Good Night and Good Luck

I very much enjoyed the movie about Edward R. Murrow, Good Night and Good Luck. I thought Clooney's cinematic choices such as having the whole film in black and white gave the movie a classic feel and added beauty to shots that would have been bland in color. The woman singer we hear ever so often throughout the movie helped add to this classic style and really set the mood for important scenes. I thought the sound work he did with some scenes was very effective. In certain scenes, we saw what was going on but we heard different sounds. In one of the scenes after a boardcast of Murrow's show, there is a lot of movement and craziness going on in the production room, however, all the noise drowns out and is replaced by the slow and melodic voice of the woman singer. In another scene where on of the company's men is being questioned about his affiliations with communism, we do not actually hear their conversation. Instead of the conversation in the movie, we hear the audio from the recording of the actual hearing of a Washington secretary in the 1950's. I thought this was done extremely well and served as a smooth transition for that historical information to be presented in the film. Overall, I believe that the cinematography of this film was exceptional. George Clooney made style choices that would not only make this film a classic but alsoproperly told the story of Edward R. Murrow.