Textual Analysis Of Witness Movie

This film goes in different directions from the setting to iconography. This is an interesting film that is intense and makes the viewer want to know what is going to happen

My initial reaction to the film was of utter shock at the brutally raw reality of the film. Upon reflection and commentary from other sources, the film’s simple yet vastly effective filmmaking techniques of developing the explicit and implicit meaning of the film. The explicit meaning, as

1. What are the main themes, politically and socially, that are portrayed in the film?

1. Describe in your own words the events, actions and characters depicted in the animated sequence, the use of both on-screen and camera movement, and the general colour scheme. What might these elements be suggesting to us about the content, mood and themes for the rest of the film?

You will be completing this assignment in two stages: for the first stage (1500 to 1800 words), you will analyze an entire movie; in the second stage (300 to 600 words), you will reflect on how you analyzed the movie as well as how your ability

An important idea that is relevant to young people in the text is the idea of change is needed for social and personal development and progression in society. This is relevant to young people today because without change we would not be able to better ourselves and evolve. Ross uses the techniques of colour, symbolism and cinematography to assist the viewer and help us understand this important idea. The film is about two teen age siblings named David and Jennifer who are teleported into an ideal and restrictive community which is in a 50’s black and white television show called Pleasantville. Jennifer and David introduce the idea of change to the community of Pleasantville which change the community from restrictive and ideal to an open and

the end of the film fixates the audience emotions from the film’s genre are manifested within

Bart Layton built this doc not from one perspective, but from a collection of them. Some stories, like “The Imposter” need a panoptic approach to connect the audience to the film. The themes of manipulation, identity and love are the main themes conveyed by Layton. These themes are communicated through sounds and visual imagery.

Before taking this course, I always looked at films and read books just as the average person does; interesting plot and how long will it hold my interest, but this course gave me an entire different perspective when watching films and reading books. Now that I have taken this course and have watched the required films, the most important thing when watching other movies and reading books, is the meaning behind each scene and how they relate and affect our world. For this paper, I will discuss a book that I read a long time ago, which is She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb and how this book relates to this course.

The journey of Rachel and Samuel Lapp to Boston to visit Rachel’s sister becomes quite an experience. The varieties of camera shots give the audience Samuel’s perspective of Philadelphia station. Harsh and loud noises from large crowd contrasts with the high level angle shot of people walking around independently in the train station, increase the individualism of the modern world. In contrast, Amish community is a collective group. Within the murder scene at Pennsylvania train station, Samuel, a young, innocent and naive Amish boy views a horrific murder. The close up shot of Samuel’s terrified eyes is strongly contrasted with the camera shots were moving back and forth from Samuel’s face and the horrific event happening in front of him, the shots kept increasing in speed demonstrating Samuel’s beating heart. This is an unnatural scene to Samuel, one he would never have to experience within his Amish world. This emphasises the culture different views on violence in such a violent way. In the Amish society everyone is considered to be equal and taking of another people’s life will be shunned. However, this scene reinforces that violence has no place within the Amish culture, whereas the Western world would resort to whatever is necessary. Weir’s choices of urban

The opening scene of the film utilises multiple aspects in order to display the hopeless that looms over the dystopian world that the audience is presented with. The film uses a mix of both visual imagery to show this along with verbal features in order to convey this to the audience.

The theme of character development is crucial to the film which notably and surprisingly effects

The movie 300 was directed by Zach Snyder in 2006. It is an action- war movie with many extraordinary scenes caught on film. The shot sequence begins with the perspective of anyone watching. This is to make the audience feel as if they are there.

The film represents violence of destruction as associated with masculinity, and it shows this as a negative attitude, and

1. What is the true subject or the theme of the film, and What kind of statement, if any, does the film make about the subject? Which elements and which themes contributed most to addressing the theme of the film?