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Saving Private Ryan- Stylistic conventions - Coggle Diagram
Saving Private Ryan- Stylistic conventions
Iconography of War
eg uniforms, artillery, wounded/ dead, battlefields
Iconography- medals, decorated soldiers. Typical war costuming
Cigarettes- reflective of context. Adds realism for only vice + downtime. Stereotypical portrayal.
Juxtaposition, beautiful lush valleys with rotting, dead corpses.
Battlefields, not exclusively in fields but also in cities and normal civilisation.
Barbed fire evident in cities in foreground. Keeping armies and soldiers out, prisoners kept in.
Rubble- indictive of destruction
Grey tones- bleak, misery, mourning lives and peace
Use of visual effects in scene of conflict
Fast, rapid camera movement emulate the intensity of war
Contrast of blue water to bloody, deep dark red colour indicating death
eg slow motion, fast editing, fire from explosions, dust clouds from bombs, bullet sprays, close ups of hands/ faces.
Montage of death notes show how often people die
Varying camera angles to demonstrate differing perspectives of Allies + Axis
Violent scene shown from Upham perspective through cam angle of telescope.
Heightened sound
Explosions. Juxtaposition of screaming prior to death then silence. Germans v Allies
Juxtaposition: bombs to silence
Diegetic noise
Sombre music at times of death, intense orchestral music during battle
Heightened experiences and emotions
High point finding Priv Ryan
Low point- discovering it is wrong person
The use of humour in dark times
Laughing at Caparzo to try to ease the pain and grief
"If your mother saw you do that she'd be very upset" "I thought you were my mother" Lightening mood- comradery
Silhouettes (dehumanising the individual)
Burying the dead. Bodies shown as silhouettes
Perspective mirrors that of soldiers
Sniper riffle perspective