Night The Moon

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Moving to Alice Springs when I was eighteen years old to pursue my career as an aboriginal director, has led me to the production of a few well-known Australian films such as Radiance and One Night the Moon. Good evening teachers, educators and distinguished guests, some of you may or may not know me as Rachael Perkins the director of ‘One Night the Moon’, currently one of the films available to be studied under Module A: Experience Through Language, It is a great privilege for a director to have an opportunity like this to express my thoughts and emotions while making the film. By the end of this presentation I aim to have deepen your understanding of distinctive voices and aid your ability to effectively educate students in a wide range of …show more content…
In my musical film ‘One Night the Moon’, I discovered that gender and social context heavily affected the distinctive voices of individuals in Australia during that timeframe, I decided to use the Ryan family, Rose and Jim to contrast the gender roles of society in the nineteen hundreds. Rose’s opinion are ignored by Jim throughout the film depicting the imbalance of power in the relationship and gender roles at the time, with the use of high angle shots looking down on Rose and low angle camera shots on Jim are used to show superiority when they are speaking, exposing the inequalities in the voices of the characters, After the failed search Rose looks for Jim and begs him “Please!” depicting the weakness of the gender voice, Jim is not willing to ask for the Black tracker’s help as it would damage his pride due to his ignorance of Albert’s ability because of cultural differences. As the musical progresses Rose begins to develop a distinctive voice as she understands the powerlessness of Jim in hope of finding their daughter, In the dinner scene I specifically set the camera to …show more content…
The character ‘Albert’ is prominent in representing the Aboriginal community during the nineteen hundreds being a target of stereotypes and prejudice. Albert’s spiritual and cultural voice are evident in his singing, “Rock, water, animal, tree” and “This land owns me” demonstrating the inextricable connection that the aboriginal beliefs have with the land, It is arguable that Albert sings from his heart in a lower tone, whereas Jim sings in a falsetto symbolic of the importance of the land to both the characters for entirely different reasons, one being a cultural connection and the other for wealth and materialistic things respectively. There are obvious cultural differences with the mise en scene spreads the white people’s tools necessary for their survival on the harsh landscape, symbolic of their fear of the unknown. When the search began I had a wide shot of the landscape with the dark clouds, using pathetic fallacy foreshadowing the uncertainty of finding Emily in such a terrain. When Rose refers to Albert as ‘Black Tracker’, supposedly even when asking for help she still retains the sense of a white superiority over the Aboriginals, this is also recognisable when Jim doesn’t allow Albert to search for Emily,
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