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Nosedive Joe Wright Film Techniques

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In the film ‘Nosedive’, directed by the brilliant Joe Wright creates a society where he contrasts reality and social media. Joe Wright displays where society is headed if we don’t change the entanglement between humans and technology. Joe Wright heavily critiques this society by using key film aspects such as camera work, sound, mise-en-scène and editing, as he then breaks these aspects down into key techniques. Joe Wright carefully considered where all these techniques and aspects fall into place to create the perfect dystopian yet ‘perfect’ world, followed by a perfectionist main character, Lacie Pound and her journey to become more popular and perfect in the duration of the film.

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Joe Wright creates techniques among this film aspect such as wide shot, close up shot and panning. Joe Wright uses panning to create tension during the wedding scene, this is when Lacie is halfway through her speech and Naiomi warns Paul to get Lacie out as Lacie is ruining Naomi's social status and reputation. When Paul is close to succeeding we can view the camera panning Lacie running away from Paul, this creates tension as panning can invoke the idea of physical surroundings and space to create an unsettling impact towards the audience. The close up that was included in the scene was when Lacie was expressing how she really felt about Naiomi, we can see the emotion on her face thanks to the close up shot. Another technique Joe Wright uses is a wide shot showing from Lacie’s perspective everyone there was adapted and matched the occasion, this left Lacie on her own as her outfit was covered in mud. Joe Wright's purpose for all 3 techniques was to exclude Lacie from the rest and to make her outcast. Another key aspect Joe Wright uses is edition, he consistently uses this aspect to outcast Lacie even more than she already is. This is accompanied by 3 techniques used such as transition, structure and special effects. As Lacie is laughing to herself whilst making a terrible joke, the camera transitions to the wedding audience giving her 1 out of 5 stars, this then transitions back to her crying and feeling left out of this ‘perfect’ society. The reason Joe Wright has structured the wedding scene that particular way is to create a big build up, as it starts off as a normal wedding and every film technique created tension during the ending of the scene, as Lacie was getting hunted down by Paul and the security. As Laice is having a breakdown we can see the camera pan to her phone and we can hear special effects of people rating Lacie

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