The document discusses various film techniques and their meanings, including: - Costumes can suggest whether a character is good or evil through design and color. - Dialogue from good characters aims to make audiences feel safe, while evil characters seek to manipulate. - Props like lightsabers signal hope for good guys and power/death for villains. - Cinematography and editing portray heroes as determined but outmatched against large, intimidating villains. - Music keeps viewers in suspense during intense battles between good and evil. - Lighting, color, and overall textures contribute to impressions of characters and scenes.

1. Theory- Meaning
Jack Morton

2. Snake
• Denotation
– Reptile
– Snake
– Cold blooded
– Scaly
• Connotation
– Suggests death and decay
– Suggests cold and evil
– The devil
– Heartless eyes

3. Flag
• Denotation
– The union jack
– Red and white stripes with a
blue background
– Attached to a white pole
• Connotation
– Suggests pride to our country
– Suggests the queen of
England
– Represents a good life

4. Gun
• Denotation
– Gun
– You pull the trigger to fire the gun
– It has a brown handle
– Makes a loud sound when fired
• Connotation
– Suggests death and destruction
– Suggests untrustworthy
– Suggests painful and injury to
humans

5. Lighting
The light suggests he’s the
good guy because the
light suggests it comes
from heaven, therefore
showing the character as a
good guy.
Colour
The women that has a
dark background suggests
a foreshadowing the
death of the women
because she's covered in
darkness.
Location
The location suggests the
buildings are futuristic it
also has a futuristic
design.
Actor
The actor is Harrison ford
therefore they spent a lot
of there budget on this
actor meaning its going to
be a good movie.
Props
The gun suggests the film
is from the future because
it shows lights and odd
buttons on the gun
meaning its from the
future
Colour
The colour of the word
“Blade runner” is in red
therefore suggesting there
will be blood shed
Costume
The costume also suggests its
from the future because it hasn’t
been seen in the present day
meaning it is from the future

6. Lighting
The lighting from the
window suggests the
character is good because
it acts like a heavenly light.
Colour
The light will go out and
he will be surrounded by
darkness therefore
foreshowing the death of
the character.
Colour
The colour of the word
“The Exorcist” suggests its
unique and different from
other films.
Props
The suit case suggests he
has business associated
with the house, meaning
he has something to do.
Location
The location suggests its
mysterious and something
is lurking in the darkness
ready to strike.
Costume
The costume suggests
its in the past because
these clothes aren’t
seen in the present
day.

7. Colour
The colour of the doors is
red foreshadowing blood
shed and the death of
other people.
Lighting
The lighting and colour of
the character makes him
stand out, meaning the
plot is going to revolve
around this character.
Props
The flowers suggests he
wants to make up for
something or to take
some one on a date.
Colour
The dark skin colour
tone of the zombies
suggests there dead and
the colour of the eyes
are white and blank
therefore meaning their
dead inside.
Location
The location is a building
and the character is
trying to enter the
building, meaning
something of importance
is inside.
Costume
The costume suggests
he's smart and dressed
up for the occasion. This
also suggest he’s ready
to go on a date
Actor
The actor is Simon Pegg
who is a comedian
meaning the film is going
to be funny

8. Soundtrack
• Clip 1
– This is taken from a horror film.
– When used with this image it suggests one of the
characters is going to do something dreadful and evil to
the other friendly character
– It suggests that one of the characters is going to
manipulate or plan to kill the other character. It also
suggests something dreadful and dangerous that’s lurking
in the shadows
• Clip 2
This is taken from a romantic joyful, cheerful and enjoyable
friendly movie
It creates a cheerful and joyful connection between the two
people, creating a extraordinary connection between the
two characters that makes the image soft and gentle
It suggests that the two characters are going to fall in love
and creating a extraordinary connection between the two
characters that makes the image soft, gentle and pleasing to
the eyes and ears

9. Shining
• Its uses happy music and a kind/happy
atmosphere to make the movie appear joyful but
in reality it’s a nightmarish horror film.
• It also cuts out the intimidating and nightmarish
horror scenes to make the film appear joyful and
enjoyable but in reality its dark and dreadful. It
also brightens some scenes to make it look like a
romantic comedy to make it cheerful and friendly,
but in reality its dark and twisted.

10. Scary Mary
The trailer adds terrifying music to make the
movie sound/appear nightmarish when in
reality its enjoyable, joyful and most of all its
friendly
It puts nightmarish scenes to make it absolutely
terrifying to the bone by adding/applying scenes
out of context when in reality its friendly and
joyful

11. Stereotypes
Men
• Positive-Men are better at
navigating
• Positive-Men are funnier
• Positive-Men make better
drinkers
• Negative-Men are more
aggressive
• Negative-Men are more lazy
• Negative-Men are more likely
to get in danger
Women
• Negative-Women just talk,
talk, talk
• Positive-Women care more
• Positive-Women can
multitask
• Negative-Women are good
at cooking
• Negative-Women have
mood swing
• Positive-caring for children

