- Opposite ends of table - visible distance
- exaggerated sounds chewing and drinking, exaggerates silence and feeling of emptiness.
- Constant reference to technology; computer analysis, robots.
- loneliness and not satisfied; people are easy to replace, same problems no matter the person.
- she's a robot too; loss of connection, no love just loneliness.
- Themes of loneliness and loss of connection
Swimmer - 18 mins
- black and white
- constant increase in beating of drums.
- stone, paper, scissors
- several long takes of plants in water
- almost church-esque music in background
- water looks like a black abyss
- speech sounds like its on a radio
- from a different time - child in goggles similar to 1940?
- radio transmission fades away as swimmer is shown
- slow mo of swimmer
- child dressed as animals - hunting? - where the wild things are
- film noir - lighting - chiaroscuro
- fairground - marks on back and face - blood? - alarms (police)
- swimming is reversed - running away from police
- longshot- swimming farther into sea - no civilisation - in middle of sea - goes under
- credit scene is mirrored
Ways I will use this:
- use of long takes - mimic melancholy and tiredness
- narration and voice-over - mimic the film noir style and detective style
- use of chiaroscuro
Meshes of the Afternoon - 14 mins
- female director
- mirror face - male gaze - man is mirror - she only sees what he sees in her (her looks)
- constant repetition of bonjos, setting and movement (chasing herself)
- Key in mouth - escape inner turmoil - lock away whats going on inside
- black clothing, key turns into knife - funeral and only escape is kill what she's thinking??
- takes key but it goes back to the table - can't escape
- Murdered with mirror - he's killing her, male gaze is killing her
- the location is the mind
Ways I will use this:
- lack of linear narrative
- psychological ideology
Stutterer - 12 mins .
- narration - phone call, inside head.
- close up of mouth - main focus on movements and words.
- sign language - emphasises desperation in not wanting to talk
- repetition of words in mind
- Jeremy Kyle - about communication with "his son", use of background diegetic sound.
- lots of shots where he stares into the camera
- rubs throat - as if to prepare to talk
- Layering sentences - shows state of mind
- Typography - life revolves around words and communication
- all forms of communication : typography, tv, facebook, books, sign language
- jumpcuts and fade to black - mimics stuttering.
Ways I will use this:
- use of background objects to tell a story - focus on one thing instead of the linear storyline.
La Jetée
Fallen Angel
- montage of images - told like a storybook.
- photos are memories - circular plot
- one moving scene - woman blinks, question if its real, not all photos show memories.
- Voice-over with subtitles (both diegetic and non-diegetic at times)
Ways I will use this:
- Questioning the plot (is he real?)
- Non-linear plot.
Fallen Angel
- sudden changes to black and white
- Neon lights are layered - image doubled and smudged
- everything takes place at night
- repetition of scenes
Ways I will use this:
- Repetition and continuation of scenes, kitchen, mr sleep.
- link to text on screen
- layering/smudging of calendar
Tropes of Film Noir and detective style
- minor things reveal major plot
- femme fatale
- smoke / smoking
- cynical attitudes & sexual motivations
- moody atmosphere
- chiaroscuro
- voice-overs & monologue
- themes of existentialism
- themes of alienation
- dark and claustrophobic
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