Ellie Walton Film studies

Explore how a deeper analysis of cinematography and/or aesthetics techniques can deepen contextual understanding of your chosen film.  Anaylse 'City of God' with an emphasis on the narrative 'arc' of a key character. Prepare a powerpoint/blog  Refer to core specifically (and in detail) Research contextual issues and apply to your discussion Contextual issues: lots of poverty: poverty in Rio was really low. They show clips of the Runts and other characters bathing in dirty water because they live in the favela. None of the characters know life outside the favela so when Rocket goes to work at the newspaper agency he is becoming more positive because he's achieving his dreams. This also links to the theme of "no escapism" because even though he can't escape from the favela he can escape from following in his brothers footsteps. In the end scene Rocket has his camera and captures Melonhead being a corrupt cop.   Drugs was a massive theme thr

reflecting on the auteur theory: The power-point presentations allowed us to discuss the auteur theory and how different directors use it. This was beneficial because it allowed us all as a group to develop a deeper understanding of the auteur theory. Most of the groups were paired up with someone who based their presentation on a different director, but myself and Katie both based our presentation on Taratino and we thought that both being paired up and doing the same director was beneficial because we got a deeper understanding of how the auteur theory was used by Taratino and because we both presented our presentations to each other and we focused on different aspects. For example: Katie used videos to show where aspects of Taratino and where his theme vengeance was used throughout three films. on the other hand, I picked three films which were Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill and Reservoir Dogs and stated in detail how the auteur theory is used and links to each film. I think that both d

There is a constant shift between passive and active spectator shift because of the type of audience watching. a passive audience is someone who watches a film without questioning the messages and values that are being portrayed throughout. On the other hand a active audience will challenge the messages and values of the film.  The different responses to an independent film will vary depending on who is watching the film, because if there is someone watching the film who has been through a similar situation then they are more likely to connect with the film, where as someone who hasn't been in the situation they will question whether they are over exaggerating or not. The process of the film is a video and photographic documentation of daily lives of several families in Missouri Ozarks. The film is based around a 17 year old girl called Ree, who is portrayed as being a father figure for her younger siblings. This is shown when Ree teaches her younger brother and sister rig

Film Evaluation Within my film there was many advantages and disadvantages. Some of the advantages are that we managed to plan the film in the short space of time we were given and also we managed to edit the film to the best of our ability. We also kept the gerne of film throughtout but we added in aspects of comedy, because it will therefore be appropriate for a group of younger people because the horror wouldn’t score then too much. Some of the disadvantages of our film are the setting, the costuming and longer camera shots. The setting needs improving because the genre of the film is a horror but the setting doesn’t justify it because it is really light outside and we’re in a courtyard. To make the setting we could do it when it’s darker, winder and in a grave yard for example. This would improve the film because people would believe that something bad is going to happen because of the atmosphere. Pathetic fallacy would be used because it show the characters feelings and emotio

Ideas: The film will be set in a courtyard. The genre of film we would like to do is a thriller. Plot- we have the typical stupid girl called Holly , who is confused all the time, but she’s also the last one to die. We also have a hero called Brad to a certain extent because he saves Holly and he dies he dies because of you. The villain is called Tom and he wants revenge because either Holly or Brad killed his dad, but Tom doesn’t know who killed his dad but he’s willing to kill them both. Synopsis: Tom has flashbacks to his dads death and he has ideas of who killed his dad but he isn’t completely sure. Tom decided the only way he can get revenge is if he kills Brad and Holly. Holly and Brad are currently in a relationship and because Brad is in love with Holly and he thinks the only way he can declare his love is by saving Holly’s life. Tom chases Brad and holly through the yard his dad got shot in. Brad is in love with Holly so he wants to be a hero and save holly because it w

Prisoner A nalysis     In the scene from ‘Prisoner’ the camera at the beginning slowly zooms in, this is because it shows suspense because the camera is moving at a slow paste . The camera is filming from behind so therefore the focus will be on the ladies serving and the surrounding because we can't see the man's face. This makes is suspicious because the film is called prisoner and we can't see the prisoners face.    The lighting in the scene is low-key lighting because its dark outside so therefore the weather is bad and because its night time. The low-key lighting can also present the face that the man is the prisoner and because he was in prison it could present darkness because that’s what he's used too. At the start the only lighting there is from the café, this allows the audience that are watching it to focus on the café because it stands out from the rest of the picture. You can also see the reflection of the car but because the car isn’t