Goodfellas - Screen shots

In this screenshot you seen Paulie. In this screenshot, Paulie is shown to not confront anyone around him, and does not have time for small talk. Whilst this scene is happening, Henry is a voice over, telling the viewers what Paulie does and how his life works out. The camera starts to zoom in near the end of Henry talking, enhancing how Paulie is the main character in the Mafia and the only important one to everyone else and stays focused on him until Henry has said everything he needed to about Paulie so that the viewer does not get distracted by anything in the background and understand everything about Paulie and what he does.



In this screenshot, Henry is shown when he was a child just starting his new job with the Mafia. It is the first glimpse that we get of Henry and his thoughts in the voice over he does. At the first the camera shot is extreme close up on henry's eyes staring, it slowly zooms out which introduces Henry to the viewers. Then the viewers and looking at what Henry is looking at, like we are his eyes, the camera uses a pan shot to give this effect and whilst this is happening Henry is commentating on how he wants to be in the Mafia life and it is what he wants to to. The camera finally comes to this screenshot showing Henry looking through the blinds. The blinds give off a sense of being trapped as the blinds look like bars in jail, this implies that Henry is trapped from doing his dream job and just watches hoping that one day that'll be him outside.


In this screenshot, Henry is showing his mother his new suit he got. The camera shot is mid-shot showing Henry's expression and the suit he is excited to show. The camera then switches to his mother showing shock and not saying a word and looking at him then down. The camera uses a tilt shot to enhance what his mother was seeing and how she looking down and stayed staring at his shoes which was the main part of Henry's outfit that he liked the most, but the complete opposite for his mother who then says "my god, you look like a gangster." She says this with shock and anger and how her son has suddenly changed from his job. Apart from the tilt shot, this screenshot uses mid-shot through out to show off both the characters facial and body expression which are completely opposite.


In this scene, Henry is hitting a man for 'touching his girl' he has great anger and implies this by beating him and with no fear of doing it as when he walks over he shows power and determination on his face, the camera shows this by slowly becoming closer and closer to henry like the viewer is at the scene just waiting for something to happen. While he beats the man the camera shot is a central long shot as it is showing lower than the waist line, by doing this the viewer gets to see how weak the man looks and how powerful Henry looks whilst the other men stand a watch knowing they cant do anything to help. When this finishes Henry gets closer to the camera making it a mid-shot whilst the camera is following him again and not looking back at the man displaying how powerful he is and that he is shown as the better man, because if the camera focused on the man on the floor the viewers would feel emotions about the man and get a instant dislike to Henry which is not what the film wants to show. 

Woman in black: Figure expression

Woman in black:
At the beginning of this film, Arthur (Daniel Radcliffe) Is shown to be very gloomy and does not show emotion as he has lost his wife and has never been the same ever since. You can see how upset he is as his does not show much emotion, only when he is with his son where he does smile as he feels safe with him and close to his wife.
Arthur has to go out of town to do some work at an abandoned house, there are many rumours about it but it does not phase him once as his facial expression stays the same. However, once in the house and experiencing different things, his perception starts to change the viewers can clearly see this through his figure expression. When first seeing the woman in black, he seems confused he stares and does not blink, then runs downstairs to check and look for her, he walks fast and his eyes shift around looking showing his first sign of fear.
Much emotion is shown through the people of the town if a child had died, their body would be closed up, wanting to be alone and they would clearly show emotion through tears, whereas Arthur would just stare and watch, with a straight face and not approaching anyone like he had been through that feeling and blocks it out as much as he can so he would not go through this again.
When reminiscing about his wife, you can see the despair he has in his facial expression, especially the eyes and eyebrows. Although he has no expression anywhere else in his face, you can see how heartbroken he is just through his eyes, he also looks away when talking about her to signify that when he thinks about her, he only focus's on her and nothing else.

Thelma and Louise film responce

Made in 1991, director Ridley Scott. Staring Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis.

