isa Jackson’s Savage manages to say a lot without having any dialogue. Between the music and images, the message comes to its fullest fruition. One thing that really adds to the effect of the whole video is the color scheme used. In certain scenes, color is either muted or focused on in accordance to what is happening to the characters in the short film and its overlying message. This serves to amplify the horrific changes the boarding schools made to the kids and their heritage.
The film begins with a shot of nature rolling past the camera in a sunrise bright blue and pink. Suddenly, the camera shifts view to a muted yellow vehicle in which a Cree child is being driven by an older man. Before the scene shifts to the mother, the camera focuses on the little girl staring out of the dark brown window. In this first …show more content…
Jackson purposely mutes and darkens the color of the car to give the viewer the sense that the boarding school that the child is heading to is not a good place; this is because muted and dark tones are normally associated with upsetting things such as devastating storms. However, the shots of nature are bright and bold colors which signal a happy feeling into the brain. Here, Jackson is showing that nature is a freedom that is being left behind by having the colors be so much brighter in comparison to the car which is leading toward confinement.
After the first minute of filming, we see the mother of the young girl and she starts the first bit of vocal sound we hear. For the next several minutes of the film, the camera cuts between scenes of the car, both interior and exterior, the mother
The film begins with a shot of nature rolling past the camera in a sunrise bright blue and pink. Suddenly, the camera shifts view to a muted yellow vehicle in which a Cree child is being driven by an older man. Before the scene shifts to the mother, the camera focuses on the little girl staring out of the dark brown window. In this first …show more content…
Jackson purposely mutes and darkens the color of the car to give the viewer the sense that the boarding school that the child is heading to is not a good place; this is because muted and dark tones are normally associated with upsetting things such as devastating storms. However, the shots of nature are bright and bold colors which signal a happy feeling into the brain. Here, Jackson is showing that nature is a freedom that is being left behind by having the colors be so much brighter in comparison to the car which is leading toward confinement.
After the first minute of filming, we see the mother of the young girl and she starts the first bit of vocal sound we hear. For the next several minutes of the film, the camera cuts between scenes of the car, both interior and exterior, the mother