cinematography

Question 1

cinematography

Answer 1

1. The films opens with a slow, sweeping shot of long duration which establishes and romantices the grandeur of the natural world. It is untouched by civilisation.
2. However close ups of the mud-covered bodies who appear make the humans appear monstrous, threatening and less humane.
3. Slow and voyeuristic as ‘Bod’ lies in hunt for his prey, it is followed by quick series of shot of the killing.
   - There is an immediate barrier - we don’t have initial alignment with these characters who will infect become our protagonists.

Question 2

sound

Answer 2

1. The absence of music announces it to be an idependant film .
2. The natrualsitc song makes this quite shocking, there is no sound to soften or glamorise the act, it connotes that death is part of life.

Question 3

ideology

Answer 3

1. The dark red blood, the cries of attack and pain, the ritual of eating the heart are all incredibly brutal and animalistic.
   - which is very different modern, western, civilised world of the typical spectator.
2. Ross is introducing to the spectator into a socialist world which the capitalist spectator is not familiar with.
3. According to `Stuart Hall, films are encoded with directors oppositional reading of the film messages.