Wednesday, December 2, 2020
Mock DIRT
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Lego Movie HW #3
There are THREE sections of the FAMILY TARGET AUDIENCE: kids who like Lego; parents of kids who used to play with Lego themselves; young cinema goers.
- Explain how The Lego Movie appeals to each of them using the following areas:
- Characters
- Narrative
- Settings
- Themes
Kids Who Like Lego:
The characters will appeal to kids because they likely play with Lego and so will recognise it and like the movie if they like Lego. The narrative would be appealing because the characters are going through different worlds made of Lego and children tens to want lots of Lego so would really like the idea of many worlds of Lego. The theme of Lego throughout would be appealing because it is 90% Lego and so the children would love that because Lego is fun and cool so a whole movie about it would be very appealing.
Adults who have kids and used to play with Lego themselves:
The characters would be appealing to the adults because there are a few retro characters from when they were children as well as well known super hero's who they could potentially like. The narrative could be appealing because it is a simple yet effective narrative that is understood and enjoyable for all ages. The settings could be appealing because the parents might have built some of the settings or parts of those settings and so would like to see them in a just Lego world. The themes of Lego and many different worlds could be appealing because of the different worlds liking into the story line of the matrix which the adults would have likely seen and potentially enjoyed.
Young Cinema Goers:
The characters could be appealing because they would at this age have just stopped playing with Lego or are about to stop and so they would recognise some of the characters and enjoy the separate films that they are in or just like/remember the character. The narrative is similar to the matrix which they might have seen and enjoyed as well as it being a Lego version would be quite interesting. The settings of different world would be appealing because it shows the different landscapes off as well as so much you can make out of Lego. The themes of wanting to glue the world in one place would be interesting and relatable because at this age everything they do are told is run and monitored by adults so they could like to the themes of being trapped and stick in their place.
- What methods did they use to PROMOTE the Lego Movie and how did it target the different parts of the target audience? You should talk about the following methods:
- Poster Campaign
- TV Advertising
- Film Trailers
- Social Media
- Merchandise
One method of promotion was that of having one main poster with practically every character on it as well as having many other posters which was centred around just one character and this then appealed to older people because it has retro character but also younger people because it ha super hero's on others. They also had a whole ad break of a few Lego movie adverts but also other adverts of the time made out of Lego to raise awareness of the film and to get people to experience what the film could do as well as the sort of stuff involved and it was view by most people because lots of people from lots of age ranges watch Television. Film trailers were also release on Tv as well as Social media and other places on the internet to spread the movie out their but also to different age groups from adults to young cinema goers. Merchandise was also like a Lego movie game which had the same story as the Movie so it allowed people to play it and feel more involved with the story and feel as though they are making an impact on the story.
Sunday, October 4, 2020
Lego Movie HW #2
- Equilibrium
- Disruption of equilibrium
- Recognition of disruption
- Attempt to resolve disruption
- New equilibrium
The Lego movie starts off in an equilibrium of emmet thinking " Everything is awesome" and goes through his normal everyday life as if it were normal. Until when leaving work he notices a figure of someone who shouldn't be their and she explains Lord businesses plans and so disrupts the equilibrium, and this is then recognised when emmet and the crew he's with are chased by police through man different Lego settings and especially recognise when they realise what the 'Taco Tuesday' means that Lord business will glue the world in one position to stop people building what they want. The attempt to stop this is by Emmet telling citizens to build what they want to attack Lord businesses army of robots and Emmet goes to see Lord business in his ship and talks him out of gluing everyone/thing. This leads to the new equilibrium where everyone can build what they want as they please and live amongst the Duplo beings.
Sunday, September 20, 2020
Promoting Media Revision WK1
Name the organisations that regulate the following media forms:
- Film
- TV & Radio
- Advertising
- Newspapers & Magazines
- Video Games
TV & Radio - Ofcom
Advertising - ASA ( Advertising Standards Authority)
Newspaper & Magazines - IPSO (Independent Press Standards Organization)
Video Games - BBFC and PEGI
- Explain what a POSTMODERNIST film is. What features would it include?
- The Lego Movie is a POSTMODERNIST film. Explain how the The Lego Movie fits this term.
Thursday, July 9, 2020
Stop Motion Animation
L/O: To decide on what type of stop motion animation you will film.
I want to do a race with cars on a home made track.
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Lights! Camera! Action!
