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Pride Vlog Script
The 2014 biographical comedy Pride recounts the events which lead to the formation of the lgbt group, Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners (or L.G.S.M) during the 1984-85 miner’s strike against closures of collieries by Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government in order to further facilitate her plans to take power away from trade unions and get rid of “unprofitable” government ventures, which she completed in tandem with her “right to buy” housing act, which sold off a large percentage of council housing, to solidify herself and her government as the enemy of the working class. The striking miners and their leaders (In particular Arthur Scargill, the credited head of the strike) were demonised by the tory government and the mainstream media due to its funding from the Conservative party, showing a continued war on the working class from both the government and the citizens of this society who bought into the funded media’s orchestrated viewpoint. L.G.S.M saw parallels in the miners...
Analyse the Micro elements of film form in a scene from Carrie
Analyse the micro elements of film form in a scene from a film from the horror genre and how these elements create meaning and conform to genre conventions In the 1976 horror film, “ Carrie”, directed by Brian De Palma (who also directed the 1983 film Scarface ), and based on the Stephan King novel of the same name, the micro elements of film are used to convey that this film is in the horror genre, as demonstrated in the “Billy slaughters a pig” scene from the beginning of the picture. In this scene the mise en scene indicates heavily that this film is of the horror genre. In the beginning of the scene the group of teenagers leans a ladder against a wall, which has a sign on it labelling the factory the “Bates pig farm”. The name Bates is a link back to Hitchcock’s 1960 iconic horror-suspense film, “Psycho”, where the main antagonist and evil force is Norman Bates, proprietor of the Bates motel. By giving the pig farm this name Palma adds in a subtle nod back to the ...
