Paper 2A exam question: In both Pan's Labyrinth and City of God, cinematography is commonly used to help build context, for instance in the flashback apartment scene where we see the progression of the apartment becoming less and less domestic as the lighting changes as the scene starts with very hot lighting and eventually becomes much colder making the apartment look like a husk of its former domesticated. We see lighting is used a lot in City of God to reflect the darker reality in the present and the nostalgic light hearted past as the lighting is very warm at the beginning as Rocket recalls his childhood. The camera in the flashback scene is still fully static and does not move one bit. Particularly the Pale Man scene inside Pan's Labyrinth as the camera is on a dolly zooming out of Ofelia's face to show the long hallway creating a sense of mystery as she entered the underworld again not knowing what could be lurking, as Ofelia enters the underworld we quickly realise ...
