homework - Discuss the 5 areas of formalist film in 'Run Lola Run'

1. lighting - The lighting is used in such a way so that you are only really identifying Lola's bright red hair and possibly the surrounding bright yellow and red objects. Most of the lighting is natural and the odd indoor scenes that do occur don't contain any obvious spot or diffused lights. The bed scene that occurs 2 times in the film uses the over running theme of red as a filter to possibly draw you away from Lola's red hair and look more and the image as a whole. Or the red filter could be used to show death easily coming and going
2. camera work - Always centering the image on Lola's red hair is one of the key features of the film. To give any film a specific colour will always have the desired effect of sticking in the audiences memory. Another key element is the fact that when the scenes are repeated throughout the three different runs, the camera movement is identical which then builds a sense of dejavu in the viewers mind.
   
3. sound - The soundtrack includes many musical patterns, like the everlasting string chords, of 'The Unanswered Question' an early 20th-century ensemble work by American writer Charles Ives. Other
   
4. editing -Although most effects in this film would have been done through camera work and lighting. Making the red in Lola's hair stand out as much as it does would definitely have been done using a program such as final cut pro.
   
5. mise en scene - Run Lola Rim was shot extensively in Berlin, Germany and there are 18 confirmed locations in which the film was shot.