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Film Analysis

This document provides an analysis of various cinematic techniques used in film including characterization, point-of-view, narrative techniques, and the use of shots, set design, costumes, props, acting styles, camera movements, editing, sound, lighting, and color to convey meaning and tell a story. Elements of mise-en-scene like set design can provide context for a character's emotions while shots like close-ups are used to draw attention or show emotion. Cinematic techniques establish relationships between characters and create tone and meaning.

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Film Analysis

This document provides an analysis of various cinematic techniques used in film including characterization, point-of-view, narrative techniques, and the use of shots, set design, costumes, props, acting styles, camera movements, editing, sound, lighting, and color to convey meaning and tell a story. Elements of mise-en-scene like set design can provide context for a character's emotions while shots like close-ups are used to draw attention or show emotion. Cinematic techniques establish relationships between characters and create tone and meaning.

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FILM ANALYSIS

Storytelling (Plot) Cinematic technique (Shot) Theatrical elements (Set)


Framing
Characterization Set design (da. scenografi)
• Close-up: captures the emotions of the character or draws
attention to a specific thing Most times, the surroundings say
Point-of-view • Long shot: the whole setting, may be used to make a lot about the characters’ inner
characters appear small emotions (how is the character
• Medium shot: often used in dialogue so that you can see placed in his or her surroundings)
Narrative technique the body language of the characters

Angles Costumes
Distrubution of • Low-angle: makes a person seem big and powerful Give us a clear image of what
Knowledge • High-angle: makes a person seem little and weak type of person we are looking at
Who knows what, • Eye-level: makes us feel on the same level as a character
when (audience,
characters, narrator) Lines
Props
• Horizontal lines: calm
• Vertical lines: power, grandiosity May have specific relevance in a
Time aspect particular film or clear-cut
• Diagonal lines: disorder, action
cultural connotations, helping us
to decode their meaning as
Symbols Composition
symbols and the character’s
• Foreground, Middle-ground, Background: the relation
relation to them
between these three levels is often important in a shot
Theme • Position of characters: says something about their
relation to each other (e.g. two shot, triangular comp.)
Acting style
Message Camera movement The ways the actor captures the
• Pan (↔) or Tilt (↨) essence of a character
• Steady-cam: calm, dreamy camera movement
• Hand-held: chaotic, disorderly, subjective

Editing
• Parallel editing (=)vs. cross-cutting (X)
• Point of View (+ subjective use of camera): what we see
seems as if we are seeing it through the eyes of a specific
character
• Long takes: slow-paced editing signaling calm
• Short takes : fast-paced editing in intense and/or hectic
sequences
• Transitions: dissolve (da. overblænding), fade to black

Sound
• Diegetic sound (from the films location): dialogue, real
sound and music that the characters can hear
• Non-diegetic sound (not from the film’s location): voice
over, sound effect/music that the characters cannot hear
• Contrapuntal sound: stands in direct opposition to the
images of the film (a happy tune while watching a murder)

Lighting and Color


• Low-key lighting: dark, contrast-filled (negative mood)
• Normal lighting
High-key lighting: brightly lit sets (light, positive mood)
• Color symbolism: all colors have both positive and
negative symbolic meanings, it all depends on how they
are used in a particular film
• Filters/effects: are often used to alter the images, to make
them underline a particular tone in a scene

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