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LION

By Remi, Hana, Ava, Maddie, Alex

Our scene

In Lion, our scene focuses on the importance of family, hope and the connection to home.

The scene takes place when Saroo is lost in the middle of India and is found by a lady named Noor. Unfortunately Noor does not have the best intention for Saroo and is planning on selling him into child labour or possibly a worse scenario. The use of flim techniques such as lighting, camera angles, casting, sound, use of props, costumes and casting are important factors in building this scene. These factors will be explore in further depth during the presentation.

Our scene

Note: The scene starts at 27:35 and ends at 30:39

Family

In Lion, the importance of family is explored by Noor posing as a maternal figure for Saroo. When Saroo becomes aware of Noor’s plan to sell him into child slavery, he immediately escapes from Noor’s house. While the escape is in action, Saroo has a hallucination of himself running towards his mother. Instantly, Saroo feels safe, comfortable and relieved to see his mother. Saroo was so desperate to be reunited with his family which was the main source of motivation to escape Noor's dangerous house, despite the food and shelter she gave Saroo. This proves how important family is to Saroo as he could have chosen the easier option for this situation, to stay at Noor’s house and to be taken into child slavery.

Family

Casting

Priyanka Bose was casted as Kamla, who plays Saroo's mother. Priyanka was chosen as she has a caring, selfless nature that reminds the audience of their own mother. This can be seen as she gives Saroo a warm smile when she sees him and repeatedly encourages him as he moves the rocks. Priyanka is able to connect with Saroo creating a strong mother and son bond which is the most important relationship in the story. The special bond they have is never broken even after they are miles apart, which emphasises the importance of family.

Tannishtha Chatterjee was casted as Noor. Tannishtha was chosen as she has the power to act as a maternal figure to Saroo which helps gain his trust. This is shown in the scene as Noor cares for Saroo by bringing him into her home and looking after him. Tannishtha also has the ability to be decieving and manipulative, which results in the audience being shocked when she tries to sell Saroo into child labour. Although Noor is not genetically related to Saroo she is the first person he has had a family relationship with since he had become lost, even though she had ill intentions.

Casting

Acting

Acting

Saroo’s acting throughout Lion portrays a strong connection to family, Actor Sunny has a wide range of emotions that capture’s the audience and gives the viewers the ability to feel empathy and relate to the willingness that Saroo would do anything to get back with his family at home. Throughout the scene Sunny’s expressions show that he is uncomfortable and unsettled by Noor and we see Saroo creating a puzzle and realising that he is in danger, without any use of words Sunny has the ability to tell a story through expression.

Lighting: Visualises his mother

Lighting: Visualises his mother

When Saroo visualises his mother and being back at work as a kid, the instant comforting emotion is displayed by the co-working lighting. The lighting is extremely light in comparison to the lighting shown previously to represent the joyful emotions Saroo is feeling during his imaginations.

the bright lighting empasises the connection Saroo has to his mother

the bright lighting empasises the connection Sar...

Hope

Hope is a main theme in Lion as the main character, Saroo never loses hope that one day he will return home and be reunited with his family. Even after being captured and nearly being sold into child labour, Saroo sucessfully escapes. Saroo runs as fast as he can to get away from Noor, not knowing where he is going, proving that he never gives up. Saroo dreams that he will be reunited with his mother and he even imagines running towards her.

Hope

Casting

After a four month search in India, Sunny Pawar was casted as the lead role, Saroo Brierly. The casting director and director wanted a child from India as they wanted the film to be as authentic to the story as possible.

The audience connects with Saroo as they see him as a brave, cute and smart child. They become invested in Saroo's happy ending and they hope that his dream of returning home and being reunited with his family will come true.

Hope is also shown through casting when they casted Saroo's mum (Priyanka Bose) in the scene to use her to show the feelings of hope that Saroo as a child had when he ran to his mum in the ending of the scene.

Sunny Pawar

Lighting

In our scene, lighting is used to show different atmospheres, themes and to set the mood throughout the different components of the scene.

Outside: As Saroo escapes from the dangerous hospitality of Noor, the directors make the strategic decision to brighten the lighting, to highlight Saroo's freedom. The radiant lighting used in the scene shows Saroo's joyfulness as he has successfully escaped being sold into child labour. The further Saroo runs from Noor, the brighter the scene becomes. This symbolises the happiness and hope Saroo is feeling.

Acting

Acting

Saroo's acting in this scene was significant as when he was in Noor's house, the viewers could tell that an unfortunate event was bound to happen. Saroo's face was suspicious imlying he was wary which fortunately led him to run out of the house in fear of exploitation. Hope is then conveyed when as he runs, his face in contrast becomes very delightful as he realises he can't be sold as he has a home and family to go to. Therefore, exhibiting his hope that his family is still waiting for him.

