The power of one assessment

 Intro 

We are looking at the movie “the power of one” and was directed by John G. Avildsen. The movie followed the main charter PK. I’ll be looking at some scenes and looking at what types of shots are used during the movie. 

In this scene, lighting is used skillfully and this is demonstrated with the headmaster of the school being shown in silhouette on the floor as he looms and watches what the bully intends to do to PK. This makes us understand that the headmaster is someone that is to be reckoned with even before we see or hear him. The purpose of this is to show the power that the headmaster has over the bully and that he was watching and waiting to see what they intended to do to PK. combined with how the bully is always trying to apes the headmaster and those above him.  we already know that the headmaster is going to put a stop to this without him even saying a word. This can be juxtaposed to when PK goes to the waterfall to find the answers to his problems/questions and it lit down from the sky by the sun and really shows the beauty of the scene compared to the stark lighting used in the scene to make everything more dramatic and scary. 

A long shot is used very well in this scene to show the headmaster in the background with the kids in the foreground that were hanging PK slowly releasing whos watching them. This is demonstrated by showing the whole body of the headmaster in the background with the kids that were hanging PK by the legs from the roof in the foreground. This makes us understand that the headmaster is important as all of the kids immediately stop what they're doing to see who watched them. The purpose of this was to show the whole setting and to show who was here to save PK. 

combined with the lighting used to make the headmaster stand in the darkness it makes the scene more dramatic. This reminds me of the scene where the same low angle long shot is used to show the conflict between geel piet and the officer.  

An extreme close up shot is used effectively in this scene to show the detail in the wood and the engraving. For example in this scene, we see a symbol engraved into the wood of his bed. This makes the audience feel scared for what's to come for PK and what bad thing the bully is planning to do next. The director did this to how dedicated the bully and his followers are to this symbol and the people  Behind it. This worked well with the other noises that the children were making adding to the chaos in the scene. This reminds me of a later scene of the bully tattooing this symbol to his arm to fully become one of them.

A close-up shot is used skillfully in this scene to show what the bully is inscribing onto his arm what we see in this scene is the bully using a small knife to cut into his arm while the bully's friend puts ink in the cut. 

this makes the audience realize just how crazy the bully is and how devoted he is to this cause. The purpose of this is so that we can later recognize him later in the film and so that when we see him again we are reminded of what they did to him (PK). This worked well with the fact that they kept his character style the same but just made him crazier for revenge, making his character development more consistent. This reminds me of the scene with the same symbol engraved into PKs bed and how they are both permanent in their own ways