Film Studies A Level

Setting: Council housing Bleak colours, lifeless. Set, house, empty, basic, little furniture. The design is not modern or aesthetically pleasing. There is clutter Costume:  Mia wears: Tracksuit, golden chains, thick eye makeup, trainers, extremely casual, typical of lower class society. The mother wears Natural light Colour palette: greys and dismal colours Mia is in the dark outside the bedroom with dark blue colour and no lighting/very low key, she is hiding Natural light inside the bedroom, attention is drawn to this area within the frame, so that the audience focus on "" and Connor. Mia and Connor are both lit by the orange light and surrounded by darkness We feel the guilt for Mia as she waits outside Connor's house through the distance she is from them. There is no character the audience feel that they can side with. None of the characters are likeable Significant moment 1: Mia is vulnerable when Connor ca...

b. April 26, 1905, Paris, France. d. October 5, 1934, Paris, France. Of all cinema’s illustrious martyr figures, none is more romantic than Jean Vigo, poet  maudit  of ’30s French cinema, dead at 29 after a long struggle with tuberculosis, leaving a filmography that can be screened in just over three hours and which, during his lifetime, showed every sign of vanishing into oblivion. But the ethereal beauty and earthy anarchism that permeate his two masterpieces  Zero de conduite  (1933) and  L’Atalante  (1934) are still enveloping audiences in their hypnotic atmosphere today and leaving them sure in the knowledge that Vigo was more than a filmmaker – he was a moment in film history that will never be repeated. The son of noted militant anarchist Miguel Almereyda, who died in prison in suspicious circumstances in 1917, and Emily Clero, Vigo was born in an attic that was constantly swarming with cats like the barge ‘L’Atalante’ in his 1934 film. The ...

TELE: Term/technique Example Link Explain How does A Propos De Nice reflect the social, political, historical, institutional and technological context of its time? Technological and Institutional Context notes: Institutional: The business behind it Technologies: Evidence of his basic use of technology. How can we see that he did not have an extensive budget. Vigo stands apart from any cinematic tradition, a political and artistic rebel who lived and worked in poverty on the margins of the film industry. Institutionally, due to Vigo's  limited budget, he had to simplify his technological choices. Firstly, in terms of performance, Vigo largely included in the film, members of the public going about their daily lives rather than paid actors. By using ordinary people and choosing not to pay actors, or if not hiring very few actors, to work on the film, Vigo would have saved a significant sum of income. Secondly the setting of the film being Nice, was filmed in a non-studi...

(How does man with a movie camera reflect constructivism) PLAN Point - Relate to Q Evidence- Micro Feature, eg: editing split screen Analysis - WHY has the micro feature been used Meaning - spectator response Link - Constructivism / question theme To a full extent, man with a movie camera reflects the aesthetic qualities associated with constructivism and modernism.  At 2 3 minutes, there is an e stablishing shot/Extreme long shot to set the scene and split screen is used in the editing  so that the camera,  static,   looking over the city  covers half of the shot.  The deep  depth of field allows the audience to have a broad clear view of the area of the city and therefore gain a larger perspective of it, combined with wide lens, high angle shot; the audience are then put in a position of knowledge, which the camera is given credit for due to the split screen. The split screen additionally provides Brechtian distanciation as it removes the a...

How to structure a paragraph: Point - Relate to Q Evidence- Micro Feature, eg: editing split screen Analysis - WHY has the micro feature been used Meaning - spectator response Link - Constructivism / question theme Cinematography: -Handheld -Long shots - Establishing - Shot sizes -High Angle/Low Angle / Canted Angle Mise-en-scene: -Costume -Setting/location, eg: City symphony (-Performance) -Blocking/framing/composition -(Set design) -Props Editing:  -Split Screen - collapse of the Bolshoi ballet house -Fast/Slow/Reverse motion -Montage -Stop Motion -Kuleshov effect -Double exposure -Match dissolve -Transition (dissolves) Key Terms: -Constructivism } - Modernism, Rodchenko} - Soviet Montage,  Soviet montage theory is an approach to understanding and creating cinema that relies heavily upon editing  } - Celebrates and is based on Industrialisation - Eschews all forms of traditional forms of art, bourgeoise painting - Realism VS Exp...

Realism Expressionism Representation As unmediated as possible Highly mediated Visual Aesthetic Simple Highly constructed Principle Respect/Truth Manipulation Intent Spectator reflection Spectator ‘agitation’ Documentry À propos de Nice is a 1930 silent short documentary film directed by Jean Vigo and photographed by Boris Kaufman – the brother of Man With A Movie Camera’s director, Dziga Vertov . The film depicts life in Nice, France by documenting the people in the city, their daily routines, a carnival and social inequalities. Vigo described the film in an address to the Groupement des Spectateurs d'Avant-Garde : "In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial... the last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution .“ Although French, ...

To what extent can it be said that your chosen film movement represents an expressionist as opposed to a realist approach to filmmaking? make detailed reference to examples from the silent films you have studied. Jonathan Sinyor: At 23 minutes Establishing shot/Extreme long shot to set the scene and shows the camera personified, seeing everything. Brechtian distanciation, it shows you the camera, not for entertainment. The camera covers half of the shot, static over the city, large depth of field, wide lens, high angle shot. Lifecycle, starting with a marriage. Crosscutting between the marriage and the establishing shot. Gives a broader sense of people in contrast with a very specific picture. This crosscuts to divorce, showing a new step wherein a young woman can be divorced. Goes against ideas of the studio system as it was shot on location. Adds to the realism of the film. Modernist technology and focus on industry and bustling cities. Clean-cut ...