COMPONENT 2 SECTION C ACTIVE RECALL
THE HURT LOCKER
1. Who’s the director?
2. When was it released?
3. How many awards did it win?
4. How did they maintain realism?
5. What was a feeling of immersion created?
6. How did the writer maintain accuracy?
7. How was it shot?
8. What were Bigelow’s intentions?
9. What were some criticisms?
10. Conventions of the war genre narrative?
11. Conventions of the war genre characters?
12. Conventions of the war genre visuals?
13. Conventions of the war genre themes?
14. Conventions of the war genre ideologies?
15. Convetions of the war genre iconography?
16. How does THL conform to the narrative of the genre?
17. How does THL conform to the characters of the genre?
18. How does THL conform to the visual style of the genre?
19. How does THL conform to the themes of the genre?
20. How does THL subvert the narrative of the genre?
21. How does THL subvert the characters of the genre?
22. How does THL subvert the themes of the genre?
23. How does THL subvert the audience engagement of the genre?
24. What were Bigelow’s signatures?
25. How does Bigelow create realism?
26. How does Bigelow create tension?
27. How does Bigelow use violence as a psychological tool?
28. How does Bigelow use minimal dialogue?
29. How does Bigelow use complex characters?
30. How does Bigelow subvert gender roles?
31. Todorov’s theory?
32. Propp’s theory?
33. Levi-Strauss’ theory?
34. Neale’s theory?
35. Bazin’s theory?
36. Tasker’s theory?
37. Mulvey’s theory?
38. Altman’s semantic theory?
39. Altman’s syntactic theory?
40. Hypodermic Needle theory?
41. Barthes’ hermeneutic codes?
42. Barthes’ proairetic codes?
43. Barthes’ semantic codes?
44. Barthes’ symbolic codes?
45. What does ‘War is a drug’ represent?
46. What do the shots of civilians through guns show?
47. How do we see how the army treat the Iraqi?
48. What is the impact of having Guy Pierce die at the beginning?
49. How does it follow a cyclical structure?
50. How is masculinity represented?
51. How is the scoring used?
52. How is war presented as a video game?
53. How effective is the ending?
54. How is a theme of rails created?
55. How is a theme of voyeurism created?
56. When are close-ups used?
57. What is the impact of the close-ups?
58. When are aerial shots used?
59. What is the impact of aerial shots?
60. When are over-the-shoulder shots used?
,61. What is the impact of over-the-shoulder shots?
62. When are handheld shots used
63. What is the impact of handheld shots?
64. When are POV shots used towards civilians?
65. What is the impact of the POV shot towards the civilians?
66. When are POV shots used otherwise?
67. What is the impact of Thompson’s POV shot?
68. When are long shots used?
69. What is the impact of the long shot?
70. When is a shot-reverse-shot used?
71. What is the impact of the shot-reverse-shot?
72. When is a pan shot used?
73. What is the impact of the pan shot?
74. When is a static shot used?
75. What is the impact of the static shot?
76. When are flashes of light used?
77. What is the impact of the flashing lights?
78. When are cuts used?
79. What is the impact of the cuts?
80. How is a fade used?
81. When is diegetic sound used?
82. What is the impact of the diegetic sound?
83. When is thumping used?
84. What is the impact of the thumping?
85. When is a droning sound used?
86. What is the impact of the droning?
87. When is a cacophony used?
88. What is the impact of the cacophony?
89. How is a woodwind score used?
90. How is silence used?
91. What quote shows their disregard for the civilians life?
92. What quote shows their relaxation?
93. What quote shows their difference in morals?
94. What is the symbolism of the robot camera?
95. How are behaviours used?
96. What is the symbolism of the behaviours?
97. When are colours used?
98. What is the symbolism of the butcher?
99. When are aerial shots used in intro to James scene?
100. What is the impact of the aerial shot?
101. When are close-up shots used?
102. What is the impact of the close-ups
103. When are shot-reverse-shots used?
104. What is the impact of the shot-reverse-shots?
105. When are pan shots used?
106. What is the impact of the pan shots?
107. When are cuts used?
108. What is the impact of the cuts?
109. How is a montage edit used?
110. When are droning sounds used?
111. What is the impact of the droning sound?
112. What is the impact of the rock music?
113. When is colouring used?
114. What is the impact of the colouring?
115. How is an over-the-shoulder shot used in bomb in car scene?
116. When is a close-up used?
117. What is the impact of the close-up shot?
118. When is silence used?
119. What is the impact of the silence?
120. How is cacophony used?
121. When is pounding music used?
122. What is the impact of the pounding music?
, 123. How is expression used?
