Josh May Film Studies

60 marks - 30% short film 4-5 minutes - a narrative twist - a narrative which begins with an enigma - a narrative which establishes and develops a single character - a narrative which portrays a conflict between two central characters High maintenance Themes/ storytelling technical aesthetic effect - look medium pace uncomfortable sound hyperreal sound closeups designed to make you feel uncomfortable dull colours symmetrical love relations and how they are robotic narrative twist we never see them together in the same shit showing the distance between them

When and where is the film set ? How do you respond to this as a spectator? is anything anomalous? what is the genre?  Captain Fantastic Spectatorship and ideology - specialist area  Spectatorship  - passive - active  - dynamic interaction with film narrative  - reasons for the uniformity or diversity of response by different spectators  - preferred, negotiated, oppositional and aberrant readings] - the impact of different viewing conditions on response  - The analysis of narrative, visual, musical, performance, genre and auter cues   - Reception theory  Ideology: critique of american society  ewir - Liberalism/ progressivness  - Anti-establishment/ authority  - Liberal education - Power freedom (Noam Chomsky) - Questioning and rebelling against status Quo  - Being outside of the established system  - Ben cash  - Tradition and convention  - status Quo/ authority  - traditional education ...

Discuss how far your chosen films reflect aesthetic qualities associated with a particular film movement.  In both apprapodenise and man with a movie camera there are asthetic qualities that reflect different film movements and in this essay i will explore a few.  Roughly a third of the way through the film, Vertov uses a sequence involving trains and trams in order to celebrate communistic expansion and innovation in the Soviet Union. He praises this new technological advance via the use of muscular film making. The use of trains is a link to the lumiere brothers and how they presented real life through their work  and experimentation of different individual elements in film. This shows Vertov to be darring and a leader in the way of soviet montage. One of the ways this is most prevalent is through the use of split screen and a canted camera angle. This is reflective of the social hierarchy as the rich on the right get richer whilst the poor on the left g...

How has an ideological critical approach given you a deeper understanding of binary opposites in the narrative of your chosen film? The ideological approach, of feminism is presented in we need to talk about Kevin; also in Fish tank. we gain a deeper insight into this, through the understanding of binary oppositions. Presented through the narratives in the films. This idea is presented in We need to talk about Kevin. In the scene in which we see Eva playing with Kevin they both resent different emotions qualities. We see Eva presenting emotion trying to connect with Kevin; but in opposition to that we see Kevin being closed an emotionless. Showing no emotion on his face, we see the both through over the shoulder shots then a medium shot to show the both of them staring at each other. this presents them both as binary opposites as Eva is wearing brighter clothes and is large in comparison to Kevin who is wearing dark blue and is very small. their postures are different, Kevin is ...

Silent Cinema Realism Vs  Expressionism - This debate centres on wether film should be realist or an expressive medium - Should a filmmaker be concerned with representing the world as is e.g. documentary - or should a filmmaker regard the medium as a creative one in which the everyday world is transformed - in history this is all traced all the way to 1895-1902 in France - the lumbers conceived this view Film: Realist or expressive? This debate centres on whether film should be a 'realist' or an 'expressive' medium. In other words, should a filmmaker be concerned with representing the world as is-for example, in the manner of a documentary-or should a filmmaker regard the medium as a creative one in which the everyday world is transformed? The Lumiéres Brothers conceived of this new invention as one for recording found reality and in so doing encouraging the spectator to gaze freshly on a world that might otherwise be taken for granted. By contrast George Mél...

What if the sun disappeared for a hour What if the Uk was a feminist run state What if the germans won WW2 What if every time you are the universe and every-time a version of you dies a black hole is formed What if ben chebabo and mrs foster moved in together the sun slowly starts to fade as the sky is filled with red eternal darkness the earth starts to get colder as it looses all heat and life starts to die people try to find a way to survive without the sun all the scientists come together to create a way to survive global warming is reversing create heat lamps from the core of the earth to power the heat all the human made tech in space is transported along with the sun to a alien planet where there sun is dying so they stole earths By stealing their tech they go through all the reality to get back to earth where on this journey they see the earths creation but when they get back to earth it is 1000 years later as they went outside of time but they did not a...

discuss how aesthetic’s are used to communicate themes in City of god & Pand Labyrinth make references to specific sequences in your answer The use of sound helps to create meaning in pans labyrinth by giving the spectator a good idea of the feel of the scene. An example of a  scene where this is done is in the pale man scene. The use of the soundscape of the labyrinth this is the creepy noises in the background, this dissonance shows the audience that it is a old creepy place which is unwelcoming and has not been entered in a very long time. the way this is done is through the change of music from when she is in her bedroom to when she enters the labyrinth, it goes from quite and slow music to loud and fast music. This is then further emphasised by the foreboding noise that sounds as though it could be coming from the Pale man, by using the Asynchronous sound it helps to give them more interest by not letting them see it further emphasises the idea of the labyr...