CameraWork

L/o:To explore the use of camerawork in films.   

April 27th 2020

Starter:
1.Joker
2.Dunkirk
3.Sonic
4.Endgame(Thanos)
5.Star wars?

Camerawork

Pick a film to do camerawork on- Clueless

Extreme closeup - when cher is putting out her debate on the hadiens and how it does not say RSVP on the statue of Liberty.The

Close up- When Cher realizes her feeling for Josh , she gets a close-up on her shoulder up.

Medium Close Up- When Tai has just joined the school and is walking with Cher and Dion and they are talking about food there is a medium close-up on Tai and Cher.The

Mid shot- When Cher is walking down the hall after Mr Halls class and is on the phone to Dion talking about their grades.

Long shot - when Cher close to the end before she figured out her feelings for Josh, is walking down the town last all the shops, it's a long shot.

Establishing Shot- When Cher dries past a stop sign in her car, it shows the objects and scenery around it.

Ariel shot/Birds she view- When their is a shot midway in the movie where it shows the whole of their school (Beverly Hills High School)

Low angle shot- When Cher and Dion are in the shop and Cher is worrying about Mr Halls harsh debate grade.


High angle shot- When a shoe hits Tai on the head while at a party in the Valley.

Canted Angle- When Cher is on her driving test and smashes into another car it's from a tilted angle.

Pov Shot- When Cher at the very beginning of the movie the camera keeps of switching from her to her computer screen.

Over the Shoulder Shot- When Tai falls down the stairs at her again ANOTHER party it goes over Cher's shoulder.


1- Movement of the camera either up or down
2-Movement of the camera from side to side
3-Movement of the camera left to right on tripod
4-Movement of the camera and tripod towards and away from the subject.
5- A shot of an eye on a person's face: Extreme Extreme closeup
6-A shot following all the person's body: Long shot
7-A shot from the waist to the top of the head: Medium Shot
8- An extreme long shot of a building or setting (usually the first shot in a scene):Birds eye view
9-A shot from the window of an aeroplane -High angle shot
10-A shot looking up at something someone: Low shot

pick a scene and write 3 things about the camera work- Clueless

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4V_VJLSr3lE&list=RDQMYz0w3zh5_aQ&index=24

'I love Josh ' Scene

It uses canted angle when Cher is walking back from getting some shopping and it shows her, and the houses around her.

It also uses a medium shot when cher is thinking walking down the road- 0:27

Over shoulder shot- over cher's shoulder it shows Josh- 0:31

Plenary

I think the reason the camera shot for the joker is used because 1 it's a over shoulder shot and 2 pov shot, showing what he's looking at which happens to be himself and the people in the background.

My MAIN movie, Personal Hell

Lo: To apply narrative theory to our own ideas.
 starter: Work out the film through emojis:

1) Sex and the City
2) silence of the lambs
3) Harry potter
4) Blair witch project
5) The polar express
6) planet of the apes
7) Life of pi
8) The Night at the museum

Narrative stages
Todovs theory
•Equilibrium
•Disruption
•Recognition of Distribution
•Attempt to solve distribution
•New Equilibrium

Task 1

Come up with a movie idea with Todovs theory it can be any genre.

Genre: paranoid Fiction

Name-Personal Hell

Lou Carrey is a 16 year old girl who lives in Barking London,she lives in a block of flats that only has a balcony and her view is the block of flats opposite, she lives with her Mum Stacey Brown a 35 year old who works two jobs one as a b&m cashier in Barking shopping centre, and the other is at Barking Halls nursing Home, Brynn Davies is Mums boyfriend who lives with them he is 36 and works as a Lorry driver. And last of all William davies lives with them as the Three year old brother and is Brynns son. lou's dad Pete Carrey lives all the way in York he didn't feature in there life, he used to work in an office in London where Mum was a cleaner, they had a relationship , he grew uninterested and left their lives,He doesn't pay maintenance.Mums contacted the benefits agency to try and sort it out, the girl didn't know anything about this.This story is from two points of views, Lou and Stacey.

