Selma

Question 1

How does Mark Kermode describe selma and Martin Luther king as an actor?

Answer 1

Charismatic

Question 2

What is method acting?

Answer 2

The director told the actors to research their acting role, this helps them as an actor to develop an emotional tie to their character and adapt more to their role as a person.

Question 3

How does Kermode describe the experience of the bombing?

Answer 3

“heartbreakingly poignant evocation”

Question 3

How does Kermode describe the experience of the bombing?

Answer 3

“heartbreakingly poignant evocation”

Question 4

How does Duvernay the director set out the emotional spectatorship and the different receptions the audience can perceive on the situation?

Answer 4

Sets out juxtapositions of domestic intimacy and instructional voice, the tension between the political and person =and the vivid interplay between historical and contemporary

Question 5

How is George Cooper in the film seen as a protagonist?

Question 6

How does DuVernay make MLK three dimensional?

Answer 6

Bradford young shows MLK in a secret light, one who is peaceful binary alternative to Malcolm. Gives an unflashy serene performance but who is capable of having fear and anger following the speech talking about the death of one of hi protesters.

Question 7

How are some scenes of MLK used as an effect to represent the contrast in things, the scene dealing a lullaby?

Answer 7

MLK dials the number to hear a gospel singer sing a lullaby which is so scenic but at the same time its wings are clipped by the typewriter effect of the FBI monitoring Kings every move to suggest to the audience where is the privacy and making us more biased towards Luther king.

Question 8

Is selma an active spectatorship or passive?

Answer 8

We know what happens in the end but cuts out a chapter where there is somewhat unpredictable elements.

Question 9

How is David owyaye presented as an actor?

Answer 9

being a British actor may have made him less over awed with the role na toto dramatic compared to an American

Question 10

How is Wallace presented as a character?

Answer 10

presented as an itnriguness character and his arrogance creates tension where the audience want an argument between him and Wilkinson.

Question 11

Where is the film set?

Answer 11

Te film is set in its original place with its original palette reminiscing the sixties, using black suits and no other than historical knowledge on the subject. Having the location filmed there was hard but using all the historically correct information and getting adds a more sentimental piece into the film.

Question 12

Why is the film called selma and not king?

Answer 12

As it adds to the locational aspect of the place, this is where it began and here it shall stay, selma makes king the same person, same characteristics, same humour. The severance for king was a person who is no different to all of us, he just wanted change.

Question 13

Using the author theory how does DuVernay use her publication of small intimate themes to adapt t o selma?

Answer 13

She is vividly known for her intimate themes “I will follow”. In this film she uses king and his followers In this way with matching eyeline, dark lighting to suggest they are all the same wanting equilibrium.

Question 14

How does selma empower female dominance even though it is a male dominant dilm?

Answer 14

uses MLK wife, carmen as a way to show the impact of it on her, allegiance with her. Coretta Scott King

Question 15

How does DuVernay add to the drama o ‘Bloody Sunday”?

Answer 15

Duvernay uses the bridge as a documentarian proportion size, she narrates the movie with a journalist and uses explicit violence, and feel chaotic violence and fear on the issue and the juxtaposition between the historical depiction on the movie screen and the current images on today’s TV screens does not go unnoticed. make you feel ore empathy

Question 16

Who was the lighting director?

Answer 16

Bradford Youngs add to the softness of the black skin and how their skin is under ompleltye different lighting to the white.

Question 17

How did duvernya focus on the media and the emphasis on reporters?

Answer 17

Knew how persuasive and easy to manipulate the Americans were;,

Question 18

What does the slow build up and the fast pace of build ups create?

Answer 18

create tension and anticipation, then violence strikes

Question 19

When was selma set?

Answer 19

Selma represents key developments in US history regarding the Black civil rights movement, focusing specifically on the right to vote at
local, state and federal level in the early 1960s. This right was granted in 1964 with the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act in 1965, protecting voting rights for all minorities.

Question 20

What does the bridge create?

Answer 20

Close-ups and camera angles during Edmund Pettus Bridge sequence - draws spectators
in and engages their reactions and emotions, inevitably situating them on the side of the civil rights marchers as they are brutally attacked (diegetic sound enhances our point of view
and again aligns us with the protestors).

Question 21

What do the bridge long shot create?

Answer 21

Long shot captures those on the march filing in single file, suggesting their common goal and purpose.

Question 22

What dd Duvernay want to make sure in her movie she did?

Answer 22

Selma is representing the fact that history is representing itself and storytelling but not being biased in any shape or form “not a custiodan of anyones legacy” True intention is to imbue the film and invite people into the spirit

Question 23

What is the spectat orship In selma?

Answer 23

In Ava DuVernay’s 2015 film Selma, the film relies on the spectator’s ability to shift between passive and active Spectatorship in order to surrender to the film’s effects whilst remaining critically alert to the interpolation created by the use of dominant ideology.

Question 24

What do the binary opposites between he civil rights community and the white guards create?

Answer 24

Create an emotional response for the active spectatorship and help them align themselves towards the civil right community

Question 25

How does DuVernay think that we distinguish films?

Answer 25

By our cultural self and our reception, upbringing stuarts mils reception from our environment and our upbringing. Meaning everyones personal reception will differ depending on their environmental upbringing

Question 26

What does the lower angle of Martin Luther king in the church scene present him as?