12. Stereotypes
Upper Class
• Positive-rich
• Positive-superior
• Positive-posh
• Negative-Snobby
• Negative-Arrogant
• Negative-Selfish
Working Class
• Positive-friendly
• Positive-Stronger
• Positive-Forgiving
• Negative-little savings
• Negative-work for
people
• Negative-Manual work

13. Stereotypes
Old People
• Positive-wise
• Positive-old people are
more positive
• Positive-old people are
more forgiving
• Negative-old people argue
• Negative-old people are
cranky
• Negative-old people are
clueless
Young People
• Negative-Loud
Negative-obnoxious
Negative-rebellious
• Positive-Creative
• Positive-Emotional
• Positive-Bright

14. Iconography- Western
• To see lassos to catch the bad guy or catch food for
example buffalo
• Good vs evil
• Showdowns between the good guy and the bad guy
• Sheriff saves the day or dies and the his friends go
after the killer for revenge
• Revenge on some one who killed the friend/loved
ones or family
• peaceful at the start where everything nice and
friendly but twists and turns into a shocking kill
frenzy between the good and the bad
• The sound of the boots making ringing sounds as
they take steps
• The old hat made from leather
• The tumble weed that dances across the desert
floor
• The shiny sheriff badge that shimmers in the light
• The old cracking sound of the old wood

15. Iconography- Sci-Fi
• The shiny alien metals that
hold the gigantic buildings
• The bright fire that lifts the
glowing green alien craft into
the atmosphere
• The sound of alien language
tickling your ears
• The holograms that move
strangely
• The gigantic hovercrafts that
fill the sky with hope
• The strange shaped builds that
stand strong and unforgiving

16. Iconography- Fantasy
• The fiery breath of dragons
walking amongst the people
• The tinkle of magic softly
touching my skin
• The sound of rushing
magically water falls that
• The magnificent creatures
that roam the world
• The two moons that shine on
to the world below

17. Narrative
• Narrative Definition
– Products storyline
• Linear Narrative Definition
– Story that’s presented from start, middle and end
• Linear Narrative Film Example
Interstellar
• Non-Linear Narrative Definition
– Storyline that scattered around the products timeline.
Random, flashbacks, flashforwards
• Non-Linear Narrative Film Example
– memento

18. Clip Analysis
– Costume
Darth Vader's costume is presented as dark, evil and intimidating. His mask screams death and destruction as his cape suggests how serious his is to kill others. His boots are presented
as death and decay rooting the corpses he has killed. The meaning of this is to show the audience how powerful and destructive Darth Vader can be. T
The good guys costumes are presented as cheerful, friendly and opening. The costume shows defence, wit and determination to save anyone who needs a helping hand. The design
also suggests safety and closure from anyone who hurts innocent people. The meaning behind this makes the audience more safer by defending the decaying gigantic evil being
– Dialogue
Darth Vader talks with evil intent to kill. Darth Vader also manipulates and mocks the characters. The meaning of this is to aggravate the characters to make them lose focus of their
goal.
The good characters talk softy, gently and calmly even though their in a dire situation. The good characters speech makes the audience feel more safer. The meaning behind this tells
us the good characters have confidence to defeat the evil foe.
– Props
Darth Vader's light saber is presented as dreadful and evil. Its also presented as death as he crashes his light saber against the good characters. The meaning behind this tells us dark
Vader has no mercy and the flick of his hand he can kill his foes.
The good characters light sabers are presented as hope because it crashes against the evil and nightmarish red light saber. It also suggests it gives comfort that the good characters will
win. The meaning behind this is the good characters are going to defend the others with every thing they have.
– Lighting
The lighting for Darth Vader show us how evil he is because you cant see him well meaning he's mysterious, dangerous and shouldn’t be take lightly also meaning he's dark and
trouble some.
The lighting around the good characters are better lit and shown in a softer light where Darth Vader has a sharper edge meaning evil and merciless where the good characters have a
softer light meaning there kinder and friendly
– Camerawork
The camerawork for dark Vader is presented as gigantic and merciless who destroys any one who gets in the way. It also makes Darth Vader intimidating as the camera is near to the
ground to make the audience scared and to know the full power of Darth Vader. The meaning behind this tells that Darth Vader is Strong and gigantic
The good characters are presented of how hard they have been working to give the audience hope and how they can defeat Darth Vader. The meaning behind this camera work tells
us their fighting with everything they have
– Editing
The editing on Darth vader is to show how great of a fighter he is and to show how unmatched the good characters are. The meaning of this is to tell the audience the characters are to
weak to fight him for now
The good characters presented as fearless as they bash the bad guy until they fly away. The meaning behind this tells us how unready the good characters are but hold of the evil
Darth Vader
– Music
The music shows how intense the battle is and how dangerous this could end up. The meaning behind this is to keep people in suspense
– Colour
The colour of the red light saber shows how evil he is because red it related/suggests death and destruction and the blue light sabers are related/suggests to heaven. The overall grey
texture to the fight gives it more intimidation.