October Sky Essay
OPENING SCENE FILM STUDY
October Sky – Joe Johnston
Script for opening scene: While most of President Einhower's advisors-- If you have just turned in to this special bulletin... washington has confirmed that yesterday...on the fourth of October, 1957. On the fourth of October, 1957... the Soviet Union successfully launched... history's first man-made satellite... into space orbit around the Earth. The satellite which the Russians have dubbed Sputnik... is being hailed as a milestone in history. No one in our nation's capital could deny that the satellite... has ushered in a grim new chapter in the Cold War. And indeed, a wave of national anxiety... alreaddy seems to be sweeping the country. Stil maintaining its speed of_____ miles an hour...completing an orbit of the earth every ____ minutes. Dr Wernher von Braun...Chief Engineer of the Army Basllistic Missile Agency...expressed the hope that the United States...would soon be following the Russians into space...with our artificial satellite. Dr. von Braun confirmed that there has still been...no actual sighting of the Soviet satellite...but to the naked eye...about an hour after sunset and an hour before dawn...as it traverses the October Sky over the United States. What the beeping signal means we still don't know. It may be nothing more--*no reception*
What has Joe Johnston done in the opening scene? How? Why?
HOW dialogue sound - music/noise – digetic (sounds we'd hear if we were there) & non digetic (background music, something that's not really there) lighting - colour mis en scene (composition) camera angles and shots actors props scenery In the beginning, it sounds as if someone changed the radio station to listen to the news. The narrator is talking about the Soviet Union which had successfully launched... history's first man-made satellite... into space orbit around the Earth, 'Sputnik'. There is non digetic music playing in the background and something that sounds like a UFO.
October Sky – Joe Johnston
Script for opening scene: While most of President Einhower's advisors-- If you have just turned in to this special bulletin... washington has confirmed that yesterday...on the fourth of October, 1957. On the fourth of October, 1957... the Soviet Union successfully launched... history's first man-made satellite... into space orbit around the Earth. The satellite which the Russians have dubbed Sputnik... is being hailed as a milestone in history. No one in our nation's capital could deny that the satellite... has ushered in a grim new chapter in the Cold War. And indeed, a wave of national anxiety... alreaddy seems to be sweeping the country. Stil maintaining its speed of_____ miles an hour...completing an orbit of the earth every ____ minutes. Dr Wernher von Braun...Chief Engineer of the Army Basllistic Missile Agency...expressed the hope that the United States...would soon be following the Russians into space...with our artificial satellite. Dr. von Braun confirmed that there has still been...no actual sighting of the Soviet satellite...but to the naked eye...about an hour after sunset and an hour before dawn...as it traverses the October Sky over the United States. What the beeping signal means we still don't know. It may be nothing more--*no reception*
What has Joe Johnston done in the opening scene? How? Why?
HOW dialogue sound - music/noise – digetic (sounds we'd hear if we were there) & non digetic (background music, something that's not really there) lighting - colour mis en scene (composition) camera angles and shots actors props scenery In the beginning, it sounds as if someone changed the radio station to listen to the news. The narrator is talking about the Soviet Union which had successfully launched... history's first man-made satellite... into space orbit around the Earth, 'Sputnik'. There is non digetic music playing in the background and something that sounds like a UFO.