The cinematography of Rise Of The Legend

                                                      Rise of the Legend 

This is a film content about a passionate hero who rescues the poor people that are suffering from the sinister forces step by step. In this action film, Roy Chow often uses a element of slow motion and recreates the perspective of character through the camera position. Some movements of a action represents clearly in a way that cinematography can enhance. For instance taking a slow motion to the action in a fight scene sometimes can make the audience notice the detail that they ignore in daily and realize the power that a hero possesses. Entirely the director uses different range of cinematography to depict a undaunted heroically biography of Wong Fei Hong.

  

In this action scene the director uses slow motion when the hero smashes stone, it may tries to drive people extremely focus on the expression of the hero and the strength that the hero has in order let the audience blend into the scene and experience the violent attack. Slow motion sometimes can emphasize the intensely powerful effort that the character puts in the fight. It shows a detail clearly about the moment when the column is smashed into little pieces, this helps the audience feel the powerful strength and read character’s hatred to the sinister forces.  

Camera angles can sometimes indicate psychological, moral, or political meanings in a film, as when victims are seen from above and oppressors from below,(Corrigan and White,112) This high angle slightly indicates a psychological meaning. The camera position is rising as when the poor masses are seen from below in a point of view of “god”. The camera slowly moves above from those people’s head to establish a crane shot to pretend something is looking down on them. This creates an intense mood around the scene and intelligently expresses the distress of the society in a excellence way. The high angle expresses the emotion of the Masses who are extremely indignant about the world and the suffering they are struggling with.

The director uses different camera distance to give us a great experience about the action. He uses close up of the actor’s foot or of the powerful action to express a magnificent act of heroism and an intense heartening scene. I discover that the director often develops a reverse close up shot when two characters are having conversation whereas the director of the Bird Man uses spinning shot when they are having conversation. As regards this content of action films I want to recommend that reverse close up establishes the intense emotion even outstanding whereas spinning shot can easily lose the character’s expression. In a reverse close up the audience can clearly receive the underlined message that shows on the character’s face and give the director the result he expected.

Works Cited

Rise of the Legend. Dir. Roy Chow. Edko Films, 2014. Film. 

Bird Man. Dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu. Regency Enterprises, 2014. Film.

Corrigan, Timothy and Patricia White. The Film Experience: An Introduction. Third Edition. New York: Bedford/St Martin’s, 2012. Print.