There’s a scene where Murdoch uses post-dubbing to play a recording of James and Eve talking while the camera “tracks” James and Eve walking through Glasgow at night (Monaco 201). This gives the audience a sense of action as the characters and the camera moves. At one point Murdoch uses a multiple exposure shot to show a close up of Eve and James while showing a wider angle shot of the traffic in the streets of the city on screen at the same time, instead of jumping from one image to the other. There’s also a lot of wide angle camera shots that show parts of the city at night to give the audience a sense of setting.
Murdoch uses post-dubbing to play a recording of dialogue between James, Eve, and Cassie. During this dialogue the camera shows
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multiple wide angle shots of the beautiful countryside near a lake in Edinburgh, Scotland. This allows the audience to see the beautiful countryside in Scotland and get a sense of setting, while learning at the same time about the characters as they interact with each other. At the end of this scene, Murdoch draws attention to the camera by using a telescopic lens that blackens out the screen, resulting in a narrowing of the camera’s and the audience’s field of vision to a small circle. Monaco wrote that musicals “were extraordinary elaborate visually” (214).
Perhaps the most visually elaborate scene in the film is where the band, God Help the Girl plays the song “I’ll Have to Dance with Cassie” in front of a live audience at a music venue. It is one of the most catchy and upbeat songs on the soundtrack. To highlight this song, the audience member’s at the venue and the band members all dance together in a very clearly choreographed and visually compelling fashion. The casts dance moves are choreographed to match perfectly with the lyrics and music of the song. Murdoch uses a lot of different camera angles and camera movement during this scene to capture all the dancers, give the scene lots of energy, and make it visually compelling for the audience.
The scenes during the song “Musician, Please Take Heed” are also very visually compelling with a lot of camera angles and movement during choreographed dancing. There’s a girl that follows the character Eve around all over Glasgow and dances with her while Eve sings. During this song Murdoch uses a multiple exposure many times to show the image of Eve and the girl dancing in different settings and the image of a spinning vinyl record on the screen at the same time. The song itself is very dark, eerie, and foreboding. In fact, the song ends with Eve’s drug
overdose. There’s a moment of silence after the song ends when all that can be heard is the noise of the needle from a vinyl record player, and the camera shows Eve in bed holding drugs. Just before Eve takes the drugs, Murdoch jumps to a flashback, an image from a previous scene in the movie, and then back to Eve. Murdoch does this over and over again jumping from scene to scene. So that the moment before Eve takes the drugs feels long to the audience. The dark music turning to silence and the images on the screen work together to create a dramatic and emotional tone for the scene. The audience can tell that something bad is going to happen. I believe Murdoch hopes that in this moment the audience will desperately want for Eve not to take the drugs. Murdoch tries to use the film techniques in this scene before Eve overdoses to create emotion in the audience for the safety and well-being of Eve. After Eve swallows the drugs, the camera jumps to even more flashbacks, and then back to Eve. The final flashback image is striking because it is one that the audience sees for the first time, hands hovering over Eve’s face as she is lying down. When the camera returns to Eve after she swallows the drugs, Murdoch uses post-dubbing to play a recording where Eve says, “I want a story with a happy ending.” The camera fades to black as Eve loses consciousness. After the camera fades to black, the song “I Suppose That Was a Prayer” plays again. The scene that happens next starts with a shaky handheld super eight camera in Eve’s first person point of view as she records video footage of James and Cassie. This suggest that what happens on screen during this scene is what Eve is dreaming about after she loses consciousness. This scene that appears to be Eve’s dream ends with slow motion video footage of Cassie stabbing Eve with an umbrella in a pretend fight and Eve pretending to die as the camera fades to black. As a director, Murdoch uses a lot of visual techniques with the camera to tell the story within the film, God Help the Girl. Murdoch’s camera techniques and the dancing in this film are visually compelling. Since it is a musical, the film draws attention to Murdoch’s use of music and sound. The music contributes to the tone of the scenes along with the images on screen. The lyrics to the songs contribute to the narrative and control the way the narrative is told. Much of what happens on camera is determined by the song lyrics written by Murdoch. The song lyrics also reveal a lot of personal information about the characters in the film, especially Eve.
