Also, different camera angles and moving camera impart help the film to express and act in a particular way. The brief sequences of shots also lets audiences experience characters’ mind and allow them to realize characters’ felling. Therefore, film form help audiences participate in characters’ thinking process and see the characters development. Moreover, the film form help creating dramatic tension, explicating information and implying some meaning in the shots to make possible that shape audiences’ experiences. To have a brief summary, film form including the colour schemes use in the film, the sounds, the filming angles, the length of shots, the movement of the camera and so on which cooperate together to shape an audience’s experience about particular genre of
Maximiliano Nino Mrs. Davis English Expository 3 March 2015 The Downfall of Big Brother The novel 1984, written by George Orwell, leaves the reader with an important question in mind. How did the government of Big Brother come to an end? Many will have theories of how such thing happened, but all theories can easily be narrowed down to four possibilities. In the novel, Emmanuel Goldstein explains with his book that the downfall of a government can be due to either: the takeover by a more powerful force, the inefficiency of the government to rule which causes the masses to revolt, the rising of the middle class which overthrows the higher classes and takes over, or the government losing interest in ruling and leaving power. However, the most ideal theory for how Big Brother came to an end is that the middle class, also known as the Outer Party, overthrew the government themselves and took over the power.
(183). At this point he is allowing the readers to feel what he is going through. This is also dramatic because the audience can sense Richard’s feelings. Pathos allows readers to have a better sympathetic connection to Richard and his life story overall. Aside from ethos and pathos Richard employs
How does the Party exert its influence in this section of Nineteen Eighty-Four? In George Orwell's 1984, we as the reader are introduced to the Party, the dictatorship of the Totalitarian state of Oceania. In order to maintain their political power, the citizens of Oceania are watched carefully, and any seeming opposition to the Party is crushed. However the Party also helps secure its political position through exerting its influence over the population, such as through means of propaganda. In this section we see how they do this through the creation of Comrade Ogilvy, his character and Winston's sentiments whilst writing the article.
Democracy: Useful or repetitive as through the eyes of Big Brother The novel 1984, written in 1949, is a fictional story of a ruthless and all controlling totalitarian government and how one man challenges the ways of life and the ideas of the government he is strictly bound by. This story is famous for its ideas on government and what humanity truly is. One notices that despite being written many years ago, the setting could essentially take place in any modern time period. Readers also find themselves questioning their own beliefs on government due to the questions and reasoning that the book raises. Questions such as- Is democracy actually stable?
This is because the plot is an action created to be imitated by characters. These series of events according to Aristotle, is an imitation of life. Aristotle also believed that the plot should be structured in such a way that it would gain the audience‘s attention at all times. The makers of this film understood the importance of the plot. They used this understanding very effectively to engage the audience and tell their story.
They also are “discovering what is considered acceptable behavior” in the group (Schermerhorn 156). Having a clear understanding of each member’s roles would have assisted in completing the storming stage. The storming stage is characterized by “high emotionality and tension among group members (Schermerhorn 156).” In order to get overcome the high tensions, the group needs to address any problems they encounter right away. Outside demands such as work or personal issues can create stress among members. Group members should strive to achieve interpersonal relationships in order to provide support to one another and overcome any outside issues.
Smith notes that this is the most important form of emotional engagement. This is where we feel for a character. This is the stage where we can finally connect with the character emotionally and ethically. In this step we are closest to what is commonly known by identification. We deal with tools that help us identify characters such as nation, age, ethnicity, and gender.
The Party replaces and manipulates the memories of Oceania’s citizens in order to remain in absolute power. With no genuine memories, there would never be a public uprising against the government as their power would never be questioned. “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” (Page 37). This quote sums up the general objective of Big Brother’s regime, ultimate control and unfaltering devotion.
Too much of the objective point of view will bore the audience, so it is a common pattern in film to switch from the objective point of view to other points of view. Subjective point of view brings the viewers into the action and gives us a visual viewpoint from a character participating in the action. This causes the viewer to share that emotion with the character. When the audience is brought in like that their experience becomes much more intense and intimate as they get involved in the action. This point of view is attained using a moving camera that forces us into seeing exactly what the character is seeing.