CL 3/31

Posted byPatrick CrehanPosted inUncategorized
  1. Gus is wearing worn clothing. His pants are being held up by a makeshift rope belt and his hat looks too small for his head. I would guess that, with this costume, we are supposed to portray Gus as poor, homeless, dirty. The way he is creeping around the barn seems to portray him as a deviant. I also noticed how bug eyed he is, which portrays him as crazy.
  2. Flora is in a freshly pressed dressed (at least that is how it looks). Her hair is all done up and it looks as if she has makeup and lipstick on, portraying her as a young woman (or young girl?) that is the kin of a wealthy family.
  3. I didn’t really notice a change of lighting when Gus was in scene. But, I did notice the filter was of a red color. This made the scene its self a little evil feeling, like something bad was going to happen to Flora.
  4. In the beginning of the scene, Flora was in the sun up to the point subsequent to her being at the spring. This lightened up the mood as she was very happy and worry free. Subsequent to her arriving at the spring, Gus chases her through the woods, where it gets dark, changing the mood of the scene from worry free to frightened and very worried.
  5. As i mentioned in number 1, his eyes are very bugged out, making him look like he is mad or crazy. He crouches half the time like he is deviant, sneaking around looking for something. His hands are fanned out like he is about to attack someone. The park prior to Flora arriving to the spring, Gus is shown looking one way toward the camera, most likely not in the direction of Flora (because he ends up turning the other way to her direction to follow her), making it seem like he was checking to see if anyone was around before he went to the spring to approach Flora. This indicates that his intentions toward Flora may have been deviant, as he was checking to see if there was anyone else around.
  6. She wasn’t supposed to go to the spring, and it looked as if her mother (or housemaid?) was displeased with her being defiant and going to the spring anyway. She frolics around like a little girl and claps her hands when she finds amusement in the smallest things. She also has a short attention span like a child, as she drops her bucket to go play with a squirrel.
  7. When it shows Gus following Flora to the spring, the music plays as if there is panic and trouble ahead… and when Flora gets to the spring to fill her water, the music changes to a delightful tune that makes the character seem innocent. During the chase seen, the music is portrayed as panicking and urgent. This makes Gus seem like a killer who is trying to attack Flora, although maybe he was just trying get her attention.
  8. Because, 1. her brother warned her not to go to the spring, so the fact that he is out there trying to find her portrays that he extremely worried, and it hints to the audience that she may be in danger. Also, he is running around frantic calling her name, and along the way is finding articles of clothing of a man that he does not recognize. This builds more and more panic through out the chase scene. As her brother keeps yelling for her and finding these articles of clothing, she is at the top of a mountain about to jump to her death, indicating that both Flora and her brother know that something very bad is about to happen.
  9. They both described a world of freed African Americans in the United States as one with natural aversion. And if possible, would allow for the onslaught of African Americans against whites in the future. Gus was portrayed as some deviant wandering African American looking to wreak havoc on the next person he stumbled upon in his journey, which ended up being Flora.

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