Bladerunner techniques

Bladerunner techniques

1. Intertextuality

   • Film Noir
     • Dark lighting
     • Prop: Trenchcoat
   • Gothic horror
     • Violence
   • Science fiction
   • Romance

2. Sub text

   • Climate
     • nuclear winter
     • poisoned by
       • fall-out darkness
       • Acid rain
   • Dystopian society
   • ubiquitous advertising

3. Film

   • Music
     • dark melodic combination of synthesizers
       • mirrors futuristic film noir
         • envisioned by Scott
     • Harnesses electric sound
       • emphasises outlandish atmospheric mood
       • Beginning: Sweet and Harmonious
         • Traces of dynamic explosions
           • renders notion of instability
     • By Vangelis
   • Visual
     • Camera angles
       • Varies from high to low for effect
         • Roy towering over Deckard
           • indicates supremacy
         • Roy sits down on eye level
           • displays equality

4. Symbolism

   • Eye
     • Window to the soul
     • barometer of emotions and truth
     • Vision and foresight
       • Tyrell's glasses
         • Lack of vision
         • Faulty vision
           • Damaged soul
             • reliance on technology