Baz Luhrmann's Use Of Film Techniques In The Great Gatsby

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The film The Great Gatsby (2013) is a 2 time Oscar winning film, and the director, Baz Luhrmann, along with his production designer and wife Catherine Martin, envision and begin working together in the preproduction phase of the development of the film, which begins in February 2011, and takes over 22 months of development to begin the production phase. Additionally, postproduction includes final massive techniques from all phases involving the artistic cinematic production, and Luhrmann uses a combination of blue and green screen in filming and awards 590 photography shots to vendors, and the shooting location comes together through unparalleled final editing.
The theme in the preproduction of Great Gatsby is a 1920’s roaring art deco era and the graphic lead-in within the film contains strong art deco lines and displays 3 golden initials, “JG” (Jay Gatsby) that entwines with the upper levels graphics of the film shot frames and boarders. However, viewers may depict this shot detail as a symbolism of Gatsby’s (Leonardo DiCaprio) obsession and focus around Daisy’s (Carey Mulligan) dock light that …show more content…
Later, in the postproduction stage, the specific scenes are spliced together with the production shooting through editing. The photography shots consist of massive and various photography designs which establishes several of the film’s main film environments of the New York scenes. For example, the wild excessive party scenes, the New York City Plaza Hotel and Times Square scenes, and the grand wealthy Long Island environment of Gatsby’s and the Buchanan’s estates, along with and the remarkable Manhattan skyline landscapes. In fact, the film production shooting is shot on location in and around Australia, and therefore, Luhrmann recreates a New York environment projection to the
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