Dylan Hogan A-level Film Studies

What makes Tarantino an experimental filmmaker? Experimental filmmakers are in opposition to the mainstream filmmakers. What is a mainstream film? High production value- professional and real as possible Reliance upon stars Conventions of a genre  The script rather than the film language tells a story (through narrative devices- it's a means of telling a STORY above all else) Economic imperative In what ways is Tarantino and experimental filmmaker? In Tarantino's films he using many elements to make him unique and make his films tackle the stereotype of mainstream film. Tarantino plays with the narrative structure in the way that he does not tell the story in chronological order and also in the film Pulp Fiction where there is multiple story's being told all in one film, this makes the focus come away from the narrative as the story lacks complexity, but the narrative is very interesting and intriguing. In his film Pulp Fiction there is a telling of several th...

How is decline and deterioration shown in the film through the mise-en-scene? In the opening part of City Of God shows the decline in society very well as it switches from the 80s to the 60s where the slums go from the dark and dangerous to the bright and happy which shows the contrast of how the slums have developed over time. The mise-en-scene used in the opening sequences helps to portray the generational decline in society in the way that the sign of the City Of God starts of bright and clear and turns to dark and dirty which portrays a metaphor for how the society declines as generations change within the City Of God. Also the slow gradual decline of the society in shown in the film and this is shown more through the criminals of the film and how they change each generation. At first we have the tender trio who are doing criminal activity for the use of the community and are trying to help everyone out to then changing to the criminal activity of Lil Ze. Where Lil Ze is a crimin...

Narrative The narrative of the film and the structure reflects the key themes and messages of the story, The story of a man traded in his own body which suffers from a stroke and becomes parlayed but his mind is still intact which give him the imagination to write a book on his life and the things that he has suffered from and the ways in which his life was different in ways that can not be imagined, the character suffers from locked in syndrome which allows his mind to still be conscious but his body to be still and non responsive. The narrative of the story is open to the spectators in a way that it allows the spectator to indulge in to the characters mind and feel the way that he is feeling also the narrative shows the same emotion throughout the film of an emptiness and blandness. The structure of the film is strange in the way that the story is basic but the way that it is set out not in chronological order which represents the key themes which shows that his body is heavy and li...

The film Trainspotting portrays social and cultural contexts very well in a post Thatcherism era, in the way that the film deals with the effects of Thatcherism and the lack of work for young people in the working class. Thatcherism legacy lived on through the 90s and still developed a lot of unemployment among the UK and this is shown in Trainspotting from the lack of work shown in this film and the fact that none of the main characters have jobs shows that there are still Thatcherism policy is still going on. The characters attitude in this film is lacking motivation in the way that they are choosing heroin over life and are not trying to find a job which contrasts the views of the government which one politician said "get on your bike and find work" which tells us that the characters in this film are not standing by the government and are choosing to live a bad life rather then getting and job and being working class. Also Renton's voice over also tells us that he does...

The political and social context in This is England are really important in the making of this film and the ways in which Thatcherism at that time was a massive thing that affected a lot of people in the way that Margot Thatcher ran England and the film shows very well the affects of capitalism at this time in England. Also the affects that skinheads had on the society at this time in England and the way that skinheads are shown in different ways in this film and difference in the types of skinheads at this time. Thatcherism made the rich people more rich and left behind the working class to go into poverty and to lose money the film "This Is England" shows this very well and all the character in this film are the products of the affect of Thatcherism and the impacts that it had on the skinhead culture. Also there was a lot of unemployment at this time because of Margaret Thatcher policy and the way she went about her work. By making people just get on with there life's a...

This essay will explore how spectators respond to a film in the same way and how they watch and fell for The film Captain Fantastic. Spectatorship is how individuals respond to a film in different ways, Spectators respond differently to films because of key factors like: age, gender, race and culture also personal factors may affect the response of a spectator to a film with things like empathy and the fact that they can relate to the characters. Filmmakers use a range of key and structural elements of film to respond to the film in a particular way like for example in the opening sequence to Captain Fantastic the filmmakers create an response for the spectators to the family and the way that they are living their lives and how brutal the start is when Bodevan kills the deer and create an emotional response of anger towards the family because of the way that they kill the deer and the anger that is portrayed. The filmmakers deliberately make the opening sequence horrifying to show th...