Analysis of Movies
There are certain key elements that are required to be thoroughly researched and observed while watching a movie. Some of the notable key elements include the intended audience of the movie, key argument accounted in the movie for the interpretation of meanings and goal of the film. Movies are always thought of source of entertainment but there are lists of projects that are associated with the movie. It is important to observe and watch all the segments of a movie with a critical eye in order to understand the meanings and message of a movie (Elsaesse Buckland, 2002).
It is not an easy job to conclude that a movie fails or passes to transfer the intended meaning. There are some of the most important tools and stages that are important for the analysis of a movie. People who critique movies every now and then do not know much about the analysis of a movie. Analysis of a movie is more than the normal information that would be available on various mediums about the movie. A movie analyst needs to be more aware of the insight of the story with the help of his or her observation of many segments of a movie. Analysis of a movie needs to be brief and broad so that it can be easy for the viewers to rate the movie on the basis of complete analysis of the terms and segments of the movie (Elsaesse Buckland, 2002).
There are certain tools that movie analyst must have in order to analyze the broad spectrum and meaning of a movie. One of many notable tools required before starting to analyze is the wider screen video watch. It is important for a movie analyst to watch a movie on a cinematic screen in cinemas. There are many segments in a movie starting from a melodramatic sequence to many other segments including fighting sequence that are shot with continuous use of many of the purposes (Elsaesse Buckland, 2002).
Initials
The initials of the movie are the casting crew, directors, producers, associate director and producer, technical teams and other significant components of the movie. This part is considered to be a beginning point of a critical analysis of the movie. This part had a very profound significance in the critical acclaim for a movie and is regarded as in terms of the quick lead (lede) of a movie analysis.
Title and credentials
The most important part of the movie analysis of the movie is the title analysis. It is important for the analyst to search the purpose behind the title set for the movie so that the people or readers can easily understand the message of the movie. Moreover, credentials are another important aspect of movie. It is the task of a movie analyst to make sure that the credentials are perfectly mentioned and researched. The board of films gives tickets to the movie that helps in listing and grading of the movie for the year. In the movie analysis, it is required to give the idea of insight that most people are not aware about (Petri, 1993).
Movie critics tend to analyze movies in terms of their analysis of storyline and context to the background of cast and crew of the movie while others analyze the movie on the basis of screen and segmentation of the contents of movie. There can be as many methods as there are angle and linking of the team of the tasks for the movie.
Critical Eye
Critical evaluation is very necessary when it comes to an analysis of a movie. It is extremely important to research and have a critical eye to analyze something creative and effective like movies. There are list of departments that together work as a team and release a masterpiece. A movie analyst must be able to understand and evaluate whether the team worked according to the goal and mission or failed to achieve success in projecting the movie the way it has to be Asking questions regarding important aspects of the movie would be an easy to answer and analyze the movie in a perfect way. Critical eye also means to create a knowledgeable background of the movie before analyzing the key factors of the movie. It is important to enlist the important components and task that a team of movie would be doing and than rate it according to your critical acclaim. Not everyone can have the sense of critical analyzing the movie as it requires determination and a well knowledgeable background to evaluate the correct interpretation of the meanings of the movie. A movie analyst needs to observe the message of the movie through different perspective and angles of viewership.
Dialogue and Story Writing
The backbone of a good movie script is totally based upon the creative mind of screenwriters. Screen writers are not given much importance as the actors, directors and producers of a film. Movie analysts much profoundly observe the dialogue and story writing in order to critique the professional screenwriters of the movie. It is important that a movie analyst must be able to extract the main theme of the screen writing as to it is adapted from another script copy or it is created as an individually original story. The dialogues must be written according to the scenarios of the movie that could easily be understood by the actors. Dialogues will seemingly be sounding artificial and wordy if dialogues will not be written according the scenarios being projected in the movie. A critical sense is required to observe these important factors of the movie.
Moreover scriptwriting should be analyzed on the basis of contrives. Answering few questions will help in the analysis of the scrip writing of the movie. Here are some of the questions that will help (Siatras, Kotropoulos, Nikolaidis, 2008).
