City Of God - Opening Sequence - EDITING

Question 1

How does the film begin?

Answer 1

• With a series of close-ups (montage editing)

Question 2

What does the chicken represent?

Answer 2

• Represents the entrapment of people in the favelas and their inability to escape

Question 3

What do the close-ups conclude of?
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Answer 3

• Knife, hand, stone, tied up chicken - with a cut to black between each shot
• Introduces the audience straight away to the violent and chaotic environment of life in the favelas - asks the audience to be active

Question 4

What does the cross-cutting between Rocket and Lil Ze’ create?

Answer 4

• Creates tension as these characters paths are about to cross

Question 5

What is Rocket a symbol of?

Answer 5

• The innocent people in CoG who get caught up in the middle of violence and crossfire

Question 6

What kind of shot cuts to the flashback of Rocket as a child?
and
What is the transitioning?

Answer 6

• Match cut shot
• Transition from the innocence and hope before the favelas turned into the dangerous and violent landscape it is now

Question 7

What kind of pace is the editing?
and
What does it capture?

Answer 7

• Fast-paced editing
• captures the frantic nature and dangerous climate the characters live in