Sound and Music: Tsotsi

The scene I thought the sound and music worked out perfect was the end scene where Tsotsi is holding the baby. The father of the baby is waiting for Tsotsi to give the baby back. You hear and see Tsotsi crying because he knows he did wrong. The music begins as the father of the baby is staring at Tsotsi then Tsotsi starts handing him the baby and then the music rises after that.

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Special Effect: Alice in Wonderland

These two pictures are showing Alice, Tweedle Dee, and Tweedle Dum. The green screen provides the special effect of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum being a lot bigger than Alice in the bottom picture. The bottom picture also shows what Wonderland looks like compared to the top picture only showing the green screen. The top picture shows that Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum were on stilts in order to get their height to be taller than Alice. 

Historical Framework

A historical framework from, Whale Rider, is the youth and old age. The youth had to listen to the adults. Pai on the other hand, didn't want to engage herself with what the adults said. She wanted to do the stuff she couldn't do. One was she tried sitting in the front row, but boys sit in the front and girls sit in the back. She got kicked out by her grandfather. The second was she retrieved the whale tooth without anyones permission. The last one was she tried the stick fighting. What was holding her back was that she was a girl. She tried so hard to do what the boys would do, but her grandfather wasn't going to let her. Her grandfather wanted to teach Pai what she could learn for girls. The youth were expected to repeat and observe what their elders do. Pai would watch her grandfather and wish she could do exactly what he would. Her grandfather couldn't get out of the past by letting the new generation, such as Pai, to go out and venture in whatever area she felt like learning.

Transition: The Great Gatsby

Time: 2:00-2:30

In this scene, Daisy and Gatsby are seeing each other for the first time in 5 years. Nick Carraway invites Daisy over for tea, so Gatsby can see her again. I chose, The Great Gatsby, for transitions because the film uses straight cut editing from one shot to another. Straight cut is where there's a shot and it's suddenly cut off with another shot appearing right away.

Feature Blogger: Whale Rider

Since Hemi wasn't allowed to go on the boat, do you think he would've been the one to find the whale tooth and give it back to Koro? Would Koro appreciate Hemi more than he does now?

The Road Home: Focusing on Symbolism

A symbol I found throughout the film was the bowl. Zaho Di had the same two bowls throughout the movie, which they meant a lot to her. She was using the bowls to see if Luo Changyu would take the food and bowls with him. The bowl symbolized a circle that never ended just how Di and Luo's relationship was. They saw each other, Luo left, he came back, left again, came back, ended up leaving for two years, and eventually they stayed together for many years after that. Another is the broken pieces of the bowl meant no matter what has all happened, they ended up together because the pieces came back together.

Once Upon a Time in the West: Camera Movement

Time: 03:40-04:27

  This film clip is towards the end of the film where Frank has the harmonica. The director shows a medium shot of Frank so the audience can see that Frank is looking at the harmonica in his hand. Then Frank looks straightforward at the harmonica guy with a smirk on his face, which the director wanted to add this element so the audience can see Frank’s facial expression of holding the harmonica. The sound of the harmonica is playing, which the director added it during this scene because it means something bad is about to happen soon. A shot/reverse shot shows the harmonica guy staring at Frank straight into his eyes. The director wanted the audience to see the harmonica guy’s reaction because we can tell he’s not thrilled that Frank is holding onto his harmonica. The camera does a close-up shot of Frank and zooms in to an extreme close-up of his eyes. The director wanted the audience to see how serious the harmonica guy was by not flitching his eyes at all. The sound of the harmonica was building up, as the camera was getting closer to the harmonica guy’s eyes. The director had the harmonica sound build up louder because he wanted the audience to know something was about to happen between these two characters. The last part of the clip is a shot/reverse shot that shows a medium shot of Frank still holding onto the harmonica with on hand. The last two seconds of the clip, Frank smiles at the harmonica guy. The director wanted Frank to smile to show that he won and had more power over the harmonica guy.