How Films Communicate: Part One

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How Films Communicate – Week 1

Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film

To compete Part I, choose a movie you have viewed in the past (this does not have to be from the University of Phoenix: How Films Communicate Film List ). Review the following example in the table and then complete your information by inserting the title of your movie and completing the entries for time and place, costume, and set design, writing in complete sentences. For your final entry, describe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements discussed in Ch. 1 of Film and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Submit Part I in Week One.

Movie Time and Place CostumeSet DesignDescribe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie.Secondhand Lions, 2003

This movie is set back in 1962 in the Texas countryside. The house where Walter is staying with his great-uncles is a worn down ranch style home. It looks very poor and there are not many modern-looking things inside the house to include a T.V. His great-uncles are very reclusive and do not have many visitors except the brave salesman that stop by to try to sell them things.

Their clothes are worn out looking and seem to be the wrong size half of the time. They are baggy pants with plain looking button up shirts with suspenders holding everything together. Their boots are old and worn out looking, something you would typically see on a farm style ranch.The set, except for a few scenes are mostly taken outside the house in their corn field, barn or front porch. The barn and porch seem to be falling apart and continue to give you the sense that these uncles don't take care of their house.The atmosphere created is that of a poor family living back in the 1960's. The house that they live in is worn down and it seems everything else around them looks as if it want to fall apart...