This is a clip from the family fantasy film, Willow (1988).
Film-making Conventions:
- Zoom in from long shot to mid shot - establishes setting and character, i.e. set in a forest and the man is clearly a wizard
- The wizard looks towards something, we see a shot of two people turning to look at him then back to him - they are standing in front of each other
- Camera pans down with the wizards hand so we follow what he is picking up
- Landscape shot of bird flying through the landscape - camera follows it then close ups and mid shots of people watching the action
- Cutting between people and what they are looking at to keep pace and interest, i.e. the people watching the wizard, then his hand and then the bird
- Sound effects - jingle of wizard's cane, footsteps of people, magical twinkle in wizard's spell
Cultural Codes:
- Setting - magical forest
- Wizard's cane
- Backpacks and music suggest quest
- Olden days robe clothing - fairytale
- Dwarf actors, mix of age, gender and race
- Stereotypical - old, bearded wizard, men packed to go on a quest, women and children seeing them off, however there is a mix of races of the men going off which you might not expect of a fantasy film from three decades ago
- The twinkle of the wizard's spell is typical of a fantasy film
- The wizard is wearing lots of chains and pendants compared to the plain dress of everyone else - indication of character, position and status
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