Film Analysis...

Throughout reading week, our work to do for film studies is a film analysis using a template where we are to describe the shot, cinematography, voice and sound and music of a particular scene from a film.

We were given the choice to analyse 3-5 minutes of any film of our choice. I thought this was a bit vague to begin with, but once i knuckled down I found it very interesting because when watching a film, you normally never stop and start a scene and literally focus on exactly whats going on..

My first choice of film was Baz Lurhman's Romeo and Juliet. This is one of my favourite films, and having watched it rather a few times, I knew exactly the scenes in which I'd like to analyse. However, once I began my analysis for this, I found it too easy. I thought to myself that there really isn't that much going on that makes you want to really look into a scene. I mean, its extremely well shot, and the narrative to it is good, however the cinematography isn't complex enough.

I then decided upon another favourite film of mine, Donnie Darko.

Now this film is very strange, the narrative to it is almost backwards and its all to do with the concept of time. You have to defiantly watch this film a second time to really grasp whats going on. Its so in depth and breaks a lot of rules in filming. I feel that this film is shot beautifully what with the use of lighting and cinematography. My favourite scene that I did in fact analyse is a scene in which Donnie, his on screen girlfriend Gretchin and Frank (the huge rabbit) are sat in the cinema and Frank shows Donnie a portal to time travel. I picked this scene as the sue of camera shots make it dream like. its dark, and intense. The scene was 4 minutes long. 

below is a photo taken from the scene I analysed: