FILM CHOSEN (incl. Director and Date)	Pan’s Labyrinth (Del Toro, 2006)
Time Signature (Hours00Mins00Seconds00) + Duration	01:44:40 – 01:48:26 – 3 minutes 46 seconds
Sequence/Scene  Description	Ophelia refuses to injure her brother and is shot by the captain. The Captain is then shot.
Micro Elements (choose 2 at least)	Mise En Scene, Editing & Sound
Macro Elements (choose 1)	Auteur Theory

FILM	Preference (/10)	Memorable Scene	Film Element Focus
Across the Universe (Taymor, 2007)	3  /10	When they are in the tent and the background is drawings	sound/editing

FILM	Preference (/10)	Memorable Scene	Film Element Focus
Pan’s Labyrinth (del Toro, 2006)	10   /10	When she is being chased by the child eater	Mise en Scene/ editing

FILM	Preference (/10)	Memorable Scene	Film Element Focus
Moonlight (Jenkins, 2016)	8/10	When his mother is telling adult Chiron that she loves him and he cries.	Cinematography, sound, narrative structure

Me – Screenwriting

Abby – Direction

Micah – Editing

James – Cinematography

All – Sound

Task 1 –  

Subaltern – of a lower status. 

Orientalism – the representation of Asia in a stereotyped way that is regarded as embodying a colonialist attitude. 

Diaspora – the spread of people away from their original homeland.  

Exoticism – being attractive due to being unusual/ style characteristic of a foreign country 

Mimicry – imitating something or someone to ridicule them.  

Otherness – the quality of being different.  

Task 2 –  

I think a film that expresses some of the themes of the poem is The Lost City of Z. In the film British explorers travel to the amazon to try and map it out. Whilst they are there, they discover the remains of an old city that was quite advanced. When they return to England the explorers and the native people of the Amazon try to convince people to help them look for the city. However, the people in the archaeological society do not believe that the native people could have built things such as waterways and pottery as they are treated as less civilised. They are laughed at for suggesting that they could have been an advanced society as it is expressed by them that without assistance from the British people, they would not be able to do anything alone. This reflects the idea of the poem that white colonisation was thought of as helping the other races to become more civilised even though it was actually harming them and treating them as subordinate.  

Examples of male gaze in posters:

Example of male gaze: Suicide Squad

In Suicide Squad, the character of Harley Quinn is seen through the male gaze. In a scene in the film all of the characters get their confiscated items back. She is shown to be getting changed and during this the camera pans up from her legs to her face when she is in her underwear. This is an example of scopophilia as the audience are looking at her and are expected to be attracted to her from this as it is from a heterosexual male’s position. It then shows the other characters reacting to her doing this. This is part of the twin mechanisms as this is showing the audience identification of what they are feeling from characters within the film.

Example of female gaze: Birds of Prey

The same character of Harley Quinn, in Birds of Prey, is still wearing revealing clothing, but the camera does not focus in or linger on her exposed skin at any point and instead follows her face, her actions or her entire body. This is an example of the female gaze as she is still wearing clothes that people may find attractive, but it is not a key part of any of the scenes and is not the main focus of anything. The male characters in this may also be seen as attractive to the audience however, the camera does not focus on them as well and films their actions. This means the audience sees the film from the position of a woman rather than a heterosexual male.

Example of a film that is more female centric:

I think that a good example of modern filmmakers attempting to take a less sexist and more female centric approach is Midsommar by Ari Aster. It is about a woman visiting a cult in Sweden after the death of her family. The director is male which shows that men are creating more stories with women who are complex characters in the centre of the story and are not just a passive woman which creates a sense of scopophilia, or as someone who has no faults and is unobtainable. In the film the camera never focuses on Danny’s (the protagonist) bare skin or individual body parts that would evoke more of scopophilia. Even when women’s bare skin is shown in the film during a scene where the cult tries to get Danny’s boyfriend to impregnate a woman in the cult, it is not lingered on and is shown as all of the scene unfolding rather than just the woman. When bare skin of any character is shown on screen it is not focused on and is a part of the background, and the focus is placed onto the plot or to something that the audience would find disturbing as it is a psychological horror film. I think this shows that filmmakers are using less scopophilia of women as anytime nudity is shown it is because of the plot rather than showing it for no other reason than to create scopophilia.

Area of film focus: Film noir

Film 1: The Maltese Falcon (1941)

Film 2: Brick (2005)

Question: How do these films show how the genre has changed over time?

Nadaniel is inspired by the character of Ceasar from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, so he is tall, skinny, pale and is wearing lots of black with dark shadows under his eyes and on his lips. He is a jazz flute musician so is wearing typical jazz musician clothes, including a white shirt, fedora and a bowtie. He is afraid of mirrors and the dead, but he is a murderer who kills people with his flute. He kills people because he thinks they are already dead and are trying to kill him.   

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is regarded as innovative as the mise en scene is very different to others at the time. The setting does not appear realistic and there are angles of buildings and streets that would not be able to exit. The props are also unrealistically scaled and positioned, for example the chairs in the police station are tall stools which would not be used in an actual police station. This makes the entire environment appear abstract and strange which adds to the reveal that the entire story was created by an insane man as it makes the previous events seem dream-like and unreal.

The story is also incredibly complex for a film of the time when Hollywood films were usually epic historical stories or comedies and that was easier to accomplish and was popular with audiences. The film is edited through a series of flashbacks and within them there are more flashbacks for another character, making the narrative complex and more difficult to follow. Parallel editing is also used during the scene where they read Caligari’s diary, to show that Caligari is asleep at the same time and is not aware of the people in his office. There are many close ups showing emotions of the characters and they become deranged.