3 - identity - colour, film stocks, music

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    Focus Questions

    (what you should be able to answer by theend)

    - How are film stocks and colour used in the

    film?

    - How does this help to disrupt linearity?

    - How does the use of music develop the

    audiences awareness of the fictionality of

    the identities presented?

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    #3 Colour and Film Stocks

    The film is very visually rich and Haynes is quite

    obsessive about the kinds of film that he uses for each

    sequence for the film and the colour choices he makesfor each particular narrative.

    Well go through each of the images that youve got in

    front of you to discuss:a) the timeline being represented

    b) the purpose/significance of colour/film stock

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    Colour and Film Stocks

    Each character clearly inhabits their own world that is

    differentiated from the other worlds that the film offers. It

    becomes an obvious marker or visual cue that helps to

    drop us straight back in to a particular characters world.

    This is useful for a film like Hayness in that it makes the

    film easier to follow because there are distinctly different

    feels between worlds, which makes it more difficult to be

    confused.

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    Colour and Film Stocks

    To an extent this is about disruption. The film becomes quite

    visually jarring as a consequence of the constant shifting

    between colour and film stocks across the film.

    While this relies on editing (the shifting between timelines) it is

    also the sheer number of different colour environments and

    textures that Haynes uses that has this impact on the viewer.

    We are never allowed to settle with a particular figure, as any

    settling is usually quite quickly disrupted by a significant

    change in the visual style of a scene.

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    Colour and Film Stocks

    As a technique, this helps to displace our connection to any

    fixed idea of Dylan. It is the editing that really does it (which we

    will deal with in detail), but colour is what makes it obvious.

    It reinforces the idea of multiplicity in the film - multiple colour

    stocks comes to represent the multiple identities that the film

    embraces. There is no stability of style, i.e. the film has no

    stable colour identity, no stable texture (film stock), which wecan discuss as representative of the films attitude towards

    identity.

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    Music

    To a large extent, the use of Dylans music in the film -

    when it sung by him, rather than a dubbed voice - can be

    interpreted to reinforce this idea of a distancing effect

    that undermines the truth of each characters identity.

    Well watch a few sequences that include Dylan songs

    sung by Dylan. Then well talk about the immediate

    impact of each song (how it comments on the scene) and

    then we can discuss the wider impact of the non-diegetic

    sound.

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    Non-Diegetic Music

    The music reinforces what the title suggests - Dylan isnt

    there.

    The incorporation of his voice alongside characters thatare meant to represent him help to point out the obvious -

    what were seeing isnt Dylan. Dylan is the singer, he has

    a certain voice, and a certain look, and what were seeing

    on the screen is definitely not Dylan. It is a fictional

    construction of him.

    And so a lot of the non-diegetic sound can be argued to

    be a representation of Dylans not-there-ness in the film -

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    Return to focus questions

    - How are film stocks and colour used in the

    film?

    - How does this help to disrupt linearity?

    - How does the use of music develop the

    audiences awareness of the fictionality of

    the identities presented?