Film studies

  City Of God Openening scene analysis Through photography, mise-en-scene, sound, and editing, City Of God conveys the concepts of disorder and anarchy in the favella to the audience. This is demonstrated in the first scene, when the gang is chasing the chicken. The first thing we see in the movie, for example, is a knife being sharpened against a stone. Knives are normally hazardous things, and the fact that it is being sharpened against a stone suggests a barbaric lifestyle: this is foreshadowing Lil Z's brutal lifestyle, which he imposes on his gang through proxy. This quickly builds suspense and makes the spectator question the characters' motives. The editing heightens the suspense by using almost whiplash-inducing, flashing cuts between the knife and the dark screen, reinforcing the sense of urgency. Normally, a barbecue would be a joyful, tranquil, and familiar sight; but, the tight camera angles and fast cuts disrupt this. The sequence cuts back and forth between sever...

 How are the ideological themes in your chosen films resolved? Trainspotting Shaun of the dead Themes and issues to pick from in Shaun of the Dead... - social background Shaun lives with his best friend Ed and college friend Pete. Shaun's days usually end from him working to being in a pub called 'The Winchester'. He is usually there with his girlfriend Liz and her 2 close friends and flatmates, David and Dianne who he does not get along with. At the start of the film shaun's relationship with liz is on the ropes. - friendship Shaun is very close friends with Ed. Together they are both childish and still act like they were young adults. Although he lives with Ed, you can see that shaun sightly wants to move on and 'grow up' as he is under the influence of his other housemate, Pete. Pete brings the mature side out of shun as he reminds shaun the he is old enough to look after himself and keeps telling him that he should let go of ed as ed is 'holding hi...

  Do you find the ending of the film to be satisfying resolution ?  Why ? I do find the ending to be satisfying, as i feel like the ending was very different and took a different turn from other movies in general or movies of this genre. One main difference was the fact that the main character Llewellyn Moss died when the film was building up to one big final duel between him and Anton Chigurh however, moss died off screen by people not even related to Chigurh and it was very anti climatic. As well as this happening, there was another difference, because this death should of led to Sheriff En Tom bell taking over as the main hero figure. However, he didn't and he decided to step down from being in the law. This was because all this .new wave' of crime wasn't suited to him

Narrative Feature  protagonist - what information do we find out? How is it conveyed?  Example Unusually, we don’t see the protagonist’s face until the dream section… and then we aren’t sure if this is her, as we’ve only seen her shadow and fragmented body parts: hands, sandalled feet and eye. Creates mystery from the start. What can we tell about her from the first 5 mins?  My Example What can we tell about her from the first 5 mins?   Narrative feature Establishing other characters - what information do we find out? How is it conveyed?  Example The cloaked, mirror-faced figure is dressed similarly to the protagonist. Is this a dream reflection of her? There are also doubles of the protagonist - or are they the same person? The only other character is the male lover that awakens (or does he?). His behaviour is tender, suggesting intimacy. My Example Are all of the characters actually fragmented reflections of just one Narrative feature Establishing location ...

 How David Lynch uses film techniques to portray ordinary life as nightmarish? In the film, 'the grandmother' David lynch uses real life scenarios, but then twists and makes the situation very eerie and almost imaginary. For example, the first instance this happened in was when the child was born. He was born almost in a way that a plant grows, although the audience knows that he is a human and not a plant, this makes things kind of nightmarish as it seems like 2 scenarios, in this case being a child's birth and the growth of a plant, are combined together when they shouldn't be, and this sort of imaginary scenes would happen in ones dream. Another way this binding of a action and another action which are not related to each other is when the family are all on all 4's and are barking like dogs. Although it's meant to be scary, it seems on the whacky side of the spectrum, which is another reason why the film seems very nightmarish, because things are happeni...

 WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IN SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE PERSPECTIVE IN FILM MAKING? SUBJECTIVE - where the scene shows one person's emotion . OBJECTIVE - where the scene shows a group of peoples emotion, and shows whats going on in the scene as a whole. WHAT WAYS CAN A FILMMAKER IMMERSE YOU INTO ONE CHARACTERS PERSPECTIVE? They can do this by: -POV (point of view shot) -use of sound  -soundtrack -camera movements -colour/filters -close-ups -hallucinations/dreams -camera angles  -editing