The Devil is in the Details

What is Told but Not Said

What the title above refers to is specifically the visual aspect of film. Images that tell the viewer about something without a character or narrator saying anything. For example, we as the viewers will notice something different such as the frame suddenly tilted at an angle.

Not to mention the placement of certain props, people, or

the camera in different spots.

 Sometimes this is simply done for the sake of style. 

However GREAT films manipulate visual aspects in order to alter the story how they want it to be. One example of an alteration would be the dutch angle.

As seen here in Batman from 1966. 

For the purposes of the TV show Batman, the dutch angle was used to

 demonstrate the villains as crooked. Get it?

Different colors in the film also help sell the type of film you are about to watch. Going to see a summer blockbuster? Expect blue and orange color schemes

Pick a movie. Any movie.

So what is the point of all these tidbits? Well human beings tend to notice when certain things are different than how they were before.

If stuff is written here, you would think this was a quote or something pretty important.

Anything slightly off or unusual will catch our EYE. With the mindset that everything seen in the film has meaning,

• it's just as possible

1. to think that a difference in location or angle

will tell us something more about the stories or the characters in front of us.

Granted it does not always work or seem very OBVIOUS!!!!!!!!!! But the best ones are films that can pulls these off without you noticing them...just like a magician....