University of Phoenix Material Essays - English-language Films

University of Phoenix Material Essays - English-language Films University of Phoenix Material How Films Communicate Week 1 Part I: Beginning to Analyze Film Movie Time and Place CostumeSet DesignDescribe the atmosphere created by the combination of film elements and how they contributed to your liking or disliking of the movie. Girl Interrupted, 1999 The movie is set in the early 1960s. The movie takes place in a psychiatric ward and with some flashbacks from the characters past. The characters mostly wear dingy, old sweat pants sweat shirts. They sometimes wear hospital gowns and scrubs that a nurse would wear. When they are outside of the ward, the patients wear clothes that were worn in the 1960s. The sets looks just like a mental hospital, but also takes place in an ice cream shop and some of the characters homes. The overall atmosphere is gloomy and sad. All the patients in the psychiatric ward are very sick in different ways and the set helps create that scene. The costumes, hair and makeup, and overall set grabs the audiences attention from start to finish. I was intrigued and interested in the movie because it seemed so realistic. It is based on a true story.