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Question 1

Jonathan glazer auteur themes

Answer 1

-Alienation
-Isolation
-Uncanny
-Emotional coldness
-Familiar with unfamiliar

Question 2

cinematography in IRP

Answer 2

• long shots
• wide shots of man pulling guy out of water (pov, eyeline match of female), camera pans and follows
• wide shot of female watching, negative space
• wide shot of man laying on ground
• low angle mid shot as she drags him
• wide shot dragging him, baby at back of frame
  later…
• wide shot of baby alone

Question 3

mes in IRP

Answer 3

• prop of stone- hits him with it
• grey, blue, cool colour palette
• grey day
  later…
• dark, low key dim lighting
• distressed facial expressions, looking around
• pathetic fallacy

Question 4

sound in IRP

Answer 4

-diegetic crashing of waves
- non diegetic seduction track plays again as she walks to man
- diegetic crying of baby and waves

Question 5

editing in IRP

Answer 5

• conventional- shit reverse shot, eyeliner match, pov
• slow editing

Question 6

meaning of IRP sequence

Answer 6

• man didn’t hit on her - first resistance- todorov disruption
• first time seeing vulnerability- drowning and man goes to save- todorov disruption
• baby= the female, isolation, lost, wants to do something but can’t, doesn’t have the capacity to do so

Question 7

Opening sequence (cosmos bit)- glazer auteur argument

Answer 7

• composition- wide shots, neg space
  -first image- pin prick of light- isolation
• le mepris- camera lens
• unfamiliar with familar- abstract imagery to rep her birth
• jump cut to closer shot of bright light- big bang
• 1.85:1 aspect ratio
• extreme close up of female eye- deconstructs male gaze
• diegetic dialogue -
  -“films” “filmed” - patriarchy- meta text
• non diegetic score (mica Levi)- jarring, atonal- horror convention
• iconography points to science- 2001 space odyssey- Kubrick
  -fam and unfam- cosmos but reveals its an eye

Question 8

opening sequence- (undressing) gender

Answer 8

• meta text on stardom ‘films”
• extreme close up of female eye- female gaze
• close up, helmet, moves relentlessly towards camera, diegetic sound of motorcycle
• costume design- skirt, tights, boots, masculine motorcyclist
• diegetic sound of clothes taken off
• hair out and around- medusa
  dutch angles, close ups
  -overhead mid shot see naked woman- confused?
• (usually with nudity sequence there is build up and catharsis- not here)
• in silhouette, back lit
• fast, jagged editing
• by end is fully clothed- no catharsis