Essays on Film Editing

Moulin Rouge (Luhrmann, 2001) attempts to capture a sense of liveness, presence, and immediacy similar to that provided by the stage musical or theatre performance through its use of cinematic verisimilitude, space, fourth wall breaks, close-ups and shots not typical to theatre, memory, and repetition....

When composers represent ideas about human experiences they do it in a variety of ways. A human experience is the mental, emotional, spiritual and physical characteristics of human life. When discussing human experiences in the film Inside Out, directed by Pete Docter, it represents many...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is a film that incorporates romance, drama and science fiction. It is based around a man in his middle age called Joel Barish who falls in love with a girl called Clementine Kruczynsk. Later their two years relationship started...

The movie Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King is the final installation of Peter Jackson’s trilogy based on books written by J.R.R Tolkien. Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King shows the final battle between the two armies, Aragorn’s army...

Throughout the film Whale Rider, Niki Caro has used many techniques to convey the themes and emotions in the film. The narration was one of the most effective techniques as it is clear to the viewer of the varying themes and emotions throughout. She has...

The Cove is an observatory-style documentary that follows a crew of anti-whaling activists in a bid to shut down the slaughters of innocent dolphins in a small town called Taiji in Japan. An observatory style documentary contains interviews, voice-over narration and a soundtrack, and instead...

The popularity of the movie industry has increased during the last century. According to IMDb, since the early 1920s, there has been an average of 2500 films produced each year around the world. This number has doubled in the past 10 years. Indeed, there was...

Audiovisual translation or AVT is a vast research field which has developed rapidly. Most of the work carried out in audiovisual translation studies focuses on interlingual subtitling, translation strategies, technical requirements and constraints. The present paper on the transfer of taboo language in audiovisual translation...

The Coen Brothers present their ideas of gender and Marxism through themes and characterisation in their comedic film The Big Lebowski. Jeff ‘The Dude’ Lebowski is a “loser” from Los Angeles who gets caught up in a conflict with a millionaire of the same name....

Super-Size me is a documentary film, direct by Morgan Spurlock, Morgan Spurlock is a person who did a rare social experiment, like eating a big amounts of McDonalds in thirty days. It’s a rare experiment that nobody thought of. This documentary will show us how...