Monday, October 29, 2018

TA Week 4: Faith In The Image Or Faith In Real Life

Faith in reality where films are used to reveal reality rather than add to it.

Offside
  • No Parallel Editing
  • Move from one character to the next
  • Adopts form of football match with the first non adjacent cut occurring at the half way point. (Relating to half time in a football match)
  • Parallel Cutting is available to people who impose restrictions so Offside doesn't use them as they want to view the peoples perspective revealing and not imposing a viewpoint. The lack of parallel editing takes power away from authority.
  • Soldiers are revealed as human beings.
  • Emphasis on groups rather than individuals by not sticking with a single character.
  • The prevention of movement has strong representation of boarders.
  • The celebrations at the end of film are almost dream like as what it would be like if the barriers of sexism were broken down in the country.
  • People are coming in and out of the vehicle freely by the end of the film contrasting with the rest of the film.


3 Points
1. Refuse of parallel editing attempts to reveal reality.
2. Movement from one character to the next portrays equality between people.
3. Movement from one character to the next takes the legitimacy away from the power.

Revealing reality.