Splendidly presented and indicating your growing confidence with interpreting film language.
Though your case study is meant to be focused on how the director establishes genre you do not link your analysis to specific generic conventions which are explicitly used in the opening to the film.
You needed to explain for example that in the opening shot genre is explicitly established by the use of noir lighting with a chiaroscuro effect. This immediately injects the mise-en-scene with a sense of mystery..........the garage is another thriller convention in that it is isolated and.....
You may wish to revise your case study so that your case study clearly reflects your knowledge and understanding of the noir genre.
Next Step: To strengthen case studies either add another slide/s or another post titled “Inter-textual References in Essex Boys”
For example: reference thriller films or TV series (preferably with screen shots or uploaded footage) that use or develop or challenge similar generic conventions. For example in “Essex Boys” noir lighting with a chiaroscuro effect (the establishing shots of Billy in the garage) reinforces the generic roots of the film. Other examples you could reference, and don’t forget the films or TV crime dramas that we have viewed in class and that are watching independently, can be used as comparisons. • “The Opening to Once Upon a Time in America” also uses noir lighting whilst the chiaroscuro effect is achieved when Eve switches on her bed side lamp.
• The iconic final sequence in “The Third Man” is another example where the director amplifies generic conventions with the use of chiaroscuro lighting, vanishing points and claustrophobic spaces when Harry Lime is trapped in the Viennese sewers.
• Tarantino also uses the same effect with Ordell murders Beaumont in the waste ground in “Jackie Brown”.
Thus the audience is transported into an isolated world where nightmares become reality.
Also think about comparing the generic locations, costume or character types with other thrillers.
Splendidly presented and indicating your growing confidence with interpreting film language.
ReplyDeleteThough your case study is meant to be focused on how the director establishes genre you do not link your analysis to specific generic conventions which are explicitly used in the opening to the film.
You needed to explain for example that in the opening shot genre is explicitly established by the use of noir lighting with a chiaroscuro effect. This immediately injects the mise-en-scene with a sense of mystery..........the garage is another thriller convention in that it is isolated and.....
You may wish to revise your case study so that your case study clearly reflects your knowledge and understanding of the noir genre.
Next Step: To strengthen case studies either add another slide/s or another post titled “Inter-textual References in Essex Boys”
For example: reference thriller films or TV series (preferably with screen shots or uploaded footage) that use or develop or challenge similar generic conventions. For example in “Essex Boys” noir lighting with a chiaroscuro effect (the establishing shots of Billy in the garage) reinforces the generic roots of the film. Other examples you could reference, and don’t forget the films or TV crime dramas that we have viewed in class and that are watching independently, can be used as comparisons.
• “The Opening to Once Upon a Time in America” also uses noir lighting whilst the chiaroscuro effect is achieved when Eve switches on her bed side lamp.
• The iconic final sequence in “The Third Man” is another example where the director amplifies generic conventions with the use of chiaroscuro lighting, vanishing points and claustrophobic spaces when Harry Lime is trapped in the Viennese sewers.
• Tarantino also uses the same effect with Ordell murders Beaumont in the waste ground in “Jackie Brown”.
Thus the audience is transported into an isolated world where nightmares become reality.
Also think about comparing the generic locations, costume or character types with other thrillers.