Showing posts with label shooting smoke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shooting smoke. Show all posts

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Hollywood Goes Up in E Smoke? Does E Smoking Make A Difference in Movie Mood Making?

The above movie clip is from The Tourist, and features Johnny Depp smoking an e cigarette on a train. 
Hollywood movie makers use smoking heavily in movies since the first images were burned onto celluloid.  The vision of a man or woman lighting and smoking a cigarette is used to create a mood, pause a scene or help to tell us something about the character.  Does that change when the character is smoking an e cigarette?  Compare with the below movie scene classic. 
What do you think?


Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Setting A Mood: The Use of Smoke in Art


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Health concerns aside, the image of a person smoking always sets a mood. You see a feeling... you feel something tangible, often in a way you wouldn't if the smoke wasn't there, if the person wasn't obviously taking a time-out from his or her moment to reflect in a way a smoker does.

The smoke itself is part of the mood. It wafts and creates an otherworldly mist that seems to imply something more mysterious to the viewer.  No matter what you feel about smoking, and I will not argue the merits, the use of the cigarette in art, or the presence of smoke in a photo, is... well, mood- capturing.

Check out the examples below... what do you think?

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