Friday, 8 February 2019

Revision for exams - essay structure and auteur features in vertigo & OFOTCN

Essay structure for Exam


Introduction - 


  • statement of intention - 'this essay will examine/explore"
  • reference to the films chosen
  • define any key definitions

Main Body

  • relevant points relating to the question
  • plenty of examples - get marks from using examples
  • try to make essay flow
  • use terminology - which links specifically to the question

  Conclusion - 

  • summarise main points which have been explored in the essay - "this essay has explored..."
  • acknowledge how there are more examples etc - "there is also more to say about gender/ auteur etc


Auteur in Vertigo - Alfred Hitchcock


  • Theme of guilt - death of colleague, death of 'madeleine'  
  • Colour - green and red - jealousy, envy
  • Theme of a dual identity - strangers on a train
  • Voyeurism - Scottie when he follows Madeleine, Pyscho
  • Use of tropes: Birds
  • repetitive actors: James Stewart
  •   


Auteur in One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman


  • Theme of individual vs society
  • Colour - white - oppression 
  • Jack Nicholson performance - maniacal laugh e.g the joker, witches of eastwick and the shining. 
  • Theme of naturalism 






















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