For week 3, as the class had been transferred to the online course, analysing films which in the notes had replaced face-to-face teaching for this moment. It was dramatically interesting that I had another course, “Histories of Film Theory”, was also discussing the different experiences of watching the film at home or theatre, which called “Cinema Experience”. I answered that the theatre provided greater watching quality than at home, such as sometimes the sound effects were playing an important part in the aesthetics of films. Similarly, “A Clockwork Orange” by Stanley Kubrick(1971), which provided by this week’s clip, interacted entirely with “Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125” by Beethoven throughout the film. As the plot progresses, our mentality for the soundtrack also changes. So, personally, I did consider music is also part of filmmaking because it did boost effectively the interactions in some scene.
Firstly, I would like to discuss “A Clockwork Orange” by Stanley Kubrick(1971) and “O Lucky Man!” by Lindsay Anderson(1973) which are provided in the notes. Initially, without watched the title of films, I thought they were a series as two characters were actually the same person and also in the prison scenes. However, as the scenes of coverage, I could recognise their styles. Stanley Kubrick in this film tended to create medium-shot and long-shot which let me feel more realistic, conversely, Lindsay Anderson’s scene style utilised numerous shallower depths of field and close-up or medium close-up to describe the character particulars of the body. As a result, for deciding coverage, the director’s style showed unique, even they hired the same actors and shot in the same place.