invisible man
...y can see his footprints in the snow as he runs out of the barn. This prop helps the police to finally catch this crazy mad man and put a stop to his chaotic outbursts. 2. What do the costumes reveal about each character? The main character Jack has a costume (that we have learned about above) that makes, and unmakes the person that he is. His fedora hat, dark sunglasses, heavy overcoat, gloves and bandages help to hide what he really is beneath all those clothes. They disguise what the experiment and chemicals did to Jack’s body which was turn it completely invisible. In society, being invisible is not normal, and scares people so his costumes keeps his true self hidden. Jack’s costume also does the reverse for Jack. When he is invisible, his hat, glasses, bandages, coat, and gloves help him to be seen. When Jack wants Dr. Kimp to see him, he puts on his costume and then is revealed to the Dr. Same goes when Jack wants to be seen by Flora. On goes the costume and there’s Jack. When Dr. Cramley, and Dr. Kimp are introduced to us, both men have on lab coats that suggest to the audience that they are scientists. The inquiry is confirmed when we see all of the test tubes, and chemicals that are on the Dr.’s desk. We can then infer that some kind of experiment has taken place. When the audience is introduced to Dr. Cramley’s daughter Flora, she is dressed very elegantly in a pretty dress, with tight blonde ringlets in her hair. She looks innocent, pure, almost angel like. We find out that Jack is someone special to her and she is very distraught with his disappearance. She is very caring and has a big heart and her pretty, innocent dress and cute blonde hair suggests this. In a later scene when Flora goes to see Jack, she has a long, flowing, white dress on and this time she really does look like an angel. In a way, Flora is Jack’s angel because as “mad” as he is he still has a soft heart for Flora. As Dr. Kimp tells Dr. Cramley, “He [Jack] won’t hurt her. You should hear the way he spoke of her”. In the ending scene, when Jack is dying, Flora is who he asks for. She is innocent, fair, and angel-like and her costumes complement her traits. 3. How are close-ups used? How often? What’s the effect? When Jack first enters the bar in the opening scene after we see him traveling through the snow, we get a close-up on this new stranger. We see closely that this man has had some sort of accident because his face is all bandaged up. The close-up in this scene is used to introduce us to this unknown character. Since his face is bandaged, and glasses cover his eyes, expression is not the key idea of the close-up, which in many cases, is why that approach is taken. In this scene, it is to show us this unexplained person and make the audience wonder what has happened to him, and what will happen next. When the woman of the house brings Jack his lunch and then proceeds down stairs only to realize that she had forgotten the mustard, she marches back to his room. Jack had told her that he wanted to be left alone, since to eat, he had to remove some bandages. Upon re-entering Jack’s room, the lady sees the bandages hanging off his face and we get a close-up of her reaction. She looks scared, terrified, and surprised at this man who she thought just “had a bad accident”. In this scene, the close-up is used to show us a reaction on a character’s face after seeing something different. We then can relate to the character because the audience is just as surprised and terrified at this being who appears to have no face. Shortly after being introduced to Flora, her and Dr. Kimp are talking about Jack’s leaving. We get a close-up of Flora through the flowers in a vase and we see the emotion she feels for Jack on her face. She has very sad eyes, and she speaks sincerely in a quivering voice about his safety. This close-up shows us how Flora feels concerned with Jack’s safety and how she obviously cares for him; we see it in her eyes. Towards the end of the film, when Jack sneaks into the car with Dr. Kimp and is going to kill him, Jack pulls him out of the car and ties him up. Upon throwing Kimp back into the car to then roll it down a cliff we get a close-up of Kimp’s face. We see fear, sadness, and a look of plead to not kill him. This close-up helps the audience to identify with the terrifying feeling that Jack puts on Dr. Kimp only moments before tossing him and his car down a cliff to die. 4. Does the shot-reverse-shot pattern in a particular sequence tell you anything about the characters involved? While Jack is staying at Dr. Kimp’s, Dr. Cramley and Flora come over to see him. When Flora enters Jack’s room, we get a shot of her and she looks happy, sad, concerned, and surprised. With a reverse shot over to Jack, we cannot see any emotions, but we can understand how he is feeling by the tone of his voice. He speaks delicately to Flora and says how he’s missed her. With a shot back to Flora coming near Jack to embrace him we understand that these two characters share feelings for one another, and that Flora is able to make Jack feel feelings of love, and not be “mad” for the time being. The two characters sit down and with a shot on Jack he tells Flora that all he wanted to do was better himself for her by becoming something bigger and better. Suddenly turning “mad” again, (which is what the chemicals do, make the person crazy and mad; irrational) Jack starts ranting and raving about how he wants to “rule the world” and that “no one will ever see him coming”. With a reverse shot back to Flora we see pity in her eyes for Jack and sadness at what this experiment has done to him. Then with a shot to Jack, he has jumped up to standing and is throwing his arms around as he continues to talk crazily about “ruling the world”. This series of shot-reverse-shot, shows us that Jack is deep down inside passionate for Flora but as the chemicals have turned him crazy he can’t stop the fact that they have taken over. Flora knows that Jack cares for her and the pity and sadness in her eyes show us that she can’t do anything about his “sickness” and she feels very sorry....