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The Gold Rush - Take 3 scenes from 'The Gold Rush' (1925) and analyse the micro elements of film form, identifying how these elements construct meaning. Scene 1 (8:23- 8:45) In this scene, the costumes of the characters link in with the characters personality quite well, for example, 'Big Jim's' costume is quite bulky with a large fur coat that can be intimidating at times. It's hard to tell if the outfits are meant to be colourful because the film is black and white, however the audience may decide if the character has a colourful or simplistic outfit based on their personality, however in this scene it seems that the colours of the outfits would be quite neutral or dark. The make up for this scene has to be quite dark to make sure it shows on camera so the cosmetics used on Chaplin is quite dark around the eyes to show that he might be exhausted and tired from his travels. The props in this scene look worn down and simplisti...

The Birth of a Nation presentation

Who are the Lumiere brothers? Louis   and Auguste Lumiere were pioneer contributors to the birth of film in 1895. Both of them attended the largest technical school in Lyon La Martiniere. Their father, Claude-Antoine Lumiere (1840-1911), ran a photographic firm and both brothers worked for him: Louis as a physicist and Auguste as a Manager. It wasn’t until their father retired in 1892 that the brothers began to create moving pictures. The Lumiere Bros were not the only ones to claim the title of the first cinematographers. The first scientific chronophotography devices developed by Eadweard Muybridge, Etienne-Jules Marey and Ottomar Anschutz in the 1880 were able to produce moving photographs, as was Thomas Edison’s Kinetoscope premiered in 1891. What were they famous for? The lumiere bros are well known by a lot of people for inventing the Cinematograph. The Lumieres held their first private screening of projected motion pictures in 1895. Thier first public screen...