An Introduction to Film

in a continuous motion and thus simulates the effect of movement of the camera toward or away from the subject. However, it does ...

motion-picture camera; the animator moves the objects slightly for each recorded frame. The objects moved and photographed for s ...

1 2 Rack focusIn this shot from Guillermo del Toro’s The Devil’s Backbone(2001; cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro), the camera ...

tools of theater and animation, uses the virtual world of computer-modeling software to generate the ani- mation. John Lasseter’ ...

The images you see on the screen are produced by a complex interaction of optical properties asso- ciated with the camera lens. ...

This process was so time consuming and expen- sive that it contributed to the failure of the film’s production company. Nonethel ...

subjects within a shot and their implied proximity to each other—has been placed there to develop the narrative’s outcome and me ...

character is so anthropomorphic that it is nearly indistinguishable from a human being, we monitor the appearance of that object ...

you. Regardless of the outcome of this encounter, you have become visually involved with this person in a way that you wouldn’t ...

116 CHAPTER 3TYPES OF MOVIES Analyzing Types of Movies This chapter’s broad survey of the different types of movies should make ...

body within the frame, we’ll describe them in terms of that scale. The illustrations are from Tom Hooper’s The King’s Speech(201 ...

a conventional interview-based documentary? What are Fred Camper’s six characteristics most experimental films share? What is a ...

and duchess of York at a cocktail party at a royal country house. Because she is not a member of the royal family, she is not of ...

Dead Man(1995). Jim Jarmusch, director. Death to the Tinman(2007). Ray Tintori, director. The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A P ...

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Slacker(1991). Richard Linklater, director. Slumdog Millionaire(2008). Danny Boyle, director. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1 ...

dancers to move from the stage in the back of the image, across the catwalk that ran through the audience in the middle of the i ...

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Hollywood style; experimented with achieving greater depth; created sharper black-and-white images; used the high-powered Techni ...

CHAPTER FOUR Elements of Narrative The Ghost Writer (2010). Roman Polanski, director. ...