Thursday, May 5, 2022

Revision With Ms Mac

 Gcse Media Studies

PAPER ONE

Avengers clip

Cuffs Representation and context question

Questions on film promotion and video games will cover the concept of industry and audience.

Analyse with media language The Lego Movie trailer.how is it appealing? Uses and Gratifications.

Friday, January 22, 2021

Animation Brief 2

 

Friday 22 January 2021

Lo: To explore ideas in response to a given brief.


Adventure Time






The Simpsons










Family Guy







The Simpsons 


It starts of with The Simpsons Eldest Son Bart Simpson in school, writing things on the board which indicates he's in detention, he then suddenly does exactly what he said he wasn't going to do on the board 'rides the skateboards in the halls"


This Type of animation looks fun to watch, and for different people in the family .


The opening credits is just under a minute long.









Name Of animation GWYNN AND CHARLIE

Main Character- Gwynn

Secondary Character- Charlie

Monday 8th February 2021

Write a name profile for your two characters (Gwynn and Charlie)

Name:Gwynn

Age: 19

Job: Works In a cafe(also goes to uni and studies art)

Hobbies: photography,Studying ( She's artistic and very creative)

Characteristics: Kind,Helpful, Smart, genuine also friendly but can be moody at times.

Name: Charlie 

Age: 20

Job: Museum (Palaeontologist)( Always traveling)

Hobbies: Fishing, painting, drawing

Characteristics: He can be stubborn but friendly, Approachable, vey charming and he thinks of others.

Gwynn and Charlie live in New York city in a block of apartments together they are flat mates but the animation starts with Gwynn moving in and meeting him for the first time, she moves in here because the apartment is close to her university and her parents live all the way in Texas so she needed to be in the same state as her university, I'm going to say that Gwynn has long black hair and green eyes, Charlie is going to have short brown hair with blue eyes and lots of freckles.


I have done a storyboard,




Thursday, November 26, 2020

Magazine brief

 



The use of type implies its for children,which it is for a younger age group,its fun and brightly coloured.
there at 4 straplines that are all brightly coloured and have a white stroke around each individual one.
The doing words like lean,try,make and think are all bigger and bolder than the others.

the front illustration is suitable for younger people,its playful and it has lots of colour.
The type of magazine is very informative, its also acceptable foe kids, like the heading said its for kids, its colourful , the main photo is a real life animal children like that , they see an animal and get excited because its a real photo.


MY PLAN
My magazine is called; cooking with colour

My article will be about: step by step ways to cook different foods, and the ingredients

the types of images i will use: picture step by step of different foods.

my main heading will be:FUN FOODS

my three cover lines are: whatever food i pick to make



Thursday 26th November 2020
Magazine article
What makes a good magazine article?
A good article includes a catchy front page for when people look at it to go wow this is cool, with bold colours ,pictures and more, and also when the reader opens the magazine it has to be interesting and factual.Context can be influenced by a target audience the children need to understand words, so no advanced words, the narrative of the article should not have long words that are hard to read for ages 10-13

Its about plastic pollution, its interesting and factual, target audience is more for teenagers.



Cooking With Colour

4 recipes to make while at home, easy and fun, different themes and different sorts of yummy food

Number 1: Rainbow churros
These churros are an easy bake and so nice, they leave a sweet and interesting taste that you cannot forget easily, with rainbow icing that looks like a rainbow.

Ingredients:
1 Cup of water,
A quarter of a cup of unsalted butter that you need to cut into small blocks,
1 Tablespoon of granulated sugar,
A quarter of a teaspoon of salt,
1 cup of flour,
1 large egg,
A half of a spoon of vanilla extract,
And a frying pan and some vegetable oil so you can fry the mixture in the pan.
 Make sure that you have an adult when near the heat of the pan

10th December 2020
Lo;Explore ideas and concepts to develop a magazine article and double page spread.


WRITING THE ARTICLES 
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COOKING WITH COLOUR

Welcome to the go to easy cooking magazine which gives you a step by step guide to making the most colourful easy foods,4 recipes to make while at home, easy and fun, different themes and different sorts of yummy food.

