Keighley Garside Film A level Blog

How does the Mise-en-scene and the music in Trainspotting reflect the social and cultural contexts of the film's setting. Trainspotting reflects the social and cultural content with the use of Mise-en-scene and music. We can see the lack of employment in Scotland which is brought on by the post Thatcher era which is clearly where the film Trainspotting is based, this is shown when Renton says  "choose life, choose a job, choose a career, choose a family, choose a f***ing big television ect".  The drug and rave culture is very well used in this film as we see the gang of people using heroine and have become addicted to it, this is all because they don't have work to go to due to the Thatcherism which made a massive rise in unemployment. The rave culture is shown when Renton meets Diane they are dancing and listening to music that was popular at that period of time. The music is very well thought out in this film as it uses non synchronous sound which is sound t...

How does TIE reflect the political and social contexts of the 80's? Make sure you refer to film form in your answer, especially Mise-en-scene (costume, setting, performance ect. ) and sound (especially music). Context Political (Thatcherism and Capitalism) Social (the dual representations of Skinhead culture, disaffection of youth, racial tension and riots) This is England reflects political and social content in the 80's by the graffiti that we see throughout such as Combo and Shaun were actually doing the graffiti themselves which was all against Thatcher and her policies and what she stood for. We can also see in This is England that the Capitalist views are clearly frowned upon as they are working class which then leads to the Skinhead culture with them dressing the same and having shaved heads and liking the same music which is the original Skinheads which were multicultural and didn't discriminate because the music they all enjoyed was brought from...

Compare how far your chosen films reflect the auteur signature features of their filmmakers. [40 marks] This essay will explore the reflect of the auteurs signature on their films which are Vertigo and One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest. The auteurs for these films are Alfred Hitchcock for Vertigo and Milos Forman for One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest. Auteur is a French word which means author and this means then the author has a certain way of creating or putting something in their films to make is immediately recognisable as their films, auteur also include the style of the film. In the film Vertigo the auteur being Alfred Hitchcock makes it easy to see his influences on the film he uses a lot of the same camera shots for example a bird's eye view which lets the audience get a better perspective on what is happening throughout the whole film and also high angle shots which show who is dominant in the scene which is Scottie throughout most of film. As a an auteur he uses...

Masculinity and its flaw - Inception - this would be in the scene of her first dream and the power shifts from Cob to Ariadne which is showing strong female characters which shows the males as flawed and lacking their masculinity in some respects and also the loss of his wife makes him a weaker male as every time he sees her doing something she shouldn't he can't stop her. Captain Fantastic - as he is teaching his children all the masculine things such as hunting and fighting were as they are not shown to have this gentle side to them which is not that often seeing in males and females children, which is an overwhelming amount of masculinity.

In Captain Fantastic some spectators may have an emotional response which is dependent on the certain spectators like who they are, what their gender is, how old they are. The emotional response of shock in the opening scene where they kill the stag the techniques for this is that it has been put next to a scene of happiness where they are washing in the lake and playing together which makes the killing part of the scene more shocking and the washing part of the scene more happy as they are polar opposites to each other. There is also no music in this scene which makes the killing of the stag very unexpected and very brutal with the stag just going about it's day and Bo the eldest son kills it. Another emotional response is sympathy for Rellian as most children have had an argument with there parents and you always think that the child is right and the parents are wrong which may make some spectators feel empathy for him and also maybe approval to what he is doing by going to Ja...