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La La Land Revision - Coggle Diagram
La La Land Revision
Contexts
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His idea was "to take the old musical but ground it in real life where things don't always exactly work out", conceived whilst studying at Harvard University
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Won multiple awards, including Oscars and BAFTAs: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (Emma Stone), Best Achievement in Directing and Best Film (BAFTA)
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Budget of $30 Million, Grossed $427 million in Box Office
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Spectatorship
Active Spectatorship - The critical, engaged, and interpretative process where audiences actively decode media
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Uses & Gratifications Theory - PIES - Personal Identification, Information, Escapism/Entertainment, Social Interaction
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Negotiated Reading - When an audience member partly shares a media text's dominant code, accepting the preferred meaning in general but adapting or modifying it to reflect their own personal experiences, social position, and interests
Oppositional Reading - Occurs when an audience member understands the intended, dominant message of a media text but rejects it entirely,
Film Form
Cinematography
All the main song and dance scenes are filmed in what appear to be a single take, in homage to the Hollywood musicals of the 30s, 40s and 50s.
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Shooting dance routines in extended single takes allows the audience to fully appreciate the choreography and skills of dancers.
Use of complicated panning and tracking shots also allow the camera to follow the action to create the impression that it is almost one of the dancers, making the experience more emotional and immersive for the audience
Mise En Scene
The title of the film puns on the Los Angeles location, the nickname for Hollywood and the idiom for being lost in dreams.
The production design reflects this, using a mixture of typically LA locations from the gritty to the romantic, often repainting or lighting the less pretty locations in a way that creates a dream-like Technicolour atmosphere
Sound
Composer Justin Wurwitz was Chazelle's roommate in college where they first came up with the idea of La La Land
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As a musical, the director and composer had to work very closely together, trying to find an appropriate tone that fitted firstly the timeless quality of the film and secondly the mixture of happiness and sadness
The music needed to reflect the emotional complexity of the characters, whether it be Mia or Sebastian, or the traffic jam singers
Editing
La La Land took almost a year to edit, partly because Chazelle and Tom Cross experimented with how to cut and pace the non musical numbers
The extended single takes used during the song and dance routines are floating and dreamlike, and they wanted to make dramatic scenes more realistic to distinguish them and root the film in some of the frustrations of the main characters
There is a fast cutting rate in these scenes that creates a sense of near claustrophobia, so that the musical numbers are like an exhaled breath where tension is released
Characters
Mia (Emma Stone) - Ambitious, Passionate, Dissapointed
Seb (Ryan Gosling) - Passionate, Ambitious, Dissapointed
Keith (John Legend) - Manipulative, Antagonist, Separator
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