An Introduction to Film

lights, is used extensively in dramas, musicals, comedies, and adventure films; its even, flat illumi- nation does not call part ...

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The Godfather(1972; cinematographer: Gordon Willis) shown in the accompanying photo—threatening and mysterious. Color Color is a ...

378 CHAPTER 8EDITING Shot Description Length Type of (sec.) Shot* 1 Lincoln’s party as, one by one, they reach the top of the st ...

(darkness). A hard-edged crime story about U.S. Treasury Department agents’ successful busting of a counterfeit ring, T- M e nin ...

LOOKING AT EDITING 379 14 Closer view of the stage. The play continues. 10 MLS INTERTITLE:To get a view of the play, the bodygua ...

Grace is frustrated by her lot in life and tries to provoke Jack McKay (Ben Gazzara) into taking a more open view of the world, ...

380 CHAPTER 8EDITING and Li’l Zé (Leandro Firmino da Hora), a drug lord who has murdered Rocket’s brother and for whom violence ...

farther apart than they actually are, and because this lens elongates depth, charac- ters or objects moving at a normal speed fr ...

LOOKING AT EDITING 381 close-ups from handheld cameras—including a man sharpening a knife; chickens waiting to be slaughtered an ...

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

382 CHAPTER 8EDITING another part of the neighborhood. In between, there is a great deal of the gang’s frenzied running after th ...

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

LOOKING AT EDITING 383 denly, the scene turns surreal as every kid seems armed. Meanwhile, the chicken has outwitted them, somet ...

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

384 CHAPTER 8EDITING been that way ever since I was a kid.” As the cam- era circles Rocket, suggesting that he’s trapped, the ed ...

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

QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW 385 ✔Look for the different types of match cuts in the film. What sort of visual or narrative information i ...

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

The Insider(1999). Michael Mann, director. Lawrence of Arabia(1962). David Lean, director. Memento(2000). Christopher Nolan, dir ...