1. How do we analyse a Film?
Introduction
There are many ways to analyse films by using genre analysis and Auteur
theory a director uses many theories such as genre analysis also there are
many ways to analysis a film such as using techniques such as codes and
conventions codes and conventions are where throughout the film what makes
it the action, thriller, comedy, teen horror film for example in an action thriller
spy film there would be codes and conventions such as guns, fast cars, suites,
and of course in every action thriller spy film there are scenes where female
representation is taken place for example where females are sexually
objectified both important features for the male and female audience an
example of this being used in a film is quantum of solace directed by Mark
Foster in the year 2008 its genre is Action Spy Thriller and the director gets all
of the codes and conversions of an action thriller in the film for example during
the film codes and conventions are shown in the film by nearly every person in
the film has guns fast cars suites smartly dressed and during the film and
throughout male and female representation is shown as Daniel Craig who Plays
and takes on the persona of the well know James Bond is shown to be the
protagonist energetically smartly dressed who is tough and a rugged guy with
good looks this brings in the females viewers also throughout the film there is
the female actress an Ukrainian born actress and model she like bond grabs
the viewersâ attention she is and female representation takes place she is
sexually objectified throughout the film Olga kurylenko
who plays and takes on the persona of this sexy female
actor called Camille who is in love with 007 James Bond
Daniel Craig she is shown to flirt and be attracted to her
and also we get signals where we are jealous as James Bond gets the girl who
we are all after also the same with the women as the protagonist James Bond
gets the girl that the viewers and the audience all want. The cars in the codes
and conventions play a huge part in any action thriller spy film in the opening
2. scene of quantum of solace there is an action scene where a super car Aston
Martin DBS in black the scene starts off with fast approaching editing
technique called cross cut where it is
crossing from the protagonist point of view
where he is trying to escape from the
protagonist the bad guys and then the
camera would cross cut to the bad guys
the protagonist firing and shooting it
shown scenes where James Bond Is
Drifting the Aston MARTIN the Aston martin represents British power and
engineering. So we get to see the Mice on scene where we are with James
Bond and then with the bad guys getting a sense of what both sides are after
and what they do to achieve it. All of the codes and conventions break to
conformity to genre. Another way we analyse a film is where we look at the
setting of the film and weather it breaks to conformity of genre or not. In the
film Leon Directed By Luc Benson in the year 1994 we can see that the codes
and conventions in this film are similar to the James bond films with the guns
suites costumes drugs cash crime female representation anther code and
convention is the yellow taxi this can come under iconography such as what
can you see that stands out that it is in new york for example yellow taxis the
empire state building and the new york central park what makes a good film is
the understating ding of the character an example of this is we expect with all
of the codes and conventions such as fast cars action and the guns drugs crime
we expect to see an protagonist who is rouged looks good lucking tough guy
with a licence to kill such as James bond however Leon is very very different
because we donât see this in mind we still picture this tough guy James bond
gets all the ladies female representation with Leon we donât really see him at
the beginning we great t0 see him on the subway very very discreet very
monosyllabic unconventional old wearing sunglasses the hat the beard he
doesnât look like a killer at first or a spy however he is the most dangerous
killer in the film so character representation is very important when analysing a
film. Another way to analyse the film of character is technical features for
example during the first scene when we get to see Leon we only get to see his
mouth and his eyes camera work is very important also sound the way he talks
at first we expect a very American accent however he sounds foreign at first.