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Assignment 2 How a Story Is Told Visually

Assignment 2 How a Story Is Told Visually

Q Choose either A Trip to the Moon or The Great Train Robbery and analyze how the story is told visually, with the new kinds of possibilities available with moving pictures. Be specific in your analysis by focusing on details from examples, and discussing how the film makes meaning with the language of film. Your written analysis should be a minimum of 300 words, but aim for around 300-400, the equivalent of a solid one typed page, double spaced in 10 or 12 font if we were using printed pages as our guideline

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For this assignment I have chosen ‘The Great Train Robbery’. This movie really stood up to the tenets of an action movie. There is innumerable action element the movie and the movie is known for its innovative visual techniques. The camera techniques, the pan shots, the locations and especially the scene where the robberies are taking place along with the violence and stunts were exceptionally exciting. The eleven-minute-long movie broke many long-standing stereotypes, one of them was the style of narrative. The narrative style of ‘The Great Train Robbery’ was complex and edits of the scene was done in an exceptionally innovative manner. Shots were cut and attached to be in sync with the ever-moving