Equilibrium - Lou Carrey  Feels Trapped, she's stopped going to her school Dagham Park Church of England School because she feels like everyone hates her and judges her she feels paranoid everywhere she goes, her house is in the middle block of flats and they have a balcony she feels she can't even go on the balcony because she feels peoples eyes on her, There is a man who lives opposite who has a telescope in his room she feels he is spying on her watching her every move , and there is people who live in the flat above who bang alot.,She thinks that they Do it purposely to get into her head and make her suffer. Lou hates her Mum she thinks she's out to get her, that she tries to force her to do things she also hates her because she Thinks she ran her dad out of their lives(But really the dad left because he was uninterested in them) She thinks her Mum hates her back so she works two jobs to stay as far away as possible to her, But the Mum Is worried about her daughter she has seen her struggle in the past 3 years and grow even more angry and upset and she just isolates herself in her room, she works two jobs because they are struggling with money.And her Mum has found a man who is helping and willing to love Lou and their child William at any cost and he wants to help as much as he can .

Disribution: Lou is shut in her room curled up in her bed all she sees is darkness no door and no window the feeling closing in on her,feeding her misery when suddenly she gets a thought, a small memory of her father she was 12 and it was her birthday Dad had gone for some sort of "work meeting"up north and he surprised her with loads and loads of presents for her birthday he said he loved her and then he spent a little more time with her and left ,she loved that birthday that was the last good day she ever had Her father just disappeared after that.
Suddenly the same memory popped into the mum's head from downstairs while she is downstairs cooking with William but the thing is they see it totally diffrently, he only stayed for half an hour and it was like he brought guilt presents and on the way out of the door he said "good luck with money because I'm not helping".The mum's anger suddenly raged across her face she was lost again, Lou must have felt so awful the last time she saw Pete was at her birthday then he left forever.

Recognition of disribution- Stacey and Brynn are sat up the table the they are discussing life and the issues, Lou has a shiver up her spine that makes her twitch and have an urge to eavesdrop on their conversation like someone is telling her to go and listen ,she leaves her room after 2 days of sitting there in darkness hearing negative comments tormenting her mind and her actions all she could hear from the real world was the noise of her fish tank, she made her was slowly and cautiously to sit on the top step making sure not to wake up her little brother who was sleeping it was 3 in the morning the witching hour she overheard a worried Mum saying "we need help" and she suddenly rushes to conclusions thinking they were going to send her to a new family that they hated her and wanted her to leave and get out of their lives so everything could be more "normal" she rushes back to her room and slams her door almost breaking off the hinges she sits on her bed and looks out the window , there was a moment she saw something move like a lense , the telescope she thought but when she looked there was no One there, she started to tug  on her hair pacing around her room she starts to see the light fade the darkness returning the voices coming back the noise of the fish tank starting to fade little by little she can hear her mothers voice shouting at her "he's never coming back, I drove him away" "Your not worth it" Lue dug herself deeper and deeper into the blankets drowning the voices.
30 numbers earlier:
"It's just all so difficult" Stacey said to brynn " I'm really trying and I know you are too" Stacey starting to sweat and developing tears "it's okay it might be better soon , I think I might get A promotion , there are only 20 other guys", brynn replied "But Luv that's only  three more pounds an hour , We needs help" Stacey didn't start to daydream because daydreaming is a positive thing she started to dark dream.

Attempt to solve- Lou Couldn't handle it anymore she stood on the balcony for the first time in 2 years it was getting too much she tried to think of something positive, but nothing came to mind, she suddenly caught a glimpse of the lense of the telescope opposite, he was watching, she climbed up onto the top of the railing and looked into the distance she was so caught up in her own mind she felt light headed, the last thing she heard were noises of someone pounding on a door, and screaming she assumes it was just the noises in her head.(cut scenes, her in her mother's arms,A familiar face in the distance, flashing lights)

New equilibrium - the mother is sat  nervously holding Lou's hand while she sleeps in the hospital on the other side is sat Joseph Longleat a secondary school friend who was noticing her absent and has been worrying about her he is 17.
Lou starts to awake she sees the blinding lights and is clueless she first sees her mum, Stacey explains how her father left how he got uninterested and how she feels guilty , she also explains how they have decided to move house to somewhere new and peaceful  then she starts to point at someone across the room and explains how Joseph saved her , then Lou glances over to Joseph, he explains how he was worried about her and how he lived opposite to her and he checked up on her making sure she was just about coping because he noticed her absence at school , she recognizes him as her old friend and is greatful because if he hadn't have been watching he wouldn't have saved her,and called the police they rushed her to a hospital , they explain that she blacked out due to stress and paranoia building up. then the doctor comes in and said they took a  psychiatric assessmen and they think that she needs a bit of help mentally and is going to start a course of medication .

few months Later...... Mum has applied for a council house exchange in Penzance a 3 bedroom house, Joseph is visiting for a couple of weeks and the last scene Lou and Joseph is sat on the beach sharing a cone of chips and Stacey, William and Brynn in the background making sandcastles Lou looks over too Joseph and saids "Thankyou, I feel better".
(End)

Billie Eilish playing Lou Carrey

Joanna Page playing Stacey Brown

Danny Dyer playing Brynn Davies

Neil Morrissey Playing Pete Carrey 

Charlie Heaton playing Joseph Longleat

Please do not worry about my mind I just wanted to do something no one else would do I have no relevance to this! 