Number 1: Rainbow churros
These churros are an easy bake and so nice, they leave a sweet and interesting taste that you cannot forget easily, with rainbow icing that looks like a rainbow.


Ingredients:1 
Cup of water, 
A quarter of a cup of unsalted butter that you need to cut into small blocks,
1 Tablespoon of granulated sugar,
A quarter of a teaspoon of salt,
1 cup of flour,
1 large egg,
A half of a spoon of vanilla extract,
Rainbow Sprinkles,
And a frying pan and some vegetable oil so you can fry the mixture in the pan.
Make sure that you have an adult when near the heat of the pan
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These Churros leave a great after taste and fun To make!

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Number 2: Football Cookies
These cookies are simply cinnamon and totally awesome.
With Black and White icing the end result of these cookies really make them look like a classic football.

Ingredients:
1 Cup Sugar,
1/2 Cup Butter,
1 Large Egg,
1 Tsp Of vanilla,
1 1/2 Cups of flour,
1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon,
1 teaspoon of baking powder,
 
                                                          1/4 Teaspoon of salt,
                  (review)                                   Cinnamon sugar


These cookies really are a easy bake and can be enjoyed by everyone!


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Number 3: Unicorn CupCakes
These Cupcakes are beyond colourful.
They really catch your eye and make your mouth water, when you have one bite you just wanna eat more!

Ingredients:
150g white caster sugar,
2 eggs,
100g of butter, melted,
150g self raising flour.

BUTTERCREAM:
200g of softened butter,
300g icing sugar,
4tsp of milk,
A few drops of Vanilla extract,
And any food colouring you choose.

To decorate, Get some selection of sweets to decorate the top( choose colourful sprinkles)

Just you wait till u try these!       (review)

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Number 4: Home made pizza, with a twist 
These are things you can make in such little time and they taste soooooooo good, the twist is that they are made.......on pitta breads?


Ingredients:
A pack of pita bread,
Tomato puree,
( any toppings of your choice, can include anything like salami, anchovies, tune etc etc)
And cheese
All u gotta do is put the toppings and tomato puree on the pita breads and stick them in the oven, then you have a yummy snack.

(review)

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Thank you joining in with me and doing some cooking with colour, join me next week for some more interesting easy bakes!

Monday, June 8, 2020

My Disaster Movie

Lo: To effectively develop an idea for a disaster movie.



When & where is the film set?

Barking London 1987 then moved to Canada.

What is the overall mood of the film?
Happy but stressfull.
How will this show through the clothes they wear?
Mum will wear very smart but bright things positive children as well.

Going to be shot in a lot of different places, long shots,Ariel shot( from above)
Medium Close up, long shots,extreme long/side shot and a slanted angle shot.

It's in color, some shots will be from helicopters and a on hand crew on the floor.

What is the message behind the film?

Well I'm going to base it around an event from the past, The Edmonton Tornado, and the disaster of it that hit Alberta Canada.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zSvbzZ6Z93o

 IT'S CALLED EDMONTON DISASTER

Character are going to be the mum, Is Ms Wilson,  Lou Wilson, G (14 year old), Kendall Wilson,B (6 year old), Boss 1, Mr Garsely, Boss 2 Mr Peter's, Neighbor in London, Mary Bakers( older women, sweet and lives on her own) neighbors in Canada(The family live in a trailer park as a temporary basis)And not everyone is very friendly,( A few shop people), School friends including Annie Parker, Josie Willis and Luke Sullivan (Lou's friends, Ms Wilson working Buddies: Karen, Mellisa, Mel and Gary.

Genre: Adventure,Disaster.

Todovs theory:

Start they are in London and mum works in an office, gets offered a promotion but it's all the way in Edmonton Canada,She goes and talks to her children about it and they agree, they have a long road trip including Ariel shots of the car and a close up of them all in it they stop at a few places too.

They stay at a few hotels on the way there (takes 31 hours to get there on driving basis)
Then they arrive at the trailer park where they will be temporarily living, the neighbors aren't friendly at all and spit on them.The two children settle into their new schools and make friends , it starts to become very gloomy weather and cold.

