Short Clips

Fight Club:
Director: David Fincher
1999 US
Thriller/Action/Fighting

Shows contrast in the characters. Tension just used by lighting & the music. Lighting was really dim and made the film feel lots of tension. The camera angles signifies the main character may be mentoring and teaching the other character. To become a better fighter or person?

V For Vendetta:
Director Wachowski Brothers
US 2005
Thriller/Action

Inter-textuality when one film can reference to another film. For example in the matrix directed by Wachowski Brothers. The slow motion when the gun shots, he uses the same technique with the swiping of the swords killing the men in v for vendetta in the last fight scene. Where V dies.

Saving Private Ryan:
Director: Steven Spielberg
Genre: Drama/War/Thriller
UK 1998

Music: set emotional status straight away, feeling sad, mix of emotions. A sense of feeling the characters emotions. Director is drawing you in straight away. Defending his country? Lost close friends? Conrads?

War between countrys. Burial ground showing lots of deaths.
A while ago maybe, as family surround him. " dad? " suggesting his son might not be living today if he didnt survive the war.

Trainspotting:

Director: Danny Boyle

1996 Scotland

You think he's dying as he sinks into the ground representing his funeral? Or drifting between life and death.

Music: strange, ironic. " perfect day" not really a perfect day, but it symbolises that he is a druggy and this is the life he is used to. Point of view shots when he is sinking and then when he is at the hospital and is revived. Suddenly comes back to normal level. Saved his life?

Atonement:

Director: Joe Wright

Production Details: UK 2007.

Lots of editing, cutting back between characters. Non-diegetic sounds & diegetic sounds. As the man is listening to an opera song where two lovers die before meeting. Shows that the characters may be in love, the way the man is writing to her.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Director: Gore Verbinski

Production Details: 2003 USA

Genre: Action/Adventure/Comedy/Fantasy.

Singing pirates song, english. Makes it feel really suspicious. Sense of the camera viewing her from behind makes it feel like someone is going to jump up on her. Looking up at the other men, as she is only a child/minor. Shipwrecked? As parts of a boat float by then a child is found in the water. Tradition. "Man over board". Bad luck maybe?