Analysis of Kill Bill

Karlton Armstrongs analysis of kill bill. I really like how he anaylse it so i thought it was a good idea to use. 

Kill Bill is a story, following a woman who tries to take revenge upon the five people who took her child away and killed it. She awakes in a church, and finds herself injured. During this volume she goes to find a 'Deadly Viper Assasinate Squad' member, Vernita Green, and eventually kills her. She then starts to search for the others.    The part I watched was the fight between the two charactors, 'The Bride' and 'Vernita Green' as it had a high relevance to what we wanted to achieve. However, we would also not have any of the breakable props. Therefore I am concentrating on the pace, sound, and speed of the action. To begin with, we hear a little childs doll box sound, which is quickly shut off when 'The Bride' enters the scene in her car. We are led to belive that the house we see before she appears is the house that she is going to, but, it turns out that actually it is the house opposite. This is shown when she appears on screen. She has her face, facing the camera, which instantly tells us that we were looking at the wrong house.

Later on, when she presses the doorbell, and it is answered, we see a non linear structure, as she has a flashback to the fight that has occurred in the chapel. They then quickly make eye contact, and the paceof the piece picks up immediately, and everything becomes a lot quicker. A siren is heard whilst the non linear takes place. We can tell by the transparency of the film, that here eyes are still there connoting its 'The Brides' point of view, and it is clear enough to show that this woman was the one who attacked her. The pace starts off pretty slow, as she punches the woman in front of her. Gradually, the speed begins to build up, building tension, as the women throw each other around the room. The diagetic sounds are heightened to give more audience pleasures, and to make it more of a convention towards action, as action 'Junkies' indulge in louder sounds and lots of sound effects, making them happier. For example, the glass shattering is a lot louder than in real life. This helps to realise and identify what genre it is. The loud diagetic sounds pull the audience into the film, making them feel part of the action.  At 0:49 during the scene, we see The Bride get thrown to the floor and is kicked by Vernita. If we listen carefully, we can hear the kicks landing, much louder than we would in real life, which is also another convention of action movies. 

 

The use of the creativity of the directors, for example, the cereal box gun, that makes the audience surprised of what has just happened. This is a audience pleasure, as they did not suspect what has happened. 

The Wizard Of Oz (ending scene) analysis

I liked this scene of The Wizard Of Oz because I felt that the transition from Dorothy's dream state to her waking up was good.
The Wizard Of Oz is a plot about Dorothy going to the world of Oz by a storm. She finds her self within a world of munch kins and Glinda (the good witch), killing the wicked witch of the East. But all Dorothy wants to do is go home, Glinda tells her to do this, on her trip to The Great and Powerful Oz she gets a few companions, the tin man, the lion and the scarecrow. The tin man, lion and scarecrow all want something from Oz so they join her on her trip. They have trouble with the wicked witch of the eat. Fortunately Dorothy defeated that witch and managed to get to Oz. Oz had told the lion, tin man, and scarecrow they already had what they wanted. He agreed to take Dorothy home, but he went with out her meaning that Glinda had to come. Glinda came and told her she already had the power to do from the red ruby slippers that Dorothy wore.
The target audience of this film at the time of production was teenagers, as cinema became popular and that's how they spent their time. The film was made in the 1930s, which made The Wizard Of Oz one of the first films with sound and colour. Using the bright colours in Oz shows how magical and mysterious Oz is as when Dorothy is in Kansa the colouring is in sepia tone, which shows how ordinary it is. The audience of the film now is families, as it is a film you would usually sit down and watch with relatives. The uses and gratification techniques may be used for the audience in this film.  We may have been told by those around, friends or grandparents or parents that The Wizard Of Oz is a good film. We watch it as entertainment, as watching as family there may be discussions on what they might have done if they were Dorothy, and discuss who they like the best. We may identify our selves with Dorothy, when she figures out that there is 'no place like home', we may feel that way as some of us may have been away from home.
The non diegetic, heavy beated music that plays when Dorothy makes the transition between Oz and Kansas is the same music as when she got to Oz. This shows a sense of familiarity and it also tells us that she is going back home to Kansas. During this there where over-lapping images of Dorothy's face, the ruby slippers and some spinning circles on a black screen. This gives us a feel of travelling from one world to the next.
We see Glinda the good witch come to Dorothy with a non-diegetic acoustic version of Over The Rainbow. This song gives us a sense of hope that Glinda can help Dorothy. We know that Glinda is the good witch due to bright clothes she is wearing and arriving in a bubble and having a wand. Having a wand is usually a fairy prop so it being in Glinda shows that she is  good as fairies are mostly always good. Wearing light coloured clothes shows that she is a hero.
In fantasy films we see a magically place where no one has seen before. The world of Oz is magical place in this film. We see this by the bright colours and the kindliness of those in the Emerald City and the niceness of Glinda. This film is all done in 3rd person where no one talks to camera, we see the story develop through what they do and how they talk to those around them.
There are multiple strands in the scene I have done. There is Glinda coming to help Dorothy get home, Dorothy saying goodbye to the lion, tin man, and the scarecrow, and Dorothy going home to Kansas. They all intertwine with each other due to the magic and the wizard of oz.

