Reference no: EM133333830
TOPIC: RUN LOLA RUN: The running. Starting at the point Lola begin her run to find her father until she unsuccessfully leaves bank.
Questions:
1. Begin the essay by analyzing the scene in its context within the overall film. How does the scene focus our understanding on a character or his/her conflicts? What ideas about the film's theme are conveyed in that scene? How does the scene logically follow what came before it or set up what comes after it? What is climactic about the action in the key scene? Make sure you provide sufficient analysis of the meaning of this section of film before you turn to the technical considerations below.
2. Analyze the effectiveness of THREE categories of film study (see below) as they relate to that key scene. Make sure that you demonstrate that these technical considerations complement and otherwise support the thematic ideas at work in this segment of the film. The point of this assignment is to show the way in which theme and technique are integrated in film study. You can analyze all 3 of the primary category elements OR choose 2 from the primary category and 1 from the secondary category to analyze. PRIMARY CATEGORY 1. COMPOSITION & CINEMATOGRAPHY incorporates all aspects of composition, including camera angles, symbolic areas of the frame, character proxemics, staging directions, and character movement. Also cinematography, which refers to all judgments made by the director of photography, in consultation with the director--including reasons for lighting shots certain ways, and metaphors associated with camera movement (tracking shots, pan shots, tilt shots). 2. EDITING incorporates montage, parallel editing, symbolic or conventional uses of editing.
3. SOUND includes all external/internal sound and especially the use of music to support images in various scenes; the types of musical elements; the creative use of ambient sound.