Monday 21 September 2015

Analysis Of Brain Divided

Brain Divided
Produced by Josiah Haworth

It begins with showing the typical who produced it, it then comes in with a good idea for typography where the menu has the film name written on it, it then pans over to the right where you see a man sitting on a dinner table by himself patiently and anxiously waiting for someone to join him as there is another seat placed at the table. You can tell that the persona is anxious due to a medium shot being used to show his facial expressions of being unsure and him twiddling his thumbs probably due to boredom, he then sighs and rests his head in his hand which then shows his patience is beginning to wear thin. He then tries to keep himself amused by playing with the cutlery and then it zooms into his eye then goes through his iris into his brain where you see a blue character controlling what he is doing. The colour blue connotes to the audience that this is the calm, tranquil side of his brain as blue is associated with peace and tranquility, as well as in the background you can see the divided line where there is also a red side therefore the red side is the opposite to the blue as the colour red is associated with anger and frustration or love and passion therefore leaves the audience anticipating what is to come. It then shows the red side sleeping on a hammock and begins to start dreaming where it starts kissing and cuddling the air as well as there are romantic and appealing pictures girls shown in the background.

He then falls from his daydream and then blue side sighs and rolls his eyes it then goes back to the persona himself where his date has arrived and his face looks somewhat in shock that she has shown up. Male gaze is then introduced as the camera tilts up from her feet where you see the woman's legs going up to a tight fitted dress then up to a press face where she then flicks her hair and keeps her body language quite tight which connotes that she is quite timid and shy, followed along by an awkward looking smile. She also has bright green eyes, green is usually associated with envy so therefore it can be implied that the woman persona could be quite an envious and jealous character. It then cuts back to the blue side looking happy that things are going well then the red side realises what is going on and automatically falls in love with what he see's, the blue side then shows some sort of panic, however carries on to control the human to greet the woman that he is on a date with but carries on to watch what the red side is about to do, it cuts back to her greeting him back and then cutting back to the red side beginning to take control of the situation as he pushes the blue side out of the way of control. The red then makes the persona to make extreme movements that would be considered to be 'cringe worthy' where he takes off his glasses and pulls the woman closer and then kisses her hand as if he was about to dance with her which she responds with an awkward shy smile, he then gets over carried away and starts to kiss up her arm where she begins to look as if she is beginning to get a bit weirded out. The blue then panics as he realises how bad the situation is going and takes control of the brain back where he automatically gets straight off the woman and puts his glasses back on with the expression of embarrassment on his face and then quickly moves to offer her to sit down as he pulls her seat out and waits for her to sit down she then begins to look a lot more comfortable.

It then shows the blue side deciding what he is going to converse with the woman and then cuts to him sitting down and speaking the words the blue is commanding him to say which the woman looks highly happy with and is conversing back very happily, it then cuts back to the blue side sitting contently at the control desk as things are going well. The red then sneaks up on the blue and takes control again and makes the man seems extremely arrogant and pretentious where the woman giggles and becomes shy again, you then see the change in his face where the blue takes control as his eyes cross over and he puts his glasses back on, the glasses then begin to become a signifier of the change in character of the male persona. They both then carry onto fight for control of the brain and the date scenario, until the red has full control and takes it too far to the point where he is about to supposedly romantically kiss her, where she responds by rolling her eyes slapping him and getting away from him and begins to show anger as she clenches her hands and her face begins to get scrunched up, then storms out the restaurant. It then shows through the door his reaction to this of somewhat panic and despair, it then cuts to the brain where an alarm has began to start going off and the red side starts to panic himself as he grabs his face and his eyes frantically move, he then turns to the blue side in desperation and the blue side is looking for his glasses as the red punched him and made him loose them, the red then runs over finds them and puts them back on his face in desperation of him to sort out the mess that he has just made of the scenario. The blue then immediately responds and quickly acts upon the situation, where the man runs after the woman called Scarlett, which she reacts still in anger and frustration, the blue and red then decide that if they work together that they will be able to sort out the situation which works as the both the persona's end up kissing and Scarlett accepts it and kisses the male persona back. It then cuts into her brain where there are two typically girly persona's screaming with excitement over what has just happened, one of them is pink and one of them is purple which are stereotypical colours for girls, however they are also very similar compared to the red and the blue which presents the women brain to be less contradictory and more simplistic. She then begins to get carried away with the situation as her face quickly changes and begins to become what we be seen to the audience as 'psycho' as she straight away asks him to marry and have children, the male brain then panics and presses the avoid button,  it then leaves the audience into what happens next as that is where the story ends.


Overall, the animation and the idea of this film was great and very well thought out. As well as, it is highly evident that it is a more professional film then an amateur film.

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