Historical Battleship Potemkin, The Seventh Samurai, The Wizard of Oz, Once Upon A Time In The West, Fitzcarraldo, Alphaville
Art The Shape of Water, TheBreakfast Club, Toy Story
Mainstream A Bugs Life, , Deadpool 2, Submarine, Love Simon, , Manhattan
Many films in the top grossing films is superhero films like Marvel and DC. Bohemian Rhapsody is also a good film as its a Biopic film about Freddie Mercury and his life and how Queen the band rose to power and how it decayed over time.
Props- The balloon from ‘it’ is used to show that the clown uses it to lure children towards it so that he can kill them and is a massive piece of the Stephen King film as it is shown in many scenes and is almost a prop that represents the film.
Costume- In the show ‘Glee’ the main character Rachel Berry is dressed up in a traditional high school nerd as she wore a skirt and a nerdy shirt with long white socks showing she is a typical nerd.
Make-up – A film that has a good example of make up to create a character is the joker. He has make up on to intimidate audiences and it is symbolic to the joker character as it has always been known to have over the top makeup.
Set design – The set design of Hedda Gabler is just one room, however, they make use of space and make it look like its a lot bigger and they use symbolic props with it so every prop on the stage has a meaning later on in the show.
Location – A film that shows how a location is used is lord of the rings because its shot in New Zealand in a green highlands but at certain points of the films they make it dark and gloomy which makes you think how they did it and it showed verisimilitude as everything was realistic.
Lighting – The film Don’t Knock Twice is good because every time an event is going to happen and its scary the lights usually go from bright to very dim/dark and when the lights turn on again everything is fine but someone usually ends up dead.
Film Stock- In ‘It’ they use film stock in a certain scene to show the woman getting married slowly changing into penny wise the clown.
Space – Interstellar uses negative space to emphasize to the people watching that the planet that he is on is so large. So the negative space shows that he is only a small person in a big surronding.
Knowledgeable An IB student needs to be knowledgeable about the subjects they are taking
Risk takers An IB student has to be willing to takes risks for the pay off
Reflective An IB student needs to carefully reflect on everything that has happened to learn from what went bad and also good
Caring An IB student needs to take care of those around him
Principled An IB student needs to have his own principles?
Communicators An IB student needs to be able to talk and communicate his ideas to other co workers and adapt and improvise as seen fit
Inquirers An IB student needs to be constantly asking questions
Balanced An B student needs to balance out all aspects of the course
Opened minded An IB student needs to willing to accept and go along with any idea
Thinkers An IB student needs to be able to think for themselves and come to there own conclusions
Props – the baseball bat with nails in it is an iconic prop in Stranger Things as it is used to slay the demodogs in Season 2. Steve Harrington is protecting the kids from the demodogs and trying to win back Nancy Wheeler with his heroics, however this does not work.
Costumes – In the movie Jumanji 4 teens get taken into a computer game where they have to complete the game to get out. The costumes in this are fitting as it is a safari/adventure game so the costumes are what we would imagine someone like Indian Jones to wear.
Hair and Make-Up – Bohemian Rhapsody is a movie based on the life of Freddie Mercuary and his band, Queen. The make up in it is really well done as Rami Malek had a prosthetic nose and a lot of make up on and with it he looked pretty close to how Freddie Murcuary did.
Set Design – the Chamber of Secrets from Harry Potter was a studio made to look like an under ground lair. It was really well made as none, or at least very little would have been made from real concrete, of the snakes or walkway with the water on the floor to link to the fact it is in the plumbing and that some snakes like damp and dark places. This could also be to increase the tension in the scene as the dark shadows make it hard to see things.
Location – Game of Thrones was filmed in Northern Ireland, close to Belfast, but you wouldn’t think so looking at these frames one from Game of Thrones and one from Peter McKinnon’s vlog when the location scout for Game of Thrones took him to these places. This shows with different weather conditions and clever use of Mise En Scene can make a big difference.
Lighting – This scene from Bladerunner (Scott, 1982) is near the end of the film when Decker is trying to retire his last replicant, Roy, when Roy kills himself. This scene is a good example of how lighting should be used in films. It is low key lighting. This is effective as we can only see half the frame with the rest of it unknown.
Film Stock and Aspect Ratio – Skyfall (2012) is a typically James Bond film. I feel it is a good example of film stock as the colour grade of increased blue and less green gives it a cold feeling; this is combined with the fog, mist and rain to make the scene feel more dramatic and it adds to the cinematic feeling. The film also has an aspect ratio of 2.39:1 which is usually for film as usually it is 21:9.
Space – The remake of Alice in Wonderland (2010) uses space well in this scene. It does this by making your attention focus on Alice but then drift to the background which looks a lot bigger than her. This is unusual for us as humans are normally larger than the plants in the background.; a way this could have been achieved would be to lower the camera and shot upwards towards Alice. Also depth of field helps draw out attention to Alice is through Alice (foreground) being in focus but the background being out of focus; this would be achieved through a low depth of field such as f/4.0.
| Film | Preference (?/10) | Memorable scene | Film Element Focus |
| Bladerunner, Ridley Scott (1982) | 7/10 | When the woman was shot in the back. | Mise en scene |
The element which we were focusing on for this Film was MISE-EN-SCENE.
My Rating: 5/10
Memorable Scene: The scene with the
‘exotic dancer’ getting
shot was a highlight.
The slow motion affect
used made the scene
intense. Also, the
gunshots and the
shattering of the glass
made for an action
packed scene resulting
in a death.
| FILM | Preference (/10) | Memorable Scene | Film Element Focus |
| Bladerunner (Scott, 1982) | 4/10 | The final fight scene between Deckard and Batty | Mise en Scene |