The first clip, from 'The Seventh Seal', showed a man playing a game of chess against Death in order to stay alive. The title of the film is a biblical reference from the Book of Revelation. The image of Death in a black, hooded gown makes it appear to be a shadow which lurks around its victims. The film is shot in black and white, which gives it a sense of darkness.
The second clip is from the movie 'All or Nothing. It uses dull colours to show the sadness and lack of joy in the scene as Phil and his wife, Penny, argue in their living room. Most of the scene is made up of close-up shots of both Phil and penny, who sit on opposite sides of the room. Phil is only ever shot from the side, while Penny is only shot from the front. This give the sense that Phil is shying away from things when Penny is trying to get him to face that he's not being a good father. After the conversation gets serious, the only time Phil really turn towards Penny is when he confronts her about how he believe she doesn't love him anymore.
In clip #3, taken from 'The Umbrellas of Cherbourg', bright colours set the scene for a love story between a young man and woman. Every line in the movie is said through song. In this particular scene, the lovers are are saying goodbye to each because the man is leaving for national service for 2 years. When they are on the train platform, the man is waving goodbye and the woman is left standing there as the train pulls out from the station. the image of her getting smaller as the train moves farther away symbolises how she feels when she is watching him leave.
The fourth clip is taken from the movie 'Don't Look Now'. There is a recurring use of the colour red in this movie. Red is seen in the colour of the young girl's coat, the strange hooded figure in the picture, the girl's ball, and the cut on the young boy's finger. This particular scene has a very strong emotional impact. The editing shows the correlation between what is happening inside and what is happening outside by quickly cutting between the two places when certain things happen, like a pane of glass breaking.
In the last clip, the beginning of the movie 'Walkabout' gives an impression of the city as being something that is uniform and limited in colour. There are lots of shots of legs walking around the city, and one with a young boy hidden behind the legs of soldiers. Any images of nature are shown dominated by buildings or with signs attached to them that classify what their scientific name is. When the father of the two main children in the film is first shown, he looks small in comparison to the large concrete pillars around him, and walks in a way that is stiff and robotic. All of this makes the city appear to be something that is lacking in life, where all the people are just faceless figures with no outward signs of personality.
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