In our second Media lesson we watched a diographical documentary about Mike Tyson and his life and career. Told mostly by himself together with archive footage of famous fights, contraversial interviews and personal home videos and pictures.
Before the film opens, we see credits bizarrely done in all random different colours, but it quickly became apparent that this was done deliberatly to demonstrate the randomness of Tyson's life. Dark colours used for obvious reasons, red used also to represent bad and serious times and of course bright colours used to represent the happy times or the highs of his career and life. Like winning the fight that made him champion.
The film opens with the Rocky Balboa soundtrack which is quite fitting as the Rocky films are almost a mirror of Tyson's career of ups and downs and an unlikely boxing coach that gets him too the top.
As with a mojority of films, the film started with an establishing shot taken from past archive footage of a boxing ring warming up for a extremely important and well anticipated, at the time, fight that would make either side world champion. The footage had probably have been edited differently from the origional television live broadcast to give it a even bigger build-up. With the close ups switching from each competitor. As this is occuring the soundtrack is still playing but quietly as to not drown out the diagetic sound of the audience cheering, however this maybe non-diagetic and edited in to add to the build-up, also the comentary from the comentators of the fight at the time. All these elements make this all seem more like an actual movie, rather than actual footage. It's clearly existing footage because of the grainy look and can tell its more than likely footage from sometime in the 80's.
The fight has been edited cleverly to emphasise the big hits and blows the Tyson's apponent endured. The use of split screen has been encorporated to show multiple shots of the fight, and two shots in synergy but giving different angles of the fight. Plenty of freeze frames are used too. And are used at the point of a punch or heavy blow that Tyson gives, and this emphasises the strength and the power that Tyson has.
To give a more deeper meaning to how powerful and dangerous Mike Tyson is, his name is shown at the start of the film in a fire or flame style look to show his firery temperment. The font its self is very pointy and it's very bold with hardly no curves possibly to demonstrate his masculinity.
What we think is non-diagetic sound is Tysons Voice narrating as he give anecdotes of his life in his own words. This is then paired with a visual of him talking in an interview type style, which is a convention of a documentary.
The narration starts to overlap it's self with more of Tyson's stories and this keeps re-occuring. This could've been done to show his thought in his head that they keep whirling around and seem to not make any sense when they overlap together with his slured words that was most probably a result of repetitively being punched in the face for years.
A dark and shadowed close up of Mike Tyson's face seems to represent the dark periods of his life and the mean, scary persona he has created for himself.
Before the film opens, we see credits bizarrely done in all random different colours, but it quickly became apparent that this was done deliberatly to demonstrate the randomness of Tyson's life. Dark colours used for obvious reasons, red used also to represent bad and serious times and of course bright colours used to represent the happy times or the highs of his career and life. Like winning the fight that made him champion.
The film opens with the Rocky Balboa soundtrack which is quite fitting as the Rocky films are almost a mirror of Tyson's career of ups and downs and an unlikely boxing coach that gets him too the top.
As with a mojority of films, the film started with an establishing shot taken from past archive footage of a boxing ring warming up for a extremely important and well anticipated, at the time, fight that would make either side world champion. The footage had probably have been edited differently from the origional television live broadcast to give it a even bigger build-up. With the close ups switching from each competitor. As this is occuring the soundtrack is still playing but quietly as to not drown out the diagetic sound of the audience cheering, however this maybe non-diagetic and edited in to add to the build-up, also the comentary from the comentators of the fight at the time. All these elements make this all seem more like an actual movie, rather than actual footage. It's clearly existing footage because of the grainy look and can tell its more than likely footage from sometime in the 80's.
The fight has been edited cleverly to emphasise the big hits and blows the Tyson's apponent endured. The use of split screen has been encorporated to show multiple shots of the fight, and two shots in synergy but giving different angles of the fight. Plenty of freeze frames are used too. And are used at the point of a punch or heavy blow that Tyson gives, and this emphasises the strength and the power that Tyson has.
To give a more deeper meaning to how powerful and dangerous Mike Tyson is, his name is shown at the start of the film in a fire or flame style look to show his firery temperment. The font its self is very pointy and it's very bold with hardly no curves possibly to demonstrate his masculinity.
What we think is non-diagetic sound is Tysons Voice narrating as he give anecdotes of his life in his own words. This is then paired with a visual of him talking in an interview type style, which is a convention of a documentary.
The narration starts to overlap it's self with more of Tyson's stories and this keeps re-occuring. This could've been done to show his thought in his head that they keep whirling around and seem to not make any sense when they overlap together with his slured words that was most probably a result of repetitively being punched in the face for years.
A dark and shadowed close up of Mike Tyson's face seems to represent the dark periods of his life and the mean, scary persona he has created for himself.
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