This document provides guidance for analyzing the film V for Vendetta through examining how it uses various cinematography techniques to communicate meaning. It prompts the reader to consider how lighting is used to set mood, and how costumes, props, flags, and camera shots are employed symbolically. Questions guide analysis of the denotation and connotation of the story and themes, as well as how techniques like low-key lighting, high-key lighting, and shot types and angles are deployed to signify characters' emotions and power dynamics. The document instructs completing a film analysis quiz on Moodle.

1. Film Analysis: V for Vendetta

2. WHAT WERE WE
LOOKING AT BEFORE
HALF-TERM?

3. THIS WEEK
We are going to look at the film V for Vendetta and analyse
how the film-makers create meaning for the viewer.

4. BY THE END OF
TODAY, YOU
MUST explain how lighting is used to create
mood, meaning and atmosphere in the film.
SHOULD be able to analyse the meaning,
denotation and connotation of V for
Vendetta
COULD analyse how camera shots and
angles communicate meaning to the
audience.

5. WHAT DO I MEAN BY
‘MEANING’?
What do the term denotation and connotation?

6. WHAT WAS THE DENOTATION
OF V FOR VENDETTA?
What is the basic story of V for Vendetta?

7. WHAT WAS THE CONNOTATION
OF V FOR VENDETTA?
What issues is it concerned with, and what deeper meaning
does it try to communicate?

8. COSTUMES, PROPS AND
SYMBOLISM
What different props and costumes do the film-makers use to
get across meaning to the viewer?

9. WHAT DOES THE GOVERNMENTS
FLAG REMIND YOU OF?

10. WHAT ARE THE FILM-MAKERS / WRITER
TRYING TO SAY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT
THROUGH THEIR USE OF COSTUMES &
PROPS?

11. HOW DOES V’S COSTUME
CREATE MEANING?

12. HOW DOES THE SHOT TYPE
COMMUNICATE CHARACTERS
FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS?

13. HOW DOES THE SHOTS ANGLE
COMMUNICATE THE POWER OF
CHARACTERS?

14. WHAT IS LOW KEY LIGHTING?

15. WHAT KIND OF MOOD &
ATMOSPHERE DOES LOW KEY
LIGHTING CREATE?

16. WHY IS THIS SCENE LIT USING
LOW-KEY LIGHTING?

17. WHAT IS HIGH KEY
LIGHTING?

18. WHAT MOOD DOES HIGH KEY
LIGHTING CREATE?

19. WHAT WAS THE MOOD IN
THIS SCENE?

20. AS PART OF YOUR FILM THEORY
ASSIGNMENT YOU NEED TO
ANALYSE THE FILM V FOR
VENDETTA.
Log onto moodle and fill in the quiz “V for Vendetta Analysis’’

21. WORKING ALONE
Apply what you have learnt about how film-makers use
cinematography, props and costumes design to create
meaning, mood and atmosphere, using specific examples to
highlight your points.
Feel free to discuss the questions with the people next to you
but stay focused.
When you finish a question proof-read what you have
written; check that your spelling and grammar are correct,
otherwise your answers might not be clear to the reader.

22. PLENARY
1. How do film-makers use costumes to create meaning?
2. How do film-makers use lighting techniques to create
meaning?
3. How do film-makers use camera angles and shots to
create meaning?