The Seventh Seal was a film that was created by a Swedish director by the name of Ingmar Bergman in 1957. Ingmar is highly known as a leading example in Sweden films as well one in the history in cinema (Cardullo, 2009). Ingmar was also known for placing his own personality in his work though scripts and how the film viewed (Bergman & Cardullo, 2009). He used creative techniques with mise-en-scene framing from his theatrical background to tell the stories when he created his majority of his films. The used camera techniques helps to significant meaning of what is going especially due to this film is using strong philosophy. His editing techniques in The Seventh Seal play an imperative role giving it meaning for the audience.
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By the film being about life and death the angles portrays meaning of heaven and hell. In the scene first scene that will be discuss involves the knight Antonius he is standing by the ocean when another figure appears which is known as Death. In this section it shows editing techniques that Ingmar uses to give the audience illusion when he or she is focused on a current scene that is being showed it goes away. It is shown in this scene when there are several stationary shots with Antonius and death are centrally frame. Ingram uses this scene to bring in a chessboard that dissolves in the waves at first then appears with Antonius challenges Death to a game of Chess with them facing across from one another. Ingmar is trying to portray sentimental meaning of life and death by using imagery of the water and with the colors of white and black from the …show more content…
In this particular scene the sound of the waves create curiosity of what is going on and opens up the film. A scene that shows good lighting effect as previous mention is when Antonius is confessing to Death without knowing it. In this scene, it shows low-key lighting to represent the shadows. With Antonius confessing to the supposedly monk the wall that separates the lighting and shadows make Antonius look as if he was trapped in a
This film unlike most others on the same topic had no real event to focus on. There was not just one climax or specific scene that the others built up to or supported. I cannot say that I enjoyed it but I do feel it has to a great extent affected me. The only reason I feel that this film is one worth watching is because of the latent message it holds. It very successfully exposes authority and bureaucracy in society. The characters in this film portray people that are either convinced or have been convinced that are crazy.
achieving his goal of placing doubt into the minds of the religious. Making this a poorly-argued film due
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Beginning roughly with the release of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Loved the Bomb in 1964, and continuing for about the next decade, the “Sixties” era of filmmaking made many lasting impressions on the motion picture industry. Although editing and pacing styles varied greatly from Martin Scorcesse’s hyperactive pace, to Kubrick’s slow methodical pace, there were many uniform contributions made by some of the era’s seminal directors. In particular, the “Sixties” saw the return of the auteur, as people like Francis Ford Coppola and Stanley Kubrick wrote and directed their own screenplays, while Woody Allen wrote, directed and starred in his own films. Kubrick, Coppola and Allen each experimented with characterization, narrative and editing techniques. By examining the major works of these important directors, their contributions become more apparent.
The movie really shows how the community works together and treats each other well during rough times. In the one scene, George Bailey used his 2,000 dollars that was suppose to be for his honeymoon to give to the people who made investments and needed some money. Christians treat each other how they want to
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Throughout history, the film industry has seen many directing styles and techniques. The early part of the 20th century saw a factory style of film production, but as the years went by, director's began to employ new and untried techniques in their pictures. One such technique which these director's implemented was a new approach to the use of the camera and camera angles. "Casablanca," an Academy Award winning film of 1942 saw director Michael Curtiz manipulate the camera in ways others had not. He uses the close-up, point-of- view, and creative shot motivation methods in his film starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, to create an American cinema classic.
The lighting in this movie is very effective. It helps to establish the characters very well. The audience is helping in distinguishing the bad and the good characters through the lighting. The movie overall is very stylized. There are some other strange lighting patterns brought out by Hype Williams, but by far the most effective lighting patterns are ones that help to characterize the main players in the film.
This movie was inspiring and encouraging to anyone who is struggling with something. Overcoming his controversies in life became the main point of the movie. Knowing that this movie was based upon a true story inspires the people even more.
While growing up, Aronofsky had the great pleasure of seeing the greatest movies being released for the first time in theatres. Spielberg’s Jaws and George Lucas’ Star Wars were great successes that triggered a further liking of film for Aronofsky. Coming from a strong household and educated with an MFA in Directing, Aronofsky’s great successes were becoming f...
...the predominant theme of disorientation and lack of understanding throughout the film. The audience is never clear of if the scene happening is authentic or if there is a false reality.
With many different genres and types of filmmaking, it can result in a large variety of stories and conflicts. Nevertheless, film has always brought people together as a society. If there is one thing everyone can notice about films is the achievement in style and directing. The three directors talked about in this paper are the most successful at delivering a breathtaking style and direction to their films. Baz Luhrmann, Wes Anderson, and Martin Scorsese have produced and directed films over decades and each film as impacted not only the United States but worldwide. With the unmistakable trademarks that each director has, it is very easy to feel sucked into the world in which they are shaping around you and the story. Because of these three directors, the film world and industry has been revolutionized for many centuries to come.
Film and literature are two media forms that are so closely related, that we often forget there is a distinction between them. We often just view the movie as an extension of the book because most movies are based on novels or short stories. Because we are accustomed to this sequence of production, first the novel, then the motion picture, we often find ourselves making value judgments about a movie, based upon our feelings on the novel. It is this overlapping of the creative processes that prevents us from seeing movies as distinct and separate art forms from the novels they are based on.