Film Techniques

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The paper discusses how the techniques of close framing, rapid editing and ranging cameras are the basis of David Bordwell's filming styles of the modern age. The paper illustrates how in this manner, the film "Fight Club," directed by David Fincher, helps to convey these exact techniques, which have become a staple in the Hollywood filming style. The paper portrays how through the various scenes of Jack's intensifying insanity, one can realize the depth and scope of the portrayal of insanity through the use of the camera. The paper shows how in this manner, the shooting techniques of modern film create the intensified continuity for audiences that Fincher intends in "Fight Club."

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"This film study will analyze the film techniques expressed by David Bordwell in relation to the film "Fight Club" (1999), directed by David Fincher. By analyzing the film technique concepts of "close framing", "rapid editing" and "the free-ranging camera," one can realize how these filming techniques abide within the film "Fight Club." By examining a series of scenes from this film, there is a sense of technique that Bordwell exemplifies in his analysis of "intensified continuity" in the modern filmmaking process. The use of "close framing" is an essential aspect of Bordwell's use of filming that abides in creating intensity of continuity in the extremely violent portrayal of Jack (Edward Norton) in "Fight Club," as a schizophrenic head case addicted to recovery groups."

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