The novel ‘Jasper Jones’ written by Craig Silvey and the film ‘Dressmaker’ directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse have connected to the audience and use of narratives conventions in very similar ways. The ways that they have succeed doing this is through characteristics, plot and setting. By looking into how they are used by the author/ director widen the knowledge and have deeper in-depth understanding on how authors and directors use them to connect with the audience. The author and director have used characteristics to connect with the audience by using relatable situations like peer pressure, disliked by people, challenges and traumatic experiences.
In the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom directed by Marilyn Agrelo The instructors teach the students to be mature and stand up for themselves. The students are also learning to have confidence, and people skills. The program teaches the students about their national culture. The information was gathered by interviews with teacher, parents, and the students. Observations were also used to add information to the video article.
In total, the film contains four noticeable narratives. The first narrative shows Hugo working with his father prior to his passing. Through this narrative, viewers are able to see how Hugo’s father died in a fire. The second narrative tells the tale of Georges Méliès’s buying and selling of property. The third narrative is of the librarian visiting Georges Méliès as a young child at his studio, and the fourth narrative shows Hugo and his father enjoying time at the theater together.
Camera Movement in Casablanca (ESSAY #3) (A-) It’s important to watch Casablanca while thinking about the context in which it was released. After the United States entered World War II, it was a little over a year before audiences saw Casablanca. It doesn’t take much investigation to see how the war plays a part in the storytelling, but certain film techniques helped emphasize messages the film wanted to tell its audience. Through the use of camera movement, the finale of Casablanca puts the spotlight on Strasser and Rick’s newfound relationship, which can convey a message about the United States and its allies.
At the beginning of the film there is a narrative voice over which explains the political context of what is happening to the audience. The viewer never has to figure anything out for themselves therefor the film is conforming to a typical narrative structure. The storyline concerns the coming of World War II and a love triangle between Baine, Ilsa and Laszlo. The viewer’s main focus is on the love triangle rather than the political context making the overall storyline easy to understand. This also is an aspect as to why this movie conforms to a classical narrative approach.
The introduction for Agatha Christie’s And then there were none And Then There Were None the movie. The book starts by introducing everyone on Indian Island but in the movie it starts on a boat introducing everyone. So right off the bat it has already changed,But later on some of the little to big things are changed.
The film’s point of view, third person omniscient, illuminated the theme
In “Under the Eye of the Clock,1987 by Christopher Nolan, he reveals the struggles of a boy named Joseph Meehan and his bad physical conditions of muscle spasm and paralysis while determined, trying to find a solution. One instance where Nolan develops this idea is in line 10 by introducing Joseph condition as he said “How do I conquer my body, mused the paralysed boy”. The author introduce the central idea by first conveying the reader of Joseph body of being paralysed. When Nolan says “how do I conquer ” he is emphasizing the idea of Joseph struggles from his paralysis and muscle spasm and how is desperately try to find solution. This relate to the central idea because it is accurately represent Joseph problem while trying to overcome it.
The Royal Tenenbaums is a dramatic comedy film that was directed and written by Wes Anderson. Wes Anderson is widely known for his quirky wierd comedies, narrative style that includes showing the chapters every scene in the movie. I noticed that in his every movie, it has dysfunctional theme or having dysfunctional families and dysfunctional characters that concerns parental abandonment. He also uses recurring actors from his other movies like Bill Murray and Owen Wilson. Wes Anderson is also known to have flawed characters in his films, he also uses a distinct style for every character in his films as we can see on this movie and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Aralina Solis Professor Atkinson History 121 February 13, 2017 Love Conquers All The successful and melodramatic musical “West Side Story” by Jerome Robbins essentially represents a contemporary tragedy inspired by William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”. The story of two lovers with conflicting social backgrounds somehow manages to bring to attention a brutal reflection of social issues that are still relevant in modern day, all the while creating a heart-wrenching adventure of an unquenchable thirst between two star-crossed lovers.
Michael Curtiz, who was a Hungarian American film director, directed a film titled Casablanca. This movie is a classic film noir film that is considered to be timeless. The story is good and the characters were one of a kind, the acting alone defines how great the movie is. In addition, the directing is the best because the flick is one of the greatest romantic films of all time, but we did not see that much romance scene in the movie. Roger Ebert, who was a film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times, said the movie “is about a man and a woman who are in love, and who sacrifice love for a higher purpose” (Ebert, par1).
The narration in the movie can be described as circular narrative as the ending and beginning when merged complete the timeline of the movie(1). This narrative structure is rather unconventional and reminds the audience at multiple instances that this is not real life and they are watching a movie. One of these instances include Mia (Uma Thurman) drawing a rectangle on screen while talking to Vincent (John Travolta) in car in front of Jack Rabbit Slim’s. The film includes multiple clues which link its narration style to Post Modernism. To understand this linkage, firstly Post Modernism should be described.
The film the Grand Budapest Hotel is a recount of the life of a boy named Zero and how he comes to own the Grand Budapest Hotel. The film starts off as Zero being a young lobby boy who is shown the ropes by Gustave, the concierge of the hotel. Gustave is known to romance the older guests of the hotel and because of this
1.0 INTRODUCTION The Help is an example of American drama film. It was released in August 9, 2011 and its length was 146 minutes and directed by Tate Taylor. The film was adapted to a novel, where there has been a long tradition of African- American women serving as “The Help” for upper-middle class white woman and their families. Descriptions of historical events of the early activities of thecivil rights movement are peppered throughout the novel, as are interactions between the maids and their white employers.
Baz Luhrmann is known world wide for his eccentric and flamboyant film-making style. Luhrmann’s signature bright colours, fast-paced camera-cuts and zooms, and bold costumes are all key characteristics of his films and assist Luhrmann in putting forward the themes and motifs he regards as essential in each of his works. However, Luhrmann still receives much criticism for not staying true to the original source material of the stories he introduces to the big screen. One fails to realize the fact that, “Luhrmann’s films are not so much adaptations as re-imaginings” (Vogue Magazine) and through analysis of his various techniques, as well as his overall cinematic language in his films, “Strictly Ballroom” (1992), “Romeo + Juliet” (1996) and “The Great Gatsby”, one can see this clearly, through Luhrmann’s evolution as a director. Luhrmann makes his films his own from the start, the opening scenes of all three of these films implement post-modern techniques which instantly informs the audience that they are entering into Luhrmann’s