...t of people around you. The images are really helped clarify what the singer really wants to talk about. Without the images in the video some many things could have been interpreted from the song itself. Before I watched the video I just thought the author was talking about war, and specially the wars America was fighting at the time of the song’s release. The music in combination with the instrumentals and video create a piece of art that enlightens the soul.
When the Vikings reached the New World, they called the native inhabitants (American Indians or Native Americans), “Skræling.” There has been much debate as to what exactly this word or label meant. Some translate it as “skin wearers,” which may be true as to how they described them, being the Norse generally wore woolen or linen clothing and North American Natives generally wore animal skins. But there was one additional thing puzzling about the Norse and the Skræling. The Viking explorers weren't curious or baffled by these new people. As if, they'd come into contact with people like this before and their way of life. 500 years later, when other Europeans had come to the New World (The Americas), they were ultimately curious of these strange new people and their ways that they had never seen before. But not the Norse, the Norse hint that they have come into regular contact with people like this on a fairly regular basis.
One way the filmmakers did this is with the on location shots of rubble in many scenes. The characters in these shots are carefully placed to make the rubble stand out behind them. Lighting is carefully placed to illuminate the rubble and make it stand out. However, the carefully planned cinematography also plays into the overall meaning of the film and not just how it looks. The lighting, for example, influences our feelings for certain characters. Susan Wallner is always filmed in light. This is a drastic difference from how we see Hans Mertens. Hans is usually filmed with low light and is very dim. This helps show that Susan is optimistic, while Hans is pessimistic. Another way lighting is used in this film is to create shadows. Shadows are very prevalent in the last sequence of the film. Hans has confronted Bruckner and as the camera cuts back and forth to each of them we see Hans shadow keeps growing bigger and bigger behind Bruckner. We can interpret that as the shadowing is growing bigger so his Bruckner’s fear, because the dialogue coming from Bruckner is getting faster and we can also hear the fear. There are many times in the film where close ups are used to make the storyline more dramatic. One scene that comes to mind that makes use of quick cuts and close ups is in the end of the film: Susan ran in, stopping Hans from killing Bruckner. At this point we
The camera zooms into the faces of the characters speaking, directing the audience’s attention to what they are saying making this information seem important and true. In the scene where David Palmer finds out about the nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, the camera first focuses on Eric Rayburn who is telling Palmer about the bomb but then zooms into Palmer’s face to show his expression at receiving this information. When Palmer is told the bomb will go off today, he asks, “How do we know this?” Rayburn replies with a computer image of Mahmoud and the camera zooms into the suspected terrorist’s face. The camera in this scene moves quickly from face-to-face, following the conversation visually. Additionally, the camera captures the expressions of...
The blood-thirsty Vikings had such a strong influence and impact on Western Europe that their impact of Viking contact spread throughout the world and lives on today. Three significant ways they affected the world was by the Vikings amazing technology skills of ship building and navigation as well as their polytheism religion.
...nte and Danjou who through dance are competing for Sasha. In this scene, for the first time, the camera angles fluxuate between low and high angles on the detention students showing that they have mastered the art form and or now respected for their skill. With these camera angles we are no longer looking down on them but up to them as they dance on a stage for an audience. In contrast we mostly on see Morgan dancing in the background and rarely is their a close up or her dance, again showing that the detention students have earned the respect of the audience.
to be the best. The dance itself is really an attention grabber and just anticipating for what is
Through dance and movement, the storyline were expanded with the assistance of choreographer, Garth Fagan. A well-renowned choreographer for his innovative choreography primarily for Garth Fagan dance, Fagan used his unique style of choreography to the Lion King by combining a variety of Ballet, Jazz, Modern Dance, African Dance and Balinese Dance to suggest representations of nature without making a replica itself and use dance to help tell the story (Exploring the Lion King, 2010). Taymor’s idea of expanding the film by adding in choreographic elements not only will set the overall concept, it would additionally guide the visual aesthetic by allowing dance as the main element that balances musical numbers in all categories: effects, music and so on into the choreography (Bluemental et al 210:1999). Both Fagan and Taymor gave major contributions to the different styles of dance and performance techniques from around the world creating the precision and versatility that is being portrayed in the musical. In order to create the ideal staging of the hunting lionesses, flying dancers in the aerial ballet to the takeover of the hyenas at Pridelands, the collaboration between Fagan and Taymor gave suggestions of how these movements being performed with grace and poise using different dance styles and are cultural based be the forefront of the production(Taymor 148:1997). By looking at three notable dances in the musical, this chapter will analyse the presence of dance and movement being portrayed in the musical and how are these dances create the drama, still giving the idea of moving in an African Savannah. Furthermore, this will give an insight to all challenges and pitfalls both Fagan and Taymor endured during the development of the...
