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POST (39) E.T The Extra Terrestrial

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plan: Halloween scene - its what we don't see in horror films, so seeing an alien is the scariest part for the characters who don't know - sun is setting, its Halloween which makes it easier, Halloween is celebrated a lot in America - see it from his point of view as he walks alive scene - close up shots of his expressions - flower comes alive, his reaction changes - music changes - he acts like a baby to get what he wants - he is surrounded by people with white costumes on which suggests a hospital atmosphere. - camera is at Elliots height which makes the audience involved drunk scene/ frogs - - Elliot feels what et does - what et sees and is thinking of Elliot does - link to singin in the rain era - Elliot freeing the frogs is a metaphor for freeing et goodbye scene - long shots - looking up to them camera angle - mainly focusses on the main two E.T frogs scene: Mise en scene                 Costume: The Cost...
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(POST 16) The kuleshov effect

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Kuleshov Effect What do you understand by The Kuleshov Effect? The Kuleshov Effect is a film editing (montage) effect demonstrated by Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov in the 1910s and 1920s. It is a mental phenomenon by which viewers derive more meaning from the interaction of two sequential shots than from a single shot in isolation. The Kuleshov Effect is a well-documented concept in film-making, discovered by Soviet film editor Lev Kuleshov in the 1920s. Kuleshov put a film together, showing the expression of an actor, edited together with a plate of soup, a dead woman, and a woman on a recliner. Audiences praised the subtle acting, showing an almost imperceptible expression of hunger, grief, or lust in turn. The reality, of course, is that the same clip of the actor's face was re-used, and the effect is created entirely by its superimposition with other images. is. According to Kuleshov, this came into being largely by necessity. Soviet cinema in...
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(POST 10) Cinematography creating a storyboard from The Gold Rush

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For this task we were given a short clip from The Gold Rush, in this section we were given we had to recreate the 1 minute 20 second. we had to find the actors and setting to recreate this. Before we started filming we had to create a story board focussing on each shot in the time frame given. each shot can change for each section so we recorded them all down in the form of a story board. we also noted the time each section was and the key moverments of the characters.    Each member of the group had a particular section to record and make notes on, we felt the use of the story board helkped us alot when it came to filming. In the story board we noted down the exact place each character was facing/looking/moving and also their interactions with other characters. After we had completed the story board we had to choose are characters and also the settting for this recording.We had Dan as our main male character, Alice as the main female character, Megan, ...
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