Cinematography: The Man Who Wasn't There

 Overall Look: In this film we are shown scenes of light and shadow; which casts a silhouette over the main character Ed Crane. When he stands in the doorway of the way of the bathroom. In which the only type of key lighting that we see is the two light scene in the bathroom. But, the interesting part of this film is that we see is light only given when its room full of people at a party. Or when Ed is cutting hair inside of the barber shop; in which the only light we see is coming from outside of the sun. Even sometimes during night shouts we see light casting over into Ed's bedroom window. I would also like to point out; there are also a lot of scenes that have lighting effect of chiaroscuro.

 











Images: For the most part there isn't too much of color or no color at all in this film. In which mostly everything is black and white. The reason I think; is to give it a neo-noir look, and not too mention there isn't much lighting when ever there are indoor scenes.



Shot Lengths: Threw out this film, I've seen long pauses of Ed looking into a gaze than; by having a wonderful time when he's at a work party for his wife. Even when it comes to having dinner with wife, and his friend Big Dave, he really doesn't want nothing to do with anyone. These lengths happen between one to two mins; like for when ed goes to the bank to help his friend and coworker Frank with barber show. As Frank is walking with personal banker to his office, the time slows down to cause sad effect. About the bank taking control of his shop.

Shot Types: I would like to say for most parts, there were different types, there was an over the head shot of the man from San Francisco who was talking about dry cleaning. As Ed was cutting the rest of the mans hair; or when ed was in the hospital, when the police and a doctor were trying to talk to him, which shows a close up and ed's pov on the bed. For most part we see scenes of medium shots of other actors standing in the background while the main actors tell there lines. But I only caught a few landscape or extreme wide shows of the Ed and his wife going to a family wedding, where it was taking place on a farm. Another important part is when Ed is in court for his friends death and his lawyer is telling the jury his case, there is a pov shot of  a jury looking from where there sitting.







Camera Angles: There was mostly a handful of different kinds of angles to choose from in this film, for the most part its not the type film. Where the camera is always moving from place to place; but over all I would like say there is an interesting part. Where ed is going to talk to is his friend dave about the money he had to give to someone, that he dave need for
his business. In turn dave finds out it was his good ed who wanted the money, so there's a fight breaking out in Dave's office and then ed grabs a knife used to cut tips off daves cigars. So ed stabs dave in the throat and in this moment we see ed's pov of dave dropping to floor gasping for air, but he can't, so he dies from choking on his own pool of blood.







Composition: For the most part there some scenes showing ed at a party with his wife, and shes showing to her husband the different kinds of people she works with a the store. For the most part it seems it only need when there was type event or what was going on the background of the film. I would like to point a few noticeable areas when I was seeing this film. When ed is goes upstairs to the stores piano department we can see birdy playing the piano with back facing as ed is moving close to see who is playing this tune.

 
  
    









Camera Movement: I would like to point out there is a lot camera movement; when ed is alone when he goes to meet the man from barber show about the dry cleaning offer. So as ed goes upstairs to the third of the apartment building. We can see the camera on jig shot panning from the ground level to the top floor where ed is greeted by the man. Or when ed is walking into a group of people when the camera is tracking him or called a dolly shout moving to right. Here's interesting one; having the camera mounted the bumper of the front of the car when the car is driving down the road.



Cinematography Style: For the most part of the film it had some similar types of noir films. There was a lot of light and shadow for the most part; which I think helped the scene of feelings of characters who are angry, sad, or to help the next the start of a new scene. But there's a few scenes of extreme closeups of faces when and having just one type of key lighting a room. Or having shown light from the sun coming threw the jail cell and casting the cells wall.