In his Talking Heads plays Alan Bennett presents vivid portraits of
human frailty and challenges us to respond to them. Discuss this
statement with references to A Chip in the Sugar and "Bed amongst
the Lentils
In the play a Chip in the Sugar Alan Bennett shows us a life of a very
unconfident man who still lives with his mum. Alan Bennett has put the
play to us in the way he has so that we listen to the feelings there
aren't any special effects unlike most modern films. We pick up on
every little minor feeling or expression. There are special techniques
used in the play though. In the play they use different camera shots
but they sustain the same shot for a substantial amount of time.
Different angles in the shots help gain effects on facial expressions.
Which is an important part of this play. They used medium shots, which
include most of the scene, and also long shots, which give a distanced
view, but they are not used very often because all the focus is on
Grahams face, but the camera technique that gained the best effect was
close up. This shot focuses on something in detail and this was used a
lot when Graham was talking. They did this because in the play facial
expressions and feelings were very important and they wanted to get
the impression of Graham across very early. They wanted you to see
that he was very quite, and not very confident. They also fade out at
the end of the scene a lot to change scenes. In the play music is used
to enhance the mood or reflect the images being shown. In the play
they use techniques and that is why they gain viewers but they don't
do it with money and special effects, and this is why the play is so
effective and makes viewers get so interested. Emotive language is...
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...ke when Frank turns up everyone will originally think that Graham is
just jealous but later on we find out the real truth about Frank and
Mrs Whittaker reacts badly to the bad news but forgets about it the
next day which makes me think about her memory problem, because when
she is with Graham she forgets and when she is with Frank she
remembers and I think this is because she can be lazy with Graham but
when she is with Frank she has to remember things otherwise he might
not like her.
My personal views on Susan are that she is a very neglected woman who
just wanted attention and after a while she realised she wasn't going
to get it she turned to something that she thought made her happy. The
alcahol, and the affair. This is her only relief from the life of the
church and the way she is forced to live so that Graham does not look
bad in front of friends.
the scene. Moving to the different shot types used in this ending scene, the recovery
In the film the music is very important. At the beginning it is set at
The music makes the audience drawn to feel sympathy and pity when she is preaching her views on death. For instance, a solemn melody is played when Haemon’s corpse is brought to King Creon. Creon grieves by himself as he is overcome with devastation caused by his foolish actions; his emotions are intensified by the sorrowful and sombre background music. The music is able to complement the play, while accentuating the more significant events. The design of the set is the most essential element of the production because it serves as the backdrop for the entire play.
The music and sound effects are in the same pont with what the author nedded to say in that play. In the smok and sword fight on the first act we thought will be a play where every body is confusing and fight each other. The phone ringing all the time and this help the actors to play around in the hury and action come up with rehearsal process. The purposes of the phone is any time we heart that something is going to happen, so we expectin to change the sequence in the play. Ringing the phone open a problem, hanging up the phone close the problem. Opening and shoutting the door of dressing room as a slamming it create for the audience understanding the flow of the show and leaves the flexibility as we see white and black to the performance. Crying with tears make the player dramatic, but afraid of discover which it trying to keep things together laughting and
the main theme of the play. With out this scene in the play I don’t
In the novel Cold Sassy Tree (1984), Olive Ann Burn's plot focuses heavily on religion and its role in society. Mary Willis Blakeslee, a Baptist, is tried for heresy by the deacons of the Baptist church for marrying Hoyt Tweedy, a Presbyterian. “The deacons voted to put it in the church records that ‘Mary Willis Blakeslee has swapped her religious birthright for a mess of matrimonial pottage’” (11). After her father Rucker Blakeslee confronted the deacons they agreed to remove the pottage element from the document (11). Although this confrontation with Grandpa intimidated the deacons it didn’t impede them from excommunicating Mary Willis from her “birth church.” As it ended up she decided to attend the church of her husband, Hoyt Tweedy. As Cold Sassy Tree illustrates, in Georgia in the early 1900’s religion played a major role in marriage decision along with membership to the church. This sort of attention that Mary Willis acquired was very hard for her to tolerate emotionally. It was important to her to appear respectable to the community. Regardless of this embarrassment caused by the Baptist...
trance. This is a key scene and a turning point in the play, but also
this scene and the end of Act 1 Scene 4. The last scene ended on a
The climax of the play is in the last act in which the balance of
Singing was also very important in the play. Most often, the songs that were sung in the play were used in conjuction with lighting to create the mood. Deep, slow songs indicated that times were changing from good to bad, or from bad to worse. High, fast songs introduced happy scenes. Scenes were also changed according to song, such as the jail scene. The cast began to sing a song about freedom and the jail bars disappeared, indicating through song that the men had been freed. Also, song was important in the play because the songs were specific to the african american culture.
The theme of the play is also change. At the end of the play when
It tells us what happens at the end of the play, in this case in
this is important because it is a climax to the play so far and the
This scene is the last of the play but by this time the actual plot is
The importance of music in movies is highly regarded for manipulating the viewer’s emotions and helping them immerse into the story. Music is one of the prime elements in cinema. Without it a movie would feel dull and unexciting. There are three elements in a movie: one is acting, the second is picture, and the third one is music. It is a holy trinity; if incomplete, there would be a lack of sensation and excitement. Both acting and picture can stand independently from one another, but music is the one that makes the movie memorable.