LO1 Task 2 Script (Tyranosaur)

Hello and welcome to Episode 2 of DB. As always I am your host Andrey and today I will be talking about Tyrannosaur.

 The purpose of the film is to thrill and entertain the viewer. It may also be to show how bad the condition is in council estates and make the audience think about the less fortunate. Another meaning for the film is to entertain the viewer and make them think about what kind of world they live in.

 The genre of Tyrannosaur is a dramatic thriller that uses a lot of social realism to connect to the audience and make them feel like this could happen with them this makes the story even more thrilling to the audience and makes the story more believable.

The form of the film is a 92 minute feature film  based of the short story "Dog altogether" which included the same actors and had the same director. "Dog altogether" won best short film BAFTA as well as the Silver Lion Award at Venice in 2007. The film was distributed by Studio Canal UK.

The style of the film is a British drama film staring Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, Paul Popplewell and Sally Carman. The film was released in Britain 7 October 2011 by Studio Canal UK and on 21st January 2011 at the Sundance film festival. 

The content of the film is a story about a man called Joseph who is plagued by violence. Joseph is a very lonely man ever since his wife passed away. From the start we know that Joseph is a very violent man as the film starts off with Joseph coming out of a pub swearing and shouting in to the pub. In the next scene we see Joseph walking home with his dog and then he snaps and kicks the dog multiple times this once again shows that violence can easily take over his mind and stop him from thinking strait. During the film Joseph accidentally meets Hannah a charity shop worker. Throughout the film Joseph and Hannah meet multiple times and get very close to each other and this causes inconvenience with Hannah's husband James. Later in the film we find out that James is abusive towards Hannah. This explains why Hannah is very bland and tries to stay below the radar this also explains why she is very quiet and this may be why she works at a charity shop where she doesn't make profit as it all goes to a charity and she just wants to be away from home and James.

The meaning of the film is to make people think of the problems that happen in this community. Tyrannosaur is set in a council estate in Northern England this makes it seem more real by using social realism and letting people know that there are places like that not only in the less economically developed countries but also in our country. The actors and the locations that are in the film have a very worn down and rough look this makes them look like the working class this exaggerates the effect.

The production process involves three main stages pre-production production post-production. Pre-production involves script writing, costume making, location searching and actor auditions. Production that involves filming, sound recording and directing. Post-production that involves editing, effects and advertising. Warp X, Inflammable Films, Film4, UK Film Council, Screen Yorkshire, EM Media, and Optimum Releasing advertised the film. 

 The film uses the costumes of the actors to set the scene the actors in the film wear simple and worn clothes to set the scene of the film to make it more gritty and realistic. In Tyrannosaur the character of James is always dressed in a suit this connotes his wealth and power. Meanwhile his wife Hanna is dresses simply and works in a charity  this connotes that she is more simple and "down to earth".
Throughout the film the character Jacob uses many props like a baseball bat, sledgehammer and a machete all of these are are considered weapons and this connotes violence that is used a lot throughout the film as its one of the main themes of the story. Most of the props throughout the film are related to violence to show Jacobs "obsession" with this theme.

The film uses a lot of camera and editing techniques. They use close-up shots throughout the film to show what we should be concentrating on and to connote the importance of the object in the shot. They also use over shoulder shots and eye line match shots to make you feel like you are the character and gets you in the effect of experiencing the scene in first person. The film uses a tilt of Jacob walking at the 20 second mark in the trailer of the film. The trailer also uses a pan of Bod walking at the 31 second mark and a pan of Jacob and Hannah walking at the  58 second mark. The film uses depth of field it uses it to concentrate on a certain thing in the shot and to give a more realistic view to the shot. The trailer and the film itself uses a lot of editing techniques like fade ins and fade outs to show ellipsis but not to spoil the film. The film also uses normal cuts at more intense moments as the 3 second point in the trailer when we see someone approach Jacob swinging something at him then it cuts to black. In the scene straight after that we see a fade in to Jacob waking up this connotes us feeling the same as the character.

The film uses sound as a technique to make the scenes more intense and interesting. The scene in the trailer where Joseph gets violent at someone the music gets intense and loud the more violent he gets. Later in the tailer the music gets quiet and calm when the story  starts to straighten out and Joseph and Hannah sort things out this proves Carl Rodgers theory of the ideal partner. In the end of the film we see Joseph getting shouted at by Bod but we do not hear what he is saying as we only hear the noise ringing in Josephs ears because of him being shocked by what he has done and blocking everything else out. This makes us feel as if we are in Josephs shoes and makes the audience fell more attached to the character. In the scene where  Joseph is at his best friends funeral him and the other guests start singing and the song fades out in to the original but it is still anchored (Goodwin 1992)  with the guests singing. Most of the scenes in the film have diegetic sound this means that the sound is connected to the visuals but in the funeral scene starting at (insert time) fades in to non-diegetic sound this means that the audio isn't connected to the visuals.

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