No Country for Old Men day 2

9/25/18

Today in Film as Literature we continued to watch the film

No country for old men. If you were absent the movie is on Netflix.

We started at the point were the two police officers investigated the car on fire in the middle of nowhere. And we stopped where the main character crashed a truck, in an attempt to get away from the psycho killer looking for his money.

An assignment is on classroom its due Sep. 28, at 7:15AM.

The assignment is #04 - No Country Revisions,

For three days of film:
1) Select any image from today's film.
2) Write ONE sentence that shows how a choice of mise-en-scene*

develops some aspect of the narrative*.
3) REVISE that sentence to maximize specificity and clarity.
Please make sure that the original AND revised sentences are posted.

Show the growth!
*Please do not repeat craft/narrative elements from day to day.

classroom

If you were out today you could still make up the work you missed in tomorrow's class by finding two images in the film and completing the above assignment on classroom.

Reminder we have a Mise-en-scene test on friday. Make sure you understand all 12 of the Mise-en-scene elements. Elements of Mise-en-scene= Shot Framing, Shot angle, Character placement, Composition, Color value, Diegetic/Non-diegetic audio, dominant feature, Lighting key, Depth of Field, Subsidiary feature, Screen Density.

The film in class today had a lot of suspense, the suspense was created by the fact that most of the sound in the movie is Diegetic. Since the main character is on the run and alone, he doesn’t talk a lot. The only time the main character really talks is if he’s getting a hotel room or he’s in a cab. Also the psycho killer doesn’t talk much either, he only talks to interrogate people in the creepiest way humanly possible. A majority of the film in class today had no talking between characters.