Dramatic Aspects Of The Film Super 8

            Dramatic Aspects Of The Film Super 8

   Through out the movie Super 8, I noticed a lot of examples from the dramatic point of view. In the movie, you see the characters trying to make a movie to enter the local film contest. They use makeup skills, wardrobe, pyrotechnics and props very well.

  When this happens, you hear them talk a lot about the production values, make up and camera angles. In one scene, they are trying to shoot Alice, and Joe at an old train station. As they are shooting, a train goes by and the camera crew of kids is yelling for them to get the scene for production value. By adding a train or something that would take a lot of money to order, or set up for your movie would be too much work for an amateur film like theirs. When they added the train crashes in the background, it really made the movie seem more professional. I thought that it would be very difficult for them to add that in  digitally because this movie was supposed to take place around the 1970’s era.

  The movie was very strong because they used makeup to make the zombies look truly dead. I thought that this compared to drama because when you are performing a play, you really need to accentuate their features to make them stand out. This movie was very sophisticated in this category of drama. I found that they used fake blood very well, and when they killed the zombie, it looked very real, just the zombie really died.

     I found the wardrobe to be very appropriate for each characters personality. When some one walked into the room, I could tell what their personality would be like just by looking at their outfit. For instance, the young boy Joe looked like he had an easy-going attitude. I could infer this, because he often ore baggy and neutral colored shirts. Usually easy going people fall under the radar and don’t generally stand out. This is why putting him in bright, or unique clothes would not make sense.

  When J.J. Abrams would use light pointed at the screen, it would create a very cool effect called a lens flare. They used this because it created an awesome picture in the end. I think this is like drama, because when they have plays on stage, they also use a lot of lights to make the actors and actresses stand out more. I thought that the usage of lights had resemblance between plays and movies.

This movie was a great to compare with other plays and aspects of live theatre. That’s why I chose the movie “Super 8” to review for the dramatic aspect of films.