Critical Analysis of Brassed Off
We studied a 5 minute exert from the film Brassed off. Within this
there were many media techniques. And in such a short exert there was
a lot. The main characters are Phil and his wife Sandra. The scene
starts with Phil, a miner, being a clown at a childs party. He is not
very good and we can tell that it is not his main job and he is doing
it for the money. We then go to Sandra who cannot afford a few items
at the local shop and the cashier tells her to pay her back next year.
When giving her the receipt she hides a five pound note in it and
passes it on. With the money Phil earnt he went and bought a trombone.
When he returns home he sees his family fighting to keep the balifs
off their property. He confronts them and they tell him he needs to
pay his debt or they seize his property. He then tells them to wait
until the 21st when he will take the redundancy money the mine will
give him. The bailiffs are leaving and Phil tells them that if he
touches his kids again he will kill them, the bailiff punches Phil and
then leaves.
I looked at sound in more detail and after watching it a few times I
picked up on some. When Phil is punched he is still in his clown
clothes and as he is hit his red nose squeaks. As this happens you
can’t take Phil as a serious threat to the bailiffs, instead just a
clown. This shows him up even more in front of his own family who he
can no longer protect. When Sandra is in the shop the cashier tells
her that she is 60p short and the women behind tuts. Although only a
small sound this could mean a thousand words. The women behind looks
middle class she has her purse in her hand and it doesn’t look empty.
She is also wearing quite expensive clothes and has jewellery and make
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By mentioning the families it also softens his image and shows that he is sympathetic making him easier to listen to and ultimately easier relate to. The more one relates to a person, the more they are likely to
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dislikes him. It can be said that he is not doing the best for his
successful and in the end I believe that was beneficial to his career although it was also
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adequate. Hickam did use good transitions between his main points. The speech did expand my
McDonald, J., Teder-Salejarvi, W, & Hillyard, S. (2000). Involuntary orienting to sound improves visual perception. Nature, 407, 906-907.
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As the camera zoom smoothly creeps in from the establishing wide we are exposed to a changing palette of noises from the surrounding environme...
The Scholar: I think that's more a function of sound wave vibration than anything else.