china town entrapment presentation reflection

Our research question of , How does entrapment characterize this film in the genre film noir? was thoroughly done allowing the main topic of our presentation to be the relationship of entrapment in film noir. This allows us to allude to examples in the movie, China Town as well as the characteristics of entrapment and the definition as a whole to our presentation. I do believe that our definition needed to be a little more centered on the topic of entrapments relationship to film noir, but overall the question was sufficient. Also our examples used to prove entrapment in the film noir piece, China Town could have been analyzed deeper with symbolism of the certain aspects involving walls or barriers to really show the presence of entrapment throughout the film. Also more examples, such as Mr. gitties at Mrs. Mulwray's house being boxed in by Noah cross or the scene where Gitties is driving through a farm being entraped by the rows of bushes while being chased around would help solidify our presentation. Then our connection to film noir was solid by creating slides to talk about the connection of entrapment as a whole to each individual example, excluding mine. Overall we were able to answer our question in each example towards the relation of film noir to entrapment. Finally the use of filmic language such as, mis en scene throughout our presentation as well as in our key terms was solid. We were able to describe the relation of key terms and filmic language in our examples providing a thorough understanding for the audience.

The design and presentation of our material was a little bland in the sense of color repetition and slide set up. However coloring the writing in a multitude of colors was sufficient enough to attract the audiences attention. Thus we succeeded in having the audience/classmates appreciate the data and interpretations over the background. Also speaking to our classmates would have been much easier with the help of notecards to prevent us from stumbling on some key ideas in our presentation. Overall My own concept of film noir in reference to China town has significantly improved, whether it be from my understanding of entrapment present in film noir to the filmic language, I have learned a considerable amount.