2. Closer
• Genre
o Drama
o Romance
• Conventions
o Relationships
o Arguments/Conflicts
o Love
3. Closer
Scene 1: The Opening Scene
When Dan (Jude Law) and Alice
(Natalie Portman) saw each other in
the crowded city.
Mid-shot
Special Effects
The people around
them are moving in
slow motion
Music
Uses a slow type of
music with an Close-up
acoustic guitar and
violin
Long shot
They’re both coming closer to
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4. Closer
Scene 2: Anna told Larry (her husband)
that she’s seeing Dan.
Close up of Anna
to hug Larry
Two shot of him
Showing crying while
sadness she’s hugging
him
Reverse shot of her
telling him that she’s
Conventions of Genre
seeing another guy.
Meet the genre because this is a
serious conversation with a lot of
emotions
5. Closer
Scene 3: Larry met Alice in a club
Mid-shot of Larry
putting money to
Alice’s leg, asking
for her real name
Over the Shoulder shot of him
asking her when she start 2 shot of Larry
working as this. and Alice
Two shot
6. Precious
• Genre:
o Drama
o Biography
• Conventions:
o Arguments
o Conflicts
o Real situation
o Isolation
7. Precious
Scene 1: Opening Scene, under a Music
bridge There is no background
music
Shows that this
have isolation
Font
Hand writing of someone,
maybe the main
Denotation character’s writing
A piece of red cloth
Connotation
Can show someone’s loneliness,
as the cloth is by itself in a
deserted place
8. Precious
Scene 1: Confrontation scene on
Precious’ mum and her
Shows how Low
angry she is Angle
Show that High
she is hurt Angle
Close-up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp3oq9
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9. Precious
Scene 3: Precious came home
with her new baby, she and her
mum fight.
The reality
A photograph of the
real ‘Precious’ with
baby
Two shot of her mum Two shot of both of them
confronting her and she’s fighting
answering back
Music started
and shows a
picture of a
Mid shot of her falling real situation
down
11. North Country
Scene 1: Mother told her
daughter to go
upstairs, because her dad
is coming.
Target Audience
Age 15 and up, because Close-up of her with
there’s a little violence blood, she just got beaten
up
High angle of her Music
daughter running up A low, slow music to show
the stairs that she is in pain
Effect
Long shot of her lying in Voice over of her in the
the floor court telling her story
12. North Country
Scene 2: Scene when a female
worker getting harassed by other
male workers in the mine
Left a big space to
show that
something bad is
happening
Long shot of the toilet fell with
Close up of a female worker her inside
scared Shows how female
are harassed
Mid shot of male workers moving
the toilet
13. North Country
Scene 3: Flashback of Josie
when she got rape by her Music
teacher A medium paced guitar tune
Close up of woman’s
reaction of finding out her
past
Mid shot of him seeing
her, he’s shocked