Rumors going around that there may be a storm, mum has just settled into her new workplace with the new office job with all her co-workers who can be difficult but hard-working and Considerate.

Children get sent home early because the weather forecast has Taken a turn for the worst and they'll be a humongous storm coming and no one really knows what it is, mum's job is half an hour away from the trailer park so she has to leave asap considering the children schools are only a matter of minutes away. Mum get stuck right in the middle of a tornado and unfortunately she can't get out of her car fast enough.
The children are left in their trailer not knowing if the mum will be coming home, they go out to look for her so they walk a bit scared, they see a tornado Approaching and quickly hide under a tree log.

After it's all over they emerge from the spot they were in too see disaster everywhere they go back to the trailer park and it's destroyed, people lying on the ground Injured and in awful condition, there house is destroyed, all the houses are destroyed,they come and get picked up by their mum's old co-worker Mel who is lovely and will look after them,But the mother of the children her body was discovered in a car only 10 mins away from there old trailer house they attend her funeral a week later, the ending scene is of the children looking out of the back of Mel's car then seeing flash backs of the tornado and the sky is still grey, 
The last thing of the movie is a line which saids'1987 July 31st, Edmonton Canada'


The hero: Mel
The villain: The tornado?
The donor: The mum
The helper: Lou
The princess:?
The dispatcher: Mel herself feels the need to look after the children because Their mum was a good freind.
The princess father:?
The false hero:?

Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Mise-En-Scene

Lo: To explore the use of mise - en- scenes in films.

It is a French term meaning what is being put into a screen or frame.

Visual information infront of the camera.
Mes communicates essential information to the audience,each aspect of mise-en-scene
Has hidden meanings within a film,and sends signals to the audience about how we are supposed to feel or about a character.

Made up of 5 bases:
Setting and props,
Costume, hair and makeup,
Facial expressions and body language,
Lighting and color,
Positioning of characters or objects within the frame.

1.setting and props
Setting and location are an important part in any film and are not just backgrounds.
Sets are either built from scratch or a great deal of time is spent to find a setting which already exists.
Settings can manipulate an audience by building certain expectations and then taking a different turn.

2.costume, hair and makeup

costume hair and makeup act as an instant indicator to us of a characters personality status and job.
It tells us immediately whether the film is set in the present or the past.


3.facial and body expressions,
Facial expressions provide a clear indicator of how someone is feeling.
If someone is smiling broadly we instantly assume they are happy but we may get a new impression if it's assisted with dark music.
Body expressions may show how that character feels toward the other characters like the state of their relationship.

4.lighting and colour,
To highlight important characters or objects.
To make the characters look a particular way/show their emotions and mental state.

5.Positioning of people/objects
Positioning within a frame can draw our attention to a important character/object.
A film maker can use positioning to indicate relationships between people.

PLENARY
What are the 5 things included in MES?

Setting/props
Costume,makeup and hair
Facial and body expressions
Lighting/color
Positioning of things in the frame

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Sound in film

Starter:                                                                                          May 12th 2020
Movie theme songs!

9/26 NOT awful....
Shrek √
Harry Potter√
Frozen √
Moana √
Mission Impossible √
Pirates of the Caribbean √
Suicide Squad √
Twilight √
High School Musical √


Music 

What sort of music would you expect from a horror movie?
Some dark sinister music.

What sort of music would you expect from a Action Movie?
Upbeat repetitive.

What sort of music would you expect from a thriller?
An interesting one.

What sort of music would you expect from a comedy?
Funny also repetitive not dark in any shape or form, happy.

What sort of music would you expect from a science fiction film?
A serious piece of music, to go with some sort of experiment.

SOUNDTRACK
Lo: To explore the use of sound in films.


Which includes:
Diegetic
Non diegetic

Choose a short clip from youtube : 


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0FxPjDL8HFM


Diegetic - In this clip you would probably hear the person who plays the beast soothing the horse before it makes a loud neigh, also their would be the backing track where they were.

Non-Digetic - you can hear them talking to one another, and at 0:17 you can hear belle and her footsteps on the snow, and at 0:31 you can hear the knives clattering on the plate.


