SEXXY Paragraph Writing Practice

Statement: Dennis Villeneuve uses low key lighting together with the colour green, blue and black in the scene where K comes home to his apartment to portray some ideas about the film. 

Evidence: For example, when K was walking towards the building apartment, we see low key lighting and the light is coming from the billboard advertising that is on both sides of his apartment building. During the scene of K coming home and essentially throughout the scene, the lights are quite dim and dull. The colour that is coming from the lights are harsh white with blue and green and there is also a wide area in the building apartment where the colour is black. 

Explanation of the director’s purpose: Dennis Villeneuve effectively chooses this specific lighting to portray a negative mood and how dangerous society has become due to the obsession with technology. Also, it gives us an idea about how K and other blade runners are viewed in their society. As they are viewed as no more than bio-engineer humans and looked down upon and treated like they do not deserve rights or protection. These aspects also reflects what K is feeling inside and his lack of experience. 

Explanation of effect on the audience: With the use of these two aspects, audiences were able to feel the darker feelings and emotions of K through the lowkey lighting and colour. Especially, by combining these aspects together, we were able to understand the danger, cold and harshness of the environment they live in. This is important because of these aspects we are the one who feels the discrimination K is receiving despite K being a replicant who does not have any ‘emotions'. As he is just a slave that has no consciousness and cannot think for himself, love someone, experience things as even his memory is just a memory that is implanted in him. 

Link: However, as the movie continuous, we were able to notice that despite K being a replicant, he is aware that he retires and hunt down rogue replicant, we saw in K’s eye that he somehow slightly felt guilty of retiring those replicants but he has no choice as he is a slave. Combining the low key lighting with the colours blue and green is very important because it gives us a depressed mood about K and society. 

Text 3 Unfamilliar Text

 Text 3: The Cellist of Sarajevo

Define 3 words you do not know

- Besiege((of a place) surrounded by armed forces aiming to capture it or force surrender.)

- Mortar (a short smooth-bore gun for firing shells (technically called bombs) at high angles.)

- Inviolable (never to be broken, infringed, or dishonoured)

Identify 3 examples of emotive language (words or phrases that evoke some kind of emotion in the reader)

- "The visible world exploded" - this basically means the place called Sarajevo is destroyed when they are sieged by the military.

- "He would very much like to feel his father's hand on his shoulder again." this phrase made me think that the cellist is longing for his father's lover.

- "The promise of a happy life seemed almost inviolable". this made me think that because of what happened to Sarajevo the cellists thought that their life would just end there.

What is the tone of the excerpt (author’s attitude towards what he is writing about) and what mood does this suggest (overall feeling of the text)?

The mood that this text is giving me off is the sad mood, the way the author was telling the story of the cellist who ould play in the middle of the conflict made me emotional. Especially when the author was telling us that "the war will go around him as he sits in the small crater left at the mortar's point of impact."

Identify an example of imagery from the passage (when something is described in vivid detail, making it easy to imagine) and explain its effect on the reader. How effective do you find it?

"This visible world exploded", I could imagine that Sarajevo was besieged and was really destroyed.

Personal reflections

After reading I was amazed at the cellist as he was really courageous and brave during those hard times. I also believe that the cellist even honoured the people who died by playing the cello.