Camera Movements in Films - Report Example

March 16, Visual_Films Camera movements I liked the camera movements of the R. Rossellini Rome-based movie (Rossellini, 1). The camera movements rightfully increased the intensity of the film. I liked how the cameras followed the characters as they moved from one place to another in the film. The film was shot perfectly shot two major locations. The first location was the open street. The open street scene depicted Rome as an open city. The film cameras zoomed in as the German soldiers moved in to locate the movie hero, Giorgio_Manfredi, played by Marcello_Pagliero. As the movie cameras focused on the soldiers who were searching Rome’s streets for Giorgio, suspense grips the movie audiences. I liked how the movie cameras focused on the German soldiers climbing up the apartment stairs towards Francesco’s apartment to search for Giorgio, audience suspense rises to climactic levels. I also liked how the cameras’ zooming on Pina, played by Anna_Magnani, as she runs towards her captured lover, Francesco, creates fear in the eyes of the movie audiences. The audiences perfectly see the danger climax to reality when the movie cameras show the German soldiers shoot to death Pina for trying to go near her arrested Francesco, played by Francesco_Grandjacquet. I liked how the movie cameras produce a clear black and white movie output. Further, I liked how the movie cameras rightfully focused on the war scene within the tenements of Rome. I liked how the cameras zoom in as the lovers, Pina and Francesco, flirt with one another inside their Tenement home. The film cameras perfectly shows the Roman people under German occupation are trying to bring sense to the current difficulties of living in a war environment. Furthermore, I liked how the cameras show how Rome’s parish priest, Don Prieto, stack away guns in order to avoid being captured by the arriving German soldiers. Don Prieto is played by Aldo_Fabrizi. The film camera zooms in to capture Pina’s child, Marcello wearing a hat and doing his share for the underground resistance movement. Marcello is played by Vito_Annichiarico. Moreover, I liked how the movie camera film the shooting of the parish priest, Don Prieto, during his execution as well as showing the Italian firing squad soldiers refuse to kill the parish priest. The movie camera creates an impression that the Italian firing squad soldiers are devout Catholics. For the Catholic movie audiences, I liked how the cameras bring an important message. In war, soldiers still have their conscience. I liked how the cameras zoom in to show the consequence of the Italian soldiers’ refusal to execute the parish priest. Further, I disliked how the cameras perfectly zoom to show the agony of Giorgio’s torture. The cameras should reduce the time used to focus on Giorgio’s torture. The cameras show the soldiers torture Giorgio in his cell. I liked how the cameras showed the German officers showed their concept of race superiority when they unremorsefully tortured Giorgio to death. I liked how the cameras perfectly show the reaction of Marina as she sees the dead tortured body of her beloved Giorgio. Furthermore, I also liked how the cameras zoom in on one of the captured traitors. The cameras close in on the captured defector. The defector feels all is lost. Fearing that he may be tortured to tell the locations and names of other resistance fighters, the camera zooms in on the tortured person’s committing suicide. The cameras poignantly show the same prisoner decides to hang himself to death instead of being tortured. Lighting In general, I liked the movie’s overall lighting effects (Rossellini, 1). I liked how the lighting effects created bright movie scenes. Since the shooting was done in the daytime and on the streets of Rome, I liked how the lighting used the sun to show the war scenes of the movie. During the apartment scenes, I liked how the lighting was enough to show the scenes unfold. I also liked how the lighting effects allowed the movie viewers to clearly see the faces of the characters. The scene showing the German soldiers climbing up the stairs towards Francesco’s apartment is not clearly lighted. I did not like the lighting effect on the scene. The light should be brighter. It is possible the film director intentionally used lesser light in order to emphasize or enhance the movie’s sadness, darkness, or despair element of the story. Further, I liked the dim lighting of the room of showing Francesco, Pina, and Giorgio are conversing. The lamp shade used in the apartment scene where Pina, Francesco, and Giorgio were conversing affirms that the room was intentionally lighted dim to avoid being noticed by the prying eyes of the German soldiers roaming the streets of Rome. I liked how the movie shows the soldiers focused on searching and arresting the members of the resistance movement. I definitely liked how the dimly lighted scenes create a romantic atmosphere between the lovers, Pina and Francesco during the lovers’ happy apartment moments. Likewise, I liked how the lighting turns brighter to show Pina’s scared face as she rushes to inform both Francesco and Giorgio that the German Soldiers are climbing the stairs towards their apartment to capture Giorgio and Francesco. Furthermore, I liked the scene where Don Prieto is seen watching the boys play a ball game shows the daylight is too bright for the scene. The lightning espouses that the game was possibly done at high noon or between 10:00 in the morning and 2:00 in the afternoon. I also liked the scene showing the German soldiers singing as they proudly parade through the streets with their guns snugly placed on their shoulders is darkly lighted. Film Tone I liked the movie tones (Rossellini, 1). One of the movie tones is the sadness of the consequence of war. The movie shows many of the main characters die. In the movie, the German officer shot to death Don Prieto. The German soldiers tortured to death Giorgio. I disliked the scene where the German Soldiers shot to death Pina as she tried to run towards the arrested Francesco. I prefer Pina survive as the movie ends. I liked how the move favorably shows how the resistance fighters were able to rescue Francesco before the German soldiers could possibly execute or torture Francesco. Further, I liked the martyrdom movie tone. The movie clearly shows how Giorgio, Pina and Francesco favorably contributed their own unique share to free Rome from fascism and the German army’s control. The movie perfectly displays how Don Prieto favorably helped the underground movement by hiding the resistance fighters. Furthermore, I liked how the movie tone focuses on hope. The scenes favorably bring an impression on the movie audiences that there is hope for the downtrodden people of Rome. The resistance fighter scenes create an impression on the movie audiences that they are willing to gamble with their lives for the sake of freedom. the movie perfectly shows how resistance fighters Giorgio, Francesco, Pina and Don Prieto died fighting for the day when Rome will finally be free of the fascist leaders and German invaders’ control. Sound Additionally, I disliked the French movie sound (Rossellini, 1). Another English version should be distributed to the non-Italian movie audiences. The movie audiences cannot understand the Italian words uttered by the Italian actors and actresses. For the non-Italian movie viewers, I favorably liked the use of English subtitles. Hearing the Italian words uttered by the characters, I vividly liked the movie’s clearly voiced Italian sounds. I liked how the clear sounds enhance the overall movie scenes. Based on the above discussion, the three aspects of the film influenced me to accept the realities of war. The cameras’ perfectly time capturing of the movie scenes influenced me to eagerly watch the entire movie. The lighting effects of the movie influence me to empathize with the friends and relatives of the dead characters. The movie tones influence me to accept the concept that freedom comes with a price. The price may include the loss of human lives. Clearly, the film aspects influence me to accept the movie as a high quality work of art. Works Cited Rossellini, Robert. Rome Open City. Dir. Robert Rossellini. 1945. Read More