FOLEY:
Watch the following Animation √

PLENARY

All sound in a film is called Diegetic.

Types of sound in films, human voices and music.

Music is Diegetic

Foley is the recorded sound affects to add in after the movie.



Monday, May 4, 2020

Setting&colour

L/o:
To explore the use of setting & colour of films.                 Monday May 4th 2020

Starter:
6 correct
4 wrong


Setting

Why might the director choose the following settings?

1 An isolated house in a rural setting for a horror film?

They might do that because they want to build the tension, it is of course expected in a horror movie to have some sort of dark eerie setting, but because it is a horror, the setting works very well and every time when it's the same setting which comes across as quite scary, it doesn't get old.

2 A big city for an action film?

Because it's an action movie there is going to be A lot of stuff going on and because of this, the only solution really is to make a large setting so there is enough locations that they can film at and have different things going on.

3 A small seaside town for a romantic comedy

Because it's small, it usually is a very lovely sight to see in a rom-com is when two people are in the seaside, maybe they use a small town so everyone knows one another and also their isn't too many things to look at so the couple can be the main focus.

4 A range of different countries for an action adventure film?

It's an adventure , they are going to be traveling places exploring things but also there will be some sort of mission to get thrown into it, that's where the action comes from, or they might need to travel to retrieve something, or set things right.

5  A large modern science laboratory for a science-fiction film

A reason they do this is because something usually goes wrong in a science experiment which cause distribution to the story line, so in the modern science laboratory they have to find a solution and also because it is fiction it's not real so a science experiment could just be effects.

Colour


Why might a director choose the following colours?

1. Blue and red for superhero colours?

Because they are two colours which go together and are quite bold, they are also the traditional colours for a superhero.

2. A black suit for a villain?

Because black is associated with something evil, depressing, scary and even sometimes death.

3. Bright colours for a comedy film?

Because it's supposed to be funny or course you would use bright colours in a film like this, you would not want to use dark colours because people might make the wrong impression and think their is a dark part to this comedic movie.

The Greatest Showman

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S-CVJuNQo6w
Tightrope song scene

Shot 1:
0:18- Birds Eye View of the house and the carriage leaving.

Shot 2:
0:26- Medium Shot of The mother's body from the waist up.

Shot 3:
1:51- Over shoulder shot, Over Zac Effron's shoulder showing the crowd.

Long shot- 2:38- A shot showing the window and The mother dancing with a figment of her imagination.The

Close-up -1:07- A full show of Jenny's Face.

The story is shown through charity, the mother's point of view mostly, but at some points it also shows the point of views from Phillip and PT Barnum.

We see characters different point at views at- 0:35-1:04-2:01-2:08-2:29-2:31 and 3:07 for all of Mr Barnum's point of views.

The way the first shots set the scene in this scene, is it keeps on switching between Pov shots.

The shots normally change between 5-10-15 seconds

The set at the start is of the family's house
It's set in that particular place because he's leaving their home.
The string changes between all their lives and where they are.
Could the same story be set in a different place?
I don't think so because, he's leaving home, he's leaving his family it just really works from the house.
The colours are very important in the film because it helps set all the scenes, in some scenes people are wearing very bright and expensive clothes.

Plenary

The star wars shot is used effectively because it's shows the tension built up between the two characters and it shows the whole room so you can really see what's going on.

Monday, April 27, 2020

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.

Thursday, April 23, 2020

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! 

Monday, April 20, 2020

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
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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-?

Saturday, April 18, 2020

Lights Camera Action/Narrative

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

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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.

