1. Why did film makers and producers move to Hollywood? – The weather was consistent all year round, making outdoor shooting much easier to do.
2. Name some of the big stars, directors and pictures from the silent era. – Charlie Chaplin directed and starred in The Gold Rush (1925). Lillian Gish starred in The Birth of a Nation (1915), directed by D. W. Griffith.
3. In what ways was the early Hollywood studio system like a factory or studio line? – revenues from film distribution and exhibition allowed production plants to continue running.
4. When and what was the first talking picture? – The Jazz Singer (1927)
5. Why did the end of the silent era cause problems for some performers working in the film industry? – Many actors voices did not suit their onscreen presence or had heavy accents.
6. What was happening in America at this time? – The Great Depression, the stock market crash and World War 1.

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Shooting Days

Sunday 10th December

Wednesday 13th December (reshoots)

Planned Locations

Shot List

Worm’s eye view

MCU

MS

Eye Level

Low Angle

LS

Canted angle

High Angle

XLS(?)

MLS

Storyboard

Realism

Verisimilitude – the appearance of being true, realistic or believable.

Social Realism – presenting and drawing attention to living conditions of minorities or lower social classes

Magic Realism – crossing over fantasy and reality, whether fantastical elements are depicted as real or realistic elements take fantastical turns.

Hyperreality – casually inserting elements of an artificial reality into an otherwise realistic depiction of the world.

Visual Style

Iconography – signs associated by the audience with a specific genre.

Intertextual Referencing – referencing another piece of media by using recognisable elements of it.

Visual/sound motifs – repeated narrative elements that create meaning (such as a logo for a group of people or a theme representative of a specific character.

Colour Grading – enhancing and altering colour in scenes to achieve a desired visual effect.

Auteur Trademarks – recognisable elements in films that can be linked to the director and their style of filmmaking.

Tone

Pathos – evoking an emotional response from the audience.

Bathos – following serious ideas with humorous or exaggerated ones.

Suspense – a state of uncertainty about the outcome of events.

Comedy – emphasized attempts to make audiences laugh at films.

Dramatic Irony – When audiences know something the characters of the film don’t.

Distancing effect (verfremdung) – preventing spectators from identifying with characters by disrupting events.

Postmodern humour – linking humour with serious meanings.

Trainspotting

This Is England

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Young People are represented as being vulnerable and easy to influence. For example, Combo manages to convince Shaun with little to no difficulty to believe in his racist ideologies.

Older People are represented as both being responsible concerned about the younger generation, as well as being represented as unwilling to move on from the past and wanting things to remain how they used to be. The examples of these are Shaun’s mum, who gets worried after his head is shaved, and Combo, who refuses to accept the fact people of different races can and should be treated like human beings.

Working class people are represented as being isolated and excluded because of their social class. This is shown through Shaun at the beginning of the film, where he is constantly bullied by other people because of materialistic things like the size of his trousers.

English people are represented to be quite nationalistic and proud of their origins, although they dislike the Prime Minister. This is seen with Combo’s right-wing gang, who carry around the English flag with them everywhere and treat it as if it were a god.

Asian and Black people are represented as being helpless and defenceless against racists, as many people in the time setting still held discriminatory beliefs, and acted violently towards people of non-English descent. Examples include the young boys playing football and the shopkeeper, who are intimidated by Combo and listen to what he says in order to stop themselves getting hurt.

Men are represented as being aware of masculine ideologies of what they ‘should’ look and behave like. This is seen primarily when Shaun begins to cry after Combo attacks Milky, to which Combo shouts at him, stating that “men don’t cry”.

Women are represented to be powerful and unafraid, acting as a countertype to stereotypes of women in the 80s. An example of this is when Lol rejects any kind of relationship with Combo, even though she knows what he is capable of and the likes of Woody are afraid of him. The fact he is older than her and is male would create the stereotypical expectation that he’d be stronger, although we see him get upset and powerless once she leaves.