1 Tangled
2 The little mermaid
3 Beauty and the beast
4 Pocahontas
5 Snow white and the seven dwarfs
6 Cinderella
7 Aladdin
8 Tarzan
9 The hunchback of notre dame
10 The Lion King
My Chosen film: Fast and furious Hobbs and Shaw
Director: David Leitch
Writer: Chris Morgan
Producer: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Chris Morgan and Hiram Garcia
Production company: Seven Bucks Productions
Distribution company: Universal pictures
Release date: 13th July 2019
Genre: Action, Comedy
Main actors: Dwayne Johnson, Jason Statham, Idris Elba, Vanessa Kirby, Cliff Curtis and Helen Mirren
The key parts to the movie are, 'snowflake' inside Hattie and her being on the run, the trio getting 'snowflake' out of her safely and the super human Brixton chasing them the whole movie and eventually losing to regular humans. If some events happened in a different order non of the story would make sense and wouldn't be very popular.
We know the story takes place in London to start because we see iconic landmarks, and the same with the Ukraine, and Samoa is implied to be the last location. The story is about Hattie and 'snowflake' virus. The story takes roughly 3 days to all fully pan out. I think the trio were living normal lives before this story had taken place. I think after this story ends they will go after a more powerful virus that is mentioned at the end of the current movie. This story reminds me of others in the fact that a bad guy try's to get something, but fails and is trying to get it from one of the main characters but constantly fails, until they give up in order to carry out a plan to get it back which they do successfully and then they hid for a bit until the bad guy comes with a big army and lose bad guy try's to escape with the thing they want but fail and fight the main characters and then the main characters win and all is fine. The End.
I would like for the story to continue with the main characters going the other super virus mentioned
My film has a Linear story line.
Equilibrium - The characters are all living normal lives doing their day to day routine as usuall
Disruption - Hattie's team is attacked and killed while she runs, the other two main characters get told this by high powers and have to go and meet to work out how they do this and argue until they go off to find intel.
Recognition - The main trio know what's going on and the family connection between two of the three and then once they find out what's going on fully bad guy comes and takes Hattie because what he wants is inside of her, the other two main characters get her back and the are chased, but get away.
Attempt to solve - The trio decide to raid the bad guy base to get the thing to get the virus out of Hattie and meet an old friend of one of the characters and get gear to infiltrate they willingly surrender the girl through the old friend, then they infiltrate and get the device and get out but it break's then they fix it kill the bad guy and his army and then this leads into the new equilibrium.
New Equilibrium - The two family members talk to each other more and the other goes back to his family, then one of the two family members, the brother, get a call from an associate about an even more powerful super virus that they have to get and destroy or stabilise.
22nd Apr 20
L/O: To explore the use of characterisation in films
1 Clint Eastwood
2 Gary Oldman
3 Al Pacino
4 Tom Cruise
5 Jennifer Aniston
6 George Clooney
7 Leonardo Dicaprio
8 Patrick Stewart
9 Sean Connery
10 Drew Barrymore
11 Danial Radcliffe
12 Christian Bale
Main characters actors: Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Idris Elba and Vanessa Kirby
Protagonist: Luke Hobbs, A DSS again working for the CIA, age ?, Get the job done personality
Deckard Shaw, A former MI6 Mercenary, age ?, Get the job done his way
Hattie Shaw, A current MI6 field operative, age ?, Loyal sister
Antagonist: Brixton: A cyber-genetically engineered terrorist, and former MI6 agent alongside Shaw
Sidekick: Professor Andreiko, A professor who made the 'Snowflake'
Queenie Shaw, Mother to Hattie and Deckard
Main Pay: Dwyane: $20 Million = £16,194,000
Jason: $13 Million = £10,526,100
Idris: $8 Million = £6,477,600
Dwayne and Jason could have had more because they were also producers.
The story is told by the characters as they are doing it.
The main characters look very menacing and powerful.
The way the look tells us that these characters can and will do any thing to get something there way.
Hobbs and shaw are constantly insulting each other and appear to hate each other. They also behave in this way too.
They behave sarcastically and also normally to other characters.
NO characters have particular sounds or music.
My most interesting character is Deckard Shaw as well as Luke Hobbs.
I would like to see some more characters from the fast and furious genre
The story would be completely different if one of Hobbs or Shaw was taken away because they wouldn't be able to make fun of each other and make the comedy aspect of the film.
