Thursday, 15 November 2012
Friday, 9 November 2012
Exam Response
Experimental
Film requires a different kind of spectatorship.' Has this been your
experience? [35]
Experimental films are full of strange mixtures of images, situations,
words and expressions that may not tell a cohesive story but, in the end, don't
have to in order to achieve an emotional goal. This type of film therefore
requires the spectator to shift their conventional cinematic expectations to
accommodate more radical narrative techniques, themes and meaning
construction.
Un Chien Andalou, the infamous
1929 surrealist short film from Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali, attests to this.
Un Chein Andalou offers a dramatic impact on a spectator as this film
holds values of artistic work of Salvador Dali who I pay great interest in his
work this grasped me .The way of life this film uses this art to show the dream
state of mind holding metaphorical religious connotations. This film offers me
a surrealist viewing as it disorientates the mind and make’s it believe the
showcasing however this is in the dream state so by allowing my mind to take a
preferred reading I am able to escape into this experimental film. This film
uses anchorage to confuse it’s audience by displaying ‘once upon a time’ , ‘8
years later’ e.c.t by using this anchorage the spectator is confused by the mix
of other genre’s conventions in its use. The opening scene shows an extreme
close up of a female’s eye being cut this instantly grabbed my attention into
reading the film as ‘gore’ attracts me in films by using this shot it gains and
arouses the audience as I expected more ‘gore’ within this film I feel for the
first scene and no real ‘gore’ was used after disappointing me as a spectator.
Un Chie Andalou holds disorientating unrealistic scene’s within for instance a
scene where ants are growing out of the characters hand , this shows feeding
and rotting. The end scene shows the characters in the mise-en-scene of a beech
with half their body’s buried representing the date in which the film was set
representing the trenches in the World Wars. This film offers excitement and disappointment
in my opinion. One of the scene’s in Un Chien Andalou shows the female and male
character as he begins to gropes
and harasses the female
this scene is particularly upsetting as a female viewer I had watch a perverted
scene. Overall I enjoyed Un Chien Andalou as a spectator as an experimental
film the attributes used in the film really attracted me.
Chris Marker became known internationally for the short film La
Jetée (1962). It tells of a post-nuclear war experiment in time
travel by using a series of filmed photographs developed as a photomontage of
varying pace, with limited narration and sound effects.
La Jetee’s story is told via the uses of voice over to narrate the story
, a collection of images were edited together with use’s of still’s being a
very static film to watch. I found this film very mind numbing as an
interaction was connected with the film. However compared to the other films
with no narrative this holds a narrative yet leaving my mind in a tedious
state. The use of stills cross fades between images I enjoy the aesthetics of
stills but with no moving film at all I was in a sleepy state of mind as I was
just listening to the voice over. Artistically one scene drew my attention back
to the film once a moving film was used to show the movement of an eye movement
this left me to enigma codes as to weather the eye did move making this
contrast to the whole of the film making it a very memorable scene as a
spectator to rember.
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Presentation Script:
To begin the presentation script you will need to finish the annotated catalogue with at least 15 min items to 20 max include at least 5 rejected items make sure you state why you are using it or why you are not, why is it rejected?
The presentation script is a 25 mark - small scale project. Write up all research from the annotated catalogue and refer to this in the presentation script. When referring to films use sequences not trailers as you need to highlight the key aspects. Write the presentation in first person imagine you are saying it to an audience and actually presenting it. You will need to use an introduction , outline what you shall be discussing you may use images and clips make sure you reference back to everything in the catalogue. When writing up the presentation script refer to the speech as 'speaker:' and when showing images or sequences you can refer them to 'projector:'
BE SPECIFIC
BE DIRECT
BE CONSTANT
1'500 words however you may go over by 10% which will be 1'650.
Make sure you are well argued.
When referring to images you can use stills put these towards the end of the catalogue.
Monday, 22 October 2012
How Far Do The Films You Have Studied For This Topic Offer An Analysis Of Social Issues They Present?
How Far Do The Films You Have
Studied For This Topic Offer An Analysis Of Social Issues They Present?
