Josh May Film Studies

Pale man scene - Pans labyrinth  Performance: The performance is relevant to understanding the scene    Her facial reactions show the fear but want to adventure as the reality she faces is harsh  we also see the concentration and drive to go even though she is scared of the unknown she shows that she is on edge by her facial expression and the way she is standing she shows wonder The way the pale man runs is slow and weird to show how old he is and how he has been asleep for ages she shows fear and danger through the way she looks and acts she shows wonder when she sees the key Cinematography - tracking back and in shots - fluid camera movements, multiple times - involves spectator - we align with Ofelia - Track right along the table - follows Ofelia's movements - she motivates camera movements - however, camera holds when she sees pale man - over the shoulder of Ofelia's perspective AMY  Apply one filmakers theory of documentary film you have studied to your ch...

  Explore how performance and mise-en-scene are used to enrich meaning in  City of god.  Make detailed reference to particular sequences in your answer. (20) In City of God the use of colour in the tender trio introduction scene is used to present the themes of power, poverty and conflict in the Favelas but with the tender trio they are represented but not in a negative way. The use of colours and lighting do this as it is heavily based on the colour yellow which is connoted with happiness, loyalty and honour. This presents the tender trio made up of shaggy, clipper and Goose, they all represent the loyalty they have to their people also living in the favela as when they rob the truck the audience still views them positively as they give to the people of the favela. The performance further emphasises this as when they go to play football with the younger children the reactions showed by them further portrays them as good and genuine people who care for their community. Th...

 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...