Character

L:o/ To explore the use of characterization in a film.        20th April 2020

Starter:Anagram
Old west action- Clint Eastwood
Groan Madly- Gary Oldman
A pal icon- Al pacino
I'm so cuter-Tom cruise
Fine in torn jeans - Jennifer Aniston
Cool ego energy- George Clooney
Cool paranoid ride- Leonardo DiCaprio
Cap star trek wit- Patrick Stewart
On any screen - Sean Connery
Merry wardrobe -Drew Barrymore
A friend of called -Daniel Redcliffe
A British lance -Christian Bale

Case study Characters

In my movie Jumanji the next level, the main Character actors are:

Dwayne Johnston 

Jack Black

Kevin Hart

Rhys Darby

Karen Gillian

Danny devito

Danny glover

Awkwafina

The hero:
Doctor Smolder Bravestone:
Dwayne Johnston(The Rock)
47
Actor Ex Wrestler
Funny Strong Comedy action hero

The villain:
Jurgen The Brutal:
Rory McCann
50
Actor

The sidekick:
Franklin Mouse Finbar:
Kevin Hart
40
Actor
Comedian

What did The two main characters get paid
Dwayne Johnston -In this movie he got paid $23.5 million upfront salary it swung him to the top of Forbes 2019 list of highest paid actors for the second year in a row.

Jack main- In this movie he got paid around $15 million upfront salary

Characters

Questions:
Is there a main character?what's his name?- The main character is DR Smolder Bravestone.

Is there more that one main characters of so what are their names?- Their are 6 main characters their names are, DR Smolder Bravestone, Shelly Oberon, Franklin Finbar and Ruby Found,Ming Fleetwood And Alex.

Was the movie really about the character of someone else?- It's about a video game called jumanji which all the main characters get sucked into it.

Who is telling the story? - Well no one really tells the story but in some scenes there is one storey teller this is Nigel the non player character

What do the main characters look like?-
Ming Fleetwood is a small woman who has her hair up in a black bun and it looks like she's wearing some sort of Kung fu outfit
.
Ruby Roundhouse has Ginger hair that's always down she wears a thicker around her neck and she has a crop top on which is purple she also has shorts on and black boots.
Shelley Oberon is a larger short man with round specs and has a very feminine voice he always has a nap on hand and is wearing like an explored outfit with a explored round hat and in another scene he is wearing a wooly  jacket with a wooly hat also be has grown hair and a stubble beard.

Alex is a taller boy with black hair and a beard he wears a leather jacket like something someone would wear in the golden days to fly a plane he also wears boots.

Franklin Fun bar  is a smaller man who is mixed race, he wears a red bandanna around his neck and he also wears an detectives hat  also be wears things that an explored would like simple buttoned up Brown ish shirts and he also has a backpack to carry all of Dr smolder bravestones weapons in it he has the same colour shorts as the shirt and wears black boots.

Dr Smolder Bravestone is a very very muscular talk man with tattoos going up his muscular arms he has.  A Bold head that is very shiny actually and wears a shirt that is almost the same to Franklin finbars but it is much more plain and his first 3 shirt buttons are undone he also wears plain trousers and boots.

They all behave like teenagers mostly because they are teenagers trapped in adult peoples bodies they don't know how else to act it's like they just jumped 20 years in age they are also all very funny they all have that comedy aspect.

The way the react towards each other is with ruby round house and When Spencer is in Dr Smolder Bravestones body they are very loving and Finbar is very cocky towards everyone Shelly only cards about himself he's totally obsessed and Alex is like very polite treats them all equally.


Do any characters have any particular music or sounds?
When Ruby Roundhouse the song - Baby I love your way  and When Brave stone "Smolders" it's a very intense sound like all the focus is on him.

