Tommy’s Film Blog

It opens a masked figure dumping a body into the ocean from a pier. It cuts to the next morning, where Paige wakes up. As she is driving, she hears on the radio that a body has been found in the ocean, near the shore. She is clearly unsettled and disturbed by this. She meets with another character named Adam, who is presented as strange and as if he has power over Paige. Adam makes it clear that he is romantically interested in Paige, but Paige does not display the same feeling back towards him. Despite this, Paige confides in him and admits the murder of last night is distressing her. Adam uses this opportunity to flirt with Paige, while she is not interested, she stays with him out of fear from the murder last night.  Adam consistently pressures Paige to go and do something with him. She consistently makes excuses to him, such as that she is scared or feeling unwell and that she would rather stay in his house. Adam eventually convinces Paige to drive somewhere with him, after consist

  David Lynch is known for his surreal imagery, dark and disturbing themes and confusing yet complex and layered plots, which he refuses to explain and spoon-fed to the audience. His creative signature is very distinct and instantly recognisable to anyone that has seen one of his films before. A lot of his style also involves typical images of "Americana", the fictionalised, fantasised idea of America in the 1950s, such as traditionally American diners and tightly-knit neighbourly communities, however, this also involves tearing these ideas of a perfect society down and showing a much darker, more sinister reality beneath it all. His works that are most known for this are Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and his TV series, Twin Peaks. One of the ways he achieves this feeling is through the performances within his film, often by actors Kyle MacLachlan, Laura Dern and Jack Nance among others who he frequently casts. These performances, especially in scenes that we view as happy, a

 1.  During which decades was the Hollywood studio system at its most powerful? 1930s and 1940s 2.  What were the major "big five" studios? Warner Brothers, RKO, Fox, MGM and Paramount.  3. W hat areas and roles in film production did the studio system have direct control over? The studio system had direct control over every role in film production, everyone was for hire and made the films that the studio wanted them to make. 4.  Why was this factory method of production successful? This factory method of production was successful because of how cheap it was to visit the cinema during the great depression in comparison to other forms of entertainment like theater and concerts, the studio system in Hollywood capitalised on this by releasing a new film every week, using the stars to promote it.  5.  Why did the studio system lose power and control in the 1950s and 1960s?   The studio system lost power in the 1950s and 1960s for a multitude of different reasons. The first one be

 In classical style, many shot types are used of shot sizes. Most notably extreme close-up, close-up, mid shot, long shot and extreme long shot, these are used to show objects in various degrees of focus, for example, a close-up is used to show something in very close detail, like an object or person we should focus on or a characters reaction to an event such as when Rick reminisces on his time with Ilsa in Paris, while a long shot is used to show a landscape, to pull the audience into or out of a setting, such as the ending where Rick and Captain Louis Renault walk into the distance..One of the main reasons mid shots are used is during conversations, this is due to the fact that it can focus on a person without drawing too much attention to any particular feature, conversations also use the 180 degree rule which features the camera going back and forth between two characters facing opposite or "180 degrees" from each other, their eyelines must also be matching so that they

 The scene opens with a long shot of Rick's Cafe, during this wide shot a searchlight passes over the front of the building to create a sense of the cafe being watched closely, and that it may be a dangerous place. The camera then moves to a close-up of the sign, before panning down to the door and moving inside, building immersion as it feels like the audience themselves are entering Rick's. Before focusing on Sam playing the piano and singing there is a long take where the camera consistently shifts from right to left, continuing this sense of immersion as it feels like you are navigating your way through Rick's Cafe. After panning left from two waiters to a table, the scene switches focus from introducing us to the atmosphere and environment of Rick's, to the people that inhabit it. Every shot after this point are still mid shots, with two people talking in focus. Despite the film being entirely in black and white, the lighting makes the scene feel very vibrant, ther