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Cinematography & Camera Techniques

The film White House down use's this close up angle to express to way she is feeling about seeing the helicopters fly over her house. The use of cinematography used her is a low angle shot, when she is looking up at the helicopters. By using these types of camera angles we can get a better view of the helicopters as they vastly approach the White House where the president can be put to safety. They use these types of camera angles because it shows the emotion a lot better while using a close up shot to express her excitement of seeing the helicopters fly over her house.

Throughout the helicopter journey to the White House the camera angles they mainly use is either tracking shot or a pan shot because it gives us a better view of the helicopters as they fly over to the White House, while looking at various

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different objects in Washington DC such as the Abraham Lincoln statue. They use these various tracking shots because most of the opening credits are in the helicopters so; they want the audience to get a good view of the helicopters due to the great tracking shot.

When the president of the United States is looking out of his helicopter window they use a close up angle on his face, while showing a reflection of what he is looking at which happens to be the Abraham Lincoln statue based in Washington DC. In my opinion I think the director has done this because as he looks out of his helicopter it could express how powerful he is and what he is charge of around his country. While they fly past the Abraham Lincoln statue it uses a pan shot to show how fastly the helicopters are moving through the sky and how low they are flying to see many things around Washington DC.

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Visual Effects & Colour Scheme

This colour scheme in the film white house down is used to show and early morning setting, when the president is being escorted to the white house.Also with these visual effects that they have used it shows a fade of the sunrise to express early morning and that they might have to escort the president quickly before more people get a view of the president of the united states.While they was editing the film white house down they have used CGI to make the helicopters look real as they fly really low, risking the life of the president of the United States.

Genre Conventions

This film genre is a Thriller / Action film because it involves quite a lot of gun fire and you do not know the person behind this crime until the end of the film.

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Narrative The story line of this film, White house down. Is based on a group of terrorist’s that attack the white house searching for the president and trying to let off a deadly nuclear missile that will start world war three but they do not only want to destroy the world they want millions of dollars before they let the president escape alive and un-harmed.To me this is a good story line that the director has chosen because it gives the film a good amount of intensity to know if the president will escape alive with his protector and if the terrorists will create world war three due to a nuclear missile.

Editing Techniques

Throughout this film thy have used a good amount of Editing Techniques to make a certain scene look better. For example they have used CGI to make the helicopters look real when they are flying at such a low altitude by doing this the director is making the president seem very powerful in this world so he can do whatever he wants. Another editing technique that

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they have used is the early morning setting to show a race against the sunrise so the president can get to safety before everyone wakes up and see’s the president’s transportation across the city.

Title Credit Design

The directors use of credits in this film, come in to the scene in an easy fade in and out motion as they do this transition to the screen it is not interfering with any of the helicopters so we can get a good view of the helicopters. The credits are also all put in block capitals and it is put in a very formal way to show the president is very formal and powerful due to his escorted rides across the city in the helicopters showing he is very good at what he does because he is well protected by his people due to his great presidential service in America.