If you don’t remember your past mistakes, how can you learn to avoid them in the future? And if you don’t know about memories or the past how can you teach your society? So now that you’re thinking of this imagine a society that doesn’t remember the past. No one does. The Giver is a Utopian novel written by Lois Lowry. This book was then directed into a movie by Phillip Noyce. I think the Director’s use of lighting, framing, music, and angles to help make the movie more immersive. The director uses techniques like lighting, angles, to improve Scene one and make it more intense/exciting. In this scene the Director uses lighting to help us set the mood for it. With lighting we can see how Jonas first experiences color while riding his bike before
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We can see the effect framing has at this moment greatly throughout the scene. With framing we are able to focus on important things hidden throughout the movie and the differences in it. You can see framing used on a lot of items in the movie. When Jonas gets up from his memory of the bee sting he feels pain, but he can see color. Framing is used to zoom in on a bowl of apples and show that they have color now. (Noyce) The audience learns one of the most important parts of the movie: Jonas can see color! He’s able to experience the vibrancy of purple and the brightness of yellow, the whole rainbow! And then with sound we’re able to feel a certain mood for this scene. The Giver talks to Jonas about all different types of color while playing the piano. The Giver starts off playing slow and then he speeds up with the music becoming more expressive with his emotions. (Noyce) With Jonas experiencing color the music becomes more lively and cheerful. It goes from a slow, monotonous tune to a joyful one that can make us feel happy. With this music we can get a sense of how cheerful the scene is. The techniques of sound and framing helped us understand how ecstatic the scene is. Also, in Scene two the techniques of sound and framing also help us understand the movie more. Sound is used efficiently throughout this scene to enhance it’s effects on the audience. It helps make the scene’s mood more understandable
We can see the effect framing has at this moment greatly throughout the scene. With framing we are able to focus on important things hidden throughout the movie and the differences in it. You can see framing used on a lot of items in the movie. When Jonas gets up from his memory of the bee sting he feels pain, but he can see color. Framing is used to zoom in on a bowl of apples and show that they have color now. (Noyce) The audience learns one of the most important parts of the movie: Jonas can see color! He’s able to experience the vibrancy of purple and the brightness of yellow, the whole rainbow! And then with sound we’re able to feel a certain mood for this scene. The Giver talks to Jonas about all different types of color while playing the piano. The Giver starts off playing slow and then he speeds up with the music becoming more expressive with his emotions. (Noyce) With Jonas experiencing color the music becomes more lively and cheerful. It goes from a slow, monotonous tune to a joyful one that can make us feel happy. With this music we can get a sense of how cheerful the scene is. The techniques of sound and framing helped us understand how ecstatic the scene is. Also, in Scene two the techniques of sound and framing also help us understand the movie more. Sound is used efficiently throughout this scene to enhance it’s effects on the audience. It helps make the scene’s mood more understandable