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Suckablood Analysis

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This is England Character Analysis

Here is my analysis of the major characters within This is England. For each character I had to look at some of their key scenes and analyse what that established for them as a character. After that I made a table in order to show what relevance they had to the overall story, what impact they had on Shaun and how they reflect the themes of the film.

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This is England British Social Realism, Narrative & Genre

Here is an analysis of several british social realism films. The reason I did this is to establish what a british social realism film is all about in preperation for my analysis of This is England. Here I found out that many of these films have overlapping themes of poverty, conflict and class.

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Lighting for Meaning

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This is England Montage

This is a collection of 9 shots from the montage at the start of This is England. These shots show off what England was like at the time of the film being set (the 80’s).

The music in the background of the montage is ’54 – 46 was my number’

Genre: Reggae

The song is about a man getting arrested due to marijuana possesion. Reggae, as a genre, was heavily adopted by skinheads of the time which could be seen as a slight juxtaposition due to the genre having a backgrounf in black culture and skinheads being stereotypically extremely right-wing politically.

The songs timing along with the montage exemplifies some of the more sinister moments, such as someone throwing a molotov cocktail into a crowd or someone being blown up. It is also relevant as the film is set in the 80’s where genres such as reggae were growing in popularity.

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Advanced Cinematography

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Pan’s Labyrinth Final Essay Feedback

For my first essay I think I did very well as I used several links to macro features as well as the contexts of the film. I also used key language throughout my essay to enhance it slightly. This got me a 21/28 which is equivilent to a high H6, nearly a H7. To improve for future I have made a small list of things I can improve upon.

EBI:

  • Improve TEA paragraphs
  • Give more detail on examples
  • Fully flesh out points
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Framing for Meaning

 

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Pan’s Labyrinth Context Research

When learning about a film, understanding the context that film the film was made in is crucial in understanding why certain things are the way that they are. There are several contexts that can go behind a films production, some of these include: the time it was made, the culture surrounding the director, the religion of the director & the artistic vision of the director.

This also applies to Pan’s Labyrinth which is a film in the fantasy and war genres. It was made in 2006 by Guillermo Del Toro, who’s a Mexican director that’s also a catholic. These elements (such as time, culture, religion, etc) play into why Pan’s Labyrinth is the way it is. Certain aspects of the film would’ve been extremely different if it was directed by someone else, for example, Del Toro refused the larger budgets from larger studios in order to keep creative control of the film and have it be as grusome as it is.

 

 

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Narrative in Pan’s Labyrinth

  • The film has a non-linear narrative as the begining is the end.
  • The film has a split narrative between Ofelia’s quest and the Civil war.
  • The Faun’s introduction into the story starts the disruption and kick starts one of the main two plots of the film.
  • The disequilibrium is somewhat traditional, where the heroes are at their lowest point in the film but have to rise from there. This is also the longest parts of the film.
  • The exposition tells us who the characters are, where they are and what kind of world they live in.