The Lost Boys: film form in key sequences — Eduqas GCSE Film Studies C670
Eduqas GCSE Film Studies · C670
The Lost Boys: film form in key sequences
The Lost Boys
What you need to know
Key sequences to know in detail: the boys' lair and the bottle, and Michael beginning to turn.
Cinematography: aerial point-of-view shots as the vampires swoop over the town, a camera that circles Michael in the lair, and dolly shots towards faces.
Mise-en-scène: the lair in a sunken luxury hotel, costumes that mix old and new, and the bottle as a key prop.
Editing and sound: shot-reverse shot used for comedy as well as fear, cross-cutting in the attacks, rock songs in place of a score, and sound effects that announce the vampires.
How the film represents young men and masculinity, the single mother, and the family.
The few short lines of dialogue that matter most in these sequences, a few words each.
A worked answer to a practice stepped question on one element of film form in a key sequence: identify an example (1 mark), explain it (4 marks) and explore it in at least one key sequence (10 marks).
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.