Answer 26

Presents him as a ‘saintly figure’. Shown through the mise ne scene which creates a back lighting and a halo effect. he is the power of god. Or in other ways god is behind him, which foreshadows later events- active spectaroshp. Shows to the passive spectator that that Martin Luther king is a compassionate character. In an active spectaroship pov they may believe that king is unfaithul due to the scene readings.

Question 27

Why does audience positioning have an effect on selma?

Answer 27

Anle to make a personal interpretation, traditionalise of film form is geared more towards a passive

Question 28

What is the conclusion based on selma?

Answer 28

Selma ironically is a personal based response and will depend on their knowledge of personal language on the situation.A film such as selma is heavily dependent on whether the audience remain active and passive to perform their own negotiated reading

Question 29

Bloody sunday

Answer 29

During the sequence a cut is made from the white community cheering, as the Civil Rights activists are brutalised by the violent actions of the police. The juxtaposition of the two shots reinforces the dominant ideology that America is a heavily polarised society with strong racial divisions

Question 30

When was the film made?

Answer 30

50tjbanniversaynof the march, critics were biased towards mlk

Question 31

Who is Duvernay as a director?

Answer 31

Black director, first black woman to be awarded for best film nominee

Question 32

What does the first scene of the movie entail?

Answer 32

The black screen again symbolises darkness, private spaces. extra diegetic film being broken the fourth wall by Luther king presenting a speech looking into the mirror “I accept this honour for our lost ones”- soft/tentTIVE

Question 33

What does kings Nobel prize scene create?

Answer 33

Lower angle, king is superior to all of us, superior than life

Question 34

What is the difference in king between the fist and second scene?

Answer 34

1st- private, ingrospective/doubting

public- confiendet/majestic

Question 35

How is the expoignant bombing scene portrayed?

Answer 35

the cutting mid sentence bombing we see flesh and rubble being processed through slow motion expanding the importance of the scene
intimate childhood moment invaded by terroirst explosive. Collision of private and public spaces- duality of the film repeat

Question 36

What does the repetition of kings square centred face represent?

Answer 36

Demands dignity

Question 37

What do the scenes being presented at night create?

Answer 37

the absence of freedom, we see the denial of the vote for the woman and this is in daylight.
Black meetings are held at night in public spaces. Attack at night
Daylight- Johnson and George Cooper in the daylight \
the public and private spaces create tension

Question 38

How are we aligned with king?

Answer 38

Through the low key level lighting suggesting that king is seriousness and has the support of the audience
most of the time we are in equilibrium with king to show we agree with him and not having to look up or down
extra diegetic- he is aware we are watching creates a powerful effect on the audience
we are asked to asses situations and how we would feel paint of view shots
the spectators gaze of Martin Luther king asking for a lullaby and is tracked by the FBI, no privacy. cultural/social self
private/public collision of places. no privacy lack of privacy, cut mid sentence connection with king
method acting
close ups of public suggesting we share the same vales/ social self
voyentisitc pleasure- mullet.
wish fulfilment fantasy
cutaways of Martin Luther king during speech to the audience suggesting approval
non-diegetic must played during speech suggesting empathy for him

Question 39

How might everyone be aligned with king?

Answer 39

he panning of the camera, shot-reverse shot between king and white and afro Americans show support from them suggesting we do too everyone can,

Question 40

What does the scene Martin Luther king watching riot on tv suggest?

Answer 40

Suggest again an alligmenet with us and him as we would feel the same watching it
the 3 dimesonal light of Martin lither king suggests everyone can eb fearful and fear fear, makes us more aligned and god
we can put ourselves in kings shoes when he decids not to cross the bridge

Question 41

What do the long takes in selma do for the audience?

Answer 41

Enable them to involve themselves more with king and take in more of his speech

Question 42

How does the quiz change of editing add to a change of reception for the audience?

Answer 42

The quick cutting allows for constant momentum nd the clapping, allows the audience to be passive spectators and participate- the preferred reading of aduvernay

Question 43

How does duvenery help create a spectatorship and a connection between the audience there and the spectators watching the film?

Answer 43

The constant cuts between the audience in the film and spectators helps create an allignement and allegiance with them making it easier to compare; preferred reading

Question 44

How does the sound play a part In terms of Luther speeches?

Answer 44

The quick clapping and loud sound helps create a engaging sense

Question 45

How did Karl marx describe ideology?

Answer 45

“the system of ideas”- used to manipulate the audience into submission and create certain ideas

Question 46

What do the ruling class create?

Answer 46

The dominant response

Question 47

What do most american films do?

Answer 47

Do it the American way, objectify women margnilise the ethnic cultures- selma is a medium for social change to challenge this

Question 48

What does Phillips do?

Answer 48

Say that viewer use textural analysis and contextual anaysis, they discuss a film after the viewing process
use simplicity and expliscity
implicity- to show rather than explain
explicitly- to explain rather than show
for selma simplicity is a dominant idea

Question 49

How does selma show the implicity analysts?

Answer 49

through the voting rights, the right to vote through Annie Cooper So the main theme of this movie is that every citizen should have a right to vote and all citizens should have equal voting rights.

Question 50

How did selma reflect a dominant approach to ideology of th 60s?

Answer 50

Through the use of culture, sociologists and philopshers would have used films as a way to see society cultural beliefs

Question 51

How can Marxism be applied to selma?

Answer 51

Evolution of human society is developed through technology and the struggles between the different society and classes
marixim said for us to judge a film on whether it reflects the dominant ideology or whether it represses against it

Question 52

What did Marxism say about the classes/

Answer 52

Sees film as a dominance between the classes and structures