Film appreciation

Submission – jury

Submitted to
Ms Biyot Triathy Projna

Submitted by
Vidit mishra
BFT/17/423

Answer the following questions

1. Write short notes about
a. Montage
b. Sound -10 marks
2. Write a short eassy on "Women in Indian Cinema "-10 marks
3. Write an appreciation about a film you have seen(minimum 500 words) -20
marks
1. Write short notes about
A. Montage
Montage all in all speech is a technique for arranging and altering the visuals –
'scenes whose enthusiastic effect and visual plan are accomplished through the
altering together of many brief shots… ..montage may extend or contract reality. At
the end of the day, it is an altering strategy that consolidates or isolates casings to
build account, feeling of congruity and brokenness and juxtapositions.
Some classic examples of montage

 Bollywood cinema showing a montage sequence where two “brothers jump off
a train and suddenly they are seven years older”
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 Montage of the mall-dwellers relaxing and having a fun time in the mall.

B. Sound
Essence of real sound and music in cinema
Real sounds

Your film can include sounds that seem like a natural part of the scene: waves
breaking on a beach, wind blowing, and dialogue (people on screen talking). These
are sometimes called diegetic sounds. Though they seem real, they don’t have to be
recorded live: sound effects are often better than the real thing.
Imagine you’re filming a scene in the woods with a girl walking. Your on-camera
microphone will probably just pick up a confusing mush of sound. You may not be
able to hear the footsteps. Ditch the soundtrack, and use separate sound effects for
birdsong, wind and the footsteps, and your scene will be much more convincing. By
doing this, you’re using the sounds as if they were closeups, to focus attention on
important things.

If you don’t want to use artificial sound effects, get in close so you can pick up
individual sounds. In your editing program you can detach the audio from the video
and move the sounds to where you want them. Or, even better, you can record the
sounds using a separate audio recorder.

You can use diegetic sound that matches things you see on screen, like the
footsteps with the walking feet. This is called synchronous sound. Now imagine that
the camera stays on the girl, but we hear a branch snapping. Suddenly there is
tension and mystery. This kind of sound, which comes from something that’s not on
the screen, is called asynchronous sound.
Music

Most films also use sound that we know has been added: things like voiceovers, and
background music. This is called non-diegetic sound.
You can use music to set the scene and show where and when the film is set. So a
scene of an old house becomes France if you play accordion music, or the 18th
century if you hear baroque music.

You can also use it to establish the mood, or change it. Deep, sinister tones tell us
that something scary is about to happen, or that a character who seems friendly is
actually dangerous. High violin notes suggest tension, and discordant sounds make
us feel uncomfortable. Fast music can add excitement to an action scene.

Hits are where the music exactly matches an action we see on the screen, though if
you use them too much it looks cheesy: it’s called ‘Mickey Mousing’ because it’s
most common in cartoons.
You can also use music that goes against what you see on screen. To create a
sense of irony, use happy music for a sad or scary scene. This is sometimes
called contrapuntal music (as opposed to parallel music, which matches what
happens on screen.)
In a longer film, you could even give each character their own musical theme
or leitmotif.
Sound and editing can work together. Changing the sound and the image at different
times (split edits) can make a sequence flow more smoothly, because it makes the
cuts less obvious. Or you can link two scenes using a sound bridge. So at the end of
a scene in an office we might hear birdsong, before we cut to the next scene which is
in the woods. This helps prepare us for the change of scene.
You can also edit your whole film or sequence to music, with the images changing
on every bar, every beat, or when there is a change in the mood of the music.

