Casablanca

• Casa Opening: How is cinematography used in the sequence (2) - Medium shot of the city - establishes the city straight away as bustling and busy as a result of WW2 migration - Tracking shot of the city from above - new moving camera technology
• Casa Opening: How Mise-en-scene is used in this sequence (2) - Pickpocketer costume stereotypical of villanous characters in Hollywood - Props in Ricks Bar - famous tracking shot - presents the bar as a haven for American Idealism and luxury lifestyles (and as a safe haven to escape realities of war)
• Casa Opening: How editing is used (2) - Montage editing - Portrays number of refugees who have fled to Casablanca as lots! - Faced Paced continuous editing - Police chase is synonymous with classic Hollywood
• Casa Opening: How Sound is used (2) - Fast paced non-diagetic music - emphasises the drama and intensity of scenes like the police chase - Patriotic french music - French nationalism despite the nazi occupation
• Casa Opening: How performance is used - Rick playing chess with himself - emphasises his ambiguity - hidden in chiascuro lighting
• Casa Paris Sequence: How is cinematography used (2) - Ricks bar has dark chiascuro lighting - Representing Ricks internal sadness - Bliss montage is much brighter and high key - emphasising his happiness with Ilsa
• Casa Paris Sequence: How Mise-En-Scene is used (2) - Ricks costume in flashback is classical Parisian clothing - presents beauty and individuality of France (Propaganda message) - Empty alcohol bottle beside Rick - presents the internal struggle he is going through
• Casa Paris Sequence: How is editing used in the sequence (4) - Fades to white - classic means of introducing a flashback - Dissolve transition to begin the Bliss montage - Bliss montage - romanticism in Hollywood - Slower paced continuity editing - a slower, more romantic style of editing - audience feels more relaxed, just like rick is with ilsa
• Casa Paris Sequence: How is sound used - 'It had to be you' used throughout the film and in this sequence as a sound motif - French patriotism
• Casa Paris Sequence: How performance is used - Contrast to Ricks solemn behaviour in the bar with his friend, Sam - another symbol of the love the two had for one another
• Casa La Marseillaise Sequence: How Cinematography is used (3) - Close ups of singers - emphasises the French national anthem and patriotic mood - High key lighting on the singers and audience, low key on the Germans- classic warner chiascuro effect - Mid-shots on the Germans, creates alignment with the French (close-ups) and creates empathy for the european conquered contries
• Casa La Marseillaise Sequence: How Mise-En-Scene is used (2) - German soldiers costume is much darker compared to the French's lighter costumes - stance of a US viewer, I would be more inclined to support the french - Multiple props that provide a sense of French allyship in Ricks bar and an anti-nazi message
• Casa La Marseillaise Sequence: How editing is used in the sequence (1) - Continuity Editing + dissolve transitions, romanticises the scene, hence portraying the French as important to fight for
• Casa La Marseillaise Sequence: How sound is used in the sequence (2) - Two national antherms, diagetic - 'Die Wacht en Reim' - portrayed as selfish and gives the audience as sense of distaste towards them - only the soldiers sing it - French national anthem sung by everyone bar the soldiers - reflects the support for the French, and encourages americans to fight for them
• Casa La Marseillaise Sequence: How performance is used (2) - French extras crying - proud to be French, they are European refugees, creating another layer of emotion reflecting the cruelty of wartime - Ricks nod to allow the band to play the anthem, shows he is putting himself at risk against the common enemy - reflects US's disowning of isolationism
• Casa Ending Sequence: How cinematography is used (3) - Lighting exaggerated - adds melodrama - heightens characters' emotions - Close up between Rick and Ilsa, captures the emotions between one another, encourages audience to feel for Rick, but also happy he is doing the right thing - Spotlight gauze filter - Ilsa's tears sparkle - representation of feminity, her sadness is a beauty
• Casa Ending Sequence: How Mise-En-Scene is used (2) - Ilsa's costume is light grey - Ricks is darker, Victors is much lighter, represents how Ilsa is torn between her devotion to the two characters - Throwing away of the Vichy water bottler visually denounces Nazi values as vichy was an unoccupied region of france that persecuted jews and collaborated with the nazi government
• Casa Ending Sequence: How editing is used in the sequence (2) - Continuity editing - focusses viewers attention the fluidity of the sequence - Eyeline match cuts - matches the eyelines of Rick and Ilsa in a shot reverse shot - romantic bond between them in their last moments together
• Casa Ending Sequence: How is sound used (2) - Non-diagetic dramatic music, when Ilsa and Victor fly away, dramatizing the atmosphere - Music crescendos at the emotional peak of the scene - La Marseille played when the title cards come on, one final parting encouragement to the audience to join the war, encouraging patriotism
• Casa Ending Sequence: How performance is used - Facial expressions from Rick and Ilsa in their final moments together symbolises feminine expectation of Rick - and the connection they have for one another
• What is Michael Curtiz considered as A Metteur En Scene
• How many films did Curtiz direct for Warner brothers 100
• Name 1 aesthetic of Casablanca - The use of fog and low key lighting to disguise cheap sets created on Warners tight budget policy
• Dates of the studio systems existance 1930-1948
• What is it called when the studios controlled every aspect of film production Vertical integration
• What broke up the studios' monopolies on the industry Paramount Decree
• When was the Paramount decree 1948
• When was the Hays code - start and finish 1930's until 1968
• What is a McGuffin - A narrative device with little importance, but gets the plot moving
• What is the Mcguffin in Casablanca - The letters of transit
• What are the themes in Casablanca (5) - Love, lies, sacrifice, patriotism, commitment
• Who are the auteurs of Casablanca (4) - Jack warner - Michael Curtiz - Arthur edeson (cinematographer) - Max steiner (Composer) - Hal B Wallis
• What does the low key lighting and fog do Desguise warnr brothers cheap sets like in the airplane hangar scene
• What is the equilibrium in Casablanca Refugees being displaced due to WW2 and trying to get passage to Lisbon and then to US
• What is the disequilibrium in Casablanca Disruption caused by the theft of the letters of transit
• What is the new equilibrium in casablanca Rick leaving behind his isolationist stance and helping Lazslo escape with the letters of transit
• What does rick represent in casablanca US Foreign policy of isolationism and then joining the war effort, which rick does aswell
• When was pearl harbour and when does casablanca take place respective of this date - 7th December 1641, casablanca takes place 4 days before
• What are the institutional contexts of casablance - Hays code/motion picture production code - Studio system - 7 year contract system
• Describe the hays code in terms of the institutional contexts of casablanca - Set up in the 1930's as a means of film censorship limiting the demonstration of nudity, violence and religious messages including homosexuality, films must portray the corrext standards of life