Turning by Karni & Saul-
Story: On his
sixth birthday, Robert receives three beautiful old ladies in his mother's
sitting room. Through his eyes, we visit the memory of this afternoon,
visualized with the free spirited imagination of childhood, naive yet
wonderfully dark. Ladies appear like birds, a gift scuttles across the floor,
blue icing is nibbled from a magical cake, tea is sipped, lacy slip shifted,
and between knobbly knees strange visions appear. The ladies weave an
extraordinary tale of an emperor with no skin, and the boy himself, older and
wiser, adds the finale... with a tail.
Main character:
Robert (birthday child), beautiful old ladies, mother.
Interesting shots/
edits: Initially, each character is introduced through long, mid or close
up shots. There are frequent straight cuts, changed quickly to each different
character. The old women are edited to look like birds, and frequency change
from their normal faces to birds, however still retaining features of there
original faces. There are low angle shots to establish the difference between
the position of Robert, and the old ladies. Use of shadows on a wall tells
aspects of the story, which is more interesting and visually pleasing than a
separate reel. As the old ladies describe a story, aspects that they describe
and emulated on screen, for example, she describes the image and skin of a
character, and their in a close up of the ladies aged skin.
Time goes nowhere-
Story: The
tale of an unusual friendship coming to an end. Tommy, a young man with low
functioning autism, and his career Janet's time is drawing to a close, due to
him graduating to adult services. Janet reminisces over their time together and
sees the world through his eyes one more time before she realizes that she
needs to let go.
Main character: Tommy
(young man with autism) Janet (Career)
Interesting shots/
edits: The establishing shot is a long shot, however it’s
filmed from within, or behind a bush, adding a sense of secrecy in which the
audience is only a part of. The career is looking through a scrapbook and the
camera focuses on an image, which then cuts to the day the image was taken,
establishing more about the characters life.
Two & Two-
Story: In a
drab, anonymous grey school governed by a strict authoritarian regime, an
apparently unremarkable day is turned on its head following a seemingly
ridiculous announcement. Disbelieving at first, the all male, identically
uniformed pupils are informed that what they had always been taught as fact is
no longer true. When the incredulous students speak out, what initially seems
laughably absurd becomes desperately real as they are forced to question how
far they will go to stand up for their beliefs. Two & Two is an allegory
for the absurdness of dictatorship and tyranny - and the resilience of the
human spirit.
Main
character: Teacher, student 1, student 2
Interesting
shots/edits: the establishing shot zooms out to reveal the setting,
which is interesting compared to the others I have analysed which go straight
into the scene. There is good use of over the shoulder shots when the teacher
walks into the classroom, making the audience feel like they’re part of the
film word. Following this, there is match on action from an over the shoulder
shot point of view, making the audience feel apart of the film world, yet also
safe due to the fact they’re merely onlooking.
