Elliott Soraff film studies A level

Cinematography    how shot selection relates to narrative development and conveys messages and values.    how lighting, including 3-point lighting, conveys character, atmosphere and messages and values.    how cinematography, including lighting, provides psychological insight into character.  how all aspects of cinematography can generate multiple connotations and suggest a  range of interpretations.    how and why different spectators develop different interpretations of the same  camera shots and lighting.    how cinematography, including lighting, is used to align spectators and how that  alignment relates to spectator interpretation of narrative.    how cinematography, including lighting, contributes to the ideologies conveyed by a film. Sound    how sound conveys messages and values.    how the principal elements of sound can generate multiple connotations and suggest  a range of interpr...

Arrival to the camp - When Carmen steps out the car, Vidal stands with an upright posture establishing his power to the audience and gives us an insight into who holds the dominance in the relationship between the two characters. It provides us with some historical/social context at the time which is that men overruled women at the time, women were inevitably dependent on their husband.  -Vi dal's facial expression is one of intimidation and threat. He maintains a straight face and frowns while staring at his clock before Carmen arrives, highlighting his impatience and does not like it when things don't go to plan. Then when she finally does arrive, it is not until he touches her stomach to feel the baby that we see a rare smile come out. But we can see through this smile that he maintains a slight evil threat . The Hunter's scene -After one of the hunter's doubts Vidal's judgement, Vidal takes revenge by stabbing him in the eye with a bottle. H...

To what extent is this film a political film? This film is unique in the sense that it does provide some political context as it depicts the hatred between the communists and the fascists. However it portrays this by intertwining the historical/political genre with the genre of fantasy so the audience sees the political side of the film from Orphelia's perspective, which in turn gives us an insight to how children at the time would feel about each extremist party.  Del Toro, purposely visualises for the audience the sheer brutality and intolerance of fascism, which brings forwards his views about the far left extremists and that communists come across as innocent, less repulsive and peaceful. The film doesn't centralise around the politics of when the film is set but the political context is seen through each individual character. I think if we saw the film from an older character (i.e. Vidal), then we would get a completely different interpretation. But the fact that t...

Films are depictions of people places and events and therefore, like all of works of art, reflect the values and culture of the society that produces them. All the circumstances, that a film was produced in and that shape its reception are a film's context. A study of context looks at when, where, how, why the film is set where it is, The time, place and circumstances. -The study of context focuses more on the appropriate context of when the films were made, as opposed to set. There are different kinds of contexts that students need to consider when studying and analysing films: Social : A look at the relevant society's dominant attitudes and beliefs including debates about ethnicity and gender where relevant. -"Pan's Labyrinth uses fantasy and the supernatural to confront the malevolence and violence of the real world (Spain under Franco)"~ Podcast about Pan's Labyrinth. Cultural:  There are two kinds of contextual contex...

I am very happy with my recent essays, especially my second essay where I gained one more mark then my previous one. My target is an A grade and I want to achieve this to the best of my ability. I am really enjoying the films we are studying and the course as a whole. My improvements for the future is to make the points I am making a lot clearer as they can be very easy to misinterpret. I also need to further portray my point by adding more relevant context in order to get my point across. My feelings towards this course are summed up through this image: