Comparing BSR to Hollywood

Comparing BSR to Hollywood

At the end of the clip, in Fast and Furious there is a light palate in the scene when he is in the desert to connote that his life is relaxed and thus it tells a viewer that all the bad things from his life has passed. However, in the second clip of Fish Tank, at approximately 10 minutes, when she is walking down the road the lighting is quite dull as it is a cloudy day and so this tells an audience that her day is not being good since it isn't any bright around her. 

In the movie 'The Island', in this scene there are a lot of short takes as there is constant editing to make the scenes short. The director did this so that the viewer could see the constant action that is happening around and the viewer would also be able to see what the various characters are doing and thus keep the viewer excited. However, in a scene of 'Meantime', there is a very long take of the people hanging around a broken washing machine. There is no editing in that scene as it goes on for around 2 minutes in the same position which connotes that they have very boring lives as the camera is only focussed in that specific scene.

In the first scene, the battle in Omaha Beach from the movie Saving Private Ryan, there is clearly very jerky movements in 9/10 of the shots that were shown. This is because the director wanted to portray more realism as there are bullets flying everywhere and soldiers rushing around from side to side. As a result, the use of the jerky camera movements shows that there is panic all-round and the director wants to get this panic and give it back to the audience.

In the second clip from 'Life is Sweet', there are no jerky movements as the camera is mostly still. This is to show the realism back in the 1990s as life was calm and there was no action happening at the time. Therefore, the use of a constantly still camera just shows how calm their life is compared to Saving Private Ryan.

The top scene is from 'Ultraviolet' and it is very clear that there is a lot of CGI involved in here which is typical of a Hollywood movie. CGI effects were used to portray a fake reality as the director wanted to exaggerate on the things that could be done with a motorbike and all other equipment that was used.  However, the CGI didn't work that well because the graphics used were quite bad but it still showed an unimaginable reality that could attract audiences.

In the second clip from the movie 'London kills me', there is very little to no CGI because it is a British Social Realism. It is one of the most rare things to find CGI on a BSR because the director wants to portray realism and not fake, unrealistic things.

In Hollywood movies, handheld cameras are quite uncommon as they instead of showing realism, they want to focus more on quality of the video so that the audience will enjoy it. Even if there are very small examples of handheld camera shots in Hollywood films, it is mostly common to have still cameras. 

In BSR, handheld cameras are quite common, which is seen in this example of this scene on Fish Tank. This is because the director wants to give the audience the idea of following the character so that the audience can see what the character is seeing and so adds an idea of realism to the audience for they are able to have the same perspective as the followed character.