Austin Eldridge Film Studies

  Limitless Directed by Neil Burger and written by Leslie Nixon American science-fiction thriller film (2011) https://youtu.be/xP-ZwmCPB As Before change: After change:

Frolic 'N Mae       In this moment, the filmmakers relied on sound techniques to communicate the conflict between Frolic and Mae. The filmmakers used non-diegetic sound to prove this.      In this point of the story, Mae has been introduced as a girl that likes to draw and has her drawings come to life as 2D cardboard pieces. Mae was at a friend's birthday party only to be left out of the group, resulting in her drawing Frolic (her anger) on a piece of cardboard. Frolic gets out of control and multiplies itself with Mae chasing the Frolics in a garage. The Frolics fight Mae in the garage which has her fight against Frolic. This fight taking place within the garage has a soundtrack that emphasizes battle and conflict, but changes as Frolic captures Mae and takes over her body. The soundtrack gets progressively faster with the strings playing a slow glissando that stops as Mae is completely covered by Frolic.      The filmmakers used this sound technique to emphasize the catastro

 Austin Eldridge Rule of Thirds Eye Room Hyper-symmetrical (balance) Deep Space Composition In this camera shot, deep space composition is used to show that they are meeting in the hallway and the camera can display the two at a small distance away from each other. The audience can also figure out that something will happen as the camera is put at an ominous angle behind Aiden's shoulder. This style of the shot can also look western almost.