Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Perfect Sense by David Mackenzie (2011)




The director (David Mackenzie) likes to have actors walking into the frame or out of it in the movie. While actors are in the frame, the images are often cut into ¼, 1/3 or ½ and act from one of the divide blocks, instead of the whole screen. It gives viewers a better knowledge on actors surrounding environment they are in.

One of David’s technique on locating the camera that attracted my attention the most, was when the camera sets on front of the bicycle and have one of the actors took the bike, with the frame shook as how a bike should. From the shaking shots, could tell those are digital cameras instead of film cameras.

Image was not the only part where David played with, due to the script of Perfect Sense. The director was also manipulated sounds, to create pre-intense moments of the possibility of next striking lost of human sense. The lost of smell, taste, hearing, than sight, by the time of deaf, audience are experience the same when characters goes deaf. Without the ability to sync the sound that is suppose to be hear in the shoots. The complete silence were only temporary, and music were play in the background, which I cannot remember what the music was, but the frighting images.

Since at the last part is lost of sight, I believe it isn’t hard for film students to know how the director presents it. However, there were narrate gives audience the imagination of the continue image; in the same time, hint the audience there are more than four of the sense (smell, taste, hearing and sight) that could be the next of the sense they lose. 

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