How Does Martin Rosen Use Cinematography In Watership Down

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Michael Stallings Dr Brown English 101 4th April 2023 Martin Rosen’s Watership Down - Survival In Martin Rosen’s Watership Down survival is a key element. Rosen achieves this element through the use of music, lighting, setting, and cinematography. In Watership Down, Rosen depicts a very dangerous and hostile world. In the beginning when Fiver first had his warning vison of the horrible fate to come the scene is captured flawlessly. The vision and its emotional impact are paired perfectly with the music matching its intensity with high string and instrumental hits with each big visual change. It gives a clear indication of the scene’s purpose of impending doom throughout the music becoming higher pitched with the clashing and harmonic scale …show more content…

Being written just like a stinger. The drawn out start and the almost immediate key change and cut off. Only using the sharp and piercing sounds to visually match the actions of the hawk using its sharp talons to snatch its prey. After the hawk takes Violet, the scenes tone changes to a solemn and depressed manner. Fiver and everyone is shocked and sadden by her abduction. The arrangement changes to a slow, melodic, heartfelt tone to emphasize their emotions. Still hitting on visual changes. The scene and music help show them the severity they face. Showing that they must continue forward in their long journey of …show more content…

Especially Efrafa – General Woundwort’s warren. Efrafa is shown to be very restricted and controlled under order, extremely militaristic. Woundwort controls every aspect of his warren. While Fiver and Hazel strive to create a warren based off of freedom for one and all in the warren. Woundwort even is shown to have his own version of the police, or military. The Owsla. Woundwort has a ranking system in place for everything in his warren. This setting being completely different from everything shown up to this point conveys Rosen ability to mold his setting to his story exactly how he imagines it. This gives the film a new perspective none may yet to think about keeping the viewer surprised and wondering what could happen

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