Sound / Music

In the start of our scene, when Saroo is sitting down at the table and is oblivious to what is happening, the music is very upbeat and cheerful. However, once Saroo begins to realise the current situation and going with his instincts leading him to feel anxious and escape, the bubbly music begins to fade out to symbolise these anxious feelings and the music is replaced with intense, suspensful music to indicate to viewers that Saroo is suddenly about to act on his "gut" feelings. The volume increases as he escapes and sounds of the city including traffic and screaming are heightened as they contrast to the previous joyful music. Music assists in exhibiting the theme of hope as when Saroo is running away, the music becomes optimistic and light and signifies liberation and hope now that Saroo is no longer confined.

Sound / Music

Home

Saroo was motivated by his family to get home, he bravely ran away from Noor knowing that he was leaving hospitality, comfort and food behind. But to Saroo all of that was materialistic he just wanted to be back home with his family. Home was wherever Saroo’s family was, the thought of being home wasn't to be back in his own house it was to be back in the arms of his family. Saroo showed the strength that being “home’ feeling safe and feeling comfortable has on a child, he was willing to go back on the dangerous unforgiving streets of India in order to be home, to feel safe and to be with his family.

Lighting in the house

The lighting is very dark to imply to viewers that something unfortunate is soon to occur. This lighting is in alignment with the fact that Saroo is in danger of being sold by this woman into child labour. The lighting symobolises the darkness of the situation. Additionally, once Saroo realises what his fate is, he successfully runs away. Lighting is used during his escape out of the home to imply the freedom here as the lighting becomes lighter and liberating in contrast to dark and confining. It also links the scene back to the idea of home.

How it is used

dark lighting is used in the house

How it is used

Scenery choices

Connection to home is a major theme in this scene and the scenery highlight this. By having Saroo run to his mum and to his original home where he used to work with his mum, the scenery choice to physically use his old home, which demonstrates to the viewers that he has a strong connection to home, wherever he goes and that he will always be thinking of his home.

Scenery choices

Mis-en-scene

Following Saroo's escape from the woman, he runs into a dark cave to hide and take shelter for the night. While he is in the cave, he lies down on a bed of rocks similar to the ones he used to carry back at home. Mis-en-scene was used here by placing the rocks for Saroo to play with to imply to signify to viewers his feelings of connection to home as rocks were a substantial part of his childhood and life at home.

Mis-en-scene

Additional Film Techniques

Additionally, there were some techniques used by the directors that were used for a specific reason and to convey a certain theme or idea.

Costumes

The costumes worn in this scene are traditional and authentic to the Indian culture. Saroo's costume is simple, which shows his lack of wealth. The colours are dull and natural, such as brown and white which indicates poverty.

Noor's costume is simple however, is a bit more extravegant in comparison to Saroo's costume, showing that she is wealther than Saroo. Her dress is a light green, covered in little orange flowers and the trim of her dress is lined with white beads. Although most of her costume is a dull green, it is decorated in orange flowers, which symbolises her wealth increasing.

Props

In our chosen scene, there are very limited amounts of props used, however, the props which connect most to home and family are the rocks Saroo helped carry with his mother during his hallucination. Saroo's mother earns money by gathering rocks into piles and then carrying them to the trains which take the rocks across India. During Saroo's hallucination, he is running towards his mother and is helping her carry rocks into a pile. This connects him to his home and family as Saroo imagines himself in the slum area helping his mum.

Props

Sound/Music

Sound/Music

At the beginning of the scene, happy and up beat music is playing in the background. Noor is singing along, which shows that she is happy and oblivious to what Saroo is planning. The music then begins to fade out when the audience relises Saroo is about to escape. The music then completly stops and is replaced by a high pitched sound when Noor realises Saroo is escaping. Once Saroo starts running the background sound returns to the everyday sounds of the Indian street outside, including the loud sound of the train passing, signifying that Noor has returned to reality. The main sound is Noor repeatedly screaming Saroo's name as he runs down the stairs and into the streets, showing the danger he could have potential been in.

At the end of the scene Saroo is crouching under a bridge looking at the world around him. The only sound during this moment is the heavy rain fall, crashing onto the ground. The rain in this scene represents the

overwhelming sadness Saroo is feeling.

Camera angles

When Saroo begins escape from the dangerous hospitality of noor, Garth Davis has chosen to show saroos face, this is a close up shot to show the emotion saroo is feeling at this time, it shows the audience he feels unsafe and uncertain. It then cross cuts to the noor face witch is a contrasting close up to of her opposite emotions against saroos. Davis has chosen to do this because it was a clear representation of both saroos and noors conflicting feelings about the situation. After Saroo begins to run away it cuts to a high angle direct shot of the slum building he was being ‘protected’ in. The camera crew has chosen a high angled direct shot in order to show the audience a portion of the poverty struck building while still having a close view of saroos escape as he gets further away from the danger he faced. The next shot then moves to when saroo is running away from the danger he was in. This is a medium side angled camera shot following Saroo side on as he is running through the city. During this part the director has chosen to have the camera at a low level on the ground. Davis has done this to show how small Saroo is in comparison to the large word that he is surrounded by, he is presented to the viewers as a little fish in a very big sea.

Camera Angles

Camera angles

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