Vikings were a Norse-speaking, seafaring people who lived from the 8th to 11th centuries, mainly in Scandinavia. They were expert sailors who, starting in late 700s, looted and burned civilizations along rivers and coasts of Europe and Asia. They traded, sailed and explored across the Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean, opening trade routes that connected Europe to the Mediterranean lands. During this time, some of the population settled in the kingdoms that they were exploring; namely England, Ireland, northern France and Russia. One of the main influences that the surrounding cultures had on them was through religion. As the Vikings came in contact with Christianity through their raids, it began to form a unique fusion of Christian influence, while still holding on to many aspects of their pagan lifestyle. Not many primary sources remain from pre-Christian Viking society as much of their culture was destroyed during the Christianization process. The extremely strong oral tradition and the artifacts that remain are what the knowledge of the culture is based on. The pagan culture interests me, as I can still examine influences of it on my Scandinavian family today.
From around the time during the Lower Paleolithic Era, which was about 1.8 million years ago, into the Upper Paleolithic Era, or 20,000 years ago, Europe was sparsely populated by Homo Erectus and Homo Neanderthalensis. The ancient ancestors of modern humans. They were a hunter-gather types of people that were eventually replaced by Homo Sapiens Sapiens, modern humans.
...successful collaboration of sound, colour, camera positioning and lighting are instrumental in portraying these themes. The techniques used heighten the suspense, drama and mood of each scene and enhance the film in order to convey to the spectator the intended messages.
One popular camera technique used in films is panning. Camera panning can emphasize emotion in films. According to a writer on camera techniques, "Following the subject's gaze down to the floor may symbolize rejection or desperation and loss. The moves work because they are related to your story" (Stevenson). In the movie Requiemfor a Dream, panning came into play in a particularly important scene. Marion, a main character, was walking down a hallway. She just had sex with someone she didn't like to get some money for drugs. The camera was right in front of her face, and portrayed the emptiness in her eyes. She was glancing towards the floor and looked like she was going to throw up. The camera also followed her face so closely, that you could tell how fast she was walking. The panning portrayed her feelings and actions so well, that it made the scene more interesting. It was a lot better than just seeing a view of someone head-on.
In the earliest years of the Vikings, there was little history recorded due to the polytheistic views that they followed. After the Vikings converted to Christianity, there were eventually written documents created pertaining to their existence. In Viking Warfare, I.P. Stephenson states that the Vikings “first described attack took place in AD 789”(11). The Vikings were also known as Norsemen. They were great storytellers, and that is perhaps how society knows so much about them today. The stories that the Norsemen told were called Sagas. Today, Vikings are often depicted as murderous savages, but while they were not pillaging villages they were actually quite a peaceful civilization. There were three countries that Vikings evolved from; Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. Although it may seem that all Vikings were on the same side, they quarreled with each other as well. Despite the fact that Viking battles were bloody and gruesome they were also known to be the most hygienic out of many of the earlier civilizations. There was not a huge percentage of Vikings that went out and raided but when they did they made a huge impact on what Vikings are now known for. The success of Viking warfare and raids relied primarily on the uses of armor, weapons, long ships, and battle tactics.
Dance is my favorite hobby when I was a child. I used to watch dance concerts on TV shows, but I had not even watch it on stage. On April 08th, 2016, I attended a dance concert called Make Your Move like an audience. It was performed at John Anthony Theatre – Spring Creek Campus of Collin College. The concert consists of many styles of dancing from different College and University such as Collin College, West Texas A&M University, and Illinois State University. Three performances that I like best were Intus, 9.28.11 and Havana Dream.
The Stone Age is the period of time when early humans first began to make and use tools fabricated from stone. Other materials such as wood, bone, and antler were also used for the making of tools, but stone, especially flint stone, was primarily used for cutting.