Don’t forget the power of silence. A sudden change from hectic music to silence can
be shocking, and a few seconds of silence in a dialogue scene can build up
anticipation and tension. You don’t usually want complete silence: the basic
background ‘ambience’ of the location should usually carry on.
2. Write a short eassy on "Women in Indian Cinema "
Hindi cinema has been a major point of reference for Indian culture in this century. It
has shaped and expressed the changing scenarios of modern India to an extent that
no preceding art form could ever achieve. Hindi cinema has influenced the way in
which people perceive various aspects of their own lives. The three movies that we
discuss here have three different points of view towards women. To some extent
they identify areas where ``modern feminism'' comes into contact with ``traditional
values.'' The analysis which follows tries to decipher and articulate these points of
view. It also attempts to determine the ways in which these films affect the discourse
generated by the Women's Movement. But before the analysis we summarize the
plots of these films.
Movie 3. Vishal is imprisoned in the jail where Roma's father is the
superintendent. Roma goes to visit her father's jail in order to write an article about
it. Vishal rescues her from them. Roma finds out that Vishal is imprisoned for
murder.
On probing she finds that Vishal had been married and his wife's sister had been
raped and killed by some boys in her college who were under the influence of
drugs. In response, Vishal killed all four of them and got imprisoned for it. Roma, with
the help of Mr Jindal, the blind owner of the paper she works for, arranges a second
``trial'' for Vishal in which his case is reviewed and he is released. Mr Jindal
convinces Vishal that he should become a vigilante and kill the real culprits behind
his wife and sister-in-law's deaths i.
Amar Saxena is a police officer who is also involved in busting the two main drug
dealers of their city, the evocatively named Tyson and Gibran. Vishal starts killing off
their henchmen but Amar gets on his trail. Despite that, Vishal finishes almost all of
them off. Jindal now tells him to kill the Commissioner of Police who he says is
corrupt.
But Vishal realizes that this is a setup and confronts Jindal. It turns out that Jindal is
not blind and he is actually an evil mastermind who wanted Tyson and Gibran to be
destroyed so that he could become the undisputed king of crime. He kidnaps
Roma, who is now engaged to Amar, and is about to escape with her when Amar
and Vishal, together now, foil his plans in the expected way.
Movie 2. The village usurer, Sukhilala, takes three-fourths of their produce as
interest on the loan of 500 rupees that he gave her. Every year they give most of
their produce to Sukhilala but they are unable to pay off the loan because all they
give to him is counted as interest. Sukhilala is able to get this deal through because
Sundar Chachi is illiterate and has put her thumb imprint on a contract she cannot
read. Sukhilala offers her food in return for her sexual favours.
She leaves Sukhilala's house and confronts her problems with new hope. Ramoo is
a responsible type but Birjoo is a ne'er-do-well who resents the fact that Sukhilala
continues to take three-fourths of their produce. When Sukhilala's daughter is getting
married he threatens to come and abduct her. Radha assures Sukhilala that she will
protect his daughter's honour and, when Birjoo comes and tries to abduct her, Radha
shoots him dead.
3. Write an appreciation about a film you have seen
'Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani' is an account of the thrilling and startling excursion of
four characters as they explore through their childhood; from their cheerful chuckling
as they set off on a vacation together in their school days, until their mixed tears as
they watch the first of their pack get hitched. It centers around the connection
between two characters, Bunny (Ranbir Kapoor) and Naina (Deepika Padukone).
Naina Talwar is a bashful and geeky clinical understudy. She concentrates
continually and consistently beat her classes, however she feels like an outsider
because of her thoughtful person nature. An experience with an old schoolmate,
Aditi Joshi (Kalki Koechlin), causes her to understand that she needs more from life
than good grades. Along these lines, she settles on an imprudent choice to follow
Aditi on a climbing stumble into the Himalayas, up to Manali. During the climb, she
restores her kinship with other previous schoolmates, Kabir "Rabbit" Thapar and
Avinash "Avi" Yog (Aditya Roy Kapur).

Rabbit is an attractive charmer whose fantasy is to meander and find the world. He
doesn't plan to wed or settle down. He lives with his supporting dad whom he
cherishes without question, and his progression mother. During their outing, seeing
Aditi's quiet responses to Avi's steady playing with different young ladies, Bunny and
Naina understand that she really likes Avi, yet don't bring the make a difference to
surface.In the course of the mountain trek, Bunny and Naina come nearer to one
another. Rabbit instructs Naina to chuckle, to play, and all the more critically, to
adore. Toward the finish of the excursion, she is near revealing to Bunny how she
feels however is hindered by Avi. He unintentionally finds a letter tolerating Bunny to
graduate school in reporting, at Northwestern University in Chicago. Rabbit clarifies
that the excursion is his last old neighborhood experience before he leaves. He is
dismal to leave his companions yet glad to begin a vocation that will prompt
voyaging, which he longs for, and subsequently needed to bring them along to
Manali to give them an astonishment. Naina understands that adoration and
marriage have no part in Bunny's arrangements and stays quiet about her
sentiments however is cheerful for him as he is following his enthusiasm.

Eight years pass by and Naina completes clinical school and now works in a center
while Bunny fills in as a videographer for a movement appear on Fox Network and
ventures to the far corners of the planet, as he had arranged. It is demonstrated that
Bunny's dad has died and because of his activity in remote regions, he couldn't go to
his last rituals. Naina has pushed forward throughout everyday life and isn't standing
by to meet Bunny, however they meet in Udaipur, for Aditi's luxurious wedding to
Taran (Kunaal Roy Kapur), an unbalanced yet sweet specialist, who is rich as Avi
and Bunny guarantee. At the wedding, Bunny and Avi restore their lost fellowship.
Naina and Bunny are emphatically pulled in to one another once more. Both oppose
love – Bunny, since he can't make sense of that he is enamored with Naina and
Naina, as she wouldn't like to get her heart broken once more.
A day prior to the wedding, Bunny sees Naina with another man, Vikram (Rana
Daggubati), who is the wedding picture taker. He is Naina's companion, yet Bunny
expect him to be her sweetheart, feels desirous and contends with him, at long last
sending him away. Rabbit and Naina meet, contend, and uncover their emotions by
a kiss. However neither of them is eager to surrender a profession to follow the
other. It appears that their sentiment is finished. Rabbit likewise stands up to Aditi on
her past smash on Avi. She concedes that she had affections for Avi yet says that
she has gotten over him and is amazingly content with Taran. Rabbit leaves for
home the evening of Aditi's wedding and will leave for Paris three weeks after the
fact for his fantasy work as a movement show have.

On New Year's Eve, as Naina sits alone at home alongside her canine, somebody
thumps on her entryway and it's Bunny. He amazes her with a kiss. He has turned
down his fantasy occupation to be with Naina and proposes to her, yet Naina fears
that he may lament his choice later on. Notwithstanding, Bunny says that he is
content with Naina and needs to keep voyaging yet with her. He contends that by
one way or another they can make a coexistence. Naina concurs. Rabbit and Naina
then get ready for marriage lastly pronounce their affection appropriately for each
other. They have a telephone call among Aditi and Avi. Avi is at his bar and Aditi is at
the air terminal as a love bird leaving for her special night with Taran. The
companions get some answers concerning Bunny and Naina and are overpowered.
Aditi expresses that she generally sort of thought about the sparkles between them.
They all desire each other a Happy New Year and the film closes with Bunny and
Naina grinning and grasping one another.