English- The Power Of One essay

Note: this is not completed yet. maybe a work in progress.

In The Power Of One, the director, John Avildsen used so many amazing techniques to make an amazing movie. This movie is really inspirational because you get to see how someone changes the world by stopping something really big that happened for so many years. Apartheid should never happen to anyone. No matter if you're black, white, yellow, purple. The white treat the black like they are a piece of poo at the bottom of their shoe. These techniques have been used in the movie: camera angles and camera shots, diegetic sound and dialogue. These techniques were used in such great ways to make everyone feel different emotions about what is happening.




In The Power Of One. In the scene that we are working on, which is where P.K gets bullied. There was a lot of close-ups used very nicely. For example, the director used this at one point so he can show that P.K doesn't look so scared towards jaapie botha. They make it so he looks really fearless. He doesn't take his eyes off jaapie the whole entire time. The director did this to show the way that P.K looks and feels in that scene. This helps us understand that P.K was so scared but he didn't want to show it. This is important because the audience needs to see the way that the character looks like and so they can see how the character feels.




In addition to this. In that scene, the director used long shot. We see this when the kids are carrying P.K into the room. The director Also uses this so then we can see the characters body language. For example, the director used long shot in this scene so then you can see who is bringing P.K in the room. The director did this so then we can see the way that the characters feel and how they look at the moment in that time. This technique shows us the way everyone is in the scene. This is important because long shot can show a lot of emotion and action.




In the scene that we are working on the director used mid shot for when P.K is walking into the room. He was Talking about how Hitler arriving caused him more problems bed wetting ever had before. For example, the director used mid shot so then you can see P.K and where he's walking. The director did this so then we could see P.K and how he looks at that point in the scene. This makes the audience feel like they have the same feeling as P.K. This is important because you need to see what P.K is doing and how he is feeling otherwise you won't really get what's going on.




In conclusion, The Power Of One by John Avildsen is a film that is very inspirational.