Strike – Initial notes

Cinematography

• using a range of shot types – for example, close ups of faces and objects, overhead/birdseye shots, midshots of people, over the shoulder shots.
• lowkey and higkey contrast lighting – representing the ongoing conflict between the workers and government
• light used expressively – real/natural light

Editing

• high speed/slow motion
• cross fades between the bosses and the factory scenes
• reversing, repeating shots
• soviet montage – order, duration, repetition and rhythm
• montage creates sense of chaos, not a story but an idea being shown
• split into 6 parts, each titled.
• montage split up with black screen with writing on it, speech or describing what is happening. in place of dialogue.
• cutting between conflicts
• fade ins and outs

Sound

• diegetic music, no non-diegetic sound at all
• classical music playing the whole way through- using instruments like trumpets, flutes, violins, cellos, pianos.
• gets more and less dramatic depending on the action on the screen.
• Changes at the end, music turns to a repetitive wooden scraping instrument over a montage.

Mise en scene

• sets – factory yard, factory , village, offices
• large amounts of people and dirty conditions represent the working class of this time, living in bad conditions with many people and poverty
• shots of ropes, machinery, muddy ground, dirty faces and hands
• exaggerated performances as there is no dialogue
• easy to tell difference between rich and poor people, banquets and fancy clothes, dancing on the table maybe symbolic for how tey take it for granted. surreal