Dorothy is usually in the centre of the scene, this may show her importance to the film. When she says goodbye to the lion, tin man and scarecrow the shots only focus on that. The person she is saying goodbye to are in focus while the other surroundings are in blur (shallow depth focus shot), this may show how emotional or important this part is.

abduction (house) fight scene analysis

As one of our ideas was to do a fight scene i thought this was appropriate to analyse

'Would You Rather' film clip analysis

Would You Rather is a sub-genre of thriller- action, it's based in America; one of the main issues in the cost of health care, we this through the film with Iris struggling to pay for it and having to go to the diner party for help. Iris the princess/hero is the main character in this film. She needs help with paying for her brothers health care. . The doctor lets a man know that she needs help, The man has a dinner party with 8 people, iris being one of them, the plan of the evening is to play would you rather. The 8 people are all of different gender and ethnic group, and they're all there for there own reason. No it is not the child game of would you rather (this is game you play when you are with your friends, you have two hypothetical scenario to choose from and you say what you'd prefer to do, hence the name 'would you rather?', sometimes you are also given a time frame to choose the option you want, usually it is rather stupid scenarios like prefer to fight a horse sized duck or duck sized horse), this game pushes ethics and belief to the limit.

The clip of the film I have chosen to analyse is a scene from the dinner party where the 8 people have to choose whether they want to electrocute themselves or another person at the table.

The closing of the doors conotates the sense of being trapped and no way of getting out, and it could show that the main part of the film is about to start. it could also conotate the start of darkness. The darkness and the being trapped in the room makes us feel that saw had a influence on this film. We see this as parts of saw is in a quite building that gives a sense of being trapped.

The lighting through this scene was low key lighting. Although you could see what was happening around the table the brightness wasn't at its full. This follows the lead of thriller and horrors as they're level of brightness is not as bright as comedy and romance films. Normally action films have low key lighting, this shows intensity. They show the low key lighting by having lamps at the back of the scene being on. 

The setting is a big mansion in the middle of rich area. this shows that the owner is very rich  and  shows that there is a lot of room and it also gives us the idea that the house was sound proof. Although there might people be living in a close range the house would be pretty big so the sounds of the things happening in the house would not be able to be heard from the outside world. As it is set in a mansion there are many rooms that are not being used, some camera shots cross cuts from what is happening in the dining room to the doctor trying to help get them out of the situation they are in.
The man that is sitting at the head of the table shows that he is the villain of the film, it shows that he is the a important person as that is normally where the main or most important people sit. The antagonist of the film is usually in the centre of the shot, again this shows the importance of him through the film.  The 8 people sitting around the table look like his disciples and will do whatever he says. Most of the subordinates faces through out this scene are full of shock and horror and disbelieve. While the dominant, evil characters have a evil smirk on their faces as they make the contestants choose some of thee hardest decisions in their lives.

