English Essay Writing (Assessment)

The movie directed by John Avildsen “The Power of One”, it’s the story of a boy, Peekay, who decides to become the welterweight boxing champion of the world after suffering at the hands of bullies at boarding school. In the scene where Jaapie Botha is talking to Peekay the technique that director uses to this scene is over the shoulder shot.

We see these when Jaapie Botha is coming to slap peekay at the face. The purpose of the director is to show that, Jaapie is pointing to peekay and coming to peekay to slap him at the face. This technique helps the audience to understand that jaapie is coming to peekay and also it shows that jaapie pointing to peekay. After all that happen peekay push jaapie away because Jaapie killed his chicken, and after Peekay push Jaapie. Jappie decided to hang Peekay too, like what he did to Peekay's chicken. Then after when the teacher opens up the door, Jaapie comes to and the teacher said hang him off and he slaps Jaapie at the face.

In the scene where after  Jaapie Botha got slap by his teacher, In that scene, the director uses a technique called facial expression. We see this technique when jaapie is looking at Peekay after he got slap by his teacher. His face was angry and ashamed of what happened to him. The director did this to show that jaapie is looking at peekay really angry, and also to show jaapie reaction. This makes the audience feel, scared and intense, because of jaapie reaction to that scene. This aspect can be compared, to another scene, where peekay has a blood in his face and while looking at jaapie.

In the another scene, where peekay has a blood in his face and looking at jaapie, the technique that director uses here is the close-up. We see this technique when peekay is looking at jaapie with blood in his face. The purpose of this is to show that peekays is nervous, scared and also to show their expression. This makes the audience feel, worried to peekay, because his face has full of bloods. This aspect can be compared to the another scene, another scene where jaapie got a slap

By his teacher.

In conclusion, Avildsen uses a combination of over the shoulder shot, facial expression and close up, to show their reaction,  and to also to show who they talking at.