other westerns with the color and layout, but is unique in the fact that a black man is presented where a white man would normally be dominating. Once again, this makes a statement about racial improvements. Previously having a black man at
Run Lola Run, is a German film about a twenty-something woman (Lola) who has 20 minutes to find $100,000 or her love (Manni) will be killed. The search for the money is played through once with a fatal ending and one would think the movie was over but then it is shown again as if it had happened ten seconds later and changed everything. It is then played out one last time. After the first and second sequence, there is a red hued, narrative bridge. There are several purposes of those bridges that affect the movie as a whole. The film Run Lola Run can be analyzed by using the four elements of mise-en scene. Mise-en-scene refers to the aspects of film that overlap with the art of the theater. Mise-en-scene pertains to setting, lighting, costume, and acting style. For the purpose of this paper, I plan on comparing the setting, costume, lighting, and acting style in the first red hued, bridge to that of the robbery scene. Through this analysis, I plan to prove that the purpose of the narrative bridge in the film was not only to provide a segue from the first sequence to the second, but also to show a different side of personality within the main characters.
In today 's society, movies are viewed as a way of relaxation. Movie lovers enjoy seeing scenes in movies based on real life events. Some of these scenes may include high rates of violence that can cause destruction and serious chaos if implemented in real life. What comes to people 's mind when they hear the word "purge"? The purge is fiction movie directed by James deMonaco which retracts events that would totally cause some controversy within a society. As the theme of the movie suggests, that is the time of the year that all the insane and illegal actions come to be legal for twelve-four hour period. Several atrocities were committed. There was a group of tourists that came to the US in order to commit
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The Fast and Furious franchise has been going on since 2001. Since then there have been seven movies to come out. Fast and Furious 7 may be the last movie in this series. With the actor Paul Walker, Bryan in the movie dead, there may not be any other way to produce another film. With that said, I thought the movie was very good and well thought of when coming to filming the rest of movie without Paul Walker and digitally having his face put in. In some scenes near the end of the movie you can tell that something is off and seems a little weird when looking at Paul’s character but aside from that it was a brilliant job done by the
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