Does the story comprehend all the scenes to make the storyline more meaningful
Is there a lack of logical progression in the flow of scenes and dialogues
Does the dialogue sound honest
Sound, Camera and Action
Sound and cameras are often considered to be a responsibility of the technical team of a movie. The more the latest technology is used for the sound and camera shoot of the movie, the more it tends to gather recognition and sustain the better quality throughout the movie. Sound and camera techniques have the tendency to turn a usual scenic structure and design look million times different from a general scene of a movie. Similarly, sound of a movie makes it helpful for the audience to create the sense of interest within them as the background and sounds could express better screenshots and effects of the action sequences or suspense sequence in a movie.
Set designing and progression in pieces
The locations and set of background must be able to compliment the characters of the movie and the storyline. This responsibility is totally relied upon the cinematographers or director of photography. Even a minor lack in the proper atmosphere of the film would result in the deficiency of the movie. Movie analysis is not just based upon the analysis of the acting of different characters of the storyline but also the frames and the backgrounds that make the movie interesting. Movie analysts must be able to diagnose the problems in the color schemes of the costumes of the casting team to the color of the technological gadgets being used in a movie. Attention of a movie analyst is also required for the analysis of the set design and the sceneries projected in a movie. Use of a lights, contrast and shadows is able to distinguish the movie genre therefore it is also important to make note of the contrasts and schemes used in a movie. Lights, darkness, set design, scenery and costumes must be working together in one manner to create the mood of the scene of a storyline. It should be noted by the movie analyst that a good movie is one where the cinematography had been handled in way that it gives enhancement to a scene instead of overwhelming the scene (Petri, 1993). A movie analyst can ask himself these questions noted below at the time of the analysis of set design and cinematography
Does the contrast tend to merger the brightness and emotional effect of the scene
Does the set design include any distracting wall decoration that would lead the audience to focus on the background rather than the dialogues
Is there any object that does not really tend to be significantly present in the scene
Editing the counterparts
According to the professional critics, movies begin in an editing room. Sometimes, a movie which is given a lot of budget statistics and is framed accurately tends to fail the standard of a successful and meaningful movie when they are edited poorly. Editing of a movie means to edit those parts or scenes of the movie that could be potential enough to confuse the viewers. There is a possibility that a worth scene gets edit during editing resulting in a misleading or confusing editing of a movie. Professional and highly eligible editors must be assigned with the job of editing a movie because it is the most significant phase of a movie setting. Editing task could either demolish or make a movie turn into a blockbuster at the box office. A good edited movie is analyzed on the basis of editing that is invisible to the viewer. Editing of scenes is mostly needed when a character is in a conversation with another character of the movie or there is an action sequence. A movie analyst must be able to identify the flow between the scenes that are clearly a task of editor (Lders, 2009).
Directors Angle
Once the important and major features and key concepts have been profoundly analyzed, the next steps is to analyze the directors own taste and strategy to get the mission and goal of the movie to be fulfilled. Directors role is not limited to the shooting of the movie but the angle o the director comes in sight even in the ending motion of the movie when all the clues come together and helps the viewer of the movie to reveal the mystery in a flow. At the end of the movie, the credit goes to the director because a director is aware of skills, capacities and capabilities of the cast and crew of the movie. A movie analyst could easily analyze the directors angle of looking at the story line by juxtaposing with his present and past stylistic approach (Elsaesse Buckland, 2002). Following questions could be asked in order to analyze the role of the director in the movie
What are the common symbols and elements of the movie followed by the direction
What is the signature of the director in terms of familiar actors, dialogue and camera angle
What is the distinctive feature of the director in the movie to be analyzed
By answering the questions assigned to every proportion of the movie, the movie analysts can easily analyze different segments and key concepts of a movie. The criteria of analyzing discussed above for the analysis of a movie through the help of evaluation of every term and task can be better a criteria and method for the purpose of accurate and effective movie analysis. A movie analysis is successfully in only one case when the thorough or analysis of entire movie concludes the accurate and authentic interpretation of the movie along with logical argumentation. The movie analysis continues from the main title fragmenting interpretation, followed by the observation of the plot of the storyline and then critical evaluation of each and every part of the movie that will be central to your movie analysis (Siatras, Kotropoulos, Nikolaidis, 2008).
Concluding Remarks
On the basis of the criteria discussed above, it can be said that analysis of a movie is not an easy job and it could not be done on the basis of limited research. Movie analysis requires a great deal of research and a critical eye that is most important of the movie analysis. A single movie tends to create further trends of communication and association in a society. Thus it is important to make sure that the analysis of the movie is being done carefully and with effective observation of every key concept.
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