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Cameron Holt Final Presentation Sight sound and Motion 12/11/13

The movie that i chose to analyse for my presentation was the movie Bonnie and Clyde. I had never seen this classic movie and it was shocking to me after we watched the introduction to it in class. I immediately went home to finish the movie because i was hooked just by the few minutes that we watched in class. Some of the Aspects that i wanted to analyze were lighting, camera angle, shadows, and sound. This movie used some ways of filming that were not common at this point in time and were almost said to be forbidden. Lets look into what some of these aspects may be.

Some of the camera angles and beginning of scenes were very unique in this movie. From the very beginning of the movie they used things that could have been controversial. When Bonnie wakes up in the morning she is naked which was a very risky move at the time that this was filmed. When she hears the man outside she jumps out of bed revealing herself. The camera id filmed from the point of view of Clyde standing down by the mothers car. He is looking up at her standing in the top floor window with just the window sill covering her breasts. This is just a very interesting way to film two people having a conversation. While one is looking to steal a car the other is standing in the top floor window of her house naked. This makes the viewer much more interested than if it had just been her sitting on the front porch of the house to start off the movie. Another interesting way of filming was the longshot filming when they are swerving back and forth across the road nearly crashing every second. Using this method of filming made it much more entertaining to watch that seeing an average car driving straight down the road.

The use of lighting was also a very important aspect of how they filmed this movie and why it was so successful. In the First scene of the movie when Bonnie is laying in her bed the light comes through the window on her. It is dim giving you the feeling that she is almost not very satisfied in her life. When she goes over to the window everything gets much brighter which gives you a feeling of happiness and that she had maybe found something that is going to make her happy. Another example of this is when Clyde shows Bonnie the gun for the first time. The screen has almost a dark look to it giving you the heads up that something bad is about to happen. Sure enough right after that he proves to her that he is a criminal by going into the store an robbing it for really no reason. Finally a perfect example of how the lighting showed importance was when they were broken down on the side of the road dividing up the cash. It is getting dark outside and i believe they chose to use this part because it shows that they are not going to be able to last much longer living the life that they are. It is beginning to take a toll on Bonnie because she is not able to see her mother you she feels may die ebfore she gets to see her again.

Even though the movie is in black and white there is still huge use of color that is used to show meaning to what is going on in the story. When Bonnie sees Clyde outside he is wearing all black with a black hat. This gives you the feeling that he is a bad man because he is dark and is looking into the mothers car almost as if he is a criminal. On the other hand Bonnie is wearing all white up in her window almost as if she is an angel of some sort. This gives you the feeling that she is not a bad person and gives her a sense of innocence. It also gave me the feeling when she hopped into the car with Clyde that she didn’t know what she was getting herself into. Also many of the cars they are driving are black indicating that there may be a bad person driving it or maybe that they are up to no good which is exactly what is happening.

This movie used a huge variety of ways of using color, lighting, shadows and many other methods to give you a certain feeling about what it going on in a particular scene. It certainly made me think hard and made me want to keep watching. It is now one of my favorite movies and i would recommend it to anyone who is considering watching it.