Film: HUNGER.
- Oct 4, 2016
- 2 min read
HUNGER
Director: Steve McQueen.
Release date: October 31, 2008. (UK)
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, Liam McMahon.
Genre: Biography, Drama
Imdb: 7.6/10
Plot: The movie focuses on the 1981 hunger strikes involved by the Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Bobby Sands is going to be the leader of these strikes.
(accessed: 10 October 2016)
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The clip I chose shows Bobby Sands, Micheal Fassbender, and the priest, Liam Cunningham, having a conversation. I reviewed the minutes from 11:00 to 13:25 about and the purpose of this task was to look at sound and light.
The sound is diegetic, so no sounds were added during post-production. The only two sounds we have in this scene are the voices of the characters having a dialogue and then the noises of their movements. The almost empty room, makes their voices really clear and compose, although I think there is a kind of echo. I also think that having just the characters talking with no other sound, makes the viewer concentrate more on the scene and on what they two are saying. I like though how the sound is composed. However, the light gives the scene a dramatic mood.
The light is really simple. In this particular scene, the director used just a back light 1 coming like from a window, and possibly the fill light. I like how interesting the back light is used without the main key light. It makes the characters look dark from one side and lighter from the other, there is like this seen/non-seen of their faces. I think there should possibly be a fill light coming from the priest back. Fassbender's face and body is more highlighted than the priest one, probably to evidence the difference of his health condition from the beginning of the movie till that scene. It's also nice how the back light is positioned as a natural light from an eventual window. The light gives the scene a dramatic mood.
The camera is positioned in the middle of the two characters. The director used the cigarette's smoke to divide the scene in two equal parts.
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