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Summary Of Film Techniques In The Film, OR

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A significant part of the movie was when Everett, Pete, and Delmar discovered a mysterious group of people dressed in white walking in one direction towards some unknown destination. The camera panned around the three as they take in the scene, staring in awe at the swarm of people around them (Cohen, 0:17:10). The main protagonists had no idea what was going on, and neither did the audience. The camera in this scene was probably shot mounted to a dolly, as the movement was smooth and clearly controlled. By purposefully slowing the speed at which the camera encircled them, it built suspense and encouraged the viewers to wonder why a bunch of people, all intentionally wearing white, were in the middle of the forest. Where were they heading, and why? …show more content…

The scene then cut to Everett and his friends trailed the congregation. The camera followed them and started panning up, dramatically revealing the answer to their question: a lake (Cohen, 0:17:50). Because the director deliberately chose to shoot this scene in one take, he took the viewers on the same journey the characters were traveling so that the audience would discover the congregation’s intentions at the same time Everett, Pete, and Delmar did. To succeed, a crane was used in order to capture the scene as a whole and reveal the lake, the people, and the priest submerging them one by one in the water all at once. This showed that the lake was important and that something significant to their journey would take place

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The following line from The Florida Project best sums up the film: “You know why this is my favourite tree? Cause it’s tipped over and it’s still growing.” Spoken by Moonee while eating jelly sandwiches with Jancey on the trunk of a lush, collapsed tree, the line draws a perfect similarity between the fallen tree’s continued growth and the motel residents’ efforts to trudge through poverty despite their representations in society. Sean Baker’s The Florida Project depicts Moonee, a six-year old living at the Magic Castle (a dilapidated motel just outside Walt Disney World) with her unemployed mother Halley.

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The movie, the Princess Bride, 1987, directed by Rob Reiner and written by William Goldman, has used film techniques and narrative conventions to create certain Themes. These themes that have been used are; Revenge, Love and violence. For example, the person preforming the revenge aspect is called Inigo Montoya. Montoyas revenge is clearly proformed towards the end of the movie. This is where he battles the six fingered man, Count Ruegon; who supposedly killed his father and gave him two scars down both sides of his face.

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