Which character interests me the most?
Definitely Shelly Oberon played by Jack Black it didn't matter who appears to be in his body, he's just so incredible so funny amazing at different personalities and without him it wouldn't be twice as good.

And also If ruby roundhouse was Taken out some of romance would definitely be taken away.

Actually this Movie (Jumanji the next level) didn't fit in with the propps character theory because there is no princess and no princesses Father and there isn't really any false Heros.

°The hero- DR Smolder Bravestone
The villain - Jurgen the brutal
The donor -?
The helper -Ruby, Shelly, Ming and Finbar and Alex
The princess -?
The dispatcher -?
The princess father -?
The fake hero-?

Lights Camera Action/Narrative

Lo: to explore the narrative structure of a film.           April 18th 2020

Anagram :
Galdent -Tangled
Hatted Millimetre-The little mermaid
A baby sat tuned thee -Beauty and the beast
A nacho pots-pocahontas
Whites won handstands fever we -Show white and the seven dwarfs
Cleared nil -Cinderella
Aid land - aladdin
An tzar -Tarzan
A bench deck to the fun oh mr a-The hunchback of Notre dame
Legion think -The lion king

Movie task -
Do research on a film I have recently watched

Jumanji the next level

Director -Jake kasdan

Writers -Jake kasdan, Jeff pinkner and Scott Rosenberg

Producers - Dwayne Johnson, Jake Kasdan, Matt tolmach, Hiram Garcia, Junghoon Lee and Dany Garcia.

Production company's - The detective agency, Seven bucks productions, Hartbeat productions and Matt tolmach productions.

Distribution compa- Columbia Pictures, Big picture 2 films, Feel good entertainment, sony pictures entertainment, United international pictures, Universal pictures international and Galaxy Distributors.

Date release - 13 December 2019( United Kingdom)

Genre - Action adventure comedy.

Main actors- Dwayne Johnson( Dr Bravestone), Jack Black(Shelley oberon), Kevin Hart( Franklin Mouse Finbar) , Karen Gillian(Ruby Roundhouse), Nick jonas(Seaplane McDonough), Awkwafina( Ming fleetfoot),
 Danny Glover( Milo)Danny Divito(Eddie) and Rhys Darby(Nigel)

Narrative:

What happens in the Beginning?

The gang of Spencer, Bethany,Martha and fridge are all separated and go to different colleges and they all stay in touch via phone but Spencer feels like he didn't belong when he sees how happy his friends are and unhappy he is he tells like they are doing better without him so one night he's thinking and he realizes he wants to feel worthy again so he fixes the broken game of Jumanji and he unexpectedly goes missing and his friend come to find him at his house after falling him 14 times, but while this is all going on Spencer's Grandpa Eddie has an unexpected Visit from an old friend and working partner who went separate ways in life after selling an coffee shop they use to co -own, Eddie does not like Milo anymore because he feels that he wasn't ready to let go of their old coffee shop which is now transformed into a place called Noras, While Milo invited himself in for a cup of tea or coffee, Martha, Fridge and Bethany come barging through the door Asking for Spencer but Eddie hadn't seen him last night and thought he went out to see those guys, Suddenly they all year the noise of the jumanji  game from the previous two films and Martha, Bethany and fridge all rush down stairs into the Basement while Milo and Eddie sit down on the dinner table for a cup of coffee(To eddies disgust) The guys in the basement realize that Spencer had brought back the game and it looked like he was trying to fix it, they figure out that he had gone into the game Martha , Bethany both decided that they were going to go in and bring Spencer back out again, Fridge refuses but once Martha touched the game controller a light sucks 2 People from upstairs and two people from downstairs who are Martha and Fridge, Bethany is left clueless as to why she was left behind so she rushed out of the house to an old friend of theirs.

What happens in the Middle?

