Josh May Film Studies

 Pulp fiction (Tarantino, 1994) Close study of single film  Key elements of film form  context representation  Experimental film - additional specialist area  Key features - Fragmented narrative and narrative structures  - Experimental cinema encompasses a range of film  forms within this category, directors and films  - not all films within this category have all features  - resist cohesive narrative style - deliberately  Poses many challenges for the spectator who must work hard to put the overall narrative together  Often beginnings and endings are enigmatic - beginnings picking up from previous moments unknown to the spectator  Endings not leaving moral clarity or 'resolution'  Narrative  - At the extreme level experimental film can be a series of isolated 'moments' often impressions - like a painting  - it will be empty of a conventional plot and story  - It will resist creating characters with whom the...

 How far do your chosen films demonstrate the importance of visual and soundtrack cues in influencing spectator response?  No Country For Old Men (NCFOM) Captain fantastic (CF) Visual Cues are important in influencing the spectator, this is seen in the films of NCFOM and CF where the visual and soundtrack cues are used to influence the spectator in many different ways. creating a deeper meaning for both of the narratives explored in each film.  One example in CF is the scene in which we see Ben and his family having dinner with Harper and her family. where there are many visual cues influencing the spectator response. Ben and his family are juxtaposed to Harper and her family they present different ideals of society ben represents the ideas of anti establishment and anti capitalism, as he chooses to live different to the 'normal' American family he raises his children with his own ideals and teaches them through his own intuition. He presented the ideas of Chomsky and can...

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...