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I intend to do a screenplay for my coursework with a narrative which portrays a conflict between two central characters. The basic story is two characters that are the human embodiment's of good and evil and the evil character is trying to corrupt the good character. Throughout the film the evil character will be tempting the good character to do bad things like smoking, drinking and stealing and will slowly corrupt the good character to becoming evil like them. The way I am going to show the good and bad characters is by having the good character dressed in all white and the bad character dressed in all black and I will show the corruption of the good character by the good character slowly wearing more darker clothes. The names of the characters are Evangeline and Malum.  I have chosen Evangeline for the Good character because the name Evangeline translates to "good news" in Greek and I have chosen the name Malum for the Bad character because it translates to "evi...

Explain how a deeper analysis of cinematography and/or aesthetics techniques can deepen a contextual understanding of your chosen films. The scene from City of God that I have chosen to analyse is the scene where Shaggy dies. This scene is also known as 'Man Down' . During this scene the cinematography conveys a physical 'barrier' between the two genders, which could also be a foreshadowing of what will happen to the two characters because the become separated through Shaggy's death. Before the couple get into the car Bernice runs in front of the car with her hands out which is one of multiple references to the iconic Rio landmark 'Christ the Redeemer' that are made throughout the film. The fact that she makes this pose could be because she thinks that her and Shaggy are going to get out of the favela and live a happy life by being 'redeemed', but later in the scene it is made clear that both of them will not be leaving the favela as Shaggy is gun...