For this assignment, I chose the action ‘Somebody makes a cup of tea’ with the implied meaning that ‘They are suicidal’. Since the preceding projects have been about diegetic/non-diegetic sound, camera movement and on-screen/off-screen space I tried to include these aspects into the assignment. Most of the films that I watched that had strong implied… Continue reading Assignment 3
‘Spotlight’ is the 2015 film directed by Tom McCarthy about the Boston Globe newspaper’s investigative team and how they researched and published a series of articles that exposed the systematic involvement of the Catholic Church in protecting priests who molested children. This film went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2016.… Continue reading Spotlight
For this exercise, you are to choose a short piece of music and listen to it a number of times, making a note of the emotions and feelings you experience whilst listening. Then find images for these thoughts and feelings and record them. Edit a video sequence with the music and images. I chose a… Continue reading Exercise: Abstract image sequence
I’ve been really struggling to come up with a plausible story for Assignment 3. It is clear to me that the ‘implied meaning’ aspect of the assignment is where my stumbling block is. For each attempt at a credible story (visual and spoken), I was simply not satisfied that the viewer would understand what was… Continue reading Implied meaning and subtext
Three Colours White is the second film in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s The Three Colours Trilogy. The film is a black comedy which makes the title rather ironic. The main character, Karol, is a Polish hairdresser who has met and married a beautiful French woman. Living in Paris, she decides to divorce him and leave him destitute. Karol… Continue reading Three Colours White
In the past, I have watched various Swedish and Danish films and they all seem to have similar traits in terms of their subject matter. They are usually quite controversial and the choices about what they choose to show is typically very graphic and with a tendency towards showing violence up close. I was interested in finding out more as… Continue reading Scandinavian Film and the Dogme 95 manifesto
Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia is a story about a woman who has ‘melancholia’and also, rather coincidentally a planet called Melancholia that is approaching Earth. The opening starts with a sequence of slow-motion images that show us what will happen at the end of the film; the planet Melancholia colliding with the Earth. The film… Continue reading Melancholia – Lars von Trier
Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac is a five hour movie in two parts that starts with a man, Seligman, finding a woman, Joe, lying in an alleyway near to his apartment. He goes to help and ends up taking her back to his apartment where she tells him the story of her life as a nymphomaniac. As… Continue reading Nymphomaniac – Lars von Trier
For this exercise we are to find examples of non-diegetic sounds that have been used in various ways to enhance a film. Diegetic sound used to convey meaning In the shootout scene from Road to Perdition, where Sullivan shoots John Rooney and his gang, the audience is aware that this act is extremely difficult for… Continue reading Examples of Non-diegetic sound
For this exercise, the Kuleshov/Mosjukhin experiment is recreated to demonstrate the Kuleshov Effect. One of the interesting things about filming the face of an actor keeping a straight face, is whether this is in fact how the original experiment was conducted or whether the actor had an ‘ambiguous’ expression on their face. At the end… Continue reading Exercise: Repeating the Kuleshov/Mosjukhin experiment
