Tom's Film Blog

Arnold uses fast cuts and specific camera angles to demonstrate social realism. For example, in the opening, there is a close up shot of the mother's feet. More specifically, this focuses how they are in poverty because she cannot afford simple typical things like shows. This highlights their poor living situation, which allows the audience to sympathise with Zoe and her children. Furthermore, the fast cuts to different shots gives the scene a sense of tension and chaos. This makes the audience believe the children are not safe in the supervision of Zoe. Arnold also location and colour to demonstrate social realism. For example, Arnold displays a realistic and gritty suburban estate. This gives the audience a sense of familiarity to those who live/lived in similar areas. This makes the scene more naturalistic and seem like it could happen anywhere. It also makes the audience furthermore sympathise with Zoe and her kids because of people who were in a similar situation to them. Also...

Arriving At The Beach - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKAeB5k7sJg The performance of Robert Duvall playing Kilgore conveys the image and role of stereotypical masculine dominace heroism. For example, in the scene where Napalm hits and the soldiers drop, Kilgore stands still and above the other soldiers. More specifically, his body language shows him with his hands on his hips looking into the distance. This displays the idea of power and bravery and also makes Kilgore conform to the stereotype of masculine action heroes. Furthermore the fact that he is standing above teh other soldiers could be symbolic of how he is superior to his soldiers in rank or maybe as an individual. This highlights Kilgores arrogance, egotism and deludeness as he could've of been killed, but he doesn't believe he will. It is almost as if he believes he is omnipotent, furthermore conveying ideas of dominace and deludedness. The miss-en-scene of the scene also highlights masculine stereotypes and how ...

The director makes an impact on the audience through the portrayal of Girl as throughout the short film it is given a realistic yet comedic tone, which emphasises shock when it suddenly changes. This can be seen through the technique of fast editing and cyclical camera shots. This creates makes the story of the film seem constant and makes it more jarring and noticeable when it changes. The consistency of the shots matches the tone of the film and changes as soon as the shot does. The fast paced feel of it allows the audience to perhaps miss some of the foreshadowings of the twist. For example how she says she's good at hiding things, which could be alluding to how she has hidden babies before. Another way the director makes an impact on the audience is by creating empathy for Girl. For example, Girl is wearing a puffer jacket and big hoop earrings,  conveying the idea she is a chav. This furthermore displayed when she is shown to be a loud and confident person. Because of this the...

Themes: Evil, Power, Colonialism, Chaos vs Order, Corruption  The opening of Apocalypse Now conveys the idea that our lead protagonist is a tortured man through different elements of film making. For example the editing of the man's face fading in out of the fire combined with the fire in the background could be symbolic of how the conflict he was involved with was traumatic and hell like. It could also represent how he is a more antagonistic lead, which represents a change seen introduced by New Hollywood movies. The close up shot on his face almost makes it look like his face is on fire, almost as if he is being consumed by his past sins. The fading effect of the editing added with the slow rock music gives the scene a hallucinogenic feel, which may be referencing how many Vietnam soldiers took drugs to cope with effects of war.  Furthermore, the sound of the opening creates a feeling of dread. For example, the first lyrics of the song heard are "this is the end" giv...

"New Hollywood" was introduced in the late 60s and early 70s after most viewers were fatigued by the classical style of film making. This change most likely happened because of European cinema, particularly the French new wave. Hollywood absorbed tactics from European and retook dominance because European cinema was starting to die out. Whilst Classical Cinema only had flat, well rounded, clearly motivated characters, New Hollywood started to use characters who were confused and who were perhaps not as clearly motivated. Also European movies were less censored and featured more gore or explicit imagery. This change saw the introduction of the "blockbuster" which were high budget and high stakes movie. Some of the most well known of these films include Jaws and Star Wars. Some of the pioneering directors of this change includes Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese. The so called "ringleader" of this new wave of cinema was Francis Ford Coppola....

              TIM BURTON Timothy Edward Burton is an American Filmmaker, animator and artist. Burton was born in 1958, in Burbank, California. As a preteen, Burton would make short films in his backyard using crude stop motion animation techniques or shooting on 8mm  film without sound. His interest in stop motion can be seen later on his films like Frankenweenie and The Nightmare Before Christmas. In his early career as an animator, storyboard artist, graphic designer, art director and concept artist on films such as The Fox And The Hound, Tron and The Black Cauldron. His first theatrical release was Pee Wee's Big Adventure, a family-friendly, adventure film with a light hearted tone, which is very different to the rest of Burton's work. Burton is best known for is use of Gothic Suburbia and his weird concepts and world building, along with a common use of characters that feel isolated. One of his most famous films is 1989's Batman. The film show...

Deeper Than Water   The story opens with a body floating past shot in the water. The body covers the shot and transitions to the pier 1 hour earlier and shows a couple called Robert and Louise is about who have left their home to go on a walk to the pier. The wife is looking at a phone and reveals that his husband is cheating on her with a woman called "Sam". She grabs a knife and puts it in her coat. There is then a tracking shot of them.  They reach the end of the pier and they sit down on a bench there. They have a conversation which turns into an argument about past relationships and it’s how the husband has cheated before. He walks towards the edge of the pier as the argument continues. As it intensifies the wife pulls out the knife and starts screaming at the husband. He manipulates her to put it down then he walks out of shot she turns around and it cuts to him aiming a gun at her.  He says he planned to kill her and this was his way of saying goodbye before h...