camera

Rating: 5/10 (28 April 2006)

The way Woody Allen used the camera to his advantage in the film added a lot to Annie Hall. When he directly addressed the camera as he was portraying his thoughts, it helped us understand what he was thinking. The other way he used it was to tell past stories. Both these ways added to the effect the movie had on the person watching it.
When Woody Allen stepped aside and talked directly to the camera and portrayed his thoughts about the scene at hand it helped me to understand what was going on. When he stepped back and addressed the camera it was like he was narrating the action going on to help us understand better. I thought this technique added a lot to the movie because the movie was all about his life and by addressing the camera we were able to hear his direct thoughts so it was like we were actually living his life. This technique really showed that the whole movie was about him because in every situation we got his perspective on it.
The second way he used the camera was to narrate past stories. This helped the plot out a lot because it showed us exactly what went on. We didn't have to listen to a story about Alvy Singer's past life; we could see it first hand and really experience it. By doing this we were able to understand his past a lot better then if we just heard him telling us about it. It also helped that he was in the background like a ghost narrating out what was going on in the scene. Between these two things we were able to get a very accurate picture of Alvy's past. So both these camera techniques that Woody Allen used to tell Alvy Singer's story were great ideas because they helped out a lot in the telling and understanding of the story line.