Aqib's Film Studies Blog

Ridley Scott , (born November 30, 1937,  South Shields , Durham, England), and is a British film director and producer whose films were acclaimed for their visual style and rich details  [1].  Some of his most acclaimed titles include Blade Runner, Alien and Gladiator. Ridley Scott dedicated several of his films, including Blade Runner, to his deceased brother[4]. This may have influenced many of the themes of the film including how the replicants have a 4 year life span, to which after follows their death, directing to the fact that human beings in the real world have limited life and we all die eventually. Ridley Scott  sketched many of the Blade Runner's design concepts himself along with the help from  production designer  Lawrence G. Paull , ‘visual futurist’  Syd Mead,  art director  David L. Snyder and special effects wizards  Douglas Trumbull  and  Richard Yuricich . The team worked using old-school, pre-digital methods such as miniature tabletop models and matte

Mise-en-scene is the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing – lighting, actors décor, props, costume – it's called mise-en-scène which is a French term which means “placing on stage.” The frame and camerawork are also considered part of the mise-en-scène of a movie Cinematography   is t he art of photography and camerawork in film-making. In this shot we have Michael O'Hara who is enshrouded and surrounded in shadows due to the harsh key lighting that is cast upon him. This kind of lighting is used throughout film noir films as to allude to the mysterious nature of their character and plot.  The Lady of Shanghai also diverges from the visual styles of film noir by using key lighting in scenes that scatter and light up whole areas, creating less shadows (as show in the shots on the ); in this way it creates debate and question on whether it truly is a film noir. When looking at the mise-en-scene in the funhouse we see that w

References [1] http://www.worldswithoutend.com/resources_sub-genres.asp [2] http://www.scifiideas.com/writing-2/writing-advice/a-guide-to-science-fiction-subgenres/ [3] https://www.writing-world.com/sf/genres.shtml

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