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.

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Genre

cinimantic infuences