Glory Film Analysis

In the film, Glory, the director made specific choices in editing the scenes in how we are meant to see it. He wanted for us to understand and capture what he was trying to accomplish in said scenes. Music and sound is used to capture our attention and focus on the scene that is currently being shown. The director made choices to place music and sound in specific moments when there is dialog or without. Music and sound is to help us as viewers to understand truly what is going on and how we are to take from the scene. The techniques weren’t anything new or special like other films such as Citizen Kane but the director made a huge impact with simple cinematography. Let’s take the scene of the Battle of Antietam, had very little dialog but a lot of emphasizing on the sounds all around them. You hear canons being fired, explosions, the dirt raining on them, gun firing, men shouting and even the shuffling of their
Using simple and nature sounds of seagulls, ocean waves, and grass being blown by the wind the director put together a couple of master shots that move to show the aftermath. After the breaching Fort Wagner the audience is already wondering what happened after the canon was shot at 54th. As smoke cleared we hear seagulls before seeing them and the ocean waters before seeing the beach. This indicating the setting is after and we are about to find out the outcome. Music starts playing at the first sight of fallen dead soldiers and gets louder. We get our answer when the confederate flag goes up and sad music continues on as it shows a master shot of all the fallen dead soldiers. The director wants us to focus and soak in the aftermath of the Fort Wagner attack. To see the many free black soldiers dying to gain their freedom from being slaves. It had a tremendous impact on the audience as we are all effect by their courage despite being