English Notes Belonging – Strictly Ballroom (1992) 1. Introduction to Belonging & Strictly Ballroom | * 1 core text + 2 related texts of your own choosing * Link them by concept NOT content (i.e. don’t link by setting‚ character or plot/events) * Belonging to a group can establish your sense of identity e.g.: * Scott Hastings – included * Mr Hastings (Doug) – excluded * Mrs Hastings (Shirley) – included * Fran – excluded * Concept: ‘the struggle
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relates to elephants and suggests and African/Indian journey. The fact that there is a world -wide ban on the trade of Ivory suggests that this journey may involve an element of danger. Visual Cues * There are three images is cover in a montage of shots. * (1)The first image we notice is the pyramid and sphinx (salient point) because of its central location and its brightness in comparison to the rest of the image. * The luminosity of those historical structures suggests power and mystery
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Eva‚ LaGravenese explores the dangers and results of gang violence while living in America during the 1990s. “Freedom Writers” highlights the challenges one must experience in order to change their values. These challenges are evident through a montage of archive news footage in the establishing scene which emphasises on the dangers‚ violence and destruction caused from riots. This sets a tense atmosphere for the audience giving insight to the historical
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techniques are used in this documentary not only to make the documentary interesting‚ but humourous as well. Some of these film techniques include various camera shots‚ archival footage and montages to name a few. In the beginning of the documentary‚ William Shatner is talking and is driving his car and whilst he is driving it there are many jump shots between his car and segments of Star Trek. The effect of this gives you insight of what the documentary is mainly about. In this documentary many inventors
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Citizen Kane Questionnaire View the movie CITIZEN KANE (1941) for discussion in class on week four and to submit week five. Be sure to view the film at least twice before workshop number four. Read the information in this syllabus about this movie. Research it online at http://www.filmsite.org/citi.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane‚ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467/‚ http://www.cinepad.com/reviews/kane.htm‚ etc. Then complete the following questionnaire A. Literary Elements
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films that we have viewed in class. Diegetic sound / non-diegetic sound / ambient sound / crane shot / Steadicam / framing or reframing / establishing shot/master shot / extreme long shot / extreme close-up / close-up / medium shot / deep-focus cinematography / slow motion or fast motion / chiaroscuro / high-key lighting / low-key lighting / continuity editing or cutting on action / shot/reverse shot /
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Some scholars criticise Cidade de Deus / City of God (2002) on the grounds that the film represents violence and poverty as a ‘spectacle’ and fails to relate these issues to the wider socio-political context of contemporary Brazil. Is this criticism justified? ‘There are…two kinds of film makers: one invents an imaginary reality; the other confronts an existing reality and attempts to understand it‚ criticise it…and finally‚ translate it into film’ Fernando Biri‚ 1979[1] Fernando Meirelles’s
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“Like Penn’s use of slow motion within the bloody montage that concludes Bonnie and Clyde‚ which Penn said conveyed "both the spastic and the balletic" qualities of the gangsters’ death agonies‚ Peckinpah’s editing emphasized the brutality of physical violence while also giving it a graceful beauty” (Weddle qtd. in Prince 58). The ’falling man’ and the ’horserider’ shots‚ which have been already mentioned the above‚ are great to demonstrate this statement. Nevertheless‚ illustrating offensive and
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did not want to fall into the violence and corruption and his only way out was to expose the city’s brutality to the world through his pictures. Lil’ Z‚ grows into a fearsome gang leader‚ his words enforced by death. The film felt very real and was shot to make it feel
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film the director uses a full body shot to establish Mr. Incredible’s muscular character. Later‚ when Bob Parr is at his work‚ we see a bird’s eye view of his office. The office is small and overcrowded with a big column in it which takes most of the space. This shows us that his situation is bearing down on him and that he hates his job. When Mr. Incredible is fighting Syndrome there is a series of close up‚ high angle and low angle shots. The close up shots are used to show the characters
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