Film paper

(I want to finish my paper today. Going over my notes I took while watching the movie is helping me with writing the paper. I plan to watch the movie again(or at least try) and come up with a conclusion)


In this paper I would explain how lighting, setting, special effects and the style of acting is portrayed in the film Sunrise. The film came out in 1927 by F.M Murnau. It is the considered to be one of Murnau's best work because of it's cinematography techniques. Sunrise was the first and only film to win the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for best picture award in the category of "Artistic Quality of Production".
F.M Murnau wanted this movie to be powerful (as it is) he tied in human qualities, relationships, psychological issues and society. Sunrise relies on the visuals to show a story. Special effects such as superimposition is the scene in which the woman from the city was layered to appear above the husband, this represents the woman constantly invading the husbands manipulated mind. Her face in the sky reminds him of the evil scheme to kill his wife. While the husband is having his secret rondevous with his mistress. The music and Crosscutting technique is used to cut back and forth showing the woman in the fast paced, busy city, while the music in the back ground is exciting and loud. The camera shifts back to the wife who is home crying over the baby. The music is melancholic and low. The contrasting and constant back and forth shots of the "tramp" and his wife add to the adverse relationships that makes up the theme in the film.
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