Friday, 28 February 2014

Exam Preperation- Disability Analysis - Coming Down the Mountain

Camera Work
  • Pan around face while subject keeps a constant eye line off shot - making the subject look menacing and obsessive
  • Bird eye view of both subjects - verisimilitude
  • Point of view whilst in tree, also shows inferiority
  • Focus changes
  • Handheld while the characters POV is moving
  • Distanced long shot which contrast with the previous frame making it look like a drug deal which symbolises his bad decision 
  • Isolation when on bus due to the background and foreground being out of focus and the subject being in-focus 
  • establishing shot with zoom
  • Shot from beneath dad - superior

Editing
  • quick cutting / short shots - creates a sense of speed because they are cut very quickly 
  • cross cutting between the two subjects one watching the other sleep - makes him look vulnerable and innocent and week with cuts to david looking menacing, determined and lotting across from him
  • Cross cutting- of movement over time 
  • When he is shooting his brother - editing of the frame narrowing the audiences ability to view the whole frame therefore only focusing on the 'target' - he doesn't like his brother due to his disability
  • fade in & zoom to ariel view 
  • zoom in on subject with voice over talking about him - helps to tell the story in the voiceover by focusing us more closely on the subject
  • shows old documentary, ancient CGI video during (black and white) - symbolises evolution and his brother is a throw back of the evolution - he is a potato with eye tentacles, then it cuts to a shot of him eating in an animalistic way
  • several uses of ellipsis to more the narrative along  
  • front on then side of same thing happening to explain while voice over
  • credits appear at 2:27 - quite late on into the film. Director may have delayed the credits to introduce effectively the characters and the story 
  • shot reverse shots of the speakers - conversation 
  • Dad treated them more =ly, the mum favoured Ben and did not say goodbye to David
  • Dad eats a full english, ben eat all week-a-bix, david eats nothing - ladder of superiority 
  • Ben tries to steal from the dads plate - he can get away with things more 
  • Cuts longer on dad 
  • Cross cutting from bus stop to holiday - David is always leading Ben and it has always been that way
  • Shots in classroom are long - banter between teacher and students = normal life, only time he is away from Ben prolong normality, David will get a better job than Ben (ASDA reference) 
  • reflection of the explosion (could be CGI) behind his head - bad idea
  • bus journey short and long shots to contrast - dizziness, also soft focus on everyone else other than Ben 

Sound

  • voice over of subject continues story
  • music - weird upbeat but not too exciting 
  • explosion onto old documentary, music continues
  • Sound Bridge- radio across two shots, quietens when voiceover comes on and dygetic sound 
  • voice over is over music again
  • teachers voice is fuzzy while he concentrating on unicorn
  • voices on bus is slightly muted with voice over 
  • music is slower and weak, sad piano, no beat 
  • dialogue- Ben is mumbled

Mise En Scene

  • Costume is very average, working class

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