Film Studies

Unit 26.1 – Film Studies

Feminism theory: Divergent

Narrative:

In a divided, war torn world, Tris discovers her abilities and brands with For to resist a sinster plot against those like them 

Director: Neil Burger

I have considerd Divergent as a feminist film as they have a strong female lead. As she is a charater with a motive she ends up finding love while pretending she is like that faction, she is supposed to be in. 

The casts: 

Tris is acted by Shailene Woodley

Four was acted by Theo James 

Christina is acted by Zoé Kravitz 

These roles are all important as each of them helps build up the storyline in a individual and subtle way. There are more charaters but these are the most important ones. 

Beatris(tris) is the female lead and it is based on her her perspective and views of the story. She then meets a friend (Christina) at the begning and stay by each others side throughout the enertirty of the the movie, these is promoting girl power. Theo James (Four ) instructs the whole faction Tris is in and ends up falling in love with her. 

The release date for divergent was March 18th 2014, the had a budget of $85 million but  box sales exceeded the expectation was $288.9 million, it has done well since it's release it has two other movies.

The editing used is a tracking shots 

Auteur theory: Jurassic Park 

Director: Steven Spielberg

Steven spielbergs first ever film he directed was Jaws (1975) and it was a huge challenge as he bought Peter Benchley novels to life. He did run into a few problems such as getting the animontrnic shark to work but water does not mix with electricals, but Spielberg came up with a few solutions which were different and unique from all the other movie makers at their time but he sooned changed and revolutionised the indurty by the way approached the individual scenes and Jaws is such a well known project. This opened up oppurtnities, which then lead to one of his top three greatest movies of all time, Jaws, ET and Micheal Chrintons Jurrasic Park. 

MESONSCENE:

The location of JP was filmed in Hawaill and some was in a studio. Most of it was Pratical effects and on location filming they added  CGI on top of the practical effects to make a realistic and this helps portray to the audiences an audience gratification 

Editing:

To add structure there was a lot of Jump Shots. They used some screen to help get the right angel 

Sound:

There was a lot of mixed animal sound to create the roars of a t-rex and the sound of V-raptor. The sound was mainly non-digetic as it could be in the production (animal sounds 

Camera:
The angels used were low, mid shot and high to see the entire island

Effects: 

Stop motion

Clay motion 

Animatronic 

CGI

References:

http://nadinmoussa.wordpres.com/year-1/unit-4-critical-andcontextual-awarness/auteur-theory-steven-spielberg/  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_(film)