A overarching style and idea, including costumes and cinema and set design
Task 1 – find definitions for the following:
Verisimilitude– The idea of something appearing true.
The breakfast club, takes place in a school showing the events of a Sunday detention. Its believable as the customs are what American teenagers in the 80s would of worn along with the school which is realistic.
Social Realism – How films show how someone’s environment can change the development of the character. Emphasises the relationship between someone’s identity and there location.
This is England, shows how the current social state of England influences people into believing things that are against their morals. We see that the national front changes how Shaun sees people.
Magic Realism– This shows magical events as a normal world event, where characters accept it as a part of their life.
In harry potter Magic Realism is used to create the story line, showing that characters have magic as part of their daily life. This is used showing it in a school setting which is apart of the ordinary world.
Hyperreality – Anything that seems so real , and perhaps impossible to separate from reality.
In the Barbie Movie, the world they live in is supposed to be perfect showing how everyone can live happily carefree. The use of bright pink plastic materials and deliberately fake items shows the hyperreality to differentiate from the real world.
Visual Style
Visual style is the look or the feel of the film.
Task 2 – find definitions for the following:
Iconography – The use of a recurring symbol or image’s that can covey themes, evoke emotions or build a films identity.
In the Hunger Games it uses symbols to build up the character’s ideas and there personality’s. With the mocking jay noise and symbol becoming iconic to the movie.
Intertextual Referencing – When a movie uses ideas from a text or another piece of art.
In Shrek, it refences over popular child stories such as fairy god mother and three blind mice. This helps link the fairy-tale idea of Shrek to over movies.
Visual/ Sound motifs– A motif is a recurring story element that can highlight a moment happening in a movie.
In the movie UP a instrumental plays while showing carl and Ellies life , It also plays at the end when carl has found happiness. This music acts motif to show a important moment.
Colour Grading– Editing that creates a consistent tone of colour throughout the movie.
In the joker movie the overall tones are grey showing the depressing world that he lives is reflected in the colours.
Auteur Trademarks-A reference (e.g. to an object, a character, or a happening)
Wes Anderson has a trademark style with bright style and symmetrical shots. This makes his work easy to spot.
Task 3 – find definitions for the following:
Pathos-Pathos is a technique that seeks ton appeal to the audiences emotions, this is often used as sadness to have a emotional impact to the spectator.
In the movie the dogs purpose it shows the dog and its owner reuniting multiple times in the movie sparking emotion in the movie.
Suspense- A anxious uncertainly about what may happen.
In this scene in the shining the music, atmosphere builds tension on what way happens next.
Comedy– A genre of film which aims to amuse the audience.
In the movie home alone it makes the boy in the story try and fool the robbers creating a funny situation out of a what might have been a serious situation.
Dramatic Irony-Where the audience is aware of something that the characters aren’t.
We are aware that Truman is being filmed, however he doesn’t creating dramatic irony throughout the film.
Distancing Effect – Where the director purposing makes the story seem unbelievable, such as having a unfinished set or the character constantly talk to the camera.
In fleabag she often speaks to the camera, throughout the movie this pulls away from the believability that your watching a movie.
Postmodern Humour– Dark humour that is often about society.
