Media Analysis of Captain America The First Avenger Essay

Captain America: The First Avenger

Camera angles determine how an audience interacts with a character in a film they are watching. This makes shot angles and camera angles some of the most significant aspects of a production. The emotions a character is going through can be highlighted by having the camera focus on them. When they are vulnerable, the camera can focus on them from a high angle. Further, the kinds of cameras employed in the film are important since scenes are shot with different cameras and then edited together. In Captain America: The First Avenger, the emphasis is on the key viewpoints and elements so as to inspire different emotions in the audience. It is possible that a greater perception of space as portrayed in the film leads to the audience being better able to empathize with the film’s audience. This is especially true when you consider the fact that space orientation is a big part of the visual stimuli that make the film great. The orientation used by the film allows the audience to focus their attention on several aspects of the general space environment and this feeds how they feel about the situations the characters are in. Further, with more details about the environment being shown, the more information the audience is able to gather about the object. Context is a big part of how humans interpret events and situations (Lotman, 2016, 96).

In the film, Steve Rodgers tries several times to get enlisted by the army during the Second World War but he fails as he is sickly and skinny. Nevertheless, he eventually gets accepted into a super soldier defense wing and increases in size. It is evident from the production that special effects have been used to thin the character (Johnson). Further, as Captain America, Rodgers actions are highlighted mainly by the use of creative camera angles. The action takes place over a long period of time and the pace of the action is maintained by the production even as it takes place in scenes that were obviously hard to shoot. This was made possible by the film crew using motion picture cameras that can take shots in small bits for future editing.

Joe Johnston directed the film. From the results, it is clear that Marvel made the right decision in hiring him. Johnston has been on the director’s chair in many…