An Introduction to Film

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

composer: David Raksin), about which Royal S. Brown writes: Almost every piece of music, diegetic and nondiegetic, heard in the ...

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

Finally, film music may emanate from sources within the story—a television, a radio or stereo set, a person singing or playing a ...

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

rately to the images. In recording an original score, the conductor and musicians work on a specially equipped recording stage, ...

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

the leader the courage to resist death and thus save the group. The other men awaken; they, of course, have not seen or heard an ...

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

deep, soothing voice of the narrator (Morgan Free- man) speaking the opening lines of H. G. Wells’s 1898 novel The War of the Wo ...

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During a lull before the tripods appear again, we hear more ambient sounds: Rachel’s shrill screams, a radio report on the statu ...

and in Raging Bull(1980), Jake La Motta (De Niro) fondly remembers his wife, Vickie (Cathy Mori- arty), in slow motion. Both fil ...

The basement is full of sounds that further establish the imminent evil: scurrying rats; the soft, whirring sound of a tripod’s ...

278 CHAPTER 6CINEMATOGRAPHY solid sense of cause and effect is essential to devel- oping a sequence, the long take permits both ...

fields of sound and special effects. Welles’s budget (estimated at $2,000) paid for his eleven-person radio cast, small crew, an ...

of love for an actor’s face (one of the prime purposes of the close-up); but on the other hand, the length of the shot gives Kid ...

dren’s secret. Happily, at least for the moment, he doesn’t. The sound effects in both of these films were created by Foley arti ...

effects are now made, as you study and analyze SPFX in movies from the past it is helpful to know how the principal types were m ...

We see and hear clearly the source of each of these sounds. Because we are in the desert, there is no background sound per se (w ...