The opening scene

Question 1

1.

Answer 1

mixed of hand held, POV of the chicken and fast paced editing

Question 2

2.

Answer 2

Cuts between the close ups of a knife being sharpened and chickens being slaughtered represents poverty

Question 3

3.

Answer 3

diegetic sound of sharpening mixed with Brazilian music suggesting a ruthless world, but also full of excitement and vibrancy. (contrapuntal sound)

Question 4

4.

Answer 4

The chicken is used as a metaphor for Rocket

Question 5

5.

Answer 5

Cuts to a peaceful scene of Rocket and friend walking, strong sense these two journeys meet

Question 6

6.

Answer 6

The edit cuts between long shots and close ups of extreme emotion.. (Montage)

Question 7

Inspired by Eisenstein

Answer 7

the importance of editing not to link shots in continuity but to make them collide against each other to produce shocks (the mental leaps of the spectator)

Question 8

The chase of the chicken

Answer 8

disorientating cinema verite is used (close ups of action)

Question 9

High angles

Answer 9

offer a cramped trapped reality

Question 10

Kuleshov

Answer 10

maintained that it was the editor/director who took the shot footage and created the film through the way the shots were joined together (Rezende did this)

Question 11

7.

Answer 11

The use of camerawork also involves a dutch tilt, used to create an increased sense of disorientation within the favelas.