They all go back with different characters (still without Bethany) and Eddie and Milo (the two grandpas) have been sucked in the game with them Martha who is now Run roundhouse stays the same character but fridges character Mouse has been switched around with What would be Bethany character Shelley oberon and that leaves the two grandpas with the other two characters (the strongest one Dr Gravestone played now as Spencer's Grandpa Eddie and Milo now playing mouse) Martha and Fridge explain how the game works, they explain about the lives and the skills and then they get to a cut scene saying what they have to do they have to return a precious gemstone to a tribe leader again that was Taken by an evil man Jurgen ad he is holding it hostage it's the new gangs chance to save jumanji, they get to the first location on a reset where they bump into a few things and they eventually reach a town , they get told a clue which was "Follow the Flame"Which ends up being a woman in red so they follow her into a pub and see jurgen with his two Hiyanas suddenly it goes black and the key for the jewl has been taken but to what Eddie the grandpa thinks was a good think he stops the theif from ok

 leaving, the theif is a small character a girl with black hair and is very crafty(Ming) she gets slaughtered and they realize it's Spencer as Ming so they go to find her after she has a higher life and he explains what they need to do and why there grandpas is here and why Bethany isn't, during all this Bethany goes to see a man called Alex who knows all about jumanji because he was stuck in the game for 20 years and the guys helped him get out in the last film,They both agree they need to do something to help them.Then a few more incidents happen they loose lives and collect an old jumanji fruit from a hidden tree.

What happens in the end?

After more things happen they are accompanied by Bethany and Alex, Alex come back as the same character but Bethany comes back as a horse, they find a lake and soon realize it you jump in you can change your character's, So Martha stays as Ruby then Spencer changes to his original character Dr Bravestone Fridge as Mouse and Bethany As Shelley oberon which leaves Grandpa eddie as ming and Milo as the horse.One. Night ming As Eddie and Milo as the horse(cylops) gets stolen by Jurgen they have to go and save them from. His fortress on the mountain and they split up Alex goes to get milo and discovers he can fly and gets him out of the cage Martha and Spencer to go get Eddie which they do while Fridge and Bethany to go Jurgen pretending to be the Brother Quibabic ( Two of the most brave and strong men with a sister Jurgen wants to marry) they end up getting busted but before it's over because they are all on their last lives Martha Dance battles everyone because she is a man killer when their is music around, just as Jurgen goes to kill Spencer(Dr Bravestone) A mysterious liquid starts to leak from Spencer's pocket it's the Jumanji berry Jurgen freaks  out and leaves the room Spencer follows him and catches up to him and finds out his weakness is the berry he smashed it again him and jurgen is dying ,they are in the air because this all happend on a battleship suddenly when Spencer is left hanging on for his life watching jurgen  fall to his death officialy, Milo comes out unexpectedly with wings!! And saves him they all get back together again and Milo decides to stay because he reveals he was dying in the real world, they all go back and they are all friends and then when we think the movie is over someone (An electricity man) touches the game and while they are all say in Noras and Animals from the game comes pouring out onto the streets.

The most important events are Going in understanding the mission finding Spencer Getting the jumanji berry Bethany going them , and then them defeating jumanji and they leave.

If the events changed order in my opinion it would make as much sense it also wouldn't be as humorous if they got the berry before they found Spencer you could see that there was something missing because in it while one half of them are getting berry Spencer and some of the others steal a camel and Spencer is the one who makes it funny because he's so impatient that scene defiantly makes that characters comedy pop.

The story is about a. Videogame that you pick characters and once you have started playing it you can't stop you have three lives to try and complete the task that's set for you and once you find it you must call out it's name jumaji.

How long is the film-  2Hours 3 minutes

How does this story remind you of other stories?
Well of course this reminds me of the original just Jumanji the movie where a boy goes missing into a board game and then all the animals start coming from the jungle into the real world.

How would you like the story to continue?
Well I recon they will make another one because at the end of this movie animals start to come into the real world so really it's left on a cliffhanger so I think they will have to get all of the characters back into the game.

The movie mind of has a linear/Non linear Narrative, because the world is normal at the start it is  caused in this particular movie the disruption came from one  of  the main characters then at the end the realize something is wrong with their world when a bunch of ostriches come running down the road at the end of the film, Basically all of the main characters to to fix what Spencer started,and it didn't really end in a perfect world because of all the animals.

Non-linear narrative films:
IT Chapter 2
Jigsaw
Into the wild
Batman begins
Titanic
The shining

Equilibrium - In this movie nothing in the film world is normal they all seem lost and in the past they got thrown into a video game which was a experience.

Distribution -Spencer goes back into the game after feeling a bit depressed and what's to feel mighty again so yeah it was caused by the main character.

Recognition of Distribution -the other main characters realize Spencer has gone and then they have to fix the distribution and go in after him.e


Attempt to solve -They all go on a journey to fix the distribution and it takes a few attempts but they do get there in the end with a bit of help.


New equilibrium -
The life didn't go back to normal it ends up with another cliffhanger because loads of animals start running down the road.