This is a linear film, as we see all through the dinner party, and the dinner party is one night so we don't really miss much.There are multiple strands through this clip. These are; the shooting,  deciding who to electrocute and someone trying to get into the building.The strands intertwine with each other as they all interact in the dinning room and the 8 people around the table. The characters in the film did not talk to the camera, they are telling the story as though we are there with them so are using 3rd person.. Some of the camera shots make us feel that we are there with them in intense scenes, but as a omniscient observer rather than a spectator. The target audience of the film is teenagers and those who like twisted plots. Uses and Gratification is used through out the film. The entertainment/diversion side of the film is that although it may be a thriller and quite scary we still watch it as a form of the entertainment. We would normally watch it in the comfort of our own home so we feel safe and secure when we watch it. The social solidarity of the film is that we may have heard how good and thrilling the film is from our friends or family, or we are the ones to say 'you should watch this' to others. This is where we will discuss what we would do if were ever in this situation. As our social life is mostly talking about the social media. We also see personal identity through the film. We see this as we see that we don't want to be the villain of the film, but we also don't want to be part of the others around the table. But we may want the courage of some of the people sitting at the table. If we watch this with other people we may discuss what we would do in the situation if we were in it. Even if we didn't watch it with someone but we knew someone who did we could still have this conversation about what they'd do. The target audience is 15-25 as they can empathise with the characters reaction to the things that are happening as they may feel closer to them as they are similar ages to them.

The gun shot shows panic and disorder through the participants as this is diegetic. Right after the gun shot we hear non-diegetic string and piano music being played to show the sheer panic and distress of what is happening in the scene, as it is high notes. This is also gives us a focus on the people reaction. Being able to hear the diegetic sounds of the electrocution gives us a sense of terror and torture. We can also hear the breathing of the 8 people, so it shows the desperation and the exception of what has just happening. The ticking clock builds a panic, and in some cases can be quite a sinister sound like this, as it shows a countdown to a inevitable terrible act happening.   

Response to the brief and our ideas

I have chosen to do the video brief for my assessment. I am working in a group of three with Faith Starie and Karlton Armstrong. I feel that it will allow us to use a large range of media techniques and camera shots and editing techniques. Doing the print brief may have to allowed me to use my full amount of media techniques and understanding of media terms. Deciding to do the video brief  I feel that we will be able to show off our media techniques and camera shots. Being able to edit the video as well will show that we are able to use the computers and editing apps to make the video clip  flow together.

We are now thinking about the genre we want to do;

comedy as whole was defiantly not a option to make as it can turn out rather bad.

horror/ thriller was another genre that we decided not to use. we decided this as it a cliche and we didn't want to follow the crowd.

I also thought romance films was another type of genre that we wouldn't do as it can be again to cliche.

we decided that action/adventure/thriller would be best suited for us, although there will be more adventure in it as we do not have the right equipment to make all the effects of what would happen if it was a budgeted film. Some of the films produced do not look professional at all while some do. We are aiming to make it look as professional as possible. The pros and cons of deciding to do a action film is being able to show that we are able to use a variety of camera shots as doing a fight scene will need a lot of effective shots that show what the fight would look like if it was real and injuring someone. The cons of doing this though is that if we don't manage on getting the fight scene shots looking perfect it can make the whole scene look terrible. 

We decided that our target audience is teenagers, specifically from the ages of 14 to 25 for both genders. Boys are usually drawn to it due to the action sequences and the usual pretty girl that the hero tries to save, the girls are also interested too but not for the same reasons. The girls may watch the film if the hero is a good looking man,  Those who are younger than 14 may find it quite scary and frightening as they may not like the types of action going on. they may also not understand the story line that the film has either. 

 Our initial idea is that someone is going to bed at night and being able to see what they see in the dream. Then at the end of the two minute video we see them waking up and finding out their vivid dream wasn't real, but then finding out something strange is happening in their real lives too. There are many ideas that we all had for what could happen during the two minute video... we also had many more ideas: 

An idea, we had as a group was that the equilibrium is going to be where there is a small group of friends or family sitting at a table at home, the disruption will be two of these people will look at each other and do some sort of signal. The recognition of the disruption is when they'd get up and do something violent to the other people sitting at the table. We might do a flash back on how they joined together and why they were after the people.  We'd finish the two minute video on a focus on the object/weapon they would use to hurt they other people.  

We have finally decided that our genre of thriller and action. We decided this as many of our ideas went in the way of thriller and action, so decided that it is easier to think and make of our final production.