Indiana Jones

Indiana Jones

Lighting

The lighting in the extract of the film we watched in class varied throughout. From the first minute of the film I noticed the colouring of the overall film was actually really dull and there was a really bland look to it. I think this was because the brightness and contrast of the exposure setting was set really low. I think this was done to go with the theme of the film which was to do with the ‘Wild West.’ Another thing I noticed was there were also many scenes which were shown to be in the dark. Because of this is become hard to see faces of the charters.

At many points of the film I noticed the use of the sun was used very precisely and in numerous parts of the film we saw the sun shining on the charter or object, towards the screen with left us viewing just an outline. I think this effect was used was very dramatic as we were at first unable to identify the character/object. I think this devise was used so that we were able to identify the characters by just their outline.  Another form of lighting that was used were the torches the characters were carrying. These torches were often used as a source of light in the dark situations and this gave us a different form of light opposed to the camera lighting and natural lighting from the sun.

The lighting then changed in the second part of the scene when it moved to the more modern part. We saw the brightness of the lighting increased slightly and everything was a bit clearer.

Costume

The clothing of all the charters in the scene I saw was all really the same. We saw in the first part of the scene the characters were wearing traditional ‘Indiana Jones’ clothing which consisted of neutral colours like beige and browns and the hat you would expect them to wear, so the style and colours of the clothes wear very ‘outdoors’  and the clothing was appropriate for the location and the situation they were in

In the second part we saw we moved to the more modern part and the clothing of the characters there was really different. Again the clothing was in junction with the time and place and modern clothing was worn by the characters.

Camera angles

There are many camera angles in the clip we saw. There was a large use of camera shots taken from below. I think these are really good as you get to see a good viewing of everything. However we saw there were barely any shots taken from above. Through most of the scenes the camera angle stays constant and the same which I think is good as it doesn’t confuse the audience and it docent have an overload of effects used.

We also see many shots that are taken from behind. This is a type of shot I also  like as it seems like we are behind the character we get to experience what exactly he is going through.

The pace is also constant at many scenes and we see as the tension rises the pace speeds up and if they are going slow, the pace is there to match it.

Sounds

Throughout the clip we see that there are always sounds playing in the background. For most of it there are nature sounds of like birds and animals playing, but only for the part we are in the outdoor setting. As soon as we switch to indoors there are no non diegetic sounds playing.  When there are any diegetic sounds the volume of the sounds and sound effects decrease.

The pace of the music again speeds up at any point of tension and then again slows down when there are not important or tension parts of the film.