 This film represents freedom and adventure. The two girls, Thelma and Louise, escape from their normal and boring lives for a weekend trip away, they show up at a bar and Thelma meets a man, however he tries to rape her and louise shoots him in defence and anger.
This is how their real adventure starts. They travel America escaping from the police and meet a few more people on the way.
Once realising what they done, louise is very strong to thelma and has confidence through the begining of their adventure. Louise makes a plan to get money to help her and Thelma start a new life in mexico and she gets the money. Whilst in the hotel, Thelma meets a new friend called J.D who tells Thelma how he steals which helps her in the future. After an evening at the hotel, J.D had dissapeared when both the girls were in the bar area and so was the money that Louise needed. The loss of this money impacts her a lot and all her confidence she once had was gone and Thelma began to realise that she needs to start being in control as Louise can't handle the situation anymore.
After more travelling, the girls realise that they need money for gas and food. Louise decides to sell her jewellery whilst Thelma takes a different approach and takes on what J.D had told her and robbed a shop.
After all of this travelling the police finally catch them, but they both want to be this free forever an drive off a cliff. At the end the picture freezes with the car in mid air stating how theyre now free and can't be caught anymore.
Overall the adventures that happen show off their characters and even bring out a stronger character in Thelma after her husband had not been treating her well. They teach a few men lessons on the way about rape as they (maybe) both had bad experiences of it and have had enough of how they're treated and show a different side to what men would see in a women.
I think it is a good film about expressing and gaining new characteristics and confidence for both the characters.

Sweeney Todd - Props

Sweeney Todd – Props
In the musical, the main prop used are Sweeney’s razors. These are his only friends in the musical and enhance power. When the audience are first introduced to this significant prop they’re neatly placed in a box that was hidden showing how they’re so important to him as they had to be hidden from the world. The razors are clean signifying that they’re ready to be used, they also enhance power when Sweeney holds them as ignores everything around him. At the end of showing this prop it is held high with Sweeney looking out of the window and the scene finishing with the camera zooming out onto the whole town suggesting that the razor will destroy everyone one by one through the town which gives the audience that the razor has a significant meaning through out the film.

When Sweeney starts to use the razors he does not stop as he feels so in control with them. Another prop that makes him feel like this is the chair. It holds the subject making them feel safe, then when Sweeney pulls a leaver it drops the now dead man underground. The chair is an easy and quick way for Sweeney to destroy evidence which gives him more confidence when killing a man.

A final prop that stand out is the gun that Anthony have to save Johanna from the asylum she is trapped in. If shows great power as he has never had any before which he holds to save Joanna. Although he has the gun he does not use it signifying that although he has all the power in the world at that moment, he still can’t shoot a man. 

Inglourious bastards costume/make up.

Inglourious bastards (2009)

At the beginning of this film, shosanna's family(who are hiding under a house from nazi's as they're jewish) have been shot and she runs out in ragged clothes that look dirty enhancing the horrible environment she had to stay in when in hiding, you also see blood all over her face from her family showing suffer and fear of how the girl felt at the time. Also at this moment you meet the nazi general hanz landa of the ss. His costume is all black to show he is superior to everyone else and how he looks very determined about what he does and wearing all black could display mystery and there is no way of expressing his character through his clothes.
In chapter 2 of the film you also meet Aldo Raine who is a leader of a opposition group against the nazi's. He is a very calm American and his costume represents this as he wears hat, scarfs and coats, very casual wear which makes him feel more comfortable in his situation(of killing men).
His clothes are also dark colours to make sure he doesn't stand out and hides well when doing his job.
After shosanna escapes, she starts her life again running a movie theatre and makes a plan to kill all the nazi's generals attending her theatre. Throughout the film she wears comfortable and pale coloured clothes but on the night she wears a vibrant red dress and red lip stick displaying more courage in herself. She dresses up for the night to impress and by wearing red to stand out and give off a sexual look and also adds a red paint to her cheeks and rubs in. This makes all the nazi's not even think that she wouldn't be a jew as she looks healthy and rich in this scene.