Katie Tallis - A Level Film

AL Film: Auteur Presentation Feedback I created a presentation about Quentin Tarantino. In it, I discussed what the auteur theory is, information about the director himself, screenshots from his films and video clips from memorable films Tarantino has made. Although I showed that I focused on three of his films, I did not go into depth about them, and I didn't link the films back to the auteur theory. Going to Ellie's feedback on my presentation, I did however teach her that auteur's use similar themes throughout all of their films and so this allows the auteur to be easily recognized from their, for example, cinematography or themes. I also taught her that Tarantino receives a lot of backlash from people due to the graphic violence in his films. I think the visuals of my presentation were very good, in terms of the layout and also how I presented the video clips and screen caps. There was one slight problem with the video clip for 'Django Unchained' however, a

1. The camera tracks along the traffic jam at the beginning of the scene. This is the characters' reality of life in LA. What might this signify about the dreams and ambitions of the characters that are striving to 'make it' in Hollywood? While the camera tracks alongside the traffic jam, from the very beginning it show's all different people and personalities. It's easy to see this by the fact that each person has different cars and are listening to a variety of different genres of music. The cars have been perfectly positioned so that the audience can see each person and see how different they are compared to one another. In addition, none of the cars are like sports or super cars, thus showing that they cannot afford all these luxury things even though they live in LA. It shows that all these people are competing against each other to become the most successful and live their dreams like they hope they do. A lot of the people in the cars could actually be strugg

How far does the knowledge of the production process encourage a constant shift between passive and active spectatorship ? (829 Words) Independent films are very different from the main stream films that we see in day-to-day life. For example, Marvel films would be classified as mainstream as they attract a huge audience from all around the world and are made to create profit, whereas independent films are made to convey certain messages and ideas, ones that people might think are abstract or different from normal life. They often do not have a huge budget to create the film, and will use non-actors because it’s cheaper and can be used to convey a sense of realism within the film. ‘Winter’s Bone’ does just this; because it is an independent film, there are a lot of people within the film who are actually not actors at all, and instead they just live in a community like that, out in the middle of nowhere with no real communication to the rest of the world. The film, made in 20