English Into The Wild
Into The Wild Essay
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(2) Analyse how important techniques are used to engage your emotions in a text (or texts) you have studied.
The film 'Into the Wild', by Sean Penn, is a very emotional story telling the tragic true story of Chris McCandles. Through several techniques the audience's emotions are engaged. The style of shots is distinctive, with many scenes featuring panorama or montage. Text overlay and voice-over have been added in post-production. Between some shots there is juxtaposition.
Panorama and montage are two shots used to great effect in this film for conveying awesome scale in space and time during Chris' journey, respectively. The film both begins and ends with striking wide and panoramic shots of the Alaskan wilderness. I find these to be emotional for the monumental nature of Chris' chosen surroundings, the harsh, raw wilderness being the place of his idealistic perspective. Montage is used in this film to initiate setting, as at the beginning as Chris arrives in Fairbanks, Alaska, and to show the passage of time as Chris progresses on his journey, as during his time working for Wayne driving a combine harvester. The montage allows many scenes to be (relatively) seamlessly presented to the audience, and in this film montage engages our emotions with the life of Chris as we see his story progress quickly before our eyes.
In post production there have been two notable effects added to the film which make it more personal and emotionally engaging. Firstly, throughout the film we see excerpts from Chris' diaries, letters and books overlayed. These give authentic insight into Chris' mind, and it helps to invoke a more intimate relationship between the audience and the elusive Chris. Secondly, while Chris performs solitary activities where there is no vocal diagetic sound, we often hear voice over, either from Chris, or from his sister Carisse. These also give personal insight and hence engage the emotions of the audience. To an
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(2) Analyse how important techniques are used to engage your emotions in a text (or texts) you have studied.
The film 'Into the Wild', by Sean Penn, is a very emotional story telling the tragic true story of Chris McCandles. Through several techniques the audience's emotions are engaged. The style of shots is distinctive, with many scenes featuring panorama or montage. Text overlay and voice-over have been added in post-production. Between some shots there is juxtaposition.
Panorama and montage are two shots used to great effect in this film for conveying awesome scale in space and time during Chris' journey, respectively. The film both begins and ends with striking wide and panoramic shots of the Alaskan wilderness. I find these to be emotional for the monumental nature of Chris' chosen surroundings, the harsh, raw wilderness being the place of his idealistic perspective. Montage is used in this film to initiate setting, as at the beginning as Chris arrives in Fairbanks, Alaska, and to show the passage of time as Chris progresses on his journey, as during his time working for Wayne driving a combine harvester. The montage allows many scenes to be (relatively) seamlessly presented to the audience, and in this film montage engages our emotions with the life of Chris as we see his story progress quickly before our eyes.
In post production there have been two notable effects added to the film which make it more personal and emotionally engaging. Firstly, throughout the film we see excerpts from Chris' diaries, letters and books overlayed. These give authentic insight into Chris' mind, and it helps to invoke a more intimate relationship between the audience and the elusive Chris. Secondly, while Chris performs solitary activities where there is no vocal diagetic sound, we often hear voice over, either from Chris, or from his sister Carisse. These also give personal insight and hence engage the emotions of the audience. To an