24th Apr 20
L/O: To apply narrative theory to our own ideas
1 Sex in the city
2 Silence of the lambs
3 Harry potter
4 The blare which project
5 The polar express
6 Planet of the apes
7 Life of Pi
8 Nightmare at the museum
29th Apr 20
L/O: Toexplore the use of camerawork in films.
2. ?
3. Panning shot
4. Tracking shot
5. Extreme close up
6. Long shot
7. Mid shot
8. Establishing shot
9. Eye level shot
10. Low angle shot
These shots are, for top to bottom: Birds eye view, Low angle and View point
The birds eye shot is used for showing the vertical scene, while the low angle shot is showing the the character trying to break free and the final one is showing the view point of the character trying to see how he can move out of the way of the punch. The bottom picture we are seeing the view point form the antagonist while the others are just normal view points, this view point of the antagonist is one of a few but the story is not told through his view point or his knowledge of events. The camera moves for some panning, zooming and tracking shots which I have captured in the gallery above the task slide. The camera helps in telling the story because it follows the main characters but it also shows the antagonists view points as well. The birds eye view shot is then followed up by a close up on the man in the middle ,who is the antagonist, because it is showing what each charcater is going through, I think anyways. We can tell that in the low angle shot the character is thinking of breaking the arm off of the chair because of his struggling facial expression. The shots in this story do change quite often in fight scenes or escape scenes, but other times they don't change so fast.
6th May 20
L/O: To explore the settings and colours in films
Movie quotes quiz 10/10
1 To have a spooky and scary setting to help with tension
2 To have lots of room to fight and run around
3 To have an nice setting for romance
4 To show the adventure across the globe
5 To show the seriousness of the films plot
1 Blue shows optimism which is a good trait for a hero, while red connotes popularity and passion.
2 Black connotes death, danger and evil which is what most villains are/ do.
3 Bright colours connote happiness and a good emotion which is want would be require to make a comedy movie.
The action takes place in the streets of London, an unknow secret base of the villains, a remote island and a cliff side area, I think the story is set in these areas to sow where the characters have had to go and what they have had to do in order for things to turn out the way they are supposed to. The setting changes after every major actions scene or important scene. The setting changes by the characters going somewhere else in order to not be caught. You could tell where the story was taking place because you could see land marks or there was some handy on screen text telling you where the characters were ore they would mention where they were going. I do think parts of the story could have taken place in different locations because the location for a few scenes isn't that important. No you cannot tell when the story is taking place. Some clues to tell you when the story was set it was around modern/today times. I think certain colours were used to express the characters personality. I think it is important to have colours in a film because then the viewers would be able to connote things about the characters and setting. If the film was 1 colour/ black and white I don't think it would change the film too much.
Left film poster.
I would say that this takes place during a war or when every where is disserted because of the colour scheme.
Middle film poster
I would say this about a virus because of the symbol behind the writing as well as the colour red showing danger.
I would set the movies starting point in a lab and have the characters find out about the virus and then send half out to find out info while the rest stay in and research about it and find out as much as possible, once the half that left returned or where know to be dead or captured or when there is enough information found out then I would send the scientist out to get some weapons and reinforcements and then send them after the rouge scientist to capture and kill him and destroy the virus and save all, or I would let the virus get distributed in one area and have then next movie about containing the virus and destroying it.
Movie quiz: 47% / 14/30
I don't know/watch many movies.
13th May 20
L/O: To explore the use of sound in films
Movie quiz 14/26, 9 of those 14 were guesses.
1 ery / scary music
2 fast pace energising music
3 ?
4 Funny music
5 ?
? = I'm not sure what the genre is like so don't know fitting music.
The sounds from the TV, the door, the Phone, the box, the dog, the dog hitting the floor, the dog hitting the cabinet.
Door slamming - a loud bang
Dog barking - a sharp bark
An alien - ?
There is music that makes you feel that something bad is happening, and the music kicks in once the bad guys break into the building. The music changes from nothing and a walking sound to a glass shattering and the 'bad' music for the arrival of the bad guys through the window. Yes you can tell what is happening without the picture because you can hear the guns shots, there is a few moments of silence followed by some action music, and the characters do speak. There is rappelling and gun sound effects in the scene and all the sounds sound lounder in the film than they would have been in real life to make them more predominant and noticeable.
