Furious+Five

In every text you will study at school, it is crucial that you are able to identify the various stylistic features or language devices that are used by the author/director/composer to transmit their meaning to the audience. In written texts for example (novels, poetry, newspaper articles, letters), these language devices include:


 * Metaphors
 * Similes
 * Alliteration
 * Onomatopoeia
 * Enjambment
 * Repetition

There **5** basic language features which you need to be aware of both when watching and analysing film and also when creating your own. These are:


 * 1) **Cinematography**
 * 2) **Mise-en-scene**
 * 3) **Editing**
 * 4) **Sound**
 * 5) **Script/Acting**

While it is important that you are able to identify each of these features, it is vital that you are able to explain **why** they are used. Ultimately, the director wants to //manipulate// the audience into //feeling or thinking something//, and it is by controlling these elements that he/she is able to do this.