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Musical broadway: DVD & Blu-ray. 50 Best High School Movies. Cinema. Downloadable Movie Scripts, Screenplays and Transcripts. The Devil Wears Prada: Dangling Modifiers. This is the opening scene of this funny movie with excellent characters. I left the answers to the exercises on the blog post just to help you out, but of course you'll have to delete this information when you prepare the students' exercise sheets. This is the opening scene of the movie, with a great song. I prepared a lesson plan to practice dangling modifiers with visual input to contextualize the topic. These ladies are the main characters: Andrea and MirandaA.

Discuss the following questions with a partner: 1. Watch the movie segment and decide whether the following sentences have dangling modifiers. 1 - After getting dressed, Andrea kissed her boyfriend goodbye. 2 - Going to her job interview, the waitress handed Andrea a bagel for breakfast. 3 - While eating a sandwich, she took the subway to work. 4 - Surprised by the message the taxi driver sent, a lot of things had to be done in a hurry. 6 - Before reaching her office, nobody but her assistant talked to Miranda.

Films. Bend it like Beckham. [E-teach] Bend it like Beckham - London in film. The Grammar of TV and Film. Zoom. In zooming in the camera does not move; the lens is focussed down from a long-shot to a close-up whilst the picture is still being shown. The subject is magnified, and attention is concentrated on details previously invisible as the shot tightens (contrast tracking). It may be used to surprise the viewer. Zooming out reveals more of the scene (perhaps where a character is, or to whom he or she is speaking) as the shot widens.

Zooming in rapidly brings not only the subject but also the background hurtling towards the viewer, which can be disconcerting. Zooming in and then out creates an ugly 'yo-yo' effect. Following pan. Surveying pan. Tilt. Crab. Tracking (dollying). Hand-held camera. Process shot. Editing Techniques Cut. There is always a reason for a cut, and you should ask yourself what the reason is. Matched cut. Jump cut. Motivated cut. Cutting rate. Cutting rhythm. Cross-cut. Cutaway/cutaway shot (CA). Reaction shot. Insert/insert shot. Buffer shot (neutral shot). Wipe. Camera Angles. Camera angles and movements combine to create a sequence of images, just as words, word order and punctuation combine to make the meaning of a sentence. You need a straightforward set of key terms to describe them. Describing Shots When describing camera angles, or creating them yourself, you have to think about three important factors — The FRAMING or the LENGTH of shot — The ANGLE of the shot — If there is any MOVEMENT involved When describing different cinematic shots, different terms are used to indicate the amount of subject matter contained within a frame, how far away the camera is from the subject, and the perspective of the viewer.

Framing or Shot Length 1 . Extreme Long Shot This can be taken from as much as a quarter of a mile away, and is generally used as a scene-setting, establishing shot. The extreme long shot on the left is taken from a distance, but denotes a precise location - it might even connote all of the entertainment industry if used as the opening shot in a news story. Vodkaster : Take a Movie Shot - Extraits et scènes de films. The Social Network - Official Movie Site.