Exam Style Questions On I, Daniel Blake

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Exam Style Questions

  • Explain two ways that camerawork has been used to create meaning for the audience in 'I, Daniel Blake' (4 Marks)
The camerawork is used to create meaning by using a range of personal shots, for example, the close-ups on Daniel as he experiences this tragic/unfair treatment, which is amplified with the use of mise en scene as his facial expressions show his sadness, misery, and frustration as he yells in anger. This visual code gives similar intertextuality to the 'Selma' (2014) trailer which used similar close-ups and montage techniques to show Martin Luther King standing up to the government. Creating meaning of revolution and grounding the trailer in reality as both films are based on true real life inspirations taht people should know about from Martin Luther King and the black communities fight for equality in America a real man who changed the world and Daniel Blake a symbol/metaphor for the lower class in the UK, a person created to represent the masses. who cant represent themselves.

Another reason camerawork creates meaning for the audience by using establishing/long shot of vast numbers of people waiting to be helped by the government, which is shown by there poor clothing and sad performances, this also imitates similar shots from documentary films which show the suffering of people in poverty from a safe distance. Creating a meaning of realism the film tries to represent real life suffering of those in poverty in the UK.

  • Explain one-way editing has been used to create meaning for the audience 'I, am Daniel Blake (2 Marks)
Editing has been used to convey meaning by using quick cuts to construct a montage of Daniel Blake's journey creating the meaning of development throughout the plot of the film as he gets more and more  frustrated with governments treatment of him and other people who can't earn money this montage creates the meaning of the story to the viewer as it shows him start of as a normal man with no particular differences to anyone and then shows him revolting to the negative treatments he has suffered as he spay paints walls with his name on walls stating he is Daniel Blake and that he is standing up for whats right. A transition from a man to a martyr.
  • Explain two ways sound has been used to deliver meanings to the audience in 'I, am Daniel Blake (4 Marks)
Non-Diegetic sound of conversation is played over the trailer between Blake and a civil servant explaining the situation creating the meaning of the trailer being that conversation that Daniel can't work yet he has no other choices and as the trailer goes on we see that this conversation with Daniel is the meaning behind every scene giving the audience a motivation to stand up for themselves how ever the trailer never says specifically what Daniel is fighting for because its the enigma code that the audience will only figure out by watching the film.

This Non-Diegetic dialogue/monologue becomes diegetic as we start to see the scenes Daniel says the lines in the is to symbolize that he is taking action and much like the sound is transforming from something which is not being listened to or effecting the characters within the trailer to something that is effecting them. This is to suggest Daniel taking action and once again and having his worries and suffering be heard by the characters as he stands up to them and listens to there cries for help as he becomes the voice of hope in the trailer.

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