The Sapphires Film Analysis

The film that was conducted by '' Wayne Blair'' in 2012 was called ‘The Sapphires’ which was about four indigenous girls that have a special talent and strive to show their skill and talent by audition for a talent competition. In which where they meet their manager Dave also known as the sole man. As they start to gather up their group they travel to Melbourne to ask Kay if she would like to join. But unexpectly they find Julie in Melbourne too looking for them to audition too, Although Kay who still lives in Melbourne she get persuaded to do an audition with the girls to travel to Vietnam but kay had not wanted to audition but soon had second’s thoughts. The director Wayne Blair is also an Indigenous Australian and had directed this film

We could see racism take place when Gail and Cynthia try to go into town to audition for the talent quest, but as nobody would stop for them because they were aboriginal. We also see racism when Julie, Cynthia and Gail sang Dave started to play along while British settlement citizens started to leave because they knew they had bad impression on the indigenous Australian girls when they first walked in because they were aboriginal and since they were aboriginal, they white people had racist thoughts of them. Although when the indigenous girls lost they knew they could still follow up and never give up on their dreams. Until they only had one a piece of article that contained a chance to sing for the soldiers in Vietnam which lead them to better performances and more confidence to

There are types of main techniques such as zooming, craning, tracking and lighting. Zooming is one on going motion, the camera moves from an area to a close up shot. Tracking is when you move the camera towards or away from the film and it is designed to make the actor feel like they are part of the scene or is removed from the scene. And Craning is when the camera angel is place on a crane to make better interest to the location of the film. Last but not least is Lighting. Lighting is when the light changes throughout the film and draws attention to the objects and also lighting can be used to create their facial expression when it’s light or dark. The characters in the film wear a costume to represent the movie and to show the character personality of what they doing. Also in this scene you can see many other many cinematic techniques in this set. As it appears Dave has more lighting than Gail. That’s because since Dave was white and Gail is black. Black and white people can’t be in a relationship or get