Media Devices Used in Bend It like Beckham and Billy Elliot

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Media Devices Used in Bend It like Beckham and Billy Elliot

Narratives are constructed in many different ways; narrative editing,

narrative music, cinematography and mis en scene. This assignment will

take you through media devises and method used by the directors of

"Bend it like Beckham" and "Billy Elliot" use to construct their

narratives. The plots of both films are based on stereotypes and how

the main characters are challenging them in each film. This leads to

many similarities and differences.

"Bend it like Beckham" is set in west London areas; Southall,

Hounslow, Twickenham and Ealing, also a section is in Germany. This is

about A Indian girl that is growing up in a strict Indian family and

that is preventing her from following her dreams to be a female

footballer. Jess, gets forbidden to play football because her parents

believe that it is a "mans" sport and "not Indian like." As Jess has

been playing since a child with boys and her best mate Tony she finds

this extremely hard! One day when she was playing in the park with the

boys, a girl jogging in the park called Jules came over and asked her

to come to the teams trials, she accepts without hesitation. Jess asks

her parents permission but they refuse as it's against their culture.

Jess doesn't want to give up her football so she tells her parents she

has a job down HMV and she goes to football. One day her sister Pinky

(who is getting married) tries to pick her up from work but Jess has

come home from football and is sitting in the living room in front of

the television. Pinky then asks her about the "boy" that she's

sneaking off to go and meet but Jess denies everythin...

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...ce was where Billy lives and how narrow

minded the people are that live there are.

It is important to vary the way that the narrative is told in a film

because it would be very boring to jus watch one person for a good

ninety minutes, narratives should have a few things going on at once

and told in different ways to keep the viewer interested! The way that

editing is used in the 2 films create tension, and it also moves on

the narrative. The importance of mise en scene and music in a film is

important because it gives an edge to the film, the music makes it

livelier and the mise en scene sets the scene. Directors need to think

about the camera angle they use so that they show the scene from a

particular point of view, to make a person look more confident or

intimidated, for a panning shot or a extreme close-up (ECU).

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