124. How is saturation used?
125. What is the impact of the silence in the playing football sequence?
126. How is a shaky camera used in sniper scene?
127. When are long shots used?
128. What is the impact of long shots?
129. When are close-up shots used?
130. What is the impact of the close-up shots?
131. When are shot-reverse-shots used?
132. What is the impact of the shot-reverse-shots?
133. When are extreme close-up shots used?
134. What is the impact of the extreme close-up shots?
135. When is an over-the-shoulder shot used?
136. What is the impact of the over-the-shoulder shots?
137. When is a two-shot used?
138. What is the impact of the two-shots?
139. How are back shots used?
140. How is lighting used?
141. How are long takes/shots used?
142. How do camera shots reflect attitudes?
143. How are intertitles used?
144. When are piano notes used?
145. What is the impact of the piano notes?
146. When is silence used?
147. What is the impact of the silence?
148. When is diegetic noise used?
149. What is the impact of the diegetic noise?
150. How is amplified sound used?
151. How is delayed noise used?
152. When are repeating notes used?
153. What is the impact of the repeating notes?
154. How is silhouetting used?
155. When is behaviour used?
156. What is the impact of behaviour?
157. When are attitudes shown?
158. What is the impact of the attitudes?
159. When are zoom-in shots used in the taking anger out sequence?
160. What is the impact of the zoom-in shots?
161. When is diegetic sound used and what is the impact?
162. When is cacophony used?
163. What is the impact of the cacophony?
164. When is expression used?
165. What is the impact of expression?
166. When is a pan shot used in the human bomb scene?
167. What is the impact of the pan shots?
168. How is lighting used?
169. What is the impact of the lighting?
170. When is an extreme close-up shot used?
171. What is the impact of the extreme close-up?
172. When are cuts used?
173. What is the impact of the cuts?
174. When is a cacophony used?
175. What is the impact of the cacophony?
176. When is silence used?
177. What is the impact of the silence?
178. When is squealing used?
179. What is the impact of the squealing?
180. How is behaviour used?
181. What is the impact of the behaviours?
182. How is dark lighting used in revenging Beckham scene?
183. When are tracking shots used?
184. What is the impact of the tracking shots?
THE HURT LOCKER
1. Who’s the director?
2. When was it released?
3. How many awards did it win?
4. How did they maintain realism?
5. What was a feeling of immersion created?
6. How did the writer maintain accuracy?
7. How was it shot?
8. What were Bigelow’s intentions?
9. What were some criticisms?
10. Conventions of the war genre narrative?
11. Conventions of the war genre characters?
12. Conventions of the war genre visuals?
13. Conventions of the war genre themes?
14. Conventions of the war genre ideologies?
15. Convetions of the war genre iconography?
16. How does THL conform to the narrative of the genre?
17. How does THL conform to the characters of the genre?
18. How does THL conform to the visual style of the genre?
19. How does THL conform to the themes of the genre?
20. How does THL subvert the narrative of the genre?
21. How does THL subvert the characters of the genre?
22. How does THL subvert the themes of the genre?
23. How does THL subvert the audience engagement of the genre?
24. What were Bigelow’s signatures?
25. How does Bigelow create realism?
26. How does Bigelow create tension?
27. How does Bigelow use violence as a psychological tool?
28. How does Bigelow use minimal dialogue?
29. How does Bigelow use complex characters?
30. How does Bigelow subvert gender roles?
31. Todorov’s theory?
32. Propp’s theory?
33. Levi-Strauss’ theory?
34. Neale’s theory?
35. Bazin’s theory?
36. Tasker’s theory?
37. Mulvey’s theory?
38. Altman’s semantic theory?
39. Altman’s syntactic theory?
40. Hypodermic Needle theory?
41. Barthes’ hermeneutic codes?
42. Barthes’ proairetic codes?
43. Barthes’ semantic codes?
44. Barthes’ symbolic codes?
45. What does ‘War is a drug’ represent?
46. What do the shots of civilians through guns show?
47. How do we see how the army treat the Iraqi?
48. What is the impact of having Guy Pierce die at the beginning?
49. How does it follow a cyclical structure?
50. How is masculinity represented?
51. How is the scoring used?
52. How is war presented as a video game?
53. How effective is the ending?
54. How is a theme of rails created?
55. How is a theme of voyeurism created?
56. When are close-ups used?
57. What is the impact of the close-ups?
58. When are aerial shots used?
59. What is the impact of aerial shots?
60. When are over-the-shoulder shots used?
,61. What is the impact of over-the-shoulder shots?
