Media, AS Level, Film Analysis

1. My Theoretical film analysis of Fury
The film starts with words on the screen
to describe what the events are that
occur. It gives the viewer the setting and
era.
Introduction of the name of the film. The colours are
red and white, are very bold compared to the black
background. The red and white flicker like fire to
draw the viewers attention.
Words appear again to tell the audience more
about the setting and what year its set in. from
the year “1945” we instantly know that the film
is based on WW2.

2. The first view of life is shown, there is a figure
walking out of the light. Not much is given to
the audience because it is silhouetted. This
may be considered a master shot as the man
comes closer because it shows the scene and
the character all in one shot.
In this shot the figure turns into a man on a
horse. During this shot more of the scene is
being shown as the horse moves into the
scene. A tracking crab shot is used as the
horse walks. The is a cut between the walking
horse and the horses feet. This is called match
on action.
This film is about war and lots of tanks used
in the war. The scene of the man moving
through the deserted land on a horse, shows
tanks everywhere. This gives a bit of the
enigma code, tells us more about the plot.

3. The active fire in this scene shows that
someone has been there recently, creating
the enigma code. Throughout the whole of
the introduction, it is completely
silhouetted.
A soldier hiding behind the tank comes and
attacks the man on the horse. This is a wide shot
as it still shows the scene and both men. The
rule of thirds doesn’t really exist here because
the characters are in the middle and not off to
the side.
In this shot, the man is killing the other man who
was on the horse. Mise en scene was used just
before the man was knocked down. The man on
the horse was wearing an army hat. As the man
stabs the man on the horse, there is diegetic and
non diegetic sounds. The diegetic sound is the
grunts of the murderer as he stabs and the non
diacritic sound is the continuous building of
tension.

4. The rouge soldier has successfully killed the
man on the horse. The diegetic sound from
the man hitting the other man tells us that he
was using force. The dead man has blood
dripping off his face, this could be a binary
opposition. The face is pale whereas the
blood is dark. This shot is a close up of the
side of the dead mans face.
The last shot I have taken from the introduction
was the tilt up to the killer. This shot shows who
the killer is and his face, which has a stern look.
The Roland Barthes codes were used in this intro.
The Hermeneutic code is used throughout the
whole introduction. There is lots of mystery as to
why the man is walking through the war field. The
Proairetic code is used to build tension. There is
lots of tension in this intro as we don’t know
exactly what the man is doing or why a man killed
him. There is lots of questions that the viewer may
ask in this intro
By Tia Brown