I am Legend - initial notes and questions

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I am Legend Starts with news of a cure for cancer.

How is the message delivered, why? Who delivers the message, how?

It then cuts to 3 years later.

Why use this narrative device? Making the narrative structure?

Opening Sequence

What’s the prevalent shot size/s? Why?

Questions arise

What enigma codes are raised?

See the film poster?

Postmodernism?

26.32 Golf on carrier

Restricted narration SOUND – would music help?

Mise en scene pathetic fallacy

Why rain/water? Adds what? Why is sound so relevant here?

Cinematography

How is the camera used?

41.43 evac and prayer by helicopter

Why pray? Audience? Did it work?

Sound/Pic/Scene/Time cuts 46.25 Shoots dummy nice seq. + trapped Fly buzzes – why add sound? Alarm dusk danger. 1.00.18 Cross fades

Elipses and dissolves

SHREK

Who made Shrek?

1’14’46 Stir it up

Ideology/hope


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