An Introduction to Film

each new detail is revealed by the moving camera, more questions about the relationship between these two people. After a series ...

couple of hours. Once the viewer knows whether she has entered a world of talking dogs or wartime chaos—or whatever the case may ...

Orson Welles’s The Magnificent Ambersons(1942; cinematographer: Stanley Cortez), where he used several pan shots that moved almo ...

sets off to replace a rug and winds up a pawn in someone else’s mystery. The goal changes every day for William James, the dange ...

decision, or as a point-of-view shot of what the character is having a realization about. The scene in Hitchcock’s Notorious (19 ...

hikers to an exhilarating but dangerous plunge into an underground pool before leaving them behind to trek still deeper into the ...

on-screen figures or objects. By contrast, because a zoom lens does not move through space, its depic- tion of spatial relations ...

goal remains out of reach. This rising action, and the tension it provokes, enhances our engagement with the ongoing narrative. ...

270 CHAPTER 6CINEMATOGRAPHY 1 3 5 7 2 4 6 8 The crane shot in Touch of Evil These stills from the opening crane shot in Orson We ...

point of Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope(1977; director/screenwriter: George Lucas), Luke Sky- walker’s fellow fighter pilots h ...

bomber, Manelo Sanchez (Victor Millan), runs left into the frame, realizes that these people are his tar- gets, and runs out of ...

script page represents one minute of screen time. The best screenwriters learn to craft concise but vivid descriptions of essent ...

With extraordinary virtuosity, Welles has com- bined nearly all types of shots, angles, framings, and camera movements. He accom ...

138 CHAPTER 4 ELEMENTS OF NARRATIVE Script to screenIn Pulp Fiction(1994), the mob hit man Vinnie (John Travolta) has inadverten ...

allowed filmmakers to approach their subjects, as when they move in for close-ups. But the handheld camera frequently produces a ...

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highly concentrated example of a movie shot from the mental and visual POV of a single character. Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu ...

The complexities of narratology are beyond the scope of this book,^4 but we can begin our study by distinguishing between two fu ...

both spatial andtemporal dimensions. Its length can be as important as any other characteristic. Although a shot is one uninterr ...

plot concerns only those portions of his journey necessary to effectively convey the Ivy League set- ting and the narrative idea ...