Hold On Film Techniques

Based on Laura Hillenbrand’s 2010 best seller, the film Unbroken is an inspiring, three-time Oscar nominated, World War II biography that tells the story of a young man, Louis Zamperini (played by Jack O’Connell), enduring the unimaginable brutalities of war. Directed by Angelina Jolie and produced by Erwin Stoff, this film is a story of survival, resilience, and redemption. Although this movie has some tear-jerking moments and a few memorable quotes, it seems to have fallen flat when it comes to the emotional aspect of the lead character’s experience.

(106) insert shot: In Into the Wild(2007) an insert shot of the pages in the book about botany is used when Christopher McCandless is trying to see what plants are edible or not. The audience is able to see his anxiety trying to find

Joseph Plumb Martin was born on November 1760 in western Massachusetts. He wrote a book in which he described the life of an ordinary soldier during the American Revolution.”A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier” not only informed about the poor conditions in which the troops lived but also is one of the few soldier's accounts of the Revolution in general.

Visual Analysis In Rania Matar's "A Girl in Her Room", Becca P. Brookline, from Massachusetts, sits on her bed gazing into her miniture vanity mirror. Becca wonders what she must to do make herself more attractive. Becca has a self confidence problem and tends to value makeup over little things, like cleaning her room and making her bed.

The Help is an inspiring movie, centralized on themes of showing courage in the midst of adversity and racial desegregation. The selection of actors with specific attributes, lighting/camera angles, and music, allows the movie to entertain in detail, and highlight the prime issues of the 1960s. With the movie being directed with these specifities in mind, the author, Kathryn Stockett, is able to successfully relay her message in the screenplay.

The looming tower by Lawrence wright is a nonfiction book that covers the decades that lead to the growth of Islamic fundamentalism in the Middle East, and around the world. This book described the how the lives of men from different backgrounds and countries came together and organized the most fear terrorist organization in the modern history. This book goes on to show the lack of understanding that the United States intelligence community had when dealing with the Islamic community, and how all of this culminated into what most remember as 9/11.

Peter Benchley wrote "Jaws" the novel before it was made into a film directed by Steven Spielberg. "Jaws" is a thriller/horror with the main aim being to build up suspense and tension. When making the film Jaws Steven Spielberg had to face the challenging task of translating Benchley’s popular novel into a hit movie whilst still maintaining the suspense created through the many textual devices used by Benchley, such as language techniques and sentence structure. Spielberg managed use different camera angles and shots alongside lighting effects to create atmosphere and tension to pretty much the same effect. In the background he uses music and sound effects to add to the dramatic visual images he creates.

Stand By Me, directed by Rob Reiner, is a film set in the 1950’s, in a small town called Castle Rock. It is an adventure story about the friendship of four boys who are on a journey to see death. Along the journey, the boys, Chris, Gordy, Vern and Teddy encounter many problems and challenges which in turn illustrates the individual personality of each of the boys to the audience. The overall film displays Rob Reiner’s view of how growing up can sometimes be a difficult translation period. Through a variety of scenes, Reiner has conveyed the idea that the future of young boys will be influenced by both the positive and negative aspects of their lives. This is clearly evident through the boy’s attitude towards smoking and the types of clothing they each wear. Throughout the film, the boys are continually imitating Ace and his gang to gain respect amongst the older boys.

Director R.J. Cutler excellently does his job of making the 2014 drama, If I Stay, come to life visually in 2015. The film was based off of the novel that was written by Gayle Forman. In both the movie and book, they uphold the same storyline. The main character ,Mia, is a passionate cello player who wants to attend her dream school, Juilliard. She runs across a boy named Adam who admires her passion and they end up having a great connection through the story. All is going well until Mia and her family get in a major car accident that leaves characters in heartbreak. Throughout the film, the director chooses specific scenes to accurately show elements of freudianism by different camera techniques and other expressive elements. Several techniques

Fashion plays a major role in a person’s life because it is expressing how one looks and feels about one’s self. Clothing, accessories and makeup communicate fashion, which are all successful ways of bringing attention and persuasion to popular fashion brands. However, can also lead consumers to higher standards thinking that they can resemble the professional model posing in the advertisement. Like a Cover Girl advertising fade proof, waterproof, and ignore- proof mascara and new intense eye shadow blast that has a photo of Drew Barrymore behind a light grey background with light blue eye shadow around her entire eye. Likewise, revealing Drew Barrymore’s greenish blue eyes with perfectly curled black eyelashes that one can have from the use of this particular new Cover Girl eye shadow blast and mascara.

The director also presented Olive as a girl who has goal in her life and never give up. At the beginning of this film, the directors took a close up shot of Olive’s eyes with the reflection of the television screen on her glasses showing that she kept watching the re-run of Miss America pageants. This symbolized that her goal is to be a beauty pageant contestant. Then the directors draw camera as a mid-shot of Olive copying the new winner’s gestures. From this, we see a visual irony that Olive doesn’t fit stereotype of wanting to be a beauty queen and we could see that she lacks of glamour. The beauty queen has big smile, big hair and they all look very pretty but Olive is only a simply girl with a pair of glasses, long plain ponytail and a

One Hour Photo, written and directed by Mark Romanek, stars Robin Williams in this psychological thriller movie. In this movie, Williams plays Seymour Parrish, a man who works on developing photos in a photo lab at a local superstore. He develops photos of a family that he becomes very friendly with but as the film progresses we soon realize that Seymour “Sy” has an unhealthy obsession with the family instead. This movie could have easily gone down the direction of most thrillers where the “antagonist” is a rapist or a killer. But Sy is not like that all.

4) Key facts: The case is about a person named Jesse Williams who was a chain smoker and severely addicted to smoking who died of lung cancer. On the other hand, his widowed wife said that Williams died because Philips Morris purposely led him to smoke because of their fraudulent advertisements and sponsorships attracted William towards smoking their brand. The widow claimed that the brand Philip Morris was a fraud; they used to interpret very dangerous cigarettes as less dangerous, which perhaps attracted a lot of customers and market share. The widow filed a lawsuit against the company for negligence.

Stand by me is a film directed by Rob Reiner, one of the memorable scene in the the movie was near the end when they all found the dead body of Ray Brower, in this scene the director used a variety of filming techniques for this scene such as close up, medium shot and low angle,it also included music and voice over as well. In the scene where they found the dead body, it showed the filming technique close up when Vern found Ray Brower under the bushes, the director used this scene to show their emotion towards Ray Brower and how they are all very shaken to see the dead body of him, because they did not know he was dead. Also in the scene mid shot and the low angle was used to create the effect where the boys were made to look bigger and

In the 21st century, beauty and make up are like the wheels of a cart or the two sides of a coin. Women are beautiful in themselves; but a little make-up does help a lot and it keeps one to make the day better and happier. Every woman wants to be pretty whether she’s young or old so the beauty salon is the place to go. Beauty salons are also like a temple; however, the difference is that we go to worship in the temple and in the beauty salon we go to be worshipped by the beauticians and by the other people around.