An oral commentary on the Film Welcome to Sarajevo
The story, directed by Micahel Winterbottom, is based on a true story, follows Michael Henderson and his news team, ITV, to war-torn Sarajevo. It's 1992 and the city has just seen its worst fighting as Bosnian Serbs try to derail the country's new independence with artillery bombardment. While there, Henderson encounters Flynn, a US TV journalist, and Annie, a freelance writer covering her first war. Henderson and his new company eventually come across an orphanage near the front lines and are so saddened by the scene that they choose to make it front page news. Henderson's involvement is so deep that he makes plans to take one of the children, Emira, back to England, illegally, with the help of an American aid worker. I am going to talk briefly about the history of the Bosnian War to give you an understanding about this film. Before its independence, Bosnia-Herzegovina was one of the parts of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. At that time, roughly four million people lived in Bosnia, and consisted of three main ethnic groups: Slavic Muslims (forming 44% of the population), Serbs (31%), and Croats (17%). Yugoslavia was first founded after World War I, but disintegra
The main function of this sequence within the larger narrative action is to foreshadow what will happen later on. An example of this is the showing of Croatia first, war torn etc, then cutting to Sarajevo at that same time, happy etc.
Some topics in this essay:
VISUAL STYLE,
Function Sequence,
Bosnian Serbs,
SEQUENCE FILM,
Sound Music-soundtrack,
Explain Involved,
Winter Olympics,
Ratko Mladic,
Flynn TV,
Croatia Bosnia,
film sequence,
mother shot,
bosnian serbs,
beginning sequence,
world war,
sequence film,
world war ii,
narrative method,
winter olympics,
main ethnic,
independence bosnia-herzegovina,
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Approximate Word count = 1460
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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