Distinctive Voice In One Night The Moon

Hey everyone, I am Rachel Perkins, director of the musical film ‘One Night the Moon’ casting Paul kelly as lead actor and his daughter Memphis Kelly, Kaarin Fairfax, Kelton Pell and many more. I am here to persuasively construct a speech of how distinctive voices are used to provide insight and challenges that the responder create from the experiences of others and allow distinct understatements to be view upon. The film that I directed evidently explores the different perspective of distinctive voices through the characters present in the film. Voices include cultural, spiritual and gendered are analyse by the different characteristics and visually representation of the characters which will help you see the point of view from different angles.

Using the characters to my advantage, I say that voices are distinguished by the different viewpoint of the white settlers and the Indigenous Australians culturally, the femininity of female characters in the film and the spiritual context of the moon. Distinctive voices is profoundly noticeable in all text and be represented in many different ways to alert the responders and that is why I am here to convince my opinion.

My film speculates a story of two gentlemen, Jim Ryan and Albert Yang, two contrasting characters with informative distinct voices, which exploit their own understanding of culture and the Australian land by directing it through medium’s of song, lyric and tone. To be more specific both characters sing the song ‘This Land is Mine’, which displays their own perspective understanding of the land. After Albert was rejected to assist in the search for Emily, Jim Ryan, a prejudiced, white settler, the voice or representation of what it is to be a white Australia, allows you the audience to see that he is the one that owns the land and that he controls everything, as he sings “This land is mine, all the way to the old fence line”, claiming the ownership of the land to himself. The tone of the voice he is singing in, is a rough and emphatic tone. This is so that I convey my discerning understanding to my audience of what a typical white settler at that time sees the land by the loud sound. Albert Yang, the black tracker, the voice of an insignificant, Indigenous Australian, community sings opposite lyrics of “This land is me, the rocks, water, animals and trees” in a tone of a more calm, low vibe, bass sound, which purvey that he is owed by the land and that he has no control of the land itself but nurtures it and it nurture him. I wanted to differentiate both the characters through their different cultural understanding of the Australian land which they are placed in, by the lyric they sing and the tone of the voice throughout the scene. The cultural voice represented through the distinct characters of Jim Ryan and Albert Yang vision of the land is clearly an insight of how you as responders see the distinctive voice in other people's experiences, which is then taken to an extent to be explored further.

Another way of drawing responders into the experiences of others are through the gendered perspective role of femininity and the maternal voices.

Rose Ryan the mother of the film, the voice of frantic, heartbroken mother, emanates the presence of a nurturing mother towards her child like every other mother should be. The bond of a mother and child is everlasting and is present throughout the film. It is affirmed by the visual scenery of when Rose and Emily is playing around the clothesline as she is pegging the sheets, Emily riding a wooden stick horse in the bushes or when she is kneading dough under her mother's arms and her distresses of when Jim Ryan continually fail to find Emily. Many of those scenes, I conveyed the meaning of maternally. I used flashbacks that Rose bears during the disappearance of Emily further grows the connection between the mother and daughter bond as it is played in slow motion and harmonised to the voices of the Hannan Sisters. The strong scene is to evaluate the bond of the mother and daughter compassionate relationship towards each other and to give you the immense power of emotion and feelings. Rose and Emily share a strong bond, unlike the bond between father and daughter. Emily is the the voice of innocence, she is child that ties everything up together and connects the two different distinct voices of her father and her mother. The two female characters maintains that gendered voice throughout the film which gives my audience the

experience of care. The distinct voice of Rose Ryan and Emily Ryan clearly demonstrates the experiences we share from others, which draws the responders to take into consideration and is delve upon.

Distinctive voices is also mended through the spirituality of different landscapes and objects.

The moon plays an important role in my film, as it is the main center point of why everything happened. Emily Ryan is lured out of her house, through the window and she followed the moon to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. The moon displays a distinct voice which is observed by the harmonic sound of the voices sang by the Hannan Sisters and the bright salient, intense lighting image of the full moon passing by the night sky, every time the scene of it comes. It gives you as responders a vision of innocence that the moon have, as it is dominantly white and that it contrasts between light and dark, night and day to create the drama I wanted. The ruggedness and desolate land during the day, drain of its blues, pinks and green but is saturated with colours of orange, red and yellow explores the relationship of hop being lost. The high shots and panning shots of the landscape allows you see the brood and vast land that Emily could get lost in and gives you responder a sense of challenge in a way that the child may never be found. Rose and Jim experiences the hardship of the land as they are challenged by the land. Therefore I confirmly agree that the the vast landscape and the purity of the moon beyond undoubtedly array to my responders to view the distinct voices in them which creates the experiences of not only others but objects and beyond just voices and

actions.

Throughout my production of the film ‘One NIght the Moon’, I have accomplished many different ways in which I can display different and unique distinctive voices. Distinctively it can be represented in many different ways such as culture, gender or spiritual. The exploration of Jim Ryan and Albert Yang, on how distinguish their perspectives on Australian soil, through to the femininity and maternal care of gender role and the representation of the land and moon to different people can become its own individual distinct voice. As responders we should identify and understand other perspective and experiences of the beliefs, values to which we can explore further more into. Distinctive voices can be found in many text and especially this film. There are many more distinct voices in the film which can be analysed furthermore.