Tag: fm3
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Exam Style: Section B
Why might a film be more or less shocking on second or subsequent viewings? Spielberg’s 1998 film Saving Private Ryan uses numerous techniques to enable its viewer to change their moral alignment upon subsequent viewings, audience positioning through camerawork is a particularly strong technique Spielberg uses throughout the film. One scene in particular which an…
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Exam Style: Section A
‘All films from one country share a set of characteristics and are influenced by common production contexts’. How true is this for the films you have studied? From the outset of the Iranian films previously studied, there is a clear and strong sense of domestic issues which are tackled. Kirostami adheres to the typically domestic setting…
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De-selected item: 18
Christopher Meir, 30 Nov 2014, Scottish Cinema: texts and Contexts, Manchester University Press. This book tackles the cultural and industrial contexts of some of the most profound Scottish films released in the last twenty five years and raises key questions on the nationalism of Scottish film culture that has been developed, although there is minor…
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FM3: Reflective Analysis (Creative Project)
I found that adapting a script from an Irvine Welsh short story appropriate to my project, as throughout the past few months of studying the film form and stylistic impressions credited to Welsh made me able to work in a similar style to him. Welsh’s original novels Trainspotting and Filth are written using a first…
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Presentation Script
Presentation script: Projector: Image of the Cast of trainspotting from Item 14 interview. Presenter: My research project is based on the drug subculture representation in Scotland, focusing primarily on 1990’s to present day. My focus film is Trainspotting, Danny Boyle, 1996 (Item 10) and my two related films are Filth, Jon S. Baird, 2013 (Item…
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Surrealism in Trainspotting
Source: Dekhna, TRAINSPOTTING toilet scene, 14 Sep 2009, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9f5TRc7KYM, Source: Sound of bosnia, Trainspotting 1996 (Dark and Long), 10 dec 2012, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7uD-LWWTyA
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Item 18
Bryant Frazer, 1996, Deep Focus Movie Reviews, http://www.panix.com/~bfrazer/flicker/, 1996. This critical review depicts the relationship between Trainspotting’s protagonists and the audience and how despite their flaws and blatant immorality, their determination combined with the films scenes of bloodshed, swimming in a toilet-ocean and seeing a dead child on a ceiling bring the audience both uncomfortably…
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De-selected: item 17
John Schaefer, 12 April 2013, Soundcheck, 2013, http://soundcheck.wnyc.org/story/282137-danny-boyle-trance/. This Boyle based article is far too succinct and unspecific in its references to the soundtrack and the techniques, although it informs me how he “selects the tracks himself” it imposes no analysis or critical review of specific tracks or how they elicit a response in the…
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Item 12
Item 15 HeyUGuys, October 2013, (Video file), http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n2uvpQtf_c, Stefan Pape. Baird’s interview gives a succinct answer as to how the book stuck with him so long, stating he “soaked the Character of Bruce Robinson in”, being Scottish himself the character poses a culturally significant representation to him , the films clear corruption of values is…
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Item 11
Item 14 James Wright, March 2011, (online), http://www.clashmusic.com/feature/trainspotting-at-15-ewan-mcgregor-interview, CLASH Music, March 2011. This interview with Ewan McGregor depicts why the main characters are so fascinating, and highlights how we are introduced into the privacy of their lives by showing the highs and dependency they have on their drugs, the characters seem to glorify them, yet…
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