After our session with Chris I decided to buy a box set of Jim Jarmusch and because our drama project is based on the idea of a ‘journey’ I decided to watch his film ‘Mystery Train’ first as it sounded like it probably involved a journey of some sort. When watching this one of my main focuses was on the editing because what stood out to me were these long takes of walking that he used throughout the film. I noticed that the camera would follow the characters for quite a while when they were walking then eventually they’d walk out of the shot and as they did it would cut to them walking in another shot. This technique gave it a really drawn out feel that they were walking and had been walking for ages even though in the reality of the film it had only been for a couple of minutes. I liked how the characters weren’t doing anything except just walking because this too really emphasised the fact they were on a journey to find something and that this was their main intent and there was also no or little dialogue to accompany these shots which meant our focus was always on them walking which made you wonder where were they going or what was going to come next. It also made you pay extra attention to their surroundings and this was integral to the film as it linked all parts of the story together eventually as you would recognise the different places later on with each different character and what part that place played in the overall story.
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