JAKE COSSEY - A-LEVEL FILM STUDIES

On the weekend I went to visit the Richard Mosse 180 strand exhibition.  The exhibition takes you deep in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, there was an immersive video installation created from his  three years filming in the world's largest rainforest.  A selection of the artist’s photographs from the project were displayed alongside the installation, including large-scale photographs that have not been exhibited in the UK before. Who is Richard Mosse? Richard Mosse is an Irish conceptual documentary photographer. He has worked in Iran, Pakistan, Haiti and the former Yugoslavia. He is best known for  his infrared images from the Democratic Republic of the Congo . For his infrared photographs he used a large format camera and the now-discontinued Kodak Aerochrome film. What is aerochrome film? Developed by Kodak specifically for the US military during World War II, Aerochrome has had a colourful history (pun intended). It was initially created  to al...

  Compare how the  aesthetics of mise en scene  have been designed to generate  spectator response  in the  two  films you have studied. You must refer to examples from  one  film from  1930– 1960   in your answer and examples from one film from   1961-1990 .  [35]   INTRO: introduce both films.    P1: (Dawn of Man) (Film Premiere) – Colour pallet/atmosphere (Dawn of man: natural, warm colours, set, tone, natural look), (Film Premiere: unnatural lights, bright spotlights, bright colours), Spectacle   P2: (Deactivation of HAL) ( You Were Meant For Me ) – Dialogue (Deactivation of HAL:  very little dialogue or sound effects in the whole scene, the main sounds we can hear are all diegetic which are: Dave's breathing, and HAL trying to convince Dave to stop, HALs speech starts to slow as he becomes disconnected ,  HAL singing daisy daisy “I’m half crazy” this could possibly connote towards how H...

  On Wednesday the 11th January we visited the BFI Southbank for a 'Silent Film for KS5 Film Studies'. Throughout the day Matthew Daintrey-Hall spoke to us taking about silent film and aesthetic/cultural movement, he also give us a talk about the focus film: Sunrise (1927) talking about aesthetics, institutions and ideology. After lunch we watched the focus film:  Sunrise (1927) with a pain accompaniment - John Sweeney. After this there was a Q&A with him. (Below is the film we watched - it was the first film to come ready with a backing track however it was much more interesting with a live pianist.)