Film Stills

Scarface

The angle for the character scarface is from a bird's eye view which enables him to demonstrate his anger and frustration therefore an excellent way to demonstrate the anger and the action. However, for the audience, they are as if the audience are there by a low angle shot and there isn't much lighting to damage the scene where by the use of lighting will help take the audiences attentions away.


Batman











Here this show is effective because the use of back lighting creates suspense as we cannot see the characters facial expressions in addition, this shot is engaging the audience into the film because it is as if Batman is coming to the direction of the audience and also because there is back lighting creates mystery because the audience aren't aware why the character cannot be fully seen and that is also adding to the costume used is black which also creates suspense and tension.

The God Father

The medium shot of the character enables the audience to realize the characters facial expressions and the use of back lighting supports this because the audience cannot see the characters full face and perhaps could show that there is two characters to him dark and evil, good and bad. In addition, the back lighting and the dark background could perhaps be a way of introducing the film.

Film Language - Cinematography

Scarface >original version< (1932)
Directed by Howard Hawks

In the beginning of this extract taken from the movie, the audience acknowledges the use of lighting and the way it has been used for the audience to discover the meaning. The pace in which the lighting has been used of a contrast of light and dark lights connotes two situations or two dilemmas coming together. The use of both lighting's represent good and evil, the good- where the police try to shoot the character down and the evil- where the main character is shooting back and cunning his way out of the situation. After this, a jump cut is made where the audience are forced to focus on something dramatic and according to this extract the beginning scene is a loving moment where the audience do not expect dramatic actions to occur because the lighting used in the beginning scene there is low-key lighting to allow the audience to focus on both characters in the scene and their facial expressions.

Afterwards, there is a P.O.V. shot where the audience gain the view of the character from a high angle this makes the scene more dramatic as the use of lighting makes the audience eager to see what the characters are seeing and by the use of P.O.V shots this is fulfilling their needs in order to gain the best action possible. Therefore, the use of the P.O.V shot is effective to create drama and to mirror the lightings effects by effective editing to create an action pack movie.

This particular scene has only one setting and the drama of the lights and the actual action that is taking place within this scene perhaps shows what type of characters they are and in this particular scene both the man and woman are the perceived to be a big character within the film by the majority of police there are and this adds to the drama of the scene. Another, feature which was interesting was the choreography and the timing in which the actions took place also added to the scenes drama.

Scarface (1972)

The reason I chose the original and the updated Scarface was to show the same movie over a different period of time and as you can see by the trailer of the updated version it is clear the differences. Scarface's narrative has changed to some extent because in the 1932 film you can see the woman was the typical heroine whereas now in the updated version Scarface now has got the female character within the movie but not as much because within the updated version because now it is pure gangster to show the high intensity of violence and to take out any unnecessary glamorous features and allow the audience to focus more on the narrative. As you can clearly see here that the difference from between the 1932 extract and the 1972 extract is the technology and the camera movements and works.

Key Differences

As the trailer begins the audience can see that the differences are the camera work where there are more P.OV shots to allow the audience to engage in the storyline. There are

also more edits such as jump cuts and fades and also the sound effects of the music which was done in post production whereas in the original version there wouldn't have been much difference in post production to enhance the movies narrative. In a addition, the areas in which the updated version had slow motion and the pausing where colours are used and the diegitic and non- diegitic sounds where made in order for the trailer to continue to obtain the audiences attention. Also, the most obvious difference is the lighting which in a way could possibly deteriorating the audience's attention because there is more to look at, whereas in the original version the black and white movies were able to capture the audiences attention's and allowing the audience to face only on the facial expressions.