Horror
Nicole and Reese
Sunday, December 22, 2019
Film Opening Research #1 - The Irishman
How many titles are displayed during the opening sequences to the film?
There are only three titles displayed in the opening sequence of the film.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
Images of the nursing home or residential community are emphasized as the audience is going through its long dark hallway. This leading up to the main character sitting in his wheelchair. Also, the image of the gun at the wedding is a very prevent image.
What connotations do the images carry?
The images presented in the beginning give a negative connotation from seeing the man get shot and behind him has the wedding invitation. But the way the narrator is speaking gives us a normal connotation like it was any story he was telling.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The genre of drama is reinforced through the build-up of the plot from the time jumps. It jumps from the nursing home to the main character killing a man after the wedding. While they are driving to Detroit they take a stop and it ends up to be where Russ and the main character first meet. This trigger jumps the film back in time to when Russ and Frank first met.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
As the main character Russ, and their wives go to Detroit on their way the film cuts out into just a black screen with YOU PAINT HOUSES. This gives an enigma to the film while with the outside narrating it enforces it even more.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
It keeps the audience on their toes as it is about a crime family and a hitman. The drama is escalated through Frank growing into this power and status through dangerous and violent jobs. Frank is a character that you can hate and love because of the terrible things he does but, in the end, he isn't a bad guy he is just misguided and a family man.
How has technology been used effectively? You might want to consider camera angles, transitions, and editing techniques
Mostly through transitions when the time periods switch there is a shift using editing.
There are only three titles displayed in the opening sequence of the film.
What images are prioritized in the opening sequence?
Images of the nursing home or residential community are emphasized as the audience is going through its long dark hallway. This leading up to the main character sitting in his wheelchair. Also, the image of the gun at the wedding is a very prevent image.
What connotations do the images carry?
The images presented in the beginning give a negative connotation from seeing the man get shot and behind him has the wedding invitation. But the way the narrator is speaking gives us a normal connotation like it was any story he was telling.
How is genre reinforced through symbolic and technical codes from the outset?
The genre of drama is reinforced through the build-up of the plot from the time jumps. It jumps from the nursing home to the main character killing a man after the wedding. While they are driving to Detroit they take a stop and it ends up to be where Russ and the main character first meet. This trigger jumps the film back in time to when Russ and Frank first met.
How does the film establish an enigma from the outset?
As the main character Russ, and their wives go to Detroit on their way the film cuts out into just a black screen with YOU PAINT HOUSES. This gives an enigma to the film while with the outside narrating it enforces it even more.
What strategies are used to ensure the film appeals to its target audience?
It keeps the audience on their toes as it is about a crime family and a hitman. The drama is escalated through Frank growing into this power and status through dangerous and violent jobs. Frank is a character that you can hate and love because of the terrible things he does but, in the end, he isn't a bad guy he is just misguided and a family man.
How has technology been used effectively? You might want to consider camera angles, transitions, and editing techniques
Mostly through transitions when the time periods switch there is a shift using editing.
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Friday, December 6, 2019
Monday, November 11, 2019
Film Viewing Practice Essay "Agent Carter"
In the Agent Carter short clip, it begins off with a voice-over that is quicky given into a conversation between a man and a woman. In the conversation you can hear that they are in trouble their voices are shakey and nervous like something bad is going to happen. The next thing that happens it's so quick it pans to a close up of a man in a plane, then it changes to a woman in a room where she is panicking because this might be the last time she sees the men. The scene builds up even more after that to introduce the main characters Agent Carter and Steve. The next scene after the control room fades and tells the audience there will be a new scene.
The next scene that gets introduces after the fade is placed in a business room. The audience can hear and see alarms going off. The area where people are supposed to work is scrambled with papers and folders. This lets the audience wonder what happened here. After this scene, there is a jump cut to a man talking on a telephone where the disorder is going on. In the scene, there is a mix of nondiegetic and diegetic sound because you can hear the song playing in the background lightly to change the mood but the audience can also hear the chaos going on the alarm, and the people talking. These different sounds help change the mood for the audience and led them to think about why all this commotion is going on in the first place and what had happened there. All these things make a good film when the film is leading the audience to question.
To add on to more Mis En Scene in the clip, the clothing the characters wore showed a lot of their time period. Many of the characters were wearing garments and uniforms from World War ll. This helped the audience set that the time period was from about the 1940-1950s. Specifically, behind the glass/plastic wall in Agent Carter's office, there was an emblem of a hawk with SSR. The SSR during World War ll was a branch of a top-secret war office.
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