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Discussing adaptations of Victorian craziness
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Discussing adaptations of Victorian craziness
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Close-up: This was a very effective element to use in this film when we first see Mr. Hyde's face. Having a close-up on his face as your first time seeing it makes the audience remember that face for the whole film especially because of how ugly it was.
I'm not sure what film term this is but in the part of the film right after he drinks the potion when the movie goes all crazy. This gives the audience an idea of what this potion was ding to the character and it makes the movie more interesting. It might be a motif.
Blocking: Using this strategy when Mr. Hyde was grabbing onto the bartender added a lot of suspense to the movie. It grabbed the audience's attention.
The movie uses lighting, proxemics, and point of view shots to help the audience feel the emotions of the film. The characters, in times of distress, are often in shadows. For example, when Dr. Jekyll first meets the character of Ivy, they both go into the shadows and the scene takes place at night. This makes the audience feel a sense of danger and foreshadows to the trouble they both will soon face. When Mr. Hyde is close to Ivy and choking her, the only thing the audience can notice is how close and suffocating he must feel to her. These proxemics add emotion to the scene and draw the audience into the story. The point of view shots to the dead animals in Dr. Jekyll's lab make us feel scared when we see what he is looking at and we finally understand how he feels and the reason for his experiments.
Low angle shot: when Jekyll first turns into Hyde, the camera shoots from a very low angle in order to give the monstrous and terrifying feel to this new character and clearly shows change in the character of Jekyll.
Dubbing: The scene when Jekyll takes the chemical and it goes to visuals of flowers and women. Its a freakish scene and is full of very strange sound effects and dubbing. It gives a terrifying effect.
Close up: when we see Hyde for the second time and he goes to look in the mirror and observes his evil side. He is pleased with it and it gives the viewer an up close encounter with Hyde that shows his evilness and scariness.
First, close-up used in this movie. In the film, after Dr. Jekyll drinking the poison, he went towards to the mirror. Now, there was a slose-up shot for Mr. Hyde's face. It told us Mr. Hyde looked like very diffrent from Dr. Jekyll, also we felt he was a evil man from his eyes.
Second, the music used in this movie. The same scene as I told before, after Dr. Jekyll drinking the poison, the music became hurry, strong and high. Using this kind of the backfround music made us felt frightened and indicated there was some terrible things happened.
Third, the lighting used in this film. it was still the same scene. When Mr. Hyde tried to stand up and walk towards to the mirror, he was in the shadow, we only can see a dark back in the film. That made the Mr. Hyde more mystery, also catched curiosity of the audience what did he look like.
Close up is the first term that comes to mind. The shot of Mr. Hyde's face after Jekyll's transformation allows you to see his new appearance. This introduces the viewer to Jekyll's evil side.
Anticipatory setup was also used in the movie when the camera turns to show Ivy's door to her house. The audience is just waiting for Hyde to enter.
There were many point of view shots in the movie as well. For example, whenever Hyde would grab Ivy you would see him from her perspective. This allowed the audience to experience what she was experiencing.
Not trying to be redundant, but close up was the first term I thought of too, especially the first time we see Hyde. You start to see that hidden deformity in the mirror, and just his overall apperance is startling.
The editing in this movie is a lot smoother than Frankenstein, and helps the audience flow with the movie better.
Also I think it's called abstract, when Jekyll drinks the potion and we see all the images fly across the screen during his transformation. It shows how he is going crazy inside.
First, the lighting of the film lets us feel the dreary and scary mood of the film especially when Mr. Hyde is outside in the city heading towards the play. Second, Closeup is used often to let us feel the emotions of the characters and lastly a low angle shot is used often with Hyde, especially when Jekyll first transforms so that we feel intimated by Hyde and scared of him.
proxemics: his movie worked with a lt of close ups showing the emotion in each character's face and particularly the evil in Hyde's face and nervousness in Dr. Jekyll's face.
dubbing: There is a lot of dubbing and it help us to fully understand what is going on in the scene (when dr.jekyll drank the potion)
lighting: the lighting sets the mood for each scene. There is darkness for Mr.Hyde and light for Beatrice.
close up:when Jekyll drank the potion,there is a serious of closes up about his face. we can see perspiration in his face and how painful he is and how powerful the potion is.
dubbing:the same scene. when he insisted on recording the reflections after drinking the potion, the music became strong. then,we feel fear scared and a little worried about him.
color:the whole lighting in the film is black,it let us feel thriller.
low-angle: there is a low-angle shot,when Dr.Jekyll is transforming to Mr.Hyde, he dreaming about he ride a coach and whip the horse,it emphasize Dr.Jekyll's real thought.
Dubbing: when he is dreaming, the backround's music was very strong,and it make the audience very nervous, and we know something will happened soon.
close up: after Dr.Jekyll became Mr.Hyde, he look at the mirror, we can se his emotion every clear, and we know how happy he is. because his experiment is very successful.
The lighting in the movie really sets the mood for each scene. There is almost always a lot of light when Jekyll is present and good natured, and the set is typically much darker when Hyde is in the shot.
Close ups are used to show us the difference between Jekyll and Hyde, immediately before and after he drinks the potion.
As Jekyll is transforming into Hyde, the director put some creepy shots of the women, flowers, and other strange images on the screen and dubbed odd voices and noises over it, trying to give the audience an idea of what is going on inside Jekyll as he is changing.
Low-Angle Shot- This is right before Hyde is about to kill. It gives us the sense that something bad is going to happen.
Close-Ups- When Jekyll is changing to Hyde and vise versa we get a great shot of his face to show the transformation.
I believe the term is Framing- Lots of times when Hyde would enter the scene he would be standing in a door way. Or as we saw in the end of the movie after he broke out the glass in his lab he was in the middle of the square.
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