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Wednesday 22 June 2011

Short Film - Stripes

What is the key message/messages here?
How does the film maker get this point across to use
using: Narrative , Location , Cinematography & All Technical aspects

Stripes
Stripes has one of the best short film narratives that I have ever seen and its rite of passage is when the black man walks onto him in his house  and changes everything around in his own house. The black character came for revenge for all the pure bullying the white man did to him 15 years ago and the white character is very confused and just didn’t notice that it was that bad but he doesn’t mean it and that’s make the black character physically hurt him to make him feel pain.
We see that the white character is living his normal happy life and seems to be of middle working class which is a good living standard. The narrative is very simple but shown in a very expressive way because we can see what both the characters are going through facial expressions and body language + dialogue.
Touching on dialogue both of their dialogue is very aggressive and depressing because of there different emotions they are going through at that moment of time.
The location which is the white characters house looks very fashionable and when he's in the kitchen we get a quick view of what his kitchen looks like and from that view we can tell that the rest of the house would most probably be better looking. And when the black character comes into his house and violates him in his own house on the grounds that he did the same thing to the black character but worse.
Everything in the house is very bright and because it’s in a house it shows that they are isolated from the outside world so everything and anything that happens in there is between them two. When they are both speaking we can see that the background is very blurred and concentrated on the characters speaking and the camera shot was very close up to see every detail on the characters face.
The black character directly brought the thoughts of some one who is kind of ruff and rowdy because his beard Is full on grown no shape and no fade and that already tells us that he isn’t living on the bright side of life were as the white character has it all good until the black character changed things around for a few minutes.


There is no off screen sounds which also shows that they are the only one’s around in the house and this springs fear into the white character and we see a rolling camera shot which defines the lack of clarity and it creates more fear.  When the black character tells the white character what he caused 15 years and how we bullied him and gave him silly names that hurt him and for the past 5 years he’s been depressed, angry and miserable.
The blurred edit shows that the white character hasn’t been able to see what he did against the black character and it could also represent the white characters own view because the black character had beaten him up so that he would be calm but he was bleeding and this could have affected his eye sigh so it could be the reason for him seeing things blurry and he kept o asking who the black character was at the beginning because he didn’t know.
All the closes up shots really are affective because we can see very close facial expressions and from that we can pick out what feeling is pumping through their veins.

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