” The heart of German expressionism, using an exaggerated, distorted Misé en scene to reflect the inner Psychology of its characters. ” ” Many German filmmakers fled to London, New ...Read More
We start on an eye level shot of Clarisse facing away, this limits what we can find out about how she is feeling about where she is but allows us to see everyone else’s reactions to her and the ...Read More
‘What specific decisions or actions did I take to make meaning and fulfil my creative intention on the shoot?’ If you are cinematographer you should have a lot to say about framing, movement, comp...Read More
“John Grierson’s definition of documentary filmmaking – ‘the creative treatment of actuality’ – summarises its overarching fallacy. The fallacy being that documentaries often purport to ...Read More
Performative documentaries focus on the filmmaker’s involvement with their subject, using his or her personal experience or relationship with the subject as a jumping-off point for exploring larger...Read More
Cinematic Feature Description Film Elements Story Whose stories do they tell? Realism films show us the truth, particularly with social realism, real stories with real people. Key examples include B...Read More
BSR is a cinema movement from the 50’s and 60’s that is incredibly influential Realistic. Naturalistic Verisimilitude The hard truth – no glamour, no tinsel or sugarcoating, w...Read More
Shawshank Final Essay My next target for my essays is to focus and only think about the film how others would see the scene reflected in the focus of the essay – in this instance the came...Read More
Distant Effect for Narrative – Conventions which keep the audience away in order to hand them a sense of control and oversight. DISTANT Bid’s / God’s Eye of the towers being made The...Read More
