Night of the Living Dead

     As I watched this film I found that tension was built up through a couple different ways. The first way thing I noticed, like in many movies, way that tension was built up through the music that was used throughout the movie. A lot of tense moments were accompanied by short repetitive themes that looped and grew with intensity after each repeat.
     The other more interesting tool, in my opinion, that I noticed was used to build tension was different types of camera angles and focal views. Many of the tense scenes had the camera at either an oblique angle, a low angle, or sometimes the shot was focused on some other stationary objects rather than the main characters in the scene. These camera angles gave a few different feels. I personally felt that any time the camera was at an oblique angle, it made it feel more like you as the viewer were a part of what was happening on screen. On the other hand I felt that the off centered shots, and low angle shots gave the feel of either someone who was spying on the scene or as a security camera observing the scene.
     Personally I felt that the low angled shots, and off centered shots were the most effective at building suspense. At times, I almost found scenes comical when the camera was up close because it was easier to see stunts that weren't performed well. Like when Ben was supposed to be punching someone in the face and you clearly saw him swing at the guy's chest and miss by a good 3 inches if not more.

Bigger Than Life

      Throughout the movie the main character's transformation into a different person can be seen through a couple different ways. For starters you watch as the main character struggles to remember if/when he last took his pills. As this happens you witness him start to up the dosages of the prescription medication that he is taking. As the main character progressively takes more and more of the pills you notice a more drastic change in the both his personality and his relationships with his family. This can be seen when he starts ranting at the parent-teacher conference about the problems with today's youths without a single care about what his audience thinks about his opinions. No matter how shocking they may be.
       A drastic change in his relationships with his family is also seen. The main character's relationship grows tense between he and his wife as he increases the dosages of Cortisone. Eventually he gets to the point where he writes her off all together stating that he sees their relationship as that of a divorced couple and the only reason he stays around is for their son.
      Throughout this film you watch as the main character starts out living a normal life up until he is diagnosed and prescribed Cortisone pills. After his start of cortisone you witness slight quirks that start popping up in his daily life and routine. Before you know it, the main character is nowhere near the same personality as the man that was introduced at the start of the film.

His Girl Friday

     Throughout this film there is a clear battle of the sexes that can be seen in the dialogue that is used between the characters. Hildy is working in a predominately male workplace where she is one of the few woman who are respected enough by the men in the company. There are multiple times throughout the movie where when try to cut Hildy off  or manipulate her with their words because of the status as a male in society. Even though they all respect Hildy as a writer they still see her as a woman that can be manipulated.
    This can also be seen the couple of times a woman other than Hildy comes into the scene and tries to make a point. When this happen the men in the room quickly shut they down and won't let them get a single word in no matter what. No matter how important the information the woman is trying to get across is, the men keep shutting her out with their words. Hildy is the only one that can get the men of the film to shut up and listen, but there are still a couple times where another man has to come to her rescue to back her up because even though she has some respect she is still a woman in their eyes.
     In this movie it is shown through the dialogue given to men and woman how each sex stood up in their role in society. The men always dominated. Even if a woman moved up enough to earn some respect she still was seen as weaker and easily manipulated and therefore "needs saving" by some male character.