This German expressionist film directed by Robert Wiene has an interesting use of set design and colour.
It's colour use for the screen overtones interests me as it gives a different look to the usual black and white. Colours such as blue, teal and yellow were heavily used. Pink and bown were also used.
It's use of dialogue cards in-between shots gave a different look and feeling to the modern day films where it is all spoken. They also looked interesting, its almost if it is a piece of work art.
Covering some of the film made the audience focus on what is important, such as a persons face. Where we now have cameras that we can zoom in with. The creepy close ups made for a very eerie and odd atmosphere
The costumes where quite cool, the main characters having distinguishable looks from the crowd. the old guy, Dr. Caligari reminded me of DC's villain The Penguin.
The make up emphasizes the actors facial features and gave me a quite the Addams Family vibe (did the director take inspiration from this film or German expressionism for The Addams Family?)
The set design made the film look distorted and strange, which when paired with strange characters such as Caligari makes it look almost normal. Bold shadows and highlights elevated the strange angles and placements, creating an interesting world for the characters to interact with and on.
The music and atmospherically sounds that were paired with the shots sent chills down your spines, its creepy squeaks and high pitches sounded very strange.
There was some fantastic transitions between scenes, overall making the film look reasonably smooth as it told its tale of horror.
This film really built up the dramatic tensions and it was quite interesting to see how it was done without the use of the technology we have now. This film seems to mix theatrical acting with the use of cameras, therefor every movement is picked up and makes the scenes look more dramatic and visually interesting.
Overall a very interesting film visually and I may take inspiration from this for my stop-motion in semester 2.
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