Peter Jackson's Trademarks

" Once you go down a road, you take it through to the end."

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Peter Jackson, is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter and film producer. The Lovely Bones, King Kong, Heavenly Creatures and Bad Taste are just a few of Peter Jackson most well known films. But, his authentically outstanding job was with the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies. His filming techniques had a wide development and his style change was improved.

His camera angles and uses has been distinguished. Whenever you watch any of his films you will notice that with every scene there will be multiple camera shots of the same thing, Peter Jackson pays great attention to the detail forming a large variety of different viewpoints this genuinely enhances the viewing experience making it much more appealing to watch. This could be seen, for example, in one of the last scenes of Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, this is the scene where Aragorn is finally made king.

He uses these different camera angles to communicate key ideas to the audience. He actually uses a resource that is shown in Alfred Hitchcock films. A foreground shot, a panoramic shot of the character point of view and ends with the character reaction for what he sees. Likewise, he tends to show a panoramic view of the places in which the actions happen. Besides, his capacity of transforming a particular landscape into a magical world.

Illumination is a tool for this film director. Regarding whether it is in the beginning or the end of the film, the light turns darker or lighter depending if the hero wins . Miniatures and scales are a trademark and a beyond his time achievement. A significant progress in the special effects area and, marked the birth of his company, Weta Digital.

The use of scaling and forced perspective. Large and small doubles were used in certain scenes, while certain sets had duplicates and were built on different scales so that the characters would appear to be in their appropriate sizes.

He uses miniatures specially in The Lord of the Rings. Using a large camera that you have to get close, he uses miniatures specially in the Lord of the Rings saga. Weta Workshop Company coined the term “bigature” for 72 large miniatures that they made for the movies. The reason why they called it bigature is due to its extreme size, for a “miniature”.

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