Film Studies

  Themes Representation Contrasts Audience/Spectator Oppression Wikus (start of the film) Technology (Alien technology vs Human Technology   Corruption Wikus (end of the film) Human power vs Alien power   Aliens/Alien invasion  MNU (representing non-governmental organisations, NGO) Humans vs Humans (infighting, every man for themselves)   Human forces Nigerian gangsters     Integration       Gang warfare        

 Hurt Locker Conflicts: Inner conflicts - guilt from protagonist Inner Personal between JR + AM Iraq civil war International War Wars are known to cause PTSD from seeing death all around you &  life-changing traumas of a war zone, which is explored in The Hurt Locker.  Do I like the  soldier?: Yes: - Brave & courageous - Intelligent - Humorous in dangerous situations No: - Suspicious of all Iraq people - Pointing guns and shouting at innocent random people Hurt locker mixes Staged & directed footage with documentary style footage, when the Iraq man holding the phone is filmed with grainy low quality. "He's Down" scene: This scene shows that the soldiers all care about each other and ensuring they are all healthy together. The capri-sun is a metaphor for the soldiers regaining their innocence.  The scene is paced differently to make it more serious and show the suffering conditions they had to work in to protect...

 Film form: - Mise-en-scene - Cinematography - Editing - Performance - Sound Gold rush: - Static cameras as cameras were huge and heavy - Extreme long shots were made using miniature models - Close ups for intimate scenes (bread dancing scene)          Used to exaggerate emotions -Ignored by society because he is poor and cant afford new and expensive clothes and wears a bag on his foot. - Jack wears a uniform to convey toughness and is very tall. - Proxemics between Tramp and Jack shows the distance between the low class and high class people. Vertigo: - Dolly zoon connotes confusion - Scotty's nightmare sequence looks unnerving as it is composed in the center with lines all pointing to his head - Green is conveyed with madeilline. Judy is blacked out as it shows that maddeleine is the only one that Scotty cares about. - Montage is put together to convey different meanings such as everything Scotty is worrying about - Red= lust, love, passion. When Scotty ...

Key theme throughout all 3 films is conflict. Film form Cinematography Mise-en-scne Camera work     - Shot types     - Movements     - Angles Cinematic technique of freezing to create dramatic effect Sound     Realism from diegetic sound     After the bombing, the director wanted you to feel sorry for Algerians by using non-diegetic sound. The film is new-real style as it shows the events after the bombing and the rioting. Battle of Algiers     The films is about political and social struggles. Saadi Yacef was the Algerian revolutionary leader who fought for his countries liberation from French colonial rule. French were known for not being kind to Algerians. Saadi also helped Gillo to create the 'Battle of Algiers'. Yacef starred as the revolutionary character. The film explores anti-colonial struggles from freedom fighters as Algeria did not want to be controlled by Colonized government. Algerian people are controlled by Fren...

Naturalism (Realism): - Its focus is on everyday aspects of life that are are mundane, boring or unspectacular. - Shots are more objective - Camera usually reflects human behaviour and movements by being placed at eye-level - Shots are often static on a tripod or with little movement - Lighting and composition feels open and random without added flair - Locations are usually real  - Focus of editing is on continuity - Music and audio is diegetic (coming from the story world) - Realism is a fundamental approach to filmmaking Italian Neo-realism:         No easy moral judgements         Not easily plotted         Documentary visual style         Exterior locations         Natural lighting         Conversational speech         Constructed to create a truth Formalism: - Considered classic Hollywood style. - Crea...

  AO2: Sound used to create aesthetic effects Film aesthetics Sound (parallel and contrapuntal), talk about connotations. Creating aesthetics using cinematography, mise-en-scene and editing Lighting Camera angles Camera shots Continuity editing Non-continuity editing Meaning: Genre Narrative Representation Spectator preferred or oppositional reading