Summary A Level Film Studies Selma note package - scene analysis + spectatorship
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FM2 - British and American Film
Institución
WJEC
Detailed notes on key sene analysis, perfect for those studying DuVernay’s ‘Selma’, for the American film section of the WJEC A Level Film Studies course. The key scene analysis is divided into separate micro-elements ready to support as evidence in your exam essays. There are also notes on b...
DuVernau,
2014 socialist san area: spectatorship and ianoioan
opening sound:*MIR's voice over-a leader - immediately focus on his voice, the importance m in's speeches
of -
bookmarks
- I infirm -
aligned w/him & softs low dialogue, min as a real person, & piconastic sound a scot
of fabric-tense and intimate
mise-en-scene: * applause, sorrowful tone-Asad * deafening, extended explosion sound Dabrasive
- ex spectator is shocked and horrified
*darkness a low key light- shadown,foreboding
-
there is danger and darkness -
spectator is m- cinematography:* 2 shots-p+ symmetrical midshots - partnership a king looking in mirror a Corretta behind
-easy. I contrasts brightness at end a luxurious him-- supportive of him close up mir
of star t ->
at audience immediately aligned with kind.
notel room Coretta's ornate dress
+ - importance.
editing:a sound bridgen we near kina's voice before we see him -
forces the
-
spectator to focus on his voice.
Spectatorship:a passive:we like king t horrified by bombing active:IS min good? Is he gonna help with the bombing
Jimmie's death
sound:I incidental, tense strings score as they Wallace discusses the march sets spectator an edge & pleonastic sound
sequence
- I of beatings and screaming-active involved spectating. * gun locking pleonastic a draws focus to violence. * mother's narrowing
mise-en-scene: screams in foreground + sirens practive spectator would question whether the sirens are good or bad * min preaching to Dad-protector
& Wallace in shadow -oforeboding antagonist * Mick's speech at
funeral
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passionate strongapplause showstheir support.
evil,tension a
ideology
confederate flag-Dracist
* raid blinding search light - agaressive cinematography.I woulace from below is
shot overbearing powera to chaotic,
r iot
shakehandheld camera a t intense
* warm lighting of restaurants misleading hope -> fast pans and jerky tracking shots, por of min looking at pad - are we mix? Fully arigred with him. * shot-rever
* simmie's wide eyes a sterile white walls of se-shot, king then audience -- build up a different
a ngles of king puts the spectator as differentm embers t he
of audience
Spectatorship:Passive: police are violent, don't line editing:A fastpaced editing in riot
a disorientating a slow motion used when simmy is snot used multiple times
Wallace. Active:own experiences w/ ralism?When a key event
happens to shows significance prolongs emotional
+
response from spectator a tragic marking point of
Ideology:racist/white ideology
supremacist selma movement. * sound bridge:
Jews different
moments together - one big journey.
↳o authority
violent
Ist march sound:a non-diegetic emotional, orchestral minor key croscendo
score a tens e t a subconsciously manipulates the
- I spectator to feel uneasy screaming - journalists voice over narration - cultural private self-news the media.
mise-en-scene:
* ironic 'Welcome to selma sign-they are not. cinematography: wide shots of bridge bridge symbolism ofmaking progress + wides show the scale of the
authority
* confederate ideologies dull
flag-racist mu- private self/cultural self
march -- a historical knowledge * shot-reverse
-
shot, protestors and troopers -
tension a sheriff badge
- ted colours -
tension, depressive a troopers
uniforms gas mask suncronised
+
organised
-
editing:- cutaways to TV moments-a media coverage - political ideology -
be rival sides, oppositional ideologies
violence a gaze naze obscures our vision, tense
Spectatorship:passive:police are bad active:question why this way and involve themselves in the
was that fightfurther aligned with the blacks.
Ideology:racistideology leftu s right
vs kina's liberal ideology - t o violence.
2and march sound:less emotional music, more so a melancholy power -> hopeful t ense drone
yet sound a tense strings
- I score with depressive, uneasy piano as king turns back.
mise-en-scene:
* dull muted colours again sense
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of fear cinematography.I tilt over
shot bridge reveals the size of the march a spectator feels a victory at
t he growing
* protestors on one side ofbridge, segregation extreme wide shots
support emphasise the distance between each side in we have allegiance to mina's side a murray
conliness * Whites marching too king gaining * tracking follows
shot king back through alignment is depressive - following him.
SUPPOUt·
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alignment
editing:- long edits on the close ups of miry we understand his responsibilityshown this decision in detail
Spectatorship:passive:ping musive trusted the troopers
not active:Why did king d ecision.
make that
Ideology:leftus right wing
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