Raiders of the Lost ARK
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Filmic Techniques in Raiders of the Lost Ark
Indiana Jones :The Raiders of the Lost Ark is a Steven Spielberg film released in 1981. It is the tale of an Archeologist hired by the U.S. Government to find the Ark of the Covenant. In the paper I will dissect a sequence shot by shot, identifying different filimic techniques used throughout.
The first shot opens with a shot of the golden sun. The characters enter the screen from the off screen space to the left of the camera. The first shot of the characters is a medium long-shot, showing them from their knees up. The camera then zooms into a medium-close up of Indy (Harrison Ford), which lights up his face. Shot two is a long shot of the Golden Idol, the camera zooms in a short distance...