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  2. Film styles - Wikipedia

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    Two films may be from the same genre, but may well look different as a result of the film style. For example, Independence Day and Cloverfield are both sci-fi, action films about the possible end of the world. However, they are shot differently, with Cloverfield using a handheld camera for the entire movie. Films in the same genre do not ...

  3. Formalist film theory - Wikipedia

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    For example, a formalist views standard Hollywood "continuity editing" for how it creates a comforting effect and non-continuity or how jump cut editing becomes disconcerting. [ citation needed ] A formalist considers the synthesis of several elements, such as editing, shot composition, and music.

  4. Filmmaking technique of Akira Kurosawa - Wikipedia

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    For example, for Seven Samurai, he created six notebooks with (among many other things) detailed biographies of the samurai, including what they wore and ate, how they walked, talked and behaved when greeted, and even how each tied his shoes.

  5. Cinematic techniques - Wikipedia

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    Also called "literal sound" or "actual sound". Examples include Voices of characters; Sounds made by objects in the story, e.g. heart beats of a person; Source music, represented as coming from instruments in the story space. Basic sound effects, e.g. dog barking, car passing; as it is in the scene

  6. Fictional music - Wikipedia

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    The following are some examples of both of these types of musical instruments. In the Dune universe, the baliset is a very long nine-stringed zither. In the 1984 film Dune, the baliset is represented by a cosmetically altered Chapman stick. [16] In the Futurama television series, a fictional musical instrument called "the Holophonor" was ...

  7. Structuralist film theory - Wikipedia

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    Structuralist film theory emphasizes how films convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions not dissimilar to the way languages are used to construct meaning in communication.

  8. Themes and plot devices in Hitchcock films - Wikipedia

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    On the contrary, Hitchcock had many strong female characters within his movies, career women, who often triumphed over men and subverted sexual stereotypes. One view suggests that Hitchcock’s films enacted “rituals of defilement” of women that evoked his fear of women and unconsciously defended against that fear by punishing and even ...

  9. Film analysis - Wikipedia

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    There are several examples in film history where image was even more than just a key element of film (i.e. pre WWII avant-garde films, Italian neorealism, film noir, etc.). However, today, in most narrative films ( Fictional film ) we try to hide pictorial elements from audience and mask them behind the story . [ 2 ]