Summary A Level Film Studies Trainspotting note package- key scene analysis.
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FM2 - British and American Film
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This document is the complete note form package for those studying Danny Boyle’s ‘Trainspotting’, for the WJEC A Level Film Studies course. Included here is detailed key scene analysis on multiple iconic scenes, with evidence divided into specific micro-elements ready to support your essays.
Opening sound: Iggy Pop-'Lust for Lifesoundtrack- upbeatexciting - ironic.
* Renton's cynical B Sarcastic VO narration - homodiegetic -'choose life, mocking conventionality
mis-en-scene: * the pleasure of itis dialogue is romanticisation ofdrugs
* delapidated drug den - but
w arm homely. * pleonastic moans from Allison
-sexual signs' orgasm-- unconventional pleasure
Colours - Peeling Wallpaper central hole in * pleonastic sound of Renton being hit on head w/ football--lighthearted comedy.
wall. * Pub set cleaner B more empty
* Sick Boy's peroxide blonde + Renton's buzz editing: A cross cutting (runnina, fb, drugs) chaotic life
pace of drugs a shot-reverse -
cute unconventional vs Tommy's blonde mop -
shot of 2 football teams. * graphic match, Renton falls onto floor surreal.
Beabie's argyle
B) sweater. I shabby football
clothes us matching uniforms a ragtags. cinematography: I longshots on needles - graphic realism a freeze frame profile shotsacharacters
* mid o fRenton's laugh after car - looks at
shot c amera - 360snot Renton on floor a
solitary. * Renton in
foreground
of running shot he's our protagonist. Camera pans past welcome sign 12 doorways a babyrs heroin responsibility.
toilet scene
sound: pleonastically neightened background sound ominous a door creaking, drips water
of
squelchy footsteps. * loudness ofRenton's groans of peril 101. * Vibey calm score as he swims -far away
mis-en-scene: * recognisable classical motif -
deeply contrasts the hardcore aesthetic - this sound signifies the change to surreal
* blue of water calm 3 blank - contrasts
the brown crusty toilet. I lightf rom above
exiting: editing is used to sew the 2 worlds
I together emphasise highs/addiction vs reality
swinging over rocks, peaceful glowing drugs o
his saviour surrealism reflects his mind a drugs cinematography: * lonas not
o fbenton wriggling into toilet
a see his feet
disappear comedy
-
take him a way from Scotland comes out
dry a * from above gods eye shot watching over stall we observe Renton's distress. * Worms eye
surreal B realistic.
not from toilet
a POV as he reaches for drugs o obsessed mindset.
Rentor's OD sound: sioning banter - metaphor
restaurant in their dialogue a drugs are as essential as food
* depressive Lou Reed's 'perfectd ayhis escape death! irony? music croscendos don'tm atch anything on screen
↳ very tragic Ambulance sirens panic death/emergency taxi
melancholy driving away -> no-one helps him
mis-en-scene:
drives past not for him.
exiting:* jumps from wall
* The ambulance into room - another graphic match, need for drugs. A Red creates a seam-
* Red carpet
atmother superiors becomes grave. - Less edit (montagel
O
* Sterile white hospital dismal a depressing.
einematography alona shot
of injection, camera takes us inside the needle is can see bits poison
* grey weather dark tragic B sad. red fore-
* POV Renton on stretcher we see now Society views drug addicts. * 10n9 shots of Renton being
-boding danger. dragged in/out quick realisation.
into snot:
of taxi 1 We have to watch. 8 Renton dragged to road
ending
sound. piconastic sound
A cash
of stacks being moved-tension a music playing through silence in the
pubheightens tension between Renton B Begbie.* awkward silence in hotel room us ambients ound ofp ur
mis-en-scene: * music silences when Beabie gets angry. A tempo music when
of Renton takes bad offo fBeabie *Renton's VO
im choosing life'
* hotel room similiar colours to drug den, move
floral fancy. * ill-fitting suits are like costumes, exiting: shot reverse shot/eneline match between Renton B spud before he leaves Rentor's
contrasthaircuts. * circular room, awkward and smiling close up-fades of
out focus. A future isn't
s et-
unnatural. * Pub is dark 3smokey.
* Renton acting ordinary in bathroom, cinematography: * BeqbieB Sick Boy on one side table,
of Spud B Renton on other a divide a CV of
he drinks water, not
doing drugs. Renton after fight, he's in focus, others blurry in background Renton is isolated aboutto bread a lone.
out
* shots from inside locker - we see Renton B Spud's smiles.
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