Apocalypse Now uses many film strategies to get across its main ideas and views. The main things that the director used to give the various effects were layered portraits and still-shots. These both gave the start of the movie a distinct visual effect.
The beginning of the movie was full of layered portraits. One of the shots was of a silent soldier lying on a bed and the other shot was a backdrop of a jungle. These were both translucent shots and layered on top of each other. This kind of made the effect that what was happening in the jungle shot was actually a bigger conflict that was trapped within the mind of the soldier. This perhaps shows how cluttered a soldiers mind can be when they are off and fighting in war.
The other aspect that is used is still-shots that are actually utilized in the background of the layered portraits. The still-shot is the backdrop of a jungle. The camera doesn't move at all. It just focuses on the one part of the jungle. As the movie progresses on, different things happen in this still-shot, like bombs and napalm going off. This gave the effect of how peaceful a landscape can be, and then suddenly, bombers come by and ravage the landscape. This shows how quickly things in Vietnam can change and how devastating the war is to the country.
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