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Techniques Film Makers Use to Tell Stories

Techniques Film Makers Use to Tell Stories

Film is probably the most effective way of portraying a story. They don’t just tell the story, they can also make the audience feel part of it. Film makers can choose what they want their audience to see and feel, making the viewer emotionally attached. All genres set up expectations in an audience and never disrupt the expectations, for example, the audience always knows that a James Bond film will be full of action, he will defeat the villain and get the girl.

I will examine the way films tell stories by studying the film language of “Romeo and Juliet”, Monty Python’s “Life of Brian” and James Bond, “The World is Not Enough”.

“Romeo and Juliet” is a play written by William Shakespeare and has been adapted into a film. It is about two lovers from rival families who rebel against their parents’ wishes and marry each other in secret. The only problem is that Romeo killed Juliet’s cousin and is banished from Verona and Juliet is supposed to be married to someone else. In the end they both end up killing themselves. A large part of the audience does not understand some of Shakespeare’s language because it’s not contemporary but Baz Lurmann (the director) has tried to help the audience’s understanding with visual images. At the very beginning of the film you can tell that the film is going to be a tragedy because the narrator tells you the ending to the story. Lurmann has placed the narrator in the form of a news reader sitting inside a television. We know this because she seems to sit up very straight, looking straight ahead and speaking very clearly. In addition, the background is just plain blue which seems to suggest she is in a newsroom. The television starts off very small and then it gets bigger and looks as if it’s coming from a distance towards you.

Editing in a film is extremely important for creating the right atmosphere. If you cut a shot at the wrong moment you could ruin the whole scene. At the beginning of Romeo and Juliet the pace is very fast and so there are quite a lot of jump cuts to keep the rhythm going. There seem to be many cuts in every scene and not a lot of camera movement. There is a wipe cut...

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