What I See

The film I decided to analyze for this assignment is Kill Bill. The reason I chose Kill Bill is not only because its awesome, but also because I feel like the lighting, the camera movements, and the sound of the film not only make the film that much more awesome, but they were done with much creativity. For me I felt like Kil Bill stands out from the average American fighting movie because of the techniques the cinemtographer used during production. I noticed how the lighting in the film was very bright and in most scenes the picture is very clear and the colors vivid. Whereas in the average fight movie the fighting scenes are dark and theres so much going on its hard to focus. In Kill Bill although the length of time between shots are sometimes very short the camera is always still and you can always clearly see what is happening. I feel like as a result of the quick changes between shots and the concise and steady camera movements (which are usually very subte and most times not moving at all) the audience can injest the intensity and the high emotion the character is feeing and really truly feel how passionate this woman is about killing these people! Another technique that worked well for this film was the lack of sound or music in some scenes. Whenever there was a fighting scene it would be realy quiet- no music- and all attention would be completely on what was taking place in the movie. The director and cinemotagrapher did an excellent job in not only keeping the style consistant throughout the movie, and creating something fresh and unique but also giving the film a certain "look" and "feel" not only with actors but with the camera as well.
Heres a clip of the movie so you can see what Im talking about:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDscluTJ540