The Days Of Heaven

Cinematography

• How mobile is the camera? Does it move toward the characters within a scene, or does it remain relatively static, allowing the actors to move instead within a steady frame? The camera is mobile, for an example the scene of taking people were walking in the paddyfield, the beautiful sunset and people were burning the paddyfields etc. Actually, most of the scenes in this movie are allowing the actors to move in a steady frame, even the stuff or the plants.
• How does the camera treat the different characters? Does the camera view the character from below (low-angle shot) or from above (high-angle shot)? Most of them time the camera view the characters from below(long-angle shot), this way of cinematography has shown the reality of face reaction. The camera takes from belows when the characters are working in the farm or sitting on the machines.  
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  What purpose does the camera angle serve? For example, what cue might a camera angle offer you about how the director wants you to view a particular character? The purpose that camera angle that shows in the movie, basically decreases the imagination, and the distance between audiences and the movie. The camera angle of when people are talking, you can feel like the character is talking to you (by face-to-face angel).  
• What do the camera angles tell you about the relationships between characters?
  
   The camera angles tell me a complicated relationship between characters, most of the feelings are sad. For an example, when Bill hugs Abby, I can totally feel the love from him but not Abby. The angel that director takes, are longer-distance angel, which can show the whole picture of the characters and the background.  
• Do the angles from which characters are shot change over the course of a scene, or a sequence, or the film as a whole? How does such a change influence your view of a character?  After Bill's death, I like this character more. I think Bill is a pity character who loves her wife and disappoints when her wife betrays him and falls in love with someone else. I like Bill :)  
• How frequently are close-ups used? Why? What is the effect of the close-up?The scenes are frequently used close-ups when  the main characters are talking to face-to-face, so we can feel that character is talking to 

Mise en Scène

• Where is the film set?The city of Chicago. 
• What does the location (in time and space) tell you about the type of plot you might expect? The factory scene which is in the beginning of the movie gives me the imagination of  the plot might happen next. I thought this movie might about the workers, hungry and poor, but I did not expect the nature beautiful scenes will show in the movie.What functions do the props serve? I think the props serve 
• What information do these props give you about the characters who possess or use them? These props tell me about that the characters 
• What do the costumes tell you about the characters? The costumes tell me about the identity, the situation and the personality of the characters. Most of the workers in the movie are wearing the simple, ugly, and normal 20 century's clothes. Also the changing of the identity, for an example. after Abby is married the rich owner, she wears beautiful, fantasy and luxury dresses. 
• Why are certain characters dressed in light colors? In dark colors?Most of the certain characters dressed in dark colors, because it shows the identity of the characters. Bill and Abby are poor workers who always travel around, and just try to find a better job.
• What kinds of lighting does the director employ? What kind of mood does the lighting style create?The lighting that director employs actually are taken by the natural sunlight, it provides more sadness that can match the theme and the background. Most of the scenes are dark, yellow ,orange and brown.  
• Which characters are well-lit and why? Which characters are shaded, or only partially lit?The main characters are shaded- Bill and Abby. For an example, Bill and the Framer are talking in front of the wall, or when Abby is talking to The Framer in the forest, that scene is more lighter because the green background of trees.   
• What does that lighting convey about the character and her/his potential actions within the film? When the lighting is taking half side of the characters let the audiences to expect the characters might talk or walk under the darker background.For an example, when Bill is talking to Abby in the storage before Abby would like to marry the rich owner.

Music & Sound

• How does the degree of familiarity with the music influence your understanding of the plot or the characters? The degree of familiarity with the music influence my understanding of the plot, the sinfonia music in the background and the famous background music which is similar with Harry Potter's, even the scene when the train is running.
• What cues does the music give you about what to expect?What kind of mood does the soundtrack create? How does the use of music and sound influence your interpretation of the plot or your attitudes toward particular characters? The cue from the music give me about a nervous, exciting and strange feeling which will happen in the next scene, the famous background music which is same as Harry Potter's gives me creepy, strange and nervous feelings of what will happen in the next story, I was expect the story will become more exciting, interesting and sad. 
• What kind of sound effects are used in the film? Do they arise from the action or are they added to the action? The sound effects are used in the film are mostly from the nature and the symphony, it increases the level of feeling, those sound effects are arise from the action, sometimes they are added to the action.

EditingHow does the director choose to tell her/his story? Does s/he cut quickly from shot to shot, or let shots run longer and compose them into more leisurely sequences?Does the director use different editing styles at different times in the film? Why?

• The director choose to tell her/his story by taking the scenes of conversation between the characters, also the little girl in the movie is playing the role of onlooking and aside.The director use different editing styles at different times in the film,she/he cut quickly from shot to show and combine the scenes together, sometimes with some nature scenes. 
• What is the effect of juxtaposing one image or scene with another? It gives more interesting on the vision.
• If the director uses flashbacks, what function do they fulfill aside from the filling in of information from the past? What insights might we gain from?I think we might gain the insights from the scenes when the Abby and Bill decides to let Abby marry that rich man. I think if director use flashbacks, the first scene might starts with the girl's talking and the scene of both main male characters die. 
• Which characters develop through point-of-view shots (when we see through a particular character's eyes)? We see this whole story from a little girl which is Bill's younger sister, her role develops the plot by point-of-view shots, what she said, the way she talks, presents the feeling and the development of this movie. 
• What purpose do point-of-view shots serve? How do point-of-view shots affect our experience as spectators? I think the reason that director to use a younger girl to do point-of-view shot is because it gives audiences a fair angel to understand this theme of the story, I think this is a brilliant idea to develop the story, because we are like that younger girl (the spectator) to experience this whole story. Even this story is not that younger girl's story or our story, but it gives us a memorable impression of what happens in the movie. 

Identification(to identify: suggests a psychological empathy with the feelings or experiences of another person; to associate or affiliate (oneself) closely with a person or group)

• With whom do we identify when we watch a film?What techniques does the director deploy to guarantee that identification? That younger girl helps us to identify the story (beginning)when watch the film, and the director deploy to guarantee the identification of the characters.
• What are the ramifications of our identification? For example, what ideas about the world, about good and evil, about race, class or gender do we assume as the result of our identification with a particular character? We often judge and identify a particular character by his/her jobs, personality, interests,appearance, background, religion and the way she/he talks.   
• Is this experience of identification thought-provoking (i.e. one that makes us think critically about sexism or racism) or does it simply reinforce the status quo?I think this a experience of identification thought-provoking, it make us think critically about the sexism, the importance and the effects of the identity in this cruel society with compares with the true love. 

Closure

• Does the film reach a satisfying end?No. I don't like the what happens at the end, but it's a good end that properly finish the story and the feelings. 
• Does the film reach an ending you have anticipated/wanted? I don't like the sad ending, I would like to expect that the main characters (Abby and Bill) travel around again and nobody will break their relationship again. 
• Are all the threads of the plot tied up? What hasn't been resolved? (For example, are there any characters who are not paired up into a romantic couple at the end? Why not?)  In the end, both of main male characters die, but it is a romantic story to show the complicated relationship between the couple of Abby and Bill. The threads of the plots are actually tied up, but I think it is good to watch it twice times, it will give different feeling.