Essay Example on Charlie Chaplin took an enormous risk when presenting his silent Film

The story went through many changes but because of Chaplin s choices of film edits sound effects music camera angles and shots each moment flowed into each other smoothly 

Charlie uses the classical style of silent films and although the audience couldn t hear what was going on there was enough written dialogues edits in the film to understand the story in its entirety Simple dialogues he would use are Wait for your change sir and You ll fight him What I love about the film is not only did he utilize the written dialogues in the story but he incorporated time lapse intertitles Intertitles he would show the audience were Night Afternoon Autumn etc Chaplin also utilized the effects of sound and music in his film by synchronizing the rhythm and sounds to follow the plot and the action of the main character the Tramp For example The rising action and the climax are paired with melodic high pitched sounds while the low actions are paired with melodic low pitched sounds in between the music he would play in each scene This helps to transmit the plot clearly and effectively to the audience In addition to the edits of the film and sound effects music Chaplin used different camera angles and shots and kept the camera stable throughout the entire film

The angle and shot i frequently saw were eye level angles and wide long camera shots I noticed the eye level angles would usually be used in scenes where the actors conveyed feelings of love excitement and or conflict The wide long camera shots were used in the film to express the mood the location of a scene and the physical conflict between certain characters Examples of a scene that uses both eye level angle and wide shot was the boxing scene This scene showed the physical conflict between the two characters in eye level while also evidently showing the place of where the fight took place inside a boxing arena Although there are cuts rather than zooms the feeling and the mood of a scene were transferred clearly to the audience with the different camera angles and shots In conclusion Charlie Chaplin's City Lights took me on a roller coaster ride of emotions from the thematic content and film edits to the sound effects music and finally to the camera angles and shots Throughout each downfall rising action and climax of the film Chaplin never failed to present his audience a film that would make them laugh cry and connect with the story without a hint of words being spoken Overall i can sincerely say City Lights was an amazing and endearing film to watch and I enjoyed every bit of it