Monday, March 23, 2020

News & Audience

March 23 2020


News and Audience

Lo/ to investigate how news programs are targeted toward different audiences

Top 10 News Stories today:
1.Over 3000 Cases confirmed in the Uk
2.Boris Johnston shuts down any events which include socialising
4. Manchester City and Manchester United gave 50,00 each toward food banks
5.Asda donate 1Million pounds towards food banks in this worrying time.
6.G-tech have switched production to making ventilators for hospitals and if they get there production right they may be able to make a thousand a day.
6.The chancellor is putting in place to protects peoples income( I think he is great)
7.Arsenal having to postpone matches
8. Clap for our Carers, 26th of March 8 pm open your doors and start a round of applause in appreciation towards the NHS.
9.B&M keeping toilet rolls in the back of the shop just for elderly.
10.Mali music star Rokia Traore on hunger strike after Kidnapping arrest


Radio 1 Newsbeat Age range.
It said on wikipedia that it is aimed at younger listeners 15-30

BBC 10 O'clock news age range
It comes across as a news station on the Television that is aimed at people in there mid 20- late 50's. 

Spolight 6pm age group.
For adults age 35 and older.
50% Men 50% women


If I had to choose 5 topics to put on a new website I would choose:
1.Coronavirus Uk update
2.JLS getting back together
3.Celebrity's Views on our world right now
4.New Netflix series Coming out soon
5.GCSE exams postponed

I watched BBC radio 1, top stories:
1.Your daily coronavirus update
2.Best top 10 premier league goalkeepers

3.How many COVID-19 cases are there in your area
4.How to exercise well from anywhere
5.PM new emergency laws getting put in place

CBBC Newsround
What cbbc does is they are on a children's channel so they tend to broadcast some of the stuff kids may be interested in but also they do include all of the global worries and stories and updates especially on Greta Thunberg The PM and coronavirus updates just so everyone isn't missing out on any of the really important news which is a global worry.

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Monday, February 24, 2020

BBC Young Reporter

Monday 24th Feb 2020

What is News?

L/o: To explore the concept and format of news 


What is the purpose of news?

Make  a profit
Spread headlines
Educate
Inform
Influence
Entertain

Types of News:

Home
uk 
World
politics
Health
Local
Family and education 
Entertainment
Sport
Celebrity
Human Interest
weather

L/O: To explore the validity to news stories and their origins.


Fake news is false information to shape your views, opinions or ideas


Fake news 1:

Sarah Huckabee sanders being replaced

fake News 2:

FBI confirms George Soros was fundings the migrant caravan 

Fake News 3: 

Florida school shooter a registered democrat 

Thursday 27th feb 2020


Lo/ to understand what new is and where to find it. 


1A 
2B 
3A 
4C 
5C 
6B 
7C 


School report,

Bait The movie


Cornish film-maker Mark Jenkin’s breakthrough feature is a thrillingly adventurous labour of love – a richly textured, rough-hewn gem in which form and content are perfectly combined. A refreshingly authentic tale of tensions between locals and tourists in a once-thriving fishing village, it’s an evocative portrait of familiar culture clashes in an area where traditional trades and lifestyles are under threat. Shot with   clockwork cameras on grainy 16mm stock, which Jenkin hand-processed in his studio in Newlyn, Bait is both an impassioned paean to Cornwall’s proud past, and a bracingly tragicomic portrait of its troubled present and possible future. It’s a genuine modern masterpiece, which establishes Jenkin as one of the most arresting and intriguing British film-makers of his generation.

Evaluation:
Explain what your topic was about
We did the report on Bait the new Cornish movie that won an award at the Baftas, we had to find the facts and get a skype call ready.
 which bit did you enjoy the most and why?
I enjoyed contacting the Actors and the Director,  and learning more bout the film.
Which bit did you enjoy the least?
I enjoyed the least all of the facts and emails we had to send.
What were the skills you learnt throughout this journey?
The skills i learned is that these things take time it took us weeks to prepare.
What did you learn about the news process?
I learned about all of the editing that is included.
What you do to improve it next time?
Actually be in that filming lesson.

News & Audience.

importance news storys:
1.Coronavirus
2.Boris Johnston and The new Chancellor talking about finance in Great Bri
tian.
3.Missing girl
4.Death sentence for killer of 19 Disabled people


Monday, February 10, 2020

Photoshop Skills and development task

MONDAY 10 FEB 2020

Detective Comedy Thriller Genre

The ghost of the grey lady and Longleat house

My poster Is Okay I could improve it, it Has all the credits and all the people in the movie and who is staring as what i also used the glass effect








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