One Night Visual Analysis

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How distinctive voices are used to draw the responder into the experiences of others and allow different perspectives to be explored in a single text. Thank you for having me today, I want to thank Damian Trewhella, the CEO of Australian Film Institute especially for allowing me to be able to be here today. It’s been a great honour to be here with you all as I have been informed that, here in front of me are the great teachers of Australia, the top teachers in the world. As of today’s topic, “How distinctive voices are used to draw the responder into the experiences of others and allow different perspectives to be explored in a single text.” I am here to talk about how distinctive voices can resonate through other mediums such as a Moon in …show more content…

A medium that is heavily focused on in my film, “One Night, the Moon” would be the perspectives and one of them are the white white culture. They are seen as the colonisers who sought only to dominate the landscape through the building of houses and use it to only benefit themselves. In the song, “This land is mine”, I deliberately made Paul Kelly who was playing as Jim Ryan sing in a nasal pitch and tone which symbolises how little he cares for the land as there is no soul and passion for the land. Juxtaposed to when Kelton Pell, playing as Albert Yang also known as Black Tracker who had a deeper and smoother voice showing that love and connection he has towards the land. The line “ This land is me, This land owns me” also pushes on the points that Albert Yang doesn’t see the land as property he can own, but an idol that should be worshipped and served. Through his dedication to the land, Jim is threatened by this forcing Albert to leave due to how racial barrier and how during this time period, there were some attacks on the white culture by Aboriginal warriors who utilised guerilla warfare to massacre the white people so that their land wouldn’t suffer under the white people’s