62. When are handheld shots used
63. What is the impact of handheld shots?
64. When are POV shots used towards civilians?
65. What is the impact of the POV shot towards the civilians?
66. When are POV shots used otherwise?
67. What is the impact of Thompson’s POV shot?
68. When are long shots used?
69. What is the impact of the long shot?
70. When is a shot-reverse-shot used?
71. What is the impact of the shot-reverse-shot?
72. When is a pan shot used?
73. What is the impact of the pan shot?
74. When is a static shot used?
75. What is the impact of the static shot?
76. When are flashes of light used?
77. What is the impact of the flashing lights?
78. When are cuts used?
79. What is the impact of the cuts?
80. How is a fade used?
81. When is diegetic sound used?
82. What is the impact of the diegetic sound?
83. When is thumping used?
84. What is the impact of the thumping?
85. When is a droning sound used?
86. What is the impact of the droning?
87. When is a cacophony used?
88. What is the impact of the cacophony?
89. How is a woodwind score used?
90. How is silence used?
91. What quote shows their disregard for the civilians life?
92. What quote shows their relaxation?
93. What quote shows their difference in morals?
94. What is the symbolism of the robot camera?
95. How are behaviours used?
96. What is the symbolism of the behaviours?
97. When are colours used?
98. What is the symbolism of the butcher?
99. When are aerial shots used in intro to James scene?
100. What is the impact of the aerial shot?
101. When are close-up shots used?
102. What is the impact of the close-ups
103. When are shot-reverse-shots used?
104. What is the impact of the shot-reverse-shots?
105. When are pan shots used?
106. What is the impact of the pan shots?
107. When are cuts used?
108. What is the impact of the cuts?
109. How is a montage edit used?
110. When are droning sounds used?
111. What is the impact of the droning sound?
112. What is the impact of the rock music?
113. When is colouring used?
114. What is the impact of the colouring?
115. How is an over-the-shoulder shot used in bomb in car scene?
116. When is a close-up used?
117. What is the impact of the close-up shot?
118. When is silence used?
119. What is the impact of the silence?
120. How is cacophony used?
121. When is pounding music used?
122. What is the impact of the pounding music?
, 123. How is expression used?
124. How is saturation used?
125. What is the impact of the silence in the playing football sequence?
126. How is a shaky camera used in sniper scene?
127. When are long shots used?
128. What is the impact of long shots?
129. When are close-up shots used?
130. What is the impact of the close-up shots?
131. When are shot-reverse-shots used?
132. What is the impact of the shot-reverse-shots?
133. When are extreme close-up shots used?
134. What is the impact of the extreme close-up shots?
135. When is an over-the-shoulder shot used?
136. What is the impact of the over-the-shoulder shots?
137. When is a two-shot used?
138. What is the impact of the two-shots?
139. How are back shots used?
140. How is lighting used?
141. How are long takes/shots used?
142. How do camera shots reflect attitudes?
143. How are intertitles used?
144. When are piano notes used?
145. What is the impact of the piano notes?
146. When is silence used?
147. What is the impact of the silence?
148. When is diegetic noise used?
149. What is the impact of the diegetic noise?
150. How is amplified sound used?
151. How is delayed noise used?
152. When are repeating notes used?
153. What is the impact of the repeating notes?
154. How is silhouetting used?
155. When is behaviour used?
156. What is the impact of behaviour?
157. When are attitudes shown?
158. What is the impact of the attitudes?
159. When are zoom-in shots used in the taking anger out sequence?
160. What is the impact of the zoom-in shots?
161. When is diegetic sound used and what is the impact?
162. When is cacophony used?
163. What is the impact of the cacophony?
164. When is expression used?
165. What is the impact of expression?
166. When is a pan shot used in the human bomb scene?
167. What is the impact of the pan shots?
168. How is lighting used?
169. What is the impact of the lighting?
170. When is an extreme close-up shot used?
171. What is the impact of the extreme close-up?
172. When are cuts used?
173. What is the impact of the cuts?
174. When is a cacophony used?
175. What is the impact of the cacophony?
176. When is silence used?
177. What is the impact of the silence?
178. When is squealing used?
179. What is the impact of the squealing?
180. How is behaviour used?
181. What is the impact of the behaviours?
182. How is dark lighting used in revenging Beckham scene?
183. When are tracking shots used?
184. What is the impact of the tracking shots?
