FILM STUDIES

 COMPONENT 2 SECTION A - Moving away from more conventional, familiar and dominant strands of filmmaking.  - Examination of how film and cinema is shaped outside of mainstream.  - Influence of time, place, spaces, culture, tradition.  - Film and cinema from Europe and beyond offer narratives and stories which are a window on to other worlds.  IDA (PAWLIKOWSKI, 2013)  Influence of European tradition in terms of style and film movements: Italian Neo-Realism, French New Wave - the "new" wave in Polish context, with traces of film noir as a genre - the lighting and use of monochrome At the same time the narrative emanates from European history (dark history) and specifically from the perspective of Poland and the Jewish Community A narrative which has re-located the past at a time when the movement towards an integrated Europe has tried to heal the painful individual and collected memories of the recent past.  CITY OF GOD (LUND & MIREILLES, 2002) Outsi...

SEQUENCE 3 - Younger Amy - after parents divorce Demonstrates Longinotto’s ideas as the clip is compiled of home videos of Amy Winehouse as well as narration about her childhood from Amy Winehouse herself. Home videos really meets Longinotto’s theory as the director doesn’t have any interjection in the video at all as they’re filmed previously. They let you see the raw personality of Amy Winehouse as a child without others giving their opinions on what they thought she was like. By using Amy Winehouse her self for the voice over, you get the truth about what she was like rather than hearing how other people perceived her. This completely links with Longinotto’s ideology as you’re getting the story straight from the main subject. Longinotto's approach would be to unravel the narrative by giving "space" to the parents' point of view - which is what Kapadia does by keeping the footage  However, Kapadia was not conducting the interview used as the voiceover so who’s to sa...

  Second hand footage - fly on the wall filmmaking.  Filmmakers theory on documentary - Broomfield vs Longinotto  RECORDING BACK TO BLACK: Switches from diegetic to non-diegetic and back sound to emphasise the importance of the Back to black album. Uses footage to show Amy has an awareness of how sad the song is - also uses VoiceOver to show that despite the potential tumultuous attitude Amy has she is still fairly professional able to work cohesively and with a purpose.  WINNING THE AWARD: Showing a mixture of footage of her winning the award and performing on stage and contrasting it with Juliette's interview in which Amy had said "This is so boring without drugs" both highlights and understanding of how deeply her addiction affects Amy and also plays with diegetic and non-diegetic sound to give us a sense of how contrasting the reality is from what's being played out on camera.  AMY'S FUNERAL: This sequence shows raw footage - at first with her friend and bod...