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After watching and analyzing the action adventure film, Indiana Jones - “Kingdom of the Crystal Skull” (2008) and the Sci-Fi thriller, The Matrix (1999) many cinematic elements attracted my attention. With three very distinct and ingenious directors, (Spielberg and the Wachowskis siblings) these two films exemplified extraordinary uses of lighting, framing, editing and sound techniques unique to its own genre.

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People often wonder if they are given a fate or if they have free will to live their life however they want? There’s a lot of different stories and examples where the characters either have fate or free will. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, several events involving the witches, Banquo, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth show evidence that they are given their fate but have the power to fulfill it or not.

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Atticus is a Hero In Maycomb, Alabama, a white lawyer, Atticus Finch, is defending an innocent black man, Tom Robinson, for raping a white women, Mayella Ewell. This is a time of racism and hatred. Atticus has two children, Jem and Scout. Atticus Finch in Harper Lee’s

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The term Mise-en-Scene is used to signify the director’s control over what happens in the film frame. In English the phrase literally translates to “putting in the scene” (Bordwell, 2010a). ‘Night of the Hunter’ (Charles Laughton, 1955) is a prime example of a film that uses aspects of Mise-en-Scene to sway the audience’s opinions of characters and their understanding of narrative themes and to create a certain atmosphere in the film. “Although the fundamental aspects of Mise-en-Scene in both theatre and cinema are those of lighting, blocking and production design (costume, props and sets),

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Millions of people flock to the movie theater year after year on a quest to be entertained. Even a mediocre movie has the ability to take the audience to another place, escaping the realities of their own life, even if for just a few short hours. Some movies are simply pure entertainment. And then, there are those movies that provoke conversation long after the film has been viewed. Despite the popularity of the recent films The Hunger Games and Divergence, the dystopian theme in film is not a new one. The Matrix shows a society where humans exist without any freedom. The film, not only entertaining but thought provoking as well, paints a world with two different dimensions, a world very much like today’s when the film is closely examined. The Matrix questions the benefit of technology and influence over society.

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Millions of people flock to the movie theater year after year on a quest to be entertained. Even a mediocre movie has the ability to take the audience to another place, escaping the realities of their own life, if only for a mere two hours. Some movies are simply pure entertainment. And then, there are those movies that provoke conversation long after the film has been viewed. Dystopian themes are not new, and have historically provided a template to gage the course of human existence. The Matrix portrays a society where humans exist without freedom. The film is not only entertaining, but also thought provoking. It paints a world with two different dimensions, one with the mind numbing

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Machines that rule the world. Broken down, this is the fundamental building block of two major motion pictures released decades apart from one another. Although the two films have similar fundamentals, each film is different in technological ways. Because there is a difference of seventy-two years between the release of Metropolis (1927) and The Matrix (1999), there are bound to be some distinct differences between the two films. These differences spring from the roots of the film: the film stock, cinematography, and the editing processes.

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Cinematographers and art directors play a very important and creative role in film production. They work closely with the director and give a film its unique visual look and identity. The art director, David Lazan and cinematographer, Mauro Fiore, shot the film almost entirely in sequence, following the clock from the crack of dawn to a very dark night of reckoning. Compressing intense action and emotion into a brief time frame became one of their key challenges. They had to make sure the film felt like it was one single day unfolding which became the single biggest challenge during the production.

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The Matrix Written and directed by the Wachowski brothers, ‘The Matrix’ is a science fiction film, which was released in the year 1999. It was the first film to use the now famous camera technique of ‘bullet time’ and also introduced wirework martial arts into conventional cinemas. Its vision of the future is similar to other science fiction films such as ‘Men In Black’ with the agents always wearing sunglasses and the idea of man vs. machine\evil. In the opening sequence of the film, I am going to analyse the effects of different camera shots, as well as other factors, which engage the viewers’ interest.

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Topic: Thesis statement: Sequence analysis, film form and style as depicted in the film, The Matrix.

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This essay will be discussing how the pill scene from The Matrix (1999), creates the presentation of the characters and the story through the use of cinematography, Mis-en- scene, editing and soundtrack. These are all elements that comprise the material body of the film. Cinematography is defined by Brown (2016) as “the process of taking ideas, words, actions, emotional subtext, tone and all other forms of non-verbal communication and rendering them in visual terms”. During this scene, cinematography codes were used such as low angle shots, two shot, and extreme close-up shot, in order to create tension and uncertainty between the two characters. Through use of these codes the viewer is also able to be part of Neo’s journey as he makes a decision between the two pills as to whether or not to continue with his hero journey, to

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In places this was filmed using slow motion but some parts of the film needed to be done in 'bullet time photography.' This involved using computers and many cameras in different positions all set at different times. The complexity of using bullet time is shown by the fact that it uses almost 12 000 frames a second! The Matrix uses almost every kind of visual effect that existed before it's production, but basically took each one a step further.

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The film ‘Boy’ (2010) uses a range of techniques to construct an effective mise-en-scene. Taika Waititi (director) has been able to create aesthetically pleasing scenes to communicate to the audience about the setting, characters, story and themes. The sequence at the beginning of the film is an appropriate example of the good use of mise-en-scene.

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“Marijuana is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried, shredded leaves and flowers of Cannabis sativa—the hemp plant” (What is marijuana?) Researchers say, “Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in America, behind only alcohol and tobacco, and has been used by nearly 100 million Americans” (About Marijuana). “The main mind-altering chemical in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC” (Marijuana). Marijuana is not harmful to the human body; there has never been a known death because of marijuana. Marijuana is also known as; cannabis, weed, and pot. Why is marijuana illegal if it is far less dangerous than alcohol or tobacco? "The smoking of cannabis, even long-term, is not harmful to health. ... It would be reasonable

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Mise en Scene are used in every aspects of filmmaking. The term refers to the overall look and feel of

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