Lewis Cowdry Film Studies

Scene 1: the shotgun scene The opening scene of the Goldrush sees Charlie Chaplin trekking through the snow and coming across a house in the middle of nowhere. here is where he meets the two other characters; the other gold hunter and the man that lived in the house that they found. as the man doesn't know why the other charactors are in his house he pulls out a shotgun and points it at Chaplin in a funny way. Mise en scene: Costume and makeup: the costume of all three characters stays the same throughout this scene. Chaplin wearing his iconic suit unprepared for the weather, the other two wearing large fur coats and hats to keep warm. This makes Chaplin's character (the lone prospector) seem a lot smaller than The makeup in this scene is minimal as it is hardly needed as the black and white picture makes it hard to notice any makeup anyway. the only makeup used is the makeup around Chaplin's eyes to make him stand out in the film. Props: the props in this...

When we filmed, we used two cameras to get perspective from two different places, this worked well as we had lots of different shots to choose from when editing the whole performance. The use of two perspectives allowed us to add interest to the final product as the constant change in camera angles makes the viewer want to keep watching.   To create the sense that Mr Tumness was afraid and weary of Lucy, we used a high birds eye view shot of Lucy handing one of his parcels back to him. We did this because it shows that he didn't want to get too close to her as he reached his arm or as far as possible to take the parcel, indicating that he was frightened of her. This also adds variation to the type of shots we used to make the whole recreation seem more professional and add some interest to it. We used the shot of Lucy looking around acting as if she's amazed at Narnia to show that she was surprised that she was there as she wouldn't expect to be there considering th...