I am writing an essay to explain a scene in Hotel Rwanda. I will be waiting to explain how the camera shorts and angle would show the view how Paul (the main character) I will be covering movement, setting, effect, sound, time and Paul feeling.
The director of hotel Rwanda used lots of film techniques to show how Paul, was feeling. In this scene close was used to make Paul feel stronger. on the film techniques is when the Hutu driver was driving other dead body , shot was level with the angle and mid shot what will give effect how Paul feeling , shock and thinking what that bums driving other the fog, was the setting and showing us what he couldn’t see a thing . this would make the view think what is he driving on and that Paul would know before views showing the colour went dark with the sky, going dark using setting and weather. Paul body was in fear , because he didn’t know what was happening in that moment.
The director is showing Paul body get tight and close together in a shot when he drop out the van, it was a live action and the sound when he drops. director use a level shot , mid shot this will make Paul see what he drop however had to be a huge fall because he was out of scene just his hand van this effect made the views think some bad was happening, Paul was in shock and fear you could tell by his body , the bodies make Paul felt guilt because of everything seeing bodies to the end of the road. Movement was tracking shot following where he would go.
Mid shot was preventing views to see the bodies this effect help them to make them think what Paul was thinking his self. In this its a close up with a girl murder level shot the sound was non-dietetic sound ,mournful African music and a machete sound for shock of the bodies saying their murder by a machete very hard to sync in but the close give the effect how everything was all adding up . this would bring fear to views and have an impact make views think what’s happening .
In the film the effect of all of them help by it adding up together by making views be thinking of the fear what was Paul was felling. the hope point was to make Paul see everything before the view could use lots of techniques for the views to see example when Paul friend was driving other all the body, he made the camera shot see his face expression thinking he is going to drop in river.
May 14, 2015 at 9:44 pm
Hi Kadece,
You’re demonstrating a clear awareness of some of the main effects used by the director to create shock and tension.
The main area for development is the structuring of your sentences. The first suggestion is that you have a go at carefully reading what you’ve written out loud (it might make sense to print this before you do that) and note all the parts that don’t sound correct when you read them.
If you can do that, and bring the result to me, we can talk through how to make the correct changes.
CW