Balibo Scene Analysis

Balibo must be included in the curriculum for a numerous amount of reasons. The film is great for analysis and teaches the students about camera angles. Also Balibo shows with confronting and realistic scenes, what happened during that time. This film makes students think while trying to understand why this occurred.

Balibo has a range of techniques used within the film. The main camera angles used are close ups and over the shoulder shots, showing the emotion within each person and exposing the interaction between two people. The use of colour represents innocence on Roger East and black on Jose representing death. As the film progresses Rogers’s clothes become darker, showing how he has been through a lot and having less innocence as he progresses to find the ‘Balibo 5’.
The emotion of the film is shown through characters facial
The realism in this film makes the viewer feel emotion towards the citizens in Balibo and the Balibo 5 as we are exposed to what had happened, with the fighting, shooting and bombings being realistic.

In case you have not had the chance to watch this film, it is based in Balibo, East Timor. There were five reporters; two from channel nine, and three from channel seven, who went over to East Timor to film and share their stories, however none of them made it home. Roger East, a journalist went to East Timor, following the five reporter’s footsteps to find out what happened to them as this was during the time the Indonesian government decided to invade Timor before they were able to set up their government.
After hearing the occurrence of the tragedy, I instantly wanted to create a film in representation of the events to broaden the awareness of the East Timorese and the six Australians lost throughout the