I would put some ere music just before the alien wakes and some sounds of utensils while the scientists are operating, then I would have a climax of the sound when the alien awakes and when it disappears into thin air, but while it is running around I would have sounds of tables falling over and stuff falling off of those tables, and foot steps of both the alien and the scientists and then an unknow sound for when the alien disappears as well as the climax of the music again.
1.Foley
2. Diegetic and Non-diegetic
3. Non-Diegetic
4. Foley is sounds put in after the film has been shot to make them more predominant and emirs you into the film.
20th May 20
L/O: To explore the use of Mise-en-scene in films
1. Home alone
2. Iron man
3. Spiderman
4. Titanic
5. Pirates of the Caribbean
6. Transformers
7. The Incredibles
8. The Lion King
9. Return of the jedi
10. Finding Nemo
By looking at the room we can connote that this is a stereotypical messy teenagers room because of all of the cloths slung around and the unmade bed, we can also connote this because there is a poster on the wall nest to 2 guitars.
1. ?
2. A romantic tropical island with lots of nice bright things like blooming flowers.
3. An abandoned place all run down and desolate with old, antique props
The character on the left (Indian Johns) has an explorer esc outfit suggesting that he is an explorer and the makeup also shows this with un treated skin.
The character in the middle has a hair style that looks well kept and well kept makeup suggesting that she spends a lot of time and money on nice things to make her self look good, while her costume suggests that she is a collage student that is very girly.
The final character on the right has an untidy hair cut suggesting he doesn't keep on to of it or that he is nervious about something which links into his facial expression, his clothing also suggests that he is a bit older or the film is set in an older time.
The meaning and emotion conveyed from the photo on the left is, a quite dinner in with a few people and is very formal and an overall good/happy emotion.
While the meaning of the photo on the right suggest that the character in the middle is mad about something, and the emotion is a bad/concerned emotion.
The positioning of the characters in the left photo suggest that the 2 have just fallen out and are annoyed with each other and so don't want to talk or be next to the other. While the positioning of the charcters on the right suggest that the 2 men are working together and are 'cool' guys by the way they are standing and have sunglasses on while inside.
The setting and props in this shot connote wealth and security through the expensive looking chairs and candle holder as well as amount of food on the table, and the presents of the 2 men with guns/bayonets both in matching clothing suggest that they are guards of sorts and have capture someone for one reason or another. The costume of the man in the middle suggest that he is a pirate and has been captured because of something illegal/bad he has committed and so is now being punished by someone of wealth and high status, and to go with that his facial expression shows that he is either listening or being cut off by the other person. While the guards facial expression shows their professionalism of the job that they are doing. The lighting is high key lighting in order to show off the characters and the setting in the scene and the colours of the room and furniture also suggest wealth while the pirate in the middle has darker colours of clothing suggesting he isn't as wealthy as the person who owns the building that he is currently in side of. Finally the positioning of the two men around the pirate suggest that they are guards because they are standing with one hand behind him ready to grab him if necessary and having there other hand on their weapon again if necessary, and the positioning of the pirate shows he could be surrendering by the placement of his hands or just talking while waving his hands about, and the placement of the food is supposed to be tempting to the pirate who very likely cannot afford that food or has never seen/eaten that food and so is meant to be tempting to him and also the viewer watching the film.
1. Props and settings.
2. Costume, hair and makeup.
3. Facial expressions and body language.
4. positioning of the character(s).
5. Lighting and colours.
The 2 main types of lighting used in films is, High key lighting and Low key lighting.
3rd Jun 20
L/O: To explore the disaster movie genre
Disaster movies list:
The Impossible - I have seen this movie in school and id the only 1 on the list that I have seen.
Titanic - I have seen parts of the titanic movie but not the full movie.
Armageddon - I have seen clips of the movie but not the whole thing.
Godzilla - Again I have seen clips but not the whole movie.
The 3 Disaster movies I will be using are:
The Impossible - I have seen before.
Godzilla - I haven't seen before.
Titanic - I haven't seen before
The Impossible:
The main characters are 4 males and 1 female, I which the family are split up and must reunite which is the movies plot, and fits into the natural disaster which is an tsunami which the main characters overcome and then leave by plane at the end once they are rescued. This movie is similar to Titanic because Titanic is also a natural disaster in which the vessel hits an iceberg, and while on the Titanic the boat is continually traveling.