Grease - Film

Themes that occur in Grease

-          Love

-          Jealousy

-          Pregnancy

-          Studies

-          Cars

-          Fights

-          Peer pressure

-          Groups/ Clashes

Just by seeing the cover you can tell the film is going to be about a couple falling in love or in love. They seem a couple from the younger generation. They have quite a deep and close relationship and we can tell this from their gesture and the posture. 

Costume

Danny – He wears black leather jacket, black trousers and a black tee shirt. The black may connote dark, strong, bold, not trust worthy, dangerous, brave and quite masculine. Danny has a quite a tough character, he has no weaknesses and he the leader of one of the main gangs (T-birds). Everyone looks up to him and he has a lot of girls after him, which makes his ego much bigger. He is a different person when he is with his friends and when he is on his own. This is another factor that the young generation goes through. For young male’s ego and trying to be all hard and putting an act can affect lots of people. In this case the girl he loved Sandy he hurts her and he tries and show his mates he someone else just to impress his gang the T-Birds.

Sandy – She wears skirts and summery dresses which is quite girly the colours of the clothes are bright, white and pure which represents pureness in her self. She ties her hair up similar to a young girl. The clothes she wears are quite long and not much of her skin is showing, she even wears frilly socks, this may represent childlike. Through her costume and her hair she seems innocent and pure.  Sandy is completely the opposite from Danny. She is much more caring, she is quite emotional person and can get persuaded easily by others (peer pressure). She has been pampered so much and she does not know the real outside world. So when things get hard she can get affected very easily quickly. She does not have a strong character as much as Danny has. She is more inferior and more intimidating compared to Danny. Here we can see the dominant ideology and who is dominating in the film the most.

Sound

As Grease is a musical there are many parts though out the film where they sing and dance. This may attract more of a younger generation to come and see this film.  There is catchy beats through out the film and memorable song and lyrics. There is a lot of diegetic sound where the groups of friend sing along and dance together.

Camera shots/ Camera Movements  

There are mainly long shots used in the film. As there are so many main important characters and they mainly stay in big groups and also this also helps set the setting and see the whole atmosphere in the frame. Close up have been used to show expression this helps the audience connect more with the actor from the film.

Tracking has been used when they have a car race this helps the audience flow the action.