The film LOTR has multiple genres. It covers the genre of action, adventure and fantasy. The battles and wide landscape cover the action,

LOTR are between good and evil. Peter Jackson, the director, shows this by the variety of different characters and their features. The good forces are usually covered in white or natural colours like brown and green. These colours are all linked to things that are good, were as the evil force are dressed in dark colours and surrounded by little light, in fact the only light there is, is the light of the burning lava witch represents the fires of hell. The dark lord Sauron wants the ring back to restore his powers and rule over middle-earth again. His vicious army fights the good forces to get back the ring. The struggle of the two army’s is a battle of power, only the mighty will survive. The power of the darkside has corrupted most people; Gollum is one of those people. He has been corrupted by the power of the “precious”, the ring, and has been driven mad by his loss of it decades ago. His sole purpose in life is to regain the ring for himself only and tries to lead Frodo into a trap. Another corrupted person is Saruman. Saruman was once a good wizard, but the power and evilness of sauron took over him and he betrayed Gandolf and kept him as his prisoner. The loyalty and frienship of the fellowship is strong. Members of the fellowship have only one purpose, destroy the ring and be rid of Sauron and his arm once and for all. The bond between these people must be strong to stand the evil army and help frodo on his journey. There are two main languages called elvish and the language of mordor. Elvish is used by four main characters; elves, Gandolf, Aragon and Bilbo. This language has an affect of soft whisper almost heavenly singing that makes the audience calm and relaxed. The purpose of this language is to create mystery and fits in with the genre. It also goes with the characters and the theme of good Vs evil. The language of mordor is used by four main characters; Sruman, Sauron, Gabdolf and the orks. This language is deep and scary; it makes the audience feel scared and unsettled. Thunder and darkness come with this language. It is the main and only language of the evil army. This language suits the characters because they are ugly and disgusting which is like the language.The setting in LOTR are two completely different lands. In the shire the surroundings are full of woods and tress. Flowers and plants grow, there blue skies and sunlight which represents good and also the lights of heaven. Little cottages are all around with loveable people. There are lakes and streams flowing through the shire representing purity and life. The complete opposite is happening in mordor. There are no woods or trees, flowers don’t grow and instead of water, lava flows through mordor. Spikes on the castles are sharp and rusty. Gloom covers the land, darkness in the skies. Creatures roam the land working for the dark lord Sauron. Peter Jackson sets these places like this to show how the people of shire are loveable peaceful and the creatures of mordor are mindless and evil. The setting in the shire represent the characters as kind loving people that care for one and other. The setting in mordor represent the characters as non-caring evil beings that only care for the dark lord and his ring. There are several different camera shots used in this film, these include, close up, birds eye view, low angle etc. In the beginning the director uses the close up on gandolf and frodo hugging. He has chosen this shot here to show the audience that there friendship is strong. The low angle view is used on the hobbits to create the affect of them being small. This is because the hobbits are small and represent harmlessness. The long shot angle is used on the castle in mordor. The camera spans from a long shot to birds eye view to give the viewers the full perspective of the area. The area is all-dark and in the background there is lava and fire. This camera angle was used to show the audience the evilness of the castle and area. The birds eye view on the tower in mordor shows the black spikes with sharp edges. This represents danger; also in the background there is lava and fire witch represent evil and the fires of hell. The colours used in these scenes such as green and blue represent nature, good place. The colours such as black and red represent danger and evil. Filters have been used in this film like the effect of haze. Haze has been used in such incidents, as when frodo puts on the ring, he becomes invisible to the naked eye except for the nazgul. The nazgul have been enslaved by the power of the ring and can’t rest in peace until the ring is returned to Sauron. The nazgul can see frodo when he puts on the ring. The haze filter has an effect on the viewer that is to see how the nazgul see people. The lighting in this film has played a major part. When we see the shire, bright lights are used to show life and establish the theme of good. When we see mordor, darkness is everywhere the only light we can see is from the burning lava. Darkness represents mystery and evil. There is one shot were middle earth is seen from far and the sun is between both places, the sun however, only shines on the shire. In mordor the focal point of light is from the red lava. This has an effect of danger. The focal point in the shire is the sun. The sun is yellow and represents brightness and happiness also life. The music used in the shire is calm and peaceful music. The instruments are keyboards and violins. This sets a calm relaxing mood and tone. The music in mordor is loud and high pitched. The instruments used are drums and church organs. This music is associated with hell and is very dramatic. This type of music is also used in horror films. When we see Saruman the music creates tension and makes the audience wonder what’s going to happen. The viewers also begin to think maybe there is something wrong. They begin to think ahead and make predictions. When we begin to realise that Saruman betrayed Gandolf the music suddenly speeds up and becomes louder. The music changed from good to evil and we now know Sarumans true self. The costumes have also made the audience think about weather the character is good or not. When we first see Aragon, also known as stryder, we see him in a dark hooded clothes, smoking a cigar showing a sign of fearlessness. His face is dark and from here we can make a judgement that this character is evil, however we see a little glimpse of light in his eyes which shows some goodness. We call this type of character an ambiguous one. Peter Jackson does this so that initially we, the audience, think that he is evil and no friend of the hobbits, but in actual fact he is good and helps the hobbits. The glimpse of light in his eyes also creates mystery because the audience asks themselves why would evil have bright white eyes.Special effects have been used to enhance the view. The staff of Gandolf fires bright blue balls. This represents the fantasy genre because there is lots of spells and magic in fantasy’s, also the colour blue is shown as good.In my own opinion I think this film is great. I think this because it has lots of adventure and battles. This appeals to modern day audiences because of its realism to lots of fantasy books. The wide range of characters and areas, brilliant camera angles and costumes, great use of music makes this film a must see movie.