1. Assignment 6

2. Gattaca is a science fiction film.
Meets conventions:
Futuristic time period
Futuristic technology
Medical elements

3. Bible
Letters
passage
C,A,T,G are
contradicted
highlighted
with blue
background
Formal,
Blurry, micro
tears
scope
drop on
like, connot
the title
ations of
science

4. Establishing shot
Extreme close
up of hair
strands –
highlights
importance
Establishing
Extreme shot
close up of
fingertip
being
injected

5.  Steady to keep audience calm
 Slow- serious/dramatic
Tripod used to make
a steady shot
Track, the man making
his way to the fridge

6. Non diagetic – low pitched
violin, unnatural loud sound –
hair strands, hard drums

7.  Hairstrands move
 Sepia (outside of clinic)

8.  Overlapping - calms audience

9.  everything is blurred
 Straight cutting at the end
 Names fade out

10. Denotation:
needle
Connotation:
pain, death
trauma
Denotation: brush
Denotation:
Connotation: wiping
dead skin
away imperfect
Connotation:
genes
former
genetic
identity

11. Colour
Blue – Normal -
supernatural humanity
, scientific
Props
Needle, urine –
medical element

12.  The unclear images create enigma.
 The extreme close up shots also create
enigma.

13.  Seven is a thriller film.
Meet conventions:
 Fast pace
 Mysterious

14. Handwritten
, like a
report
Contrasted
writing
Capitalise
d title

15. Extreme
close up of Close up of
bible needle
Camera Angles
Canted
framing

16.  Fast and intensifying
Report is tilted

17.  Non diagetic – fast forward sound
Special effects
Credit
names
Flashing names shake

18. overlapping
Straight cuts –
jumpy/sharp

19. Pace
Regular/fast – thrilling
Images
Denotation: books Denotation: film strip Denotation: book
Connotation: clever, literate Connotation: evidence Connotation:
instruction, rules, wis
dom

20. Colour
Orange, black, white –
danger and crime

21.  Fastpace of the sequence
 Many close ups

22.  Dawn of the Dead is a zombie film
Meets conventions:
• Gory (lots of blood)

23. Looks like a
headline,
capitalised
letters, formal

24. Extreme close up
of the mouth wide
open
Establishing shot
Long shot

25. Low angle
Camera Movement
Pan across the whole
body
Handheld –
shaky/unstable

26. Zoomed in on
spokesman’s face
Track – woman and
child running

27.  Non diagetic – screeching car wheel
sounds – DANGER. Intellectual man
speaking. Snow – unexpected.
 Diagetic – high pitched scream

28. Font ran like blood

29.  Overlapping – face with title
•Jump cuts of heart
beat diagram –
serious and real

30.  Fast forwarding
 flashbacks
•Flashing – chaos and
disorder

31. Denotation: blood
Connotation: pain,
death
Denotation: gun
Connotation: death,
fear

32.  Colour: red/black
Lighting
The dark lighting of
the face makes it
unclear for the
audience which is
intensifying

33.  The pace of the opening sequence
 Only given bits of information and detail