Friday 4 November 2016

How far does the impact of the films you have studied for this topic depend on distinctive uses of film techniques?

In scenes such as the history of the apartment editing techniques such as a static camera shot shows Donna Zélia's version of the apartment, the apartment is clearly more domestic as it is a house ran by women who at this time had more of a say in the favela, the house has an element of structure and organisation, the feminine features stand out such as the pink leather chairs, and the blue tablecloth. A dissolve is used to show how Big Boy grows up and the feminine features of the apartment slowly dissolve once he becomes big enough to remove Zélia from her apartment, we see her drag the table cloth off the table this foreshadows the way the apartments decoration evaporates. Another dissolve is then used show how what was once a domestic dining table becoming a place of drugs, another dissolve is then used to show how nothing in the apartment changes in terms of the decor despite the amount of drugs they're selling increasing.  The next dissolve shows how the apartment becomes darker the only element of organisation being shown in the distribution of drugs, the lamp disappears and is replaced by a single bulb suspended from the ceiling the only representation of women that is left is displayed on the walls in pornographic pictures of the walls. Further dissolves show the removal of the sofa which is replaced by two dirty mattresses as well as

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