Movie Making Moments - G322 Downton Abbey mock exam clip

Movie Making Moments

Similie to the Titanic or any ship how the upper class is normally on top and the lower class on the ships are below decks. Upper class people are more looked at devls/villains, where they tend to treat the lower class with disrespect, whereas in the clip, its the opposite and the lord looks at the upper class and lower class as of equal standards and has the same level of respect for both.

Camera shots, angles and movements -

• The beginning of the clip where the camera pans out from the boy on the bike to the big mansion and scenario in front of him - vastness of grounds suggests owners are from upper class (slow, grandess of grounds). Camera looking down at paper boy from girls window.
• Wide shot (inside) - low status character for example in the kitchen when the maids are working. Kitchen crowded, rest of the house is very spacious and calm.
• Two shot - servant recieving the newspaper.
• Dolly zoom - large scale of house as the Lordship walks down the stairs, showing large room - signifies upper class. Over the shoulder - fathers reaction to telegram and girl looking over his shoulder suggests tension within people they know.

Editing -

• The change from the busy kitchen where all the bells are ringing and everyone is rushing about to get to places, to the Lordship walking down the stairs and everything being calm with the dog slowly following on behind him. Downstairs the chaotic atmosphere is sped up whereas upstairs, the atmosphere is calm and everything seems to be running smoothly till the telegram arrives.
• Lord and his wife having the conversation of the telegram tha arrived in the bedroom, the servant/maid at the back is barely noticed and seems to be blurred out.
• How long does the shot last, shot, reverse shot.

Sound -

• Dialogue - lower class tend to throw the conversation back and forth, upper class - quite formal and very well established, like and essay is well structured.

Mise - en - scene -

• The way they are dressed, to the way they talk - lower class, porridge, and upper class, fancy food, shiny plates to servants bowls. Clothes - servants, dull rags, grey, upper class - silk and suits.
• Setting - downstairs is more compact and busy and upstairs is more spacious and have high ceilings and big paintings. most important in the clip....
• Paper boy on bike - poor, cant afford much.
• Higher Status - does not focus on the daughters.