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
For this exercise we were to produce a short sequence in which two people are communicating across an off-screen space. It was not allowed to use a wide shot because the idea was to create the impression of the off-screen space through the composition of the shots. Here is the script, with some modifications: Robin is… Continue reading Two people communicating
For this assignment I have chosen the everyday scenario of having lunch at work and will represent it in an atmosphere of paranoia. Paranoia is a mental state that is characterised by a person having fears that are exaggerated and where there is no evidence that these fears are true. Generally the person believes that… Continue reading Assignment 2
