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The first film I am going to talk about is Pearl Harbour, directed by Michael Bay in 2001. I believe that this film is based on pride and that is portrayed by the two main characters, Rafe and Danny. Friendship and relationship are two of the main things that run through this film proving that life goes on even though war is happening. It gives the audience positive thoughts even though there are horrible things happening around the time the film is set. This film is thought to be very one-sided, based on american views of war.
This film is could have been film with both a multi camera setup and a single camera setup. The bigger sequences like the scenes with explosions and fighting would have been shot with a multi camera setup meaning the audience sees the more impacting scenes from different angles. The smaller scenes like some of the love scenes between Rafe and Evelyn would have been shot with just a single camera. This film contains a lot of shots with a longer duration meaning the audience can develop more emotion from watching it. It also helps them to focus more on what is happening in the scene.
The film is linea because it shows the continuous friendship between the two male leads from beginning to end. Starting with the scene of the young boys in the old, grounded plane and then ending with the death of one of the men really helps the audience understand throughout the film how close the two men are and makes the audience feel more involved in their friendship. It also makes the more violent scenes more impacting because the audience feel sympathy for the two leads. It also helps when the visuals show Danny sleeping with Rafe's girlfriend when he is supposedly dead. When Rafe then appears from the sea and finds out what has been happening, the audience really feel the anger and disappointment that Rafe is feeling at the time. This links into the love story shown between the main male character Rafe and the main female character, Evelyn. They are shown throughout the whole film to be in love but when Rafe suddenly goes missing in action, Danny, he's supposed best friend, steps in to comfort her. With the audience knowing that Rafe really isn't missing, it adds the feeling of tension as the audience know what is coming up when Rafe finally returns. The feeling of hope links into all of these themes. The hope that they will come out of war, the hope that everything will go back to normal and nothing will go wrong. This is an reoccurring theme throughout the whole show.
The technical executions used in this film include long duration shots meaning that emotion can be expressed more and it helps the audience engage with what the characters are saying. This helps the audience to connect with the characters feelings and emotions and maybe make them experience them themselves. Wide shots are also used through most of the more dramatic scenes as it allows the audience to take in the surroundings and really get a feel of the devastation and damage this war is causing to America. Establishing shots are popular shot used in the film. Being used for the same reason as the wide shots, these allow the audience to see what is happening across a wide area of land and it really hits home how bad their situation is.
Pearl harbour has to fit in to historical conventions, action and drama&romane,
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Friends is a popular TV series created in 1994 by David Crane. With over 230 episodes, friends allows the audience to establish the relationship between them and the characters.The theme of friendship of love is continuous throughout allowing the audience to really relate to it. It can be said that it is reality on screen. Showing the audience an outlook on what their life is like. It is almost an extreme look on life in some areas such as the scene when ross goes to get a spray tan. It is a real life situation that most of the audience has experienced and the director has given an extreme look on it, something that could happen but wouldn't. The episodes where Joey buys a pet chick and duck for his apartment. Many of the audience must own pets but nothing like a chick or a duck. The same thing links in with Ross' pet monkey. Letting it live with him in his apartment and treating it like a human. This can be said as an overreacted version on life.
Friends is a series meaning that the audience can relate to the characters over a series of episodes. Multi camera has been used here to create all the different angles shown on their lives. This shows the audience a different view on every emotion felt by the characters allowing them to relate to them more. 'The Fourth Wall' is a rule used by many television programmes meaning that the camera line makes up the fourth wall of the set.
Series of stories throughout, Chandler and Monica, Ross and Rachel, Joeys failed acting Carerer. Linea because it is following the characters daily lives through each episode.
Technical execustions
- Multi camera
- Mise en scene
- Set is familiar to the audience helping them relate to the characters situations. More homely and warm.
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Visions and Sound for UP
Montage of life is almost magical
Links into the house floating
everything makes it a feel good film
all the sound is pre-recorded as it is an animation-
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Saving Private Ryan
Over the top, linking in with the visuals
Patriotic with all the flags and grave stones
- music is overpowering diegetic sound
Posititive contrasting to the upset shown by the character
high pitched
Below is some more examples for slides 1 - 4;
The visuals in Pearl Harbour have to link in with the historical element of what is actually happening at the time the film is set. It also has to link in with an element of drama and romance as well. As the audience are expecting the film to have an element of action, the director has to be able to add in an element of action making it fit all the conventions expected from the audience. The historical element is probably the hardest one to hit as a lot of research has to be completed to be able to get the correct elements to make the audience feel like they are involved in the film.
Friends has a completely different narrative structure to films like Pearl Harbour. As a series containing lots of different episodes, there can't be a lot of dramatic changes between each programme. This can lead to the audience being confused and not bothering to watch it again. There can be changes but ones that are ongoing through a series of episodes meaning the audience can develop an understanding of what is happening between each of the characters and even build a connection with them. Friends is a lot harder to have a strong narrative across the range of episodes as you have to be able to link them all together without confusing the audience whereas with a film like Pearl Harbour, the director has 180 minutes to create all the emotions and hit all the right conventions of the film.
Up is a film that is driven by a soundtrack meaning that all the visuals link into what the soundtrack sounds like. If the soundtrack is happy, then the visuals may consist of a happy seen and when the soundtrack is portraying sadness, the visuals become more sad. An example of this is when the audience get to see a visual of Ellie and Carl's life showing them build a life together being all happy then it all crumbling down when Ellie passes away. The visuals change a lot and also the colours change a lot as well. The happy scenes are all bright and colourful contrasting to the sad scenes where it is almost black and white, bringing the audience down, helping them to realise the emotion Carl is feeling at the time.
Saving Private Ryan is also a film driven by the soundtrack but in a very different way to UP. The soundtrack in this film is very over the top and links in well with the visuals. Like Pearl Harbour, the director has to link in both historical and action conventions into the whole film. The soundtrack helps the dramatic and emotional visuals seem a little less brutal meaning the audience will be able to experience different emotions depends on how they feel when the music and visuals are put together. The emotions meant by the director for these specific scenes might not be felt by the audience and it is totally up to them about what emotions they feel with their own opinions. An example of this is the opening scene where Ryan walks to the grave of one of the characters that had died saving him. The music is very patriotic and is a total contrast to the sad visuals being shown of Ryan breaking down in tears and all the grave stones of all the people that died in the war.
