8/10
For me, the most memorable scene is when Arthur reads the files about himself, his mother, and Thomas Wayne in the stairwell. It is a big turning point for Arthur, as it can be seen as the moment he decides to continue fighting back. His killing before this were in self-defense, but from now on, he’s the attacker, and with anger. The camera in the scene is angled, shaky, and even a bit out of focus, allowing the audience to skim the important details instead of having a wall of text, and helping the audience to put themselves in Arthur’s shoes in terms of how disorienting the moment is.

Arthur’s laughing where another film would have crying is very unsettling, and has an even stronger emotional effect with the context that Arthur’s laughing is compulsory and uncontrollable even to the point of being painful. This discomfort paired with both the explicit and implied suffering of Arthur only makes the scene more effective.

I would give Joker an 8/10.

My most memorable scene would be the scene when Arthur walks away from after the police get beaten at the train station. The way he so nonchalantly walks away and the slow the clip down with such dramatic music over the top. scene like this are normally seen when a hero walks away from an explosion or a collapsing building carrying a civilian. this contrast between Joker and a hero highlights the decline of his sanity and the anarchy in which the joker represents.  

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Summer Task “What makes a film good?” 18/9/23

Joker First Response 15/9/23

Monaco Spectrum of the Arts homework task 15/9/23

Joker Mise en Scene image tasks 25/9/23

Moonlight First Response 2/10/23

Cinematography/Cinematographer definitions 6/10/23

Moonlight Cinematography images tasks 6/10/23

Upload shots from Ms Frederick’s lesson 2/10/23

Definition of Editing 3/10/23

Miller and Sweep Storyboard 6/10/23

Kuleshov Effect Example 12/10/23

Sound Blog Posting 16/10/23

Stereotype and Countertype Examples 2/11/23

Trainspotting First Response 3/11/23

Trainspotting Micro Elements Task 13/11/23

Trainspotting Representation Task 13/11/23

40 Mark question on Cinematography (Joker and Moonlight) 17/11/23 SENT TO TEACHER NOT ON THE BLOG!

Shane Meadows Auteur Task 1/12/23

This is England Micro Elements Tasks 1/12/23

This is England Representation Tasks 1/12/23

Short Film (Ms Frederick) exported 24/12/23

This is England and Trainspotting Aesthetic Task 11/12/23

This is England and Trainspotting 40 Mark Mise en Scene Essay 19/1/24

Casablanca Tasks 2/2/24

Bonnie and Clyde Tasks 23/2/24

Story of Film Tasks 4/3/24

Soviet Constructivism Tasks 18/3/24

Strike Mini Essay Methods of Montage 27/3/24

Narrative Theory Slides 25/3/24

Pan’s Labyrinth Tasks 20/05/24

City of God Tasks 7/6/24

Essay on Aesthetics Section A Paper 2 Global Cinema 10/6/24

Ist draft of NEA Film for feedback 18/7/24

Blog Tasks on Documentary Film 23/12/24

1. Mise-en-scene: Every component visible to the audience in a shot that creates meaning
2. Joker Slides.pptx

Throughout history, the definition of “art” has changed many, many times, and so has it’s purpose. At first, it was used in religious ways as a form of worship to the Greek gods, then in the thirteenth century what was classified as art had changed to a more mathematical and historical approach by the Greeks and romans, and now in the modern era, art can be classified as anything from rap music to horror films to oil paintings to crime novels, where its now used for more political reasons. Monaco created a spectrum for the modern art to separate them into their own main categories, the performance arts, the representational arts, and the recording arts. Here are some examples of each below: 

The performance arts – real time performances, such as dance, theatrical productions and radio shows. 

The representational arts – art that is presented through the pictorial/literary methods using established codes and the conventions of language, such as books, canvas paintings and photos. 

The recording arts – A more direct presentation of art, using the movement of pictures to convey stronger messages to the audience, such as films, music, social media videos. 

A good film always starts with a good idea, but it is a complex blend of planning, design, execution, and post-production work that brings that good idea to become something people will watch over and over again, without all of that, it becomes nothing more than lost potential that is looked over. 

But, what makes an idea good? People love the horror genre, but in the style of a rom-com? Which tries to teach you the value of taking care of the environment? Something about that doesn’t seem quite right… To have a good idea, you need to target a certain audience, and then research and understand what it is that they want to see.  

Take for example one of my favourite films, Fantastic Mr Fox, directed by Wes Anderson. The idea was originally created by Roald Dahl as a comical adventure to mesmerize the young audience he had created. Because of this young audience, he wanted them to relate to the story, teaching them the value of accepting family, and the new people in their lives, which they would relate to.  

After the idea was created, Anderson took these macro elements and integrated them with his unique style of film making. Taking into account the audience, genre, messages and style of the story, he designed everything in a way that it could be taken straight from picture book and used stop motion keep the cartoonish feel of Roald Dahl’s story, while being able to implement his brilliant cinematography. Anderson also used very upbeat music throughout the film, especially through montage like scenes, making scenes exciting, and never allowing a dull moment, and keeping the attention of the children and families watching. This was paired with his unique style of cinematography, where he would capture scenes either in one place, or in a panning motion, or always keeping one person/thing the centre of the shot. All of this coming together in post-production is what makes this film, in my opinion one of the best films. 

However, this is just one of a plethora of ways that a film can be made, different combinations of genres, acting styles, camera shots, all of them are the tools for an endless amount of films, and those different and unique combinations are what make films good. This all means there is no single way to make a good film, as long as you are able to capture and project story you intended to the intended audience. 

Metteurs – translated means scene setter.

Ext. mise-en-scene – when it is referred to as an atheistic film element they mean that the elements of mise-en-scene make it appealing to view.

The spectrum of the arts is the idea that the term art can be split up into several different sections. When Monaco says this, he is trying to imply that you can be an artist at one thing but not another (hence the use of the word spectrum.) For example, you can be a musical artist. The seven different arts he originally mentioned were History, Poetry, Comedy, Tragedy, Music, Dance, and Astronomy although these have drastically changed over time.  

The art of history has contributed to both modem science and religious rituals.  art of comedy was plays such as Hamlet or the merchant of Venice but is now seen through stand up or films such as dumb and dumber. The art of tragedy is similar in the 1600s it was plays such as Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet but is now seen in films such as titanic. The art of poetry has not changed much with people still reciting poems such as In Flanders Fields. On the other hand, the art of music has completely changed from Mozart to Rap and drum and bass. The art of dance remains the same however more genres have evolved from original dance such as Contemporary dance or even breakdancing. Finally the Art of astronomy has been forgotten about and replaced    

After watching the joker, I thought the film was a solid 8/10. I think that the story of a clown who goes on a downwards spiral getting more and more insane is kind of cool. The fact he kills Murray on the show really shows he has nothing to lose. I found the film kind of dark however that does portray the mood of the film very well. One of my favourite most memorable scenes is when the joker is running from the policemen on the subway train. I liked this scene as found it was shot really well and when the policemen get mobbed it is really cool seeing him walk away like nothing happened.