My documentary film "Australian Horizons: Transforming Education Down Under" explores the school system and the changes that need to be made to it. I initially thought of this idea after exam season in year 9, I realized how better I felt and realized that constant headaches and panic attacks from encroaching deadlines should not be made a part of so many students’ lives. So, I thought of ways to best deal with this matter and landed on a film. The film will include facts like: over 45% of Australian high school students feel stressed every day, and 61% between 13-17 feel stressed to the extent that their grades are suffering, while most students have higher levels of anxiety, admittedly due to exams. It has been proven by the American Psychological …show more content…
There will also be uses of archival footage from another film or news article.For an example of these techniques, I've pre-organized a small key scene. This clip, lasting 1:30, will be positioned directly after the introduction of the film. It will commence with an empathetic tone from our voice actor Jenna James, who will reveal that the reason students are so stressed all the time is because the school systems have failed to evolve to meet the modern-day needs of students. She explains how the education system has failed to change in almost a hundred years and describes what it was like for students in the 1900s as a prime example. She tells the story of Jim Hughes, a 15-year-old from a poor family in Arndell’s Trail, a small town near the Hawkesbury River. Jim started working for his family at 6, but his family finally saved up enough so Jim could attend. He joined a class of under 90 children aged from 5 to 20. They were taught basic skills like basic mathematics, reading, and writing, and important life skills like furnishing for boys and sewing for girls. With …show more content…
These visuals will serve to add a factual, accurate perspective, evoke emotion, and deepen the audience's connection to the subject matter. Slow-paced music with piano and violin solos will set a solemn mood, while darker lighting and shadowy scenes will emphasize the gravity of certain clips. Overall, the visual style aims to immerse viewers in the narratives while instilling a sense of empowerment and hope for change. Through the use of cinematic techniques like extreme long shots, close ups, worms eye views and dolly’s horizontally and diagonally, I’ll aim to evoke emotion and create a sense of empathy in the audience. The imagery will be carefully crafted to suit the visual style and seeks to immerse viewers in the narrative while conveying the seriousness of the issues being
Some of these animations add visuals when a complex idea is being described, such as the idea of the ‘lemon dance” or the ‘rubber room’ in New York. Guggenheim also takes the idea of tenure and uses these techniques to twist tenure into somethi...
Throughout the film, the filmmaker follows the three victims around in their everyday lives by using somber music and backgrounds of depressing colors. The documentary starts off with colorful images of the scenery
These techniques are significant as it leads the viewers into contemplating about their own High Schools, creating emotional introspection. As a younger viewer it also enables me to empathise with the students being a similar age to the victims of the massacre. The severity of the situation is also felt through the use of sound as the audience can hear the trembling and distraught tones from the emergency calls. Archival sound footage further strengthens the authenticity of the crisis. As the distressed voices are heard as a voice-over, paired with the solemn sound of the acoustic guitar, the camera techniques further complements the disaster.
This approach can also be used in schools as it is also very good at helping when looking at the behaviour and physical processes children maybe going through when writing exams, this links with Selye’s stress model and how people deal with stress as well as
In effect all the techniques mentioned above portray a society of individuals who are weary of the world they live in. They are rejects who lead a pitiful existence in a wasteland called earth because they are not fit enough to go the out-world colonies. Suppressing their own natural instincts for the sake of physically surviving they really the walking dead. Scientific progress conducted not for the best interests of humanity but for the best interests of business has effectively brought about the progressive degradation of society. By exploiting and destroying the natural world human can no more find solace or beauty so as to recuperate their weary minds and rekindle their dying spirits. In summary the techniques that are unique to film such as camera, lighting, costuming, colour and location works in conjunction with common literary techniques such as visual symbolism, irony and characterisation to effectively convey the relationship between humanity and nature.
use of the camera the sound and the mise en scene. I will analyze the
The Lives of Others- Film Education 2007, Education guide, Lionsgate, viewed Monday 4th of April 2011,
Films are created to tell a story, to tell an effective story a broad range of techniques needs to be used in a successful way (Brown, 2012.) The ‘Two Pills’ scene from the film The Matrix (1999) uses these techniques in a way that creates a strong representation of the characters and storyline. The techniques used include cinematography, the soundtrack and the editing. In addition, mise-en-scéne is used to enhance the narrative through dialogue, costume, setting and lighting to create a highly emotional reaction from the audience.
In the film V for Vendetta the director James Mcteigue uses a range of different film techniques in order to gain the audience's attention and to make the movie more interesting. The four film techniques I’m going to focus on in this essay are editing, music, camera angles and the lighting. I am going to do this by analysing the ‘Domino Montage’ scene.
As an audience we are manipulated from the moment a film begins. In this essay I wish to explore how The Conversation’s use of sound design has directly controlled our perceptions and emotional responses as well as how it can change the meaning of the image. I would also like to discover how the soundtrack guides the audience’s attention with the use of diegetic and nondiegetic sounds.
In conclusion, I have demonstrated how Coppola exploits a wide array of sound and editing to create suspense, intensity, and anxiety in the sequence to affect the audience’s emotions, using diegetic ambient sound effects, non-diegetic music, voice over and four editing types. With this sequence, Coppola has shown the savagery of war and our complicity in this violence as an audience.
The visual construction plays an important role in establishing the plot and enticing viewers to a dystopian story. It is the finishing touches which makes a movie a masterpiece. The combination of visual effects including montages, camera angles and tempo was structured brilliantly in the I am Legend and as a result was successful in demonstrating key qualities of a dystopian fiction.
Following the story of the oddly behaved Bundren family, Anse Bundren is able to disguise his selfish desire to go to town with the promise of delivering his wife’s corpse to her desired cemetery. Throughout Faulkner’s novel As I Lay Dying, Anse’s actions, thoughts, and attitude are expressed through Faulkner’s use of characterization to help the reader uncover Anse’s motivation. Expressing through Anse’s attitude towards his children and dialogue with other characters, Faulkner gives readers parts of Anse’s character and how he causes a setback to each character and is not involved in any of their personal lives. Towards the beginning of the novel, Faulkner’s first major detail about Anse’s character is revealed. “Anse keeps on rubbing his knees,” (29).
The trailer released for the film followed suit, flashing images of violence, guns, and heart-throb Leonardo DeCaprio, in order to grab the attention of the audience. In most cases, people do not realize that behind these scenes lies subliminally transmitted emotion. Through the instrumentation that guides the trailer, the audience’s perceptions of the juxtaposed images are altered. By changing this music, one can change the tone of the entire trailer.
Although admittedly some scenes have a comical side to them, Besson's fast paced action and gruesome images hold the tension and suspense brilliantly. His use of close-ups and camera movements, especially the subjective stance used by the victim, convey the feelings felt by the characters and the way in which they behave. Sound plays a crucial role in the opening sequence because, in my view, it is used to control the level of suspense and intrigue.