In the three films I have analysed they all seem to hold
three constant running themes these being power, conflict and poverty, which
evolves around each storyline. In the films they hold a constant social issue
of having the confidence and ability to communicate with each other especially
male to female issues of drugs appear in the films and change. All three films
La Haine, City Of God and Chunking Express follow the lives of different
cultures in different time periods to showcase the issues within urban stories
in each of there own environment which becomes Westernised to change.
Chunking Express conveys an issue through visuals this films
follows a linear storyline with flashbacks of character 663. This film
showcases two stories of different characters living in Chunking Express. This
story follows the issues of when China was being handed over back to the
Chinese law 1997 showing how everyone is a product of their environment showing
a culture dominated by a more powerful ideology being Western this is shown all
through-out the mise-en-scene in the Chungking Express chip shop where we see
an illuminated coke a cola drinks dispenser a counter separates 663 to
the rest this counter also separates him from a romantic alliance due to the
social conditions and upbringing. Chunking Express expresses that the society
looks and is wanting to have an identity due to the westernised globalisation.
This film shows the struggle with the cross roads between eastern and western cultures.
In both stories we are shown the policemen have no name they are always
referred to as their number, which represents the lack of identifying the film.
Smudge Motion is a technique used through out this film as a form of art to
express that the time is passing but the subject is at a standstill waiting for
his future to approach him showing the time passing by. Time is used through-
out all films, La Haine shows a 24 hour story where as City Of God uses time
change between 60’s – 80’s where as Chunking Express doesn’t give an actual
time and date we see clocks but are not given an exact date we know that it’s
during the hand over due to the iconography of westernised props we see clocks
to give a sense of time as low key lighting is used mainly in this film as it
is mainly dark in Hong Kong which represents the claustrophobic confined areas
in which they live in. ‘California Dreams’ is used as diegetic and non diegetic
throughout this film which is a western song representing the characters
wanting to live somewhere else and be in a western culture instead of eastern
as they prefer it the mise-en-scene and location chosen to film shows an urban
claustrophobic living conditions which contrasts with the location used in La
Haine. Chunking Express doesn't as such offers an analysis of of social issues it is shown through representation and hidden meanings in the film.
La Haine is filmed in the projects of France this film
follows the life of a group of youth which holds three characters, Vinz, Hubert
and Said in the space of 24 hours showing the rioting in 1994-95 when the film
was made showing how the media can show present youth as being useless
criminals the rioters were happening when this was filmed the opening sequence
shows anchorage of ‘to those who were killed in the riots’ a type writer font
format was used to show a documentary view on the issue this is reinforced with
the camera’s and televisions constantly used in the mise-en-scene in the
background constantly reminding the characters and audience about the rioters
and social issues. This film shows no farther figure in each of the family
homes which can be shown as an issue as we see Hubert come back to his family
home after selling drugs which the money is used to pay for the bills. La Haine
shows intertextual issues with use of drugs and the corruption with gaining
money and living the life and social issues of not holding a relationship with
either sex as the film develops the separation of characters get progressively worse
this is shown through positioning and camera angles. This film shows the poverty
between Paris and the Projects this is shown through an extreme change of props.
The group begin with the use of cannabis however this progresses to cocaine and
also iconography of guns which are used in the film represent the difference in
poverty. Each sector of the French flag is shown through each character being
Liberty – Vinz , Fraternity – Said and Freedom being freedom we see this
approach used in the way the characters are positioned and act around each
other. An overhead remote control plane is used in this film attached is a
camera this is to show the issues from a birds eye view of the projects passing
through the neighbour hoods. La Haine again follows the same system as Chunking Express it welcomes us to the issue but gives no explanation as to why the issues are participating making us seek further information as to what happened when it was filmed La Haine definitely gives off the fact that its how the issues are represented and not given an analysis this is through the way media is shown straight from the beginning which clearly tells us that is about representation and offers no analysis.
Sunday, 21 October 2012
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The Godfather movies were obviously violent, but Scarface took the violence to a higher, almost exploitative level. Was that ever a concern for you?
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