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    Film Techniques

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    Film techniques Camera angles: Bird’s eye view- An aerial shot of a view‚ sensation of flying or floating Eye level- Camera is positioned at the character’s eye level. Often used to display facial expressions and focus on dialogue. Low angle- The camera is positioned below the feet. Can indicate power and authority and make them look tall and overbearing High angle- The camera is high in the air. Make the audience feel that they are more important then the object provides the feeling of inferiority

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    Dickens displays how children were treated in the Victorian era one of his books: Great Expectations in which a gentleman Pip is retelling his life story growing up in a village near London. He had always wanted to grow up to become a gentleman and escape his “common status”. As a child Pip is not respected or loved by his sister and other adults and beaten regularly. What Dickens suggests in the novel Great Expectations is that people often grow to have emotional or physical problems due to their mistreatment

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    in school and later went to college and getting a master degree plus a well-pay career bring you wealth. Being poor to wealthy or being rich and staying rich as a child to an adult‚ does the wealth usually bring you happiness? In the novel "Great Expectation‚" Pip is a character who as a child become a wealthy person from a poor background family. As he grew up in a poor childhood‚ an opportunity came up for him to become rich and surely he took that opportunity from a secret benefactor which was

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    Summary 40-42 Pip feels a mixture of revulsion for the convict and fear for the convict’s safety. Apparently‚ someone followed the convict the night he arrived at Pip’s apartment and later Pip stumbles over someone hiding in the dark at the bottom of his apartment stairs. While the convict has come to England to see Pip and enjoy flaunting the gentleman he has made‚ Pip tells him he is in danger and that they need to lay low. The convict tells Pip his name is Abel Magwitch and that he is using the

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    In an arm-chair‚ with an elbow resting on the table and her head leaning on that hand‚ sat the strangest lady I have ever seen‚ or shall ever see. She was dressed in rich materials‚—satins‚ and lace‚ and silks‚—all of white. Her shoes were white. And she had a long white veil dependent from her hair‚ and she had bridal flowers in her hair‚ but her hair was white. Some bright jewels sparkled on her neck and on her hands‚ and some other jewels lay sparkling on the table. Dresses‚ less splendid

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    slowly sank into our thoughts’ He continues this negativity through the sensual imagery of ‘dampness’ and the depressive symbolism of ‘sank into our thoughts’. Skrzynecki also uses the simile ‘like cattle bought for slaughter’ to link to the negativity shown in stanza 1‚ he also creates a sense of entrapment‚ dehumanising the migrants and reducing them to livestock. Skrzynecki uses repetition of the first line with the introduction of a conjunction at the beginning ‘but it was sad to hear’. Doing so

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    The director uses film techiques to tell the story ad create a respose in the audiece. These techiques are. Shots wide shot- a wide shot is a shot that shows the setting as well as the character. This kind of shot is used so the audience can understand the characters physical experience with the setting. normal shot- a normal shot usually shows the characters waist and up. This is a standard shot that helps to focus attention on the action. close up- a close up shot is a shot in which the camera

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    Lucetta contrasted with Elizabeth-Jane from "The mayor of Casterbridge"    ‘The Mayor of Casterbridge’‚ is a novel written by the famous English novelist Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)‚ and is set in somewhere around 1830‚ when England was on the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Hardy describes this novel as ‘A Story of Character’ as it revolves around Michael Henchard‚ its male protagonist and at times its antagonist‚ however to successfully keep the book interesting and add the feminine touch

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    the use of symbolism

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    The Use of Symbolism in Literature Obviously‚ symbolism requires the use of a symbol. Symbolism in Literature A symbol is a common object that represents meaning. For example‚ a common symbol in literature is the color black. Black often represents darkness or night. It may also symbolize evil or something bad. Thus the symbol of black must be interpreted within the context of the story and in light of what the author may be trying to represent with his or her use of the color. Many types of

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    FORMAL WRITING A relevant idea in the film Gallipoli‚ produced by Peter Weir‚ is that war is a tragic waste of life. Weir made this idea seem relevant in the world today by using film techniques including music‚ dialogue and symbolism. Gallipoli is the story of a young man who went off to World War One. This particular film narrates the story of an eighteen-year-old from Western Australia who boarded a troop ship bound for Gallipoli. These soldiers fought the Turks in a campaign to capture

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