Disability - Coming Down the Mountain

Sound

The music at the end of the clip was slow-paced and had a sad tune to it. The producer intends to portray this emotion in the music because it reflects the feelings of the boy with down syndrome. The boy is feeling isolated and disowned because he has to get the bus by himself while his brother is having fun. The diegetic dialogue between the parents and the boy with down syndrome is very sympathetic. In the kitchen the mum says "don't be so selfish" to the older brother. This infers to the audience that the boy with the disability is treated with more care than his older brother, this may be demoralising for the boy who wishes to live a normal life just like his brother. Additionally, the point of view is from the older and more able brother. The producer uses voiceovers of the older brother who tells a story of what it is like to have a disabled brother. At times the brother's tone of voice is angry and annoyed. This implies how it is frustrating for him and restricts his freedom to do things he wants to do, yet he has a huge responsibility to care for his brother. Disability is negatively depicted in the opening scene, when the brother says I want to "kill my brother" there is parallel music being played. The music is intense and portrays the anger in his feelings. This represents the contrast in emotions because the disabled brother is peaceful and does not realise how frustrated his brother is because he does not have the mental capacity to do so.



Editing

Representation of Age

Waterloo Road - Exam practise

 

Mise En Scene

 

The clip conveys how the students do not take education seriously and do not care about school rules and regulations. Most of the students are dressed in school uniform yet many of them have their shirts not tucked in, however one boy is dressed more smart than the fellow pupils. The boy who looks more smart than the other students is a character who seems very vulnerable and is confronted by a girl who becomes aggressive to him. As a result, the costume conveys that the students who look more articulate are vulnerable to bullying and feel uncomfortable in a school environment.

 

The setting of Waterloo Road shows a very chaotic school with misbehaving students causing the teachers stress. For example, the setting is constantly changing from different scenes which implies how there are always students causing trouble. The scene where the girl confronts the boy forces a teacher to leave his class and resolve the situation. This portrays the students as reckless individuals yet shows how the teachers are more mature and experienced to solve the issues cause by students.

 

The producer uses a camera as a prop to show the difference in the authority that some teachers have over others. When the boys break the camera the older teacher uses sarcasm to tell the boys off yet when a younger inexperienced teacher comes over she is embarrassed when asked if she has insurance on the camera. This shows that the older teacher has more authority simply because he is older and is therefore more powerful.

 

Camera

 

The producer uses different frames in the camera work to show the authority a teacher has over his students. When the teacher is giving orders to his class the frame is wide showing the entire class. As a result, the students are shown to be less important because of their age and are treated as a group rather than individuals.

There is a low angle in the scene where a teacher is wearing clothes that a stereotypical teenager would wear. However, when the camera is levelled out there are students who laugh at him. This suggests that there is a huge divide between students and teachers because he is represented as a powerful figure but once he returns to a level shot he is mocked by passing students.

 

 

Task 2 - Films in 2016

Films by the Big Six in 2016

Sony	Warner Bros	20th Century Fox	Paramount	Disney	Universal
- The Comedian   - The Shallows   - The Magnificent Seven   - Sausage Party   - Don’t Breath   - The Brothers Grimsby   - Passengers   - The Angry Birds Movie	- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them   - Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice   - Suicide Squad   - The Conjuring 2   - Me Before You   - The Legend of Tarzan   - Lights Out	- Deadpool   - Kung Fu Panda 3   - The Revenant   - X-men: Apocalypse   - Trolls   - Assassin’s Creed   - Ice Age: Collision Course   - Eddie The Eagle	- Zoolander 2   - 10 Cloverfield Lane   - Ben-Hur (2016)   - Whiskey Tango Foxtrot   - Florence Foster Jenkins   - Office Christmas Party   - 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi	- Captain America: Civil War   - Rogue One: A Star Wars Story   - Finding Dory   - Zootopia   - The Jungle Book   - Moana   - The Finest Hours   - The BFG	- The Secret Life of Pets   - Ride Along 2   - My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2   - Dad's Army   - Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising   - Split   - Warcraft   - Bridget Jones’s Baby

Independent film company research - New Line Cinema

 

New Line Cinema was founded in 1967 as a film distribution company but later formed as an independent film studio. In February 2008, New Line merged with Warner Bros however they demanded that all financing, producing, marketing and distributing operations would be done separately with its own films.