Skyfall: aesthetics

Deakins's cinematography and the film's distinctive look.
Colour as meaning: cool blue for digital technology and warm orange for the physical world.
Doubles and reflections linking Bond and Silva, and framing that places Bond at the centre.
Aesthetic effects in single sequences, and how typical one scene is of the whole film.
A worked answer to a practice Section C question on the film's style, part by part: the short parts that ask you to identify and explain, and the 15-mark final part on a key sequence.
How to answer each part: the marks, and what the short identify and explain parts need as well as the extended answer, since naming a technique instead of a specific example from the film loses marks there. Practice questions to try, each headed 'Practice question' with its marks.
Quote only short lines of dialogue you're sure of, a few words at a time, and base every point on what happens in the finished film.

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