Raging Bull (Cinematography Task)

Walking to the Ring 

Here is a tracking shot, the camera is following Jake 's movement while he is walking to the ring, and there is a selective focus to show Jake's emotion before the game, if he's nervous or confident. The people walking behind Jake, who are clapping their hands for welcoming Jake are out of focus and there are two sides of shots which are shot on the front and from behind. The effect of the front shot is to show Jake's emotion before the game while the shot from behind is to show the passion of the audience in the stadium. 



Entrance to the Ring

The wide lenses are used in this scene, to show up the audience, the ring and Jake, their connection. Created a big space in the shot, Jake have enough space in the shot which signifies he got spaces to move, he is free to move. The camera stopped following Jake's movement after he entered the ring, thats a panning shot. The medium close up shot to Jake is to show his emotion before the fight and after he saw his wife sitting among the audiences. 



The Fight 

The camera angle is low and high. The effect of using the low angle and close up shot to both boxers is to show their faces during the fight, how are they feel during there fight. Using different angles in this scene can let audiences engage in the fight in different angles, feel like we are watching the live.


The End of the Fight

The canted angle is used on both both boxers after the end of the fight to show their emotion, their tiredness.  The effect of slow motion in this scene on both the boxers and the referee when he's going to announce who's the winner,  is to slow down the time , it's the end of the fight, both of the boxers are exhausted. Slowing down the shots can exactly archived the purpose. 


Celebration

The Tilt shot is used after Jake was given the belt, this makes him looks more powerful from the shot. We are watching from a low angle. The slow motion and the medium close-up shots are used in the scene too, showing his emotions after he won the game, he's crying during the celebration. 

How does Fritz Lang use the Devices of Mise En Scene to Devolpe the charchter's themes and narrative at the beginning of Metropolis ?

Metropolis

Location/Setting

Setting That should be a western country perhaps because of people's faces.


Location 1 FactoryAt the beginning, there is a clock ticking and steam came out after the time reach 12. It means the time of the shift because there is a bunch of workers coming out from a lift while another bunch of workers going into. They all come to a factory which located underground.

Location 2 Garden
There are two people in the scene which are a man and a woman, they are chilling with each other , the guys is chasing the girl perhaps. The place is totally different from location 1 .

Comparison between locations
The factory is old and it's located underground which people can not see the sky upstair. 
The garden is gorgeous which seems for the elite class.


Characters.


Working Class
People walk like zombies or army, death like, they look tired and they look like a bunch of slaves , maybe they are sick of working and they have no choice or destiny. I think they are the working class , they need to live and work underground. Doing the same thing, having the same routine everyday.


Elite/Ruling Class
People at the garden dress much better than the workers. They look delighted and at least they enjoy their life. From their smile, what they are doing is to chill and have fun. They do need to work probably but they don't even have a shift at least.
The guy, the woman who is being with the children and the workers .

The Main Protagonists

 

This man should be one of the main character in the movie because the camera follows and focus him most of the time. He has some close up shots too which means he is probably a significant character in the movie.


The woman being with the children is another important character in the movie. She appears in the garden while the man is chilling with another girl. The man looks at her and he is attracted by her obviously, he asked the guard who the girl is. He did follow the girl after the girl left. He may want to chase her back. There are two close up shots for both of them when they look at each other . The way they look at each other can tell they are attracted by each other.

Lighting

The focus is the massive steam machine in the middle of the frame, all the things surrounding the machine are quite dark but the machine is bright and clearly shown so there may be massive light on front , behind the camera.

The workers are important because they are one out of two main groups ( Working class and Ruling class ) in the movie. They have loads of shots in the movie too, appearing at most of the time, it can be a clue about the narrative and it can tell what's happening in the movie.



Narrative


It's a world which have two classes which are the ruling class and the working class perhaps, The workers are working most of the  time and they got the shift while the elites are enjoy their life.A man from the elite met a daughter of a worker  and then he try to follow the girl after she left, he walked pass the factory where the workers work in and he saw an explosion made by the worker by accident. After the explosion, A massive monster-like figure appeared and there is a door which is its mouth, workers who made the explosion may be killed or caught to somewhere else, the mouth of the monster is an entry.........

Dirty Harry , The Writing Task.

Costume
In my opinion, from his costume, he looks like a business man in formal suit. A shirt, tie, sweater and coat that is what an ordinary business man should wear but this guy is holding a guy so i predict he is either a policeman or a robber, probably not a gangster.

Face
He looks worried and stressed in the picture. Perhaps he is looking for someone, kind of searching somebody. We can say he looks struggled because of the sunlight, it may be too strong for him, too bright for him to open his eyes entirely. We can see his shadow clearly in the picture. It means the sunlight is quite strong at that time.

Position
In the picture, he got loads of space around him and this means he is free to move, he is not trapped. Thats about the framing.He is walking to the right side of the picture, probably there are much more space for him to move which wasn't shown in the picture. People behind him are not that important compared with him. He is on the foreground and the rest of them were being behind.

Setting
The setting is in a western country, perhaps america. That is because of people's face and how they dress and the buildings behind the man.

Class
This man should be the middle-class, his fabulous hair and the clothes he's wearing shows that he is not a poor at least.

Background
He is holding a gun and that's significant. He can be a policeman , gangster or a big thief. The car next to him is raised which means there may be a explosion or a gun battle happened. As we can see, there is a little red colour on his pant which may be blood. Thats signifies he is injured.

Relationship
He is the only main character in this picture. He is the only focus. He may be the significant person in the picture, at that time, during the gun battle .

Period of time
From his clothes and the cars, this scene should be happened in 1960s, perhaps.

Genre
This is obviously an action movie, the gun he is holding may be the evidence.Whats happening in the picture may be explosion, gun battle or robbery which we can always see in the action movies.