Malala Film Technique Questions Editing Compare the following shot in terms of: Camera angle Colours Mood Accompanying Voice over (quotes below each image) “There’s a moment when you have to choose whether to be silent, or to stand up.” To the shot which they cut to: “Sometimes, some people say you should just protect your life.” Malala Film Technique Questions Compare this shot in which the voice over explains how Malala’s mother traded in her text books for lollies and gives up on education: To this shot which it cuts to: What does this transition suggest about the decision to drop out of education? Malala Film Technique Questions Editing: Montage Throughout the film we see several montages. Two examples include Malala writing the journal for which she was shot and another of her father speaking at public rallies. Why might the director, Guggenheim, have chosen to use montage to convey certain points? Malala Film Technique Questions Use of colour How is colour used below to demonstrate Malala’s mother’s feeling in her education? We hear in this montage that the Taliban told the people not to wear colourful clothes, and shortly after it cuts to Malala in colourful clothes, in this case what could the colourful clothes be a symbol of? Malala Film Technique Questions Camera Shots: What is this shot? What does this shot suggest about the relationship between Malala’s father and her? Below: What shot type is this? Malala Film Technique Questions What does this suggest between the relationship of Malala’s father and his father? What shot is this? Why might Guggenheim have chosen to use it? Symbolism Throughout the film we see a series of images where Malala leads the camera without facing it, the camera follows her. What do these shots suggest about her personality? Words are often given a visual representation, they are given a symbol, what is the symbolic representation of the words below? Malala Film Technique Questions Compare that with the following symbolic representations of words:
