the scare crow

cinematigraphy 

• close ups
• framing

editing

• many cuts in dog scene
• cuts only used when needed

mise en scene

• adapting process

performence

• keatens smaller size
• very active
• romatic sutor

techques 

• layering of jokes
• kokes about size

repersentation

• class 
• marrage is mocked 
• women are eual

silent film 'one week'

cinematography

• close ups 
• framing 
• natural lighting 

editing 

• only when necessary 

mise en scene 

• creative props

performance 

• body language 
• neatens smaller size 
• exaggerated movement 
• Keaton plays a suitor 

techniques

• use of phisical objectes
• dead pan expresstion
• breaking the 4th wall 
• intertexuality.

reprsentation

• marrage is more equal
• class 
• mocking police

performance 

• exaggerated movment
• body language
• keatens smaller size
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context

• slapstick
• post modernisum
• keaten got the idea from a new paper advert
• cubisum( art movment from the 20s)

Silent cinema

Realist 
This movement was about films being based in reality and shot and edited as closely to reality as possible. Director style almost didn't exist. the meaning is created by what is seen and not by the editing and cuts.  the realist films focused on the characters , issues and it would closely link with everyday problems.

Cinema of attraction
This really on the  audience reaction and the immediate experence  rather than any sort of narrative.

PAN'S LABYRINTH closing scene

Performance 

• Ofelia holds little brother really tightly 
• the captain is stumbling a lot
• when the captain is running after Ofelia they are both breathing out 
• he the captain is stumbling and looks very weak.
• when he runs in to the resistants he looks very relaxed as he knows he's going to die
• Mercedes is sitting over Ofelia dead body almost as a maternal figure
• Ofelia smiles just before she dies showing she gets what she wants. 

                                                                                                                                                         

cinematography 

• slight blue cold lightning 
• raw captain is hidden in the darkness a lot
• flame of face highlights his range
• the light is focused on the baby which highlights the time of hope
• bright lighting and gold foreshadows foils fate
• opposing characters faces are never in the same shot

Pans Labyrinth Opening scene

cinematography

• camera pans a lot 
• camera movements is disorienting
• shooting shot of the Ofelia dying
• zooms into to her eye to show the story from her perspective 
•  introduction of the captain is from a high angle

Editing 

• opening shot is reversed 
• fades give the story a dream like feeling
• minimal cuts
• fades into the past
• cuts through objects 

lighting

• harsh blue light makes it feel like a fairy tale
• warm brown lights makes its used for the real world
• misty 
• the bright lighting used at some points gives a sense of hope

sound

• humming lula bye 
• heavy breathing
• very dream like

mise en scene 

• the first sequence is very strange looking 
• the captains watch show that he is a very orderly man and it also highlights the relationship he had with his father.

city of god: closing scene

City of god: opening

Cinematography and lighting 

• opening images a of a knife  which give the audience an idea of violence 
• the first image of lil ze is an uncountable close up of him screaming which make you dislike him straight away.
• most of the sequence is very tight and claustrophobic  
• the sequence is shot hand held which makes it much more chaotic 
• all the shots are very low with only seeing a few shots of the people faces but they are stiff very distorted 
• everything slows down when rocket is shown is a long shot that lasts more than 2 seconds.
• not much sky very dark and a lot of shadows are seen with a very grey palette
• there's a 360 tun with that camera that takes the scene right the sixties where there is a lot more brighter.

editing 

• very quick editing that immediately  sets the tone for the film
• kinetic editing
• as soon as we see rocket the fast editing stops and more traditionally editing  techniques  are used
• slow motion is used when rocket is see lil ze showing him as a threat.
• freeze frames are used to give a slight break from the narrative to allow Rocket narration to explain something
• 360 fade into the past

mise en scene 

• a lot of the unnecessary shots of guns 
• lack of sky 
• dimly lit and when the flash back comes its much brighter
• knives and guns are used sets the tone of the film
• bowl of chicken blood also gives an idea of the themes of this film

sound 

• first sound heard is knife 
• vibrant Latin pop contrasts the narrative 
• music stops when you see rocket 
• the noise of the camera and guns match up in certain parts.
• mostly diegetic music

Ideology 

• chicken tries to escape but fails , which foreshadows some character that try to do the same.
• there is some corruption  shown through the police  
• themes of violence and revenge are shown
• in the flash backs you see the older hoods that are much more playful and what they're doing isn't shown to be morally terrible
• themes of poverty is shown as these characters run through the slums

my short film

Natrrative

The short will follow me as the main character. The story is about the slow transition   into madness of this character. The story begins in an alleyway with the main character buying drugs from someone. The dealer has a toy in is left pocket and for some reason the main character feels attracted to it a for some reason. He asked the dealer if he can buy it. The dealer says no. The lead then goes on offer everything in his pocket and the dealer takes it. He gives it a longing gaze. All of a sudden, he wants to kill a spider on the floor which he thinks is strange because he’s never really had the edge to do something like that. After he does it he acts a bit confused but doesn’t think much of it.

Later the main character takes the toy home and is mesmerised by this toy and doesn’t understand what it is. His brother comes and asked him what’s going on with him. He refuses to reply. He staring at the figure for hours wonder what the problem is. 

