Tony

La Jettee

A complete film using still imagery that was based on post nuclear war. It used a full gradient black and white with a lot of noise on the images. The narration on the movie sounds like an old radio and even though no-one speaks or moves, you can still sense emotions like pain, fear and horror. The images are very shadowed and gloomy, they also look very flat and old. Throughout you can tea a lot of sound effects like thudding and whispers in a different language. A lot of the images are silhouetted and have very distinctive shapes as well as a lot of detail. The dream sequence is a major example of this. The actual images from the dream sequence compared to the rest of the film, is more 3D. Which adds to the idea of a dream being surreal and less real. This is intensified by the flat dark look of the 'real life' images. The imaging is detailed enough to know what is going on without having any narration over the top, and on a whole the images were easier to follow than the story, as well as more interesting. Here are some shots from the film: