- How is the actor playing Gus costumed? What does this tell us that we should feel about Gus?
- How is the actor playing Flora costumed? What does this tell us that we should feel about Flora?
- How is lighting used to make Gus seem menacing?
- How is the lighting used to make Flora seem innocent?
- How does the actor walk and what types of actions does he perform as he follows Flora? How does this tell us he’s–for lack of a better term–a predator?
- What actions and interactions do we see Flora engaged in while she’s being followed by Gus that tells us Flora is childlike?
- How is the music associated with Gus different than the music associated with Flora?
- How does cross-cut editing between the Flora-Gus chase scene with Ben, Flora’s older brother, communicate to us the danger that Flora is in?
- Thinking back and using the theories of discourse and multiliteracies, how would you say the work of writers like John Tyler Morgan and Frederick Hoffman shaped a viewing public that would accept this sequence with few to no reservations?
- the actor is dressed as a black man with his face painted and is wearing ran down clothes. this tells the audience that he is scary and aggressive and not very clean.
- she is dressed as a very nice southern white women. this helps the audience to believe she is innocent, she asks for permission to leave which means she is appeared to be very well mannered.
- they use lighting to focus in on him hiding outside her house and watching her. and pulling flowers from the yard as if he was praying on her.
- they make flora seem innocent by highlighting the areas and times in the film were she is twirling around and playing with nature around her so freely. she keeps giggling and laughing.
- in the film they the actor “gus” following behing flora very creepy as if he was a praying on her. his actions were made as if he was harrassing and planning to kidnap or harm flora. or as if he could be sexually harrassing her.
- she gets easily distracted as she goes to get water, and sits on the tree branch swinging and looking at squirrels laughing.
- the music in her scenes are more calm, slow, and soft. in his scenes the music is more upbeat and fast.
- the director keeps switing the film from showing her running to showing a cliff, and the height of it. then they continue to show the dad looking for her and finfing her sweater. they also have gus chasing behing her and appearing to be getting closer and closer.
- in a time they were living in when this was released it was normal to feel this way towards African Americans and have the hatred they had. they all agreed with this through their discourse communities this included the neighborhoods they lived in their family, and friends and even the media. if the writers could write something like this and it would have to be approved by someone who agrees or see’s the world the same then they would see no wrong with it. what much could a African American do at the time ? everyone who was in control were racist as well. the audience for that film was not for the colored people of america to enjoy they made it for people who shared the same views in life and who were even allowed to go or had the means to which were all whites.
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