Intrigued by the concept of identity and how we view film, this essay is going to contain a review about a particular scene from the world famous movie, The Hunger Games. To demonstrate an engagement with theory and readings relevant to this unit, there are going to be various theoretical concepts and ideas to support and strengthen this essay such as Theodor Adorno’s ‘’Free Time’’ theory as well as Appiah’s ‘’Theories of Identity’’ and influence from James Monaco’s book on ‘’How to Read a Film’’
How do mise en scene and sound create meaning in a scene from Citizen Kane (1941)? Citizen Kane 41:00- 45:30 The 1941 Citizen Kane, directed and produced by Orsen Welles, was a blockbuster. The key star was Orsen Welles as Charles Foster Kane. Along him starred Joseph Cotton, Dorothy Comingore, Ruth Warrick, Everett Sloane, Ray Collins, William Alland, George Coulouris, Agnes Moorehead, Paul Stewart and Erskine Sanford. The film focused on the life of newspaper tycoon, Charles Foster Kane and aspects
Question: Two key problems for sound studies are the questions of noise and silence. What are some traditional ways of understanding these concepts? How might these understandings be problematic? Modernity caused in immense developments in all aspect of humanity. Science and technology made things and work easier for people nowadays. Medicine became advanced that there are now many cure to various diseases. Much more, people have found new ways on how to produce sound, store it, and even reproduce
Much like the mise-en-scene of Winter’s Bone, the sound design is also embedded with a ‘natural’ element. For instance no non-diegetic sound is present until the end of the sequence when Ree makes the decision to look for her father. This music is intense and suspenseful which highlights the characters’ actions and the emotional repercussions those actions may create. The music starts the moment when Ree defiantly states that she will find Jessup and gradually builds as Sheriff Baskin becomes nervous
The film that I am choosing to do my scene analysis about is a scene from the film Pulp Fiction written and directed by Quentin Tarantino. The scene from Pulp Fiction that I am choosing to analyze is the Big Kahuna hamburger scene. The scene starts with a camera shot that is used throughout the film which shows Vincent and Jules standing directly next to each other, but in this scene there is a difference instead of Vincent and Jules facing the camera the camera is showing the back of their heads
To start with, I am a person who always enjoys watching films alone; no matter I am watching a comedy or a crime thriller in a cinema or on the laptop. As a non-native English speaker, I find it rather difficult to follow English films without subtitles, instead of going to the screenings on campus I have decided to watch the feature films on my laptop. This gives me a great autonomy in my viewing experience as I can watch, pause and stop the film anytime I want. Moreover, I find myself more concentrated
the Vietnamese people are painted white, physically embodying the idea of ‘evil dressed as good.’ The Sepulchre is positioned on boats blocking the end of the river, signifying the end of Willard’s symbolic river journey. Through the haunting non-diegetic sound, comparable to a heartbeat, close up camera angles and the ‘red sea’ like parting of the Vietnamese boats, Coppola dramatical depicts Willard entering a ‘Heart of Darkness.’ The photojournalist that greets Willard on the river bank, an appropriation
you read a play? (1000 words) Sound is an intrinsically important aspect of any play, being one of the main mediums by which producers create mood, setting and atmosphere within a play. Music, especially, is an immensely powerful element in any theatrical performance- it is the means by which a director can completely alter the tone of their show, enabling them to bring the audience down from feelings of sheer elation to perpetual sadness, shock, anger or fear. Sound is any artist’s key to bringing