Tsotsi Flashcards
Motifs, symbols and themes.
Dogs, the mobiles, fate and fortune, hope, decency and mother and father.
Birds Eye view
Directly overhead
What is a Crane Shot?
-From a Special device called a crane
-resembles a huge mechanical arm.
-crane carries the camera and cameraman and can move in virtually any direction.
What is a dissolve, lap dissolve?
Slow fading out of one shot.
What is an Extreme long shot?
Exterior location,photographed from a great distance.
What is an Eye-level shot?
Placement of the camera approximately 5 to 6 feet from the ground corresponding to height of an observer on the scene.
What is a master shot?
A single uninterrupted shot
What is a Mise-en-scene?
The arrangement of volumes and movement within the given space.
What is an Oblique angle?
A Tilted camera shot.
What is a Pull-back dolly?
Technique used to surprise the viewer by withdrawing from a scene to reveal an object or character that was previously out of the frame.
What is a subtext?
Signify the dramatic implications beneath the language of a play or movie.
What is tight framing?
Usually in close shots.
Carefully balanced and harmonised.
What is the wipe used for?
Editing device, a line which travels across the screen.
How many people live below the poverty line?
Over half the population lives below the poverty line
How much of the population is unemployed?
A quarter of the population is unemployed.
How much of the adult population is infected with HIV/aids and why do thousands of children grow up orphaned?
More than a fifth ( 21%) Of the adult population is infected with HIV/AIDS.
Thousands of children grow up orphaned due to the premature deaths of their parents.
True or False:
Violent crime still costs the lives of over 20,000 people are year.
True
What is the Background ?
-Tsotsi Is based off a novel, same name by Athol Fugard.
His only novel
-His plays brought him trouble during the apartheid era with the SA government. Which led to him taking them overseas to be performed.
-His play won many awards.
-made another play called the road to Mecca in 1992.
Background of Gavin Hood:
-Began his career as an actor.
-Started his directing career by making sure educational films for the SA department of health.
-made his directorial feature film about ‘A Reasonable Man’ in 1999.
-directed his first short commercial ‘the shopkeeper’ (1998).
About Tsotsi
-gained many positive reviews.
-won 2006 Oscar for best film in a foreign language and also won several film festival awards.
