TITLE:DIRECTOR:
YEAR:
MAIN ACTORS/ACTRESSES:
MOVIE GUIDELINES
TITLE:
DIRECTOR:
YEAR:
MAIN ACTORS/ACTRESSES:
1. NARRATION:
1.1. Is there a story line? Summarize.
1.2. Is there a voice-over that talks from the outside, organizes
or gives extra
information? Explain.
1.3. Are there technical elements that give dramatic indications
about how the story is
structures (e.g. The change from black-and-white to color)? Explain.
1.4. Relation to history. What is the connection? Is there a desire
to reach a goal? What
message or messages the film aims to communicate about its world
and, by implications, our world? What is it said explicitly or
implicitly? What is the meaning of the ending?
2. CHARACTERS:
2.1. Who are the central characters?
2.2. Are they realistic? What makes them realistic (or not)? Does
their clothes, their conversation or something else define them?
Do the characters seem to fit the setting of the story?
2.3. Do the characters change and, if so, in what ways? What values
do the characters seem to represent? What do they say about such
matters as independency, sexuality or political belief? How are
women portrayed?
2.4. What are the relationships to each other?
3. POINT OF VIEW
3.1. Observe how and when the camera creates the point of view
of a character. In what
ways the point of view is determining what I see? Does it limit
or control my vision in any way?
4. MISE-EN-SCENE:
4.1. Do the objects and props (costumes, sets, lighting . . .)
in the setting, whether natural or artificial ones, have a special
significance that relates to the characters or story?
4.2. Compare in depth the different settings (countryside/city):
are they portrayed as opposite spaces? Discuss.
5. COMPOSITION AND IMAGE:
5.1. Explain the angle of the camera in some scenes. How does
it affect the story?
5.2. Pattern of colors (photography)
5.3. Sound (or silence)/music-What is the relation of the sound
to the image in specific scenes or sequences?
RECOMMENDATIONS:
* Information about Ramon J. Sender (author of the book on which is based the movie) and the movie (read what is related to 1919, Chronicle of Dawn)
*
Historical information about Spain around 1919:
-
History
of Spain around 1919
-
Internet pages:
--
The struggle against the state and other essays by Nestor Makhno:
On the history
of the spanish revolution of 1931 - and the part played by the
left- and right-wing
socialists and the anarchists:
http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/makhno/sp001781/chap18.html
--
On the Spanish Civil War (excellent):
a. In English: The Spanish Revolution and the civil war
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/9820/
b.
In Spanish: La guerra Civil
http://www.fut.es/~msanroma/GUERRACIVIL/guerracivil.html
-- On anarchism:
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/spaindx.html