VCE Media Unit 3 Sleepers

In our first spoken introduction to john, he is in a church with shakes. in this the voice over states that john wants to be a priest, at the same time the boys are actually playing a prank by acting as priests in the confessionals. From this the audience is told two things about john 1. That he has the intention of doing good things but, 2. He goes about them the in the wrong ways.

We also notice a similarity with King Benny. He

John plays another role; he is seen to be the smallest in the friendship group of the four boys. He is never shot alone and in shots he is most likely to be sown with Michael. John plays the ‘little brother’ in the hotdog cart scenes. He is the one that needs to be protected. This is also displayed in the scenes at Wilkinson’s home for boys. All accept one… which tells us more about john- that he will have his small part to play in revenge. This scene is the football game. In this john is shown to the audience to be the one that played the winning touch down. Only three of the inmates were shown in low angles before the touchdown. Those three were Rizzo, Michael and John. All three turn out to play the biggest parts in revenge.

Later on the audience is introduced to the King Benny of ‘81. During the little creaser scenes King Benny is shown with a low angle and is in the center of the shots. He has red lighting behind him and a white light on his face. King Benny has gone from a character to be cautious of to be seen as a friend rather than a foe. He has done a bad thing but for t

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