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Close Encounters of the Third Kind : First Contact

Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) is sent to investigate power outages but experiences something strange on his way.

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Film Language

ambient sound , chase sequence, close-up, composite shot, crescendo, directional lighting, dolly in, establishing shot, extreme long shot, eyeline match, framing, high angle, intertextuality, leitmotif (sound), lighting, location, long shot, low angle, medium shot, miniature, mise-en-scene, music, diegetic, music, nondiegetic, natural lighting, over the shoulder shot, prop, reaction shot, reverse angle, shallow focus, side lighting, sound editing, sound effects, sound mixing, special effects, suspense, tilt, traveling shot

Diversity in Media Representation

LGBTQ: Cisgender Female, LGBTQ: Cisgender Male, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Man, LGBTQ: Heterosexual Woman, White: White American

"First Contact" in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Directed by Steven Spielberg, Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips Productions, 1977, Kinolab, https://kinolab.org/FilmClip.php?id=3392

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