The Shawshank Redemption.

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JAGTAR SINGH GILL                                                                                    10YELLOW

The Shawshank Redemption

In this piece of coursework, I am going to be reviewing The Shaw Shank Redemption as part of my media coursework. The film was an adaptation of Stephan King’s 1982 novella called “Rita Hayworth and Shaw Shank Redemption.”  The Shaw Shank redemption was released in 1994 and was filmed in America, New England. The time span of the film is twenty years, from 1947 to 1967. The Shaw Shank redemption was nominated for seven academy awards but failed to win a single one. The director and screenwriter of the film was Frank Darabont. The film was more of a success in the box office than in the Cinemas. The two main characters in this film are Andy Dufresne who is played by Tim Robbins and the second main character is Ellis Redding (Red) who is played By Morgan Freeman. In 1947, a banker named Andy Dufresne was convicted of a double murder even though he persistently claimed his innocence. Andy was sentenced to prison for life, for each of the murders he was accused for at the Shawshank state prison. The film shows how Andy got on with his life in the prison.

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Camera Angles

In the Shawshank redemption, there were a lot of different camera angles used to create different effects. I think the best camera angles were used in the beginning when Andy and the other convicts reached the Shawshank state prison. This is because there were a variety of different angles used to give a little introduction to show what the prison actually looked like. The reason why I found that this part of the film’s camera angles were the best was because there was an aerial shot of the prison which immediately showed the boundaries of the prison. This ...

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