Love Acutally

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3GWzLpkVdg#watch-main-areaThe opening of love actually is one of my favourite openings of a film; it covers the genre in every part of the opening. The fact that the opening doesn’t just shows the characters doing the everyday thing like driving or a scene from a house or the setting. The opening of love actually is at the airport where there are realistic clips of people seeing each over again; hugging, kissing, running into each other’s arms, greeting each other in all sorts of ways, the shots of the people are focused, there are lots of people in the airport which is obvious but the clips are focused on the people greeting each over. Even though the clips are based on the loving that is being made, within the focused clip you can see people waiting for their loved ones. Which i think is really nicely done, plus the opening tells me that the film isn’t just going be typically about the relationship LOVE because of the title; love actually I assumed it was going to be about relationships and break ups, but from the opening it clicked to me that the film will be more involved with other kinds of love like; family love, friendship love, and so on. The reason why it is my favourite opening is because the opening proves that the film will relate to us. During the opening Hugh Grant spoke a perfect speech that really touched me, so I know it would be very effective to many other members of the target audience as it takes a lot to get me in the mood. Hugh Grant spoke of many different themes. The way in which he spoke of the connection between different relationships, in such a tendered respectful way which also showed me that the film will be touching. The speech spoke of the world and about hate and anger, he goes on mentioning about the Twin Towers and how that affected the nation. Hugh Grant basically talks about the wonders of different love, and the connection between all of the different kinds of love. Which then as targeted sets the audience in the mood to watch the film. The music is silent and settled right at the start of the opening/film which makes us suspicious and relaxed in a way, and then Hugh Grant says his speech. The opening sets that good loved mood for film. At the end of the speech (which is the end of the opening) Hugh Grant leaves the audience saying that ‘love actually is all around’ which leaves us the audience effected by that quote and the opening, so this means we have high expectations for the rest of the film.

Opening Sequence; Must does..
1. Eye Catching
2. Interesting
3.Different/Unique
4.Little Clues to what the film will be
5.Mysterious..matching the theme of the film
6.informative
7. Effective towards the audience
8. Memorable
9.can include props
10. Needs to set a mood
11. original

Opening Sequence; Must avoid..
1.Being Too Long
2. The having the title
3. Revealing too much
4. not Being related to film
5. Be Boring

Vladimir Propp.. Still valid?

spider man
initial situation.. typical nerdy highschool boy.
absentation.. mum and dad had been murdered in his early life.
interdirection.. boy gets bitten by a spider
violation.. superpowers. stronger! and gains many senses
recinnaissance.. a villian had been produced inside spidermans best mates dad, he wants to know who spider amn is so they can be bad together
delivery.. finds out that spider kisses his sons girlfriend
trikery.. green goblin (villain) tries to destroy spiderman but doesnt succeed
complicity.. victim is decieved
lack.. auntuie had moved tried to move on with life and now is ina different home.
meditation; villan finds out who spiderman is and freaks out
counteraction.. spiderman tries to get rid of the green goblin many of times
depature..
1st donor function.. .
heros reaction..
reciept of agent..
spitial change..
struggle.. green goblin and spider man meet again
branding.. hero is branded
victory.. villain is defeated
liquidation.. hero realsises who villain is..
returns.. guilty as

todorovo's narrative structure.

Think of examples for each of the above story apstracts and example of fairy stories that reflect the abstract.

the quest;
the fairy story example of this is.. shrek

redemption;
the fairytale example of this.. hunch back and notrodam

journey to another world;
the fairytale example of this.. enchanted

the beast transformed by love;
the filmic example of this..frankenstein
the fairytale version of this.. Beauty and the Beast

the solving riddles;
the filmic example of this.. columbo
the fairytale example of this.. scooby doo

the 'biter bit';
the filmic example of this..
the fairytale verson of this..

the stranger savior;
the filmic example of this.. sleepy hollow
the fairytale example of this..

the rise and fall;
filmis verson of this.. the rise and fall of the raon empire
the fairytale verson of this..

Todorov's Narrative Structure.

Using the same three texts as the last task use Todorov's catergories ti describe the narrative structure.

SPIDERMAN!
Normal life; the geekest guy in highschool, has no mum and dad as they have been murdered, lives with auntie and uncle.

1.The trip; goes on a class trip to a science museum, whilst taking photoes for the school newspaper he gets bitten by a escaped spider.

2.That night; as soon as he gets home, he becomes ill, goes to his bedroom, and passes out on the floor.

3.Changes; when he wakes up, he find himself looking and feeling different. muscelly, eye sight is cured etc

4.strange; ebing late for the bus again, he runs, but as the bus drives away he finds that the post ont he bus is strangly stucj on his hand.

5.at school; in the canteen, someone frows something at him, he senses danger and moves, and hte food hits the bully of the film, the boy chases peter, and misses every hit, peter hits him and he goes flying.

6.peter then tries out the spider walk, and learns htat he can climb walls and fly using webs.

7. test; he then goes to a cage fight, wins the fight against the strongest competer, goes to the main office to collect his money, on way out there is a buglary and spiderman lets the buglara go.

8. uncle; the buglara had killed spidermans uncle for his car, and as soon as spiderman comes across him, when rescuing, he feels gutted.

9. famous; spiderman then became famous and everyone wanted a a photo of him, peter then he then gets a job as a photographer in a newspaper company, because of the shots he took of himself in action.