He then goes to wait outside a corner shop. He waiting for someone to leave their dog. This eventually happens so he then goes to take it to an isolated area with a knife. He wants to kill it but he hesitates to do it. It is left ambiguous to if he did it or not. The next sense our main character is alone, shouting and going through a range of emotions. then he takes a knife and then thinks about killing himself and then looks at his brother sleeping. It cuts again before he does anything. We then see him waking up in his bed. he goes see his brother has disappeared . He believes that everything that happened was just a dream.  Everything is all normal in his head like nothing has happened . then it cuts  to his brother in the shower with blood pouring out of his neck.  with their mother descovering. we then see a letter mentioning how the main character is getting sent to a psychitatric hospital.

Characters

Genre

cinimantic infuences

Evaluative analysis

Evaluative analysis

About a girl

The film that had the biggest impact to me was about a girl. The film form element that had the most impact on me was the handheld documentary style. It creates a more close and personal connection with the main character and aligns the audience with her. The narrative of About a girl is mostly linier with flashbacks. The flash backs actually make up most of narrative. I like this idea a lot because its like the flashback fill in the gaps of narrative for it to make sense for the audience. The main protagonist of the story is the girl and she’s not exactly presented as a hero but not a villain as the audience is seeing the story though her point of view and we are meant to feel sympathy for her event based on what she does in end. The short is meant to have a more optimistic ending.

Curfew 

The thing in this short that influenced me the most was how the characters are developed though out the story in a way that really help connect with them in a short period of time. The lack of dialogue in certain scenes can give the audience so much for the narrative just based on what is seen. The protagonist of the story is Richie. The first scene of the short is him trying to call himself so the audience feels sympathy for him and makes a connection. When you meet his sister, she seems so against him looking after her daughter s we think that he may have done something terrible for her to react like that. We find out that he dropped her as a baby and the situation is made light with Sophia (the daughter) laughing. the main binary opposites presented in the story would be Richie and Maggie (his sister). She is just shown to hate him for possibly having a drug problem.

Wasp

The Gunfighter 

connect

short film: curfew

Curfew was A very traditional type of family film that follows a semi normal structure but through some of the film form technique it is able to allow the audience to connect the all the charters on a really emotional level. It follow the main charter Richie who is who to have a really rough life. The first shot we see of him is him attempting to comit suicide. We're not directly told why but we can see from the virtual and some dialogue, that he may have had a problem with drugs in the past. His sister calls him up and asks him to look after her daughter. she mention how is this is an emergenncy and that she wouldn't do this if she truly had no options.  The mother and daughter are both shown not to have a close relationship.  

Initial ideas for short film

• My film will follow me as the main character shown  with a mixture of close ups and mid shots.
• I want to add a conflict to the narrtive but I want it to be very small and possibly a narrative twist
• It will be a documentary style with it mainly shot handheld with my character talking into the camera
• I want the story to be of me giving a monologue about my life, the shortness of life existentialism. this is going to be intercut with shots of me doing everday things  
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The godfather part 2 scene analysis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rcv-njj3Y 2;46 

  

This is the final scene of the godfather part 2. It is a flash back scene from before the events of the first film. Its Vito's birthday which happens to be the same day as Pearl Harbor. All of  vito children are here and its one of the only times you see them having fun and not talking about family business.  

  

 Mise en scene  

• Michael's hair for the majority of the second film is greased back like his fathers which represents him becoming the new godfather but in this scene his hair isn't because at the time he was staying away from the family business. 
• Michael and Connie are both wearing brighter clothes compared to the other siblings which is possibly done because at the time have are most disconnected from the family businesses and the haven't been drawn to the darkness. 
• most of the characters faces are very dimly lit with the shadows covering half e their face except Michaels which is well lit and bright which highlights his innocence's. Copploa uses this approach in apocalypse now. 

Cinematography 

  

• Michael is left alone when his family greets their father and you also see him alone in the modern day which show not much has changed in his life becoming don. he still feels isolated. 
• Michael is the only one on his side of the table 
• the clips when he's alone in the garden he’s remembering the importance of family with the flashback and a really brief bit with him and his son together. The reason he would need reminding of this would be because the terrible things he does to his family in this film 
• the scene begins with a fade in which shows it's a flashback 

This scene really highlights how Michael is complete disconnected from the family. He is known for doing his own things and not living under his family's shadow. His father and Sonny believe to fight for some people that you don’t know is stupid but Michael thinks its the right thing to do , to fight for your country which is a very noble and honorable why to think. This is why its such a big change in character  when Michael becomes such an evil man in the second film. 

  

links to apocalyes now  

  

• coppola uses a lot of shadows in all his films to highlight the good and evil within a person. in apocalypse now this is most prominent in the scene where Willard and Curzts first meet. in the godfather part 2 you can see this technique being used whenever Michael has someone killed or is acting aggressive  
• coppola gravitates to having a sort of antihero as the protagonist. Michael and Willard are similar in that way. you can say that they are good people in the beginning but the lose them self's with  both their lives  going in ways the couldn't expect or even in a way that they didn’t as they both have to do some really questionable things in their own films.