Most Powerful Thing You Have Self Coaching Scholars
Completion requirements
Make a submission
(with acknowlegement to the BFI )
Work on the following tasks and be prepared to discuss at our next tutorial:
Watch any scene set in the housing estate.
- Is the camera static or moving?
- Is the editing fast or slow?
- What effect does this have on your understanding of the scene?
Watch the scene where they go into Paris city centre at night.
- Is the camera static or moving?
- Is the editing fast or slow?
- What effect does this have on your understanding of the scene?
Identify different kinds of camera style used in the film.
- When is archive television news footage used in the film?
- When is a documentary or jerky moving style of camera work used?
- When do you see the characters through a video camera viewfinder?
- When is careful camera framing and use of particular camera angles noticeable?
- Why is the different effect of each of these camera styles on your understanding of the 'reality' of the events depicted and why?