Thursday 11 November 2010

Ms Wigley - Kill Bill (not yet finished )

There are several aspects to consider whilst watching any movie ! : mise en scene , sound - diagetic and non diagetic ,editing and genre. Within the film kill bill the aspects of mise en scene can be followed by freeze framing a particular scene an analysing its importance for example :- in the beginning of the kill bill scene we see that the main character who is wearing a yellow outfit fit for fighting picks up a very sharp and powerful sword . The connotation of a sword are that the person holding it is ready to fight a battle , in which case kill bill is the perfect example of . When holding a sword the audience immediately notices the power and dominance of what the character portrays . The Geisha is seen to be wearing traditional clothing which symbolises her lpove and passion for her culture . As we progress through the scene , we a slow motion of the axe going round and round , again connoting that something dangerouse and out of the ordinary is about to happen . As the fight progresses between the protagonist and the agents   , we see the camera shift to the sword whereby some blood is seen to be dripping of the sword ... again this rouses fear for the audience who know that the connotation of blood symbolises death .
The foley artists use of non diagetic sound within the fighting scene has been succecfully applied ... the sharp sound of the sword makes the audience realise that the particular scene will progress into a blood bath whereby only the protagonist survives. A sound bridge has been succefully applied ... as an audience we hear the doppler effect of the motorcycle in the background to the progression of the sound of footsteps , again as an audience we can anticpate that something bad will happen .
The use of diagetic sound has been applied within the beginning of the scene whereby we hear the dialogue between the geisha and the girl in the yellow suit , a task has obviously been set : to defeat everyone in the black jackets on her own ( protagonist) which she does succefully toward the end of the scene.

1 comment:

  1. WWW - You have successfully started to analyse the effect of the sound

    EBI - You write a full analysis of the scene.
    Be careful - the sound of the sword is diegetic - it comes from the world of the film, unlike the music - which is non-diegetic.

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