Looking at Movies Reflection Discussion Post

 Cinematic language are the tools and techniques in which filmmakers use to express a meaning through film. These techniques include but are not limited to editing, mise-en-scene, lighting, sound and more. These approaches all add to the construction of a film and its significance. For example, if a filmmaker wants a scary outside shot, the setting could be in the woods, the lighting would be dark, a beam of moonlight with owls hooing and wind brushing old trees together. This will grant the filmmaker's audience with a feeling of fear that he/she wants to convey. This is important to the ways that movies communicate with viewers because what gives the film sense is portrayed upon how the audience view and obtain from it. This means that filmmakers must use the right techniques of cinematic language in each shot to communicate what they want the viewers to receive. Using the previous example, for that filmmaker to convey a scary scene, they can use sound, but it is knowing what type of sound best fits the meaning of the shot. With taking sounds and breaking it down further and being that the setting is in the woods the best choice of sound would be animals. Now they would have to depict what animals match that setting, in this case it is best to use an owl's hoo rather than a blue jay's chirp. Therefore, cinematic language is important to the building of a film.