Thursday, 19 September 2013

Class notes - Friday 6th September 2013

The Godfather last scene evaluation

1) What does the location tell you about the character?
Set in an office, he wants to appear as a business man

2) What does the lighting tell you about the character?
Lighting around him is dark, suggesting that he has a past full of bad things. Bright characters around his wife, stating innocence and purity.
-Shutting the door on his wife, hiding his dark deeds from her

Mise-en-scene clips for analysis
-All the elements of the scene within the frame
-Creates symbolism
-Location/setting/set design
-costume
-props
-acting
-colours
-lighting
-space

Alice in Wonderland
-Mellow and unsettling/intimidating lighting. Dim lights to not give an eerie atmosphere but a mysterious one
-costume shows she's upper class and well-off
-Themes of fantasy
-Trying to convey themes that girls are naive
-Looking up at the table when she's shrunken, she's looking up at the table that has an upright bottle. Suggestion of phallic imagery

Narrative: Alice possibly has middle or upper class up-bringing. Victorian and ancient setting/location
Style: Fantasy
Genre: mild thriller vs fantasy
Representation: Alice being a female, shows that young girls are presented as naive innocent

The "wonderland" could be inside her mind. She could either be hallucinating or finally exploring her personal views on the world

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