Think about the format of the images
How are they constructed
Montage, fast edit
What shot types are used
Handheld shots
Push in shots
Dolly shots
What filters, effects are used
Blood stains on the screen hinting at violence in the film
Distortion which causes unease for the viewer
Grain effects to show these are events of the past.
Any adjectives you would use to describe the quality of the images.
Found footage style
Old fashioned
grainy
Are there any shapes used?
Are there any key colours used?
Lots of red, brown, green and blue which give ideas of disgust and sadness
Now start thinking about the imagery
Start taking screen shots from images that stand out for you and then try to gather them in sections
Now start to think about what themes or connotation are associated with these groups of images
Themes are:
Black lives and police brutality and conservative people in the west
Religion and sin
Dead animals/ animals decaying possibly talking about how sin is a disease rotting away the world or racism and police brutality is
And start to think what are the links or differences between the groups
People who are religious and don't commit sin and those who do
Most people in conservative areas of the US like Texas are religious and despise wrong doing and sin however they treat women poorly
Conservative areas of the US treat black people very poorly
Dead animals vs baptism
Spirituality vs violence
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Now start to see if there's other tools from out theory work that might be useful to use:
Cultural code in regards to issues of race and religion in the US, also enigma code which means raising many questions for the viewer
Can you identify any 'Binary opposites'?
Religious people and sinners
Black people and white people
Can you identify any type of montage?
Rhythmic montage is used to put across ideas and keep viewers interested
And tonal montage
Intellectual montage, conflicting images to create a emotional reaction
What do you believe is the 'reality that is being represented?
What do you think is the preferred reading of this representation is?
Once you've considered all this can you identify the following and justify your reasoning:
What the genre of the shows is (and tone/mood)?
A thriller film and the tone would be mysterious
What the themes of the show are?
Race
Religion
Wrong treatment of women
What is the representation of the setting is?
Strong religious beliefs but also indulgence in vices like prostitution and alcohol and tobacco consumption, also a conservative area
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