Film Studies A Level

Beginning scene: Focus points: A: Italian Neo Realism: Showing real life's injustices * Raw and authentic realness, I * Medium wide shots rather than closeups. * Unexpected and shocking deaths and ambiguous endings B: French New wave Movement - creating the authenticity of life in Post-war Europe * Natural lighting *Spontaneous plot * Casual, irreverent ( lacking proper respect or seriousness)   humor * Frank approach to sexuality * Jumpcuts * Characters talking directly to the camera C: Czech New wave Movement: * The films often shared a common sense of humour, absurdity, pathos, and sometimes startling surrealism Beginning scene: - Pattern of high notes creating an eerie atmosphere, Non-diegetic. -Panning the bedroom of the patients, including midshots of them sleeping in their beds. The spectator feels as if they are intruding on the scene and seeing the characters in their natural habbitat. Raw and authentic like Italian Neo realism. -Nurse Ratched enters c...

kapedia has much more wealth of material at his disposal whereas kim longinotto has a much more finite amount of material from which to choose. Kapedia has selected all of his pieces of film that were pre-made and did not film any of his shots, giving it an unobtrusive and real feeling. You could therefore argue that like Longinotto he is observational. No country - Ideology -ideas of capitalism, showing the american wild west as developed and trapping people there -moss for example is trapped in a trailer park even though he should be achieving higher things -american ideology is flawed -No traditional hollywood narrative -No main characters to align with -The american dream does not exist/ has failed Pulp Fiction: Ways that Tarrantino is experimental: -making the spectator feel they are aligning with new characters -character illusions of power when the equilibrium suggests otherwise Fishtank: -Feminism in terms of ideology scenes: * Dance scene * Ending Yes she ...

-Self reflective filmmaker, so he makes the spectator aware of the film making process - self reflective filmmaker, so he makes the spectator aware of the film making process

Revenge narrative Narrative enigma, never resolved ambiguous conclusion 3 separate narratives Does not completely follow Todorov's theory however it is arguable that his theory applies to the mini narratives within the film A series of mini disruptions to the 5 act structure: 1) Narrative is an important element of Tarrantino's film,  Circular narrative - no resolution The spectator -Mise en scene 2)Todorov: Equilibrium theory - Doesn't follow the equilibrium Doesn't end with an equilibrium The spectator is aware that the apparent equilibrium at the end will be disrupted again when Vincent. -Low angle when they stand up to leave the diner -Panning -Centre frame two shot -Performance: they look smug and walk slowly to give a heroic impression, however this is undermined by the dramatic irony and the spectator's knowledge of Vincent eventual death -Spectator response: A contemporary audience may be unfamiliar with this narrative than a modern audienc...

Pulp Fiction: Post modern: lack of concrete substance - no obvious genre, no specific message. where there is no real meaning, messages and values: what it looks, sounds and tastes like. -Visual aesthetics blurred: combining the 50s, 60s and present day -Blurring genre conventions -Fragmentation of narrative - Intertextual references -Does not make any comments about society Narrative; -Episodic Pulp fiction resists todorov's narrative structure A series of mini disruptions to the 5 act structure -Has central protagonists -Jules finds spiritual humanity and survives, Vincent does not (is shot by butch) Fits Todorovian four act structure but challenges traditional hollywood 3 act structure Atypical protagonists and antagonists - representation of the maverick anti-hero Typically at the start of the film, cinematography introduces audience to setting. We don't have the establishing shot, close ups to introduce characters. Colour palette: Use of red/blac...

- The first scene is a flashback to her time being free, her memories / sense of freedom has been tainted by her experience as a mother. -Women are expected to be maternal however for some women this strips their freedom and desire to be independent and invest more time into her own self interest. - In performance, Eva widens her eyes in a brief moment of shock, her smile drops as she falls to the ground. This could be interpreted as if Eva is picturing herself in the dream, and in her memory she has become self aware, in reality she is a failed mother. First scene: Sinister eerie non-diegetic music is faintly heard in the background. - The recurring motif of the colour red represents that Evas whole outlook on the world has been altered by. -Long shot of the house splattered with red paint, represents how the neighborhood sees Eva as the perpetrator / everything has a communal hatred for her. - No dialogue, allows the spectator to focus on the Mise en scene. The basis of t...