10. love; spiderman then saves his crush whilst she was getting mugged. he then kisses her. he dream came true

11. fix up; he sticked up the man that killed his uncle

12. powers; his powers continue and his powers conitinue
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SUPERBAD!
school; three guys in highschool, living their normall geeky life

using; a girl asksthem to go to the party and to bring boose, basically using them just so that the party can have alcohol.

fake idea; one of the three gets his fake identity card that day, so they can get the drink. they go to the shop one of them gets scared and doesnt attempted to get some, so the one with the i.d goes in and gets the stuff

robery; while he is paying a robery takes place and the guy with the i.d gets hit.

5. police; the police then enter the scene once the rober leaves, and they make friends with the geek with the i.d and insist on taking him to the party.

6. friends; the police and the geek make good friends, and end up driving round being tennagers in the police car, smoking playing loud music etc.

7. another party; the other geeks on the other hand end up arguing, then one of them gets hit, and the driver takes the geeks to his mates party were he was to give them the drink there to make up for knocking the loser over. the guys get as much drink and run!

8. the run; the guys find the boy in the police car smoking, manage to get him and run.

9. party; they manage to get to the party and everyone gets the drink..

10. chat up mix ups; each guy had a girl waiting for them at the party, one guy wa trying to get drunk to look like he wasnt using the girl, ended up puking on him. one of them wanted to tell a girl he loved her and get to kiss her, ended up head butting her. one wasnt even planned...

11. enterance; the loser who was mates with the police was in bed with a girl, and once the police foundn the house they came storming in ruining the party. the other two ran, the other one pretending that he was getting arrested with possession aff drugs,

12. the next day; the two best buddie geeks wake up and go to the shopping centre and see the other girls, and partner up with the girls, and say good bye for the last time. as they are going to diffferent universities. sad ending.

Todorov's Narrative Structure.

Using the same three texts as the last task use Todorov's catergories to describe the narrative structure.

Number one. spiderman

the initial situation; the 'geek' of highschool gains superpowers.

distruption; peter's (spider man) uncle gets mudered.

resolution; peter set the man up. he also rescues his crush form danger.

number two. superbad

the initial situation; three nerds from school get invited to a party

distruption; one of them can get alcohol, but gets arrested

resolution; they find the arrested lad, and make it to the party.

number three. little mermaid

the initial situation; princess undersea wants to live in the real world

distruption; wich gives her the power to do so, but wickedly destroys her life

resolution; Arial finds love, gets to live in the real world, happily ever after.

analysing these two images

To what extent have the following two pictures gone through a process of meditation?

In this essay I will analyse each of these images, i will identify the binary oppisitions, the ideoligy of these two photoes and also their semiotics. i will also be notifing the true meaning to these two images.



Image one looks like it was taken in India, the reason I think this is because in the background it looks like a praying house.. It is a focused photo, as you can most probably tell because in the distant there is a full image of a destroyed building with what i belive is a praying house for the indians, but right near the camera is misty leaves, this tells me it is a focused photo, which proves that the photo is a shot of the destroyed building, really looking into this photo and putting two and two together I think this photo is trying to tell the viewers a message, there is a religious church for the Indians, so there may be a religious message behind this, as the main image is of a destroyed building, so if you really think about it can be quite fascinating, the church and a building being smashed just shows that their god is trying to say something maybe. The weather seems dark and demy, bad weather represents sadness, so it could be that the people are/were forced to move out of their building/home or be destroyed with it. The crane proves that this wasn’t a natural disaster and it doesn’t mean at all that it wasn’t meant to happen; this photo to me is an image of nothing but greed and emptiness. The binary oppisitions of this photo are; high and low, because the crain is up high. another binary oppisition is religion and anarky because the church in the background, also natural disasters and man made disasters, because the building is being destroyed, which i like the most is diserted and populated,the reason i like this binary oppisition the most is because the building that is being knocked down has been deserted, and the town around it is really populated. i really feel that the semeotics are very effective, i mean looking really into it, you can see a really clear clue about what the photo is trying to tell us as a target audience, the fact that the prayers home is in the back ground, can mean that god is praying that we stop with destroying the world and smashing homes that used to belong to people. the editers of the photo could have taken out the players church in the back ground if they only wants a photo of the building be smashed, but they chose to leave it in.. the ideoligy of this photo really to me is that 'god' is trying to send a message his home being in the background represents a sign of help.

The second image was obviously taken in New York; the fact that the Statue of Liberty is the main image of this photo proves this. I think this image is very effective because the idea of the whole city being in black smoke to me is rather scary, and may consist of many stories behind the photo, looking at it very closely I feel one of the stories could be to do with danger and the idea of the whole big apple being destroyed. The binary oppisitions of image two are; smokey and clear, because the city is really smokey, danger and safety because the photo consists of danger, and the smoke conotates this. another binary oppisition is overpopulated and deserted because the Big Apple if overpopulated. the semiotics of this image is really is quite clear, i personally think that this photo was taken on the day that the twins had been forced down by airoplains, because that was a huge disaster as we all know and when they fell down there was a huge dust disiaster, this spreaded all round the city, so it took over the clearness of that day, i feel that this image is very effective to its audience because the fact the picture was directly taken of the statue of liberty, and the facty the image of the statue of liberty is clear and the rest has been destroyed, can nearly be a sort of miracle in a way, i mean these two are to me and many other residents the best two places of the city, that being the statue of liberty and the twin towers. so when the twins were knocked down, the only destinations well known for new york left was the statue of liberty.

Both images I feel share a few of the same denotations, they both consist of danger and population, also they both are high destinations, for instant the praying place for indians and the Statue of liberty. and they are not caused by natural disasters. and they are both extremely sadly effective...

my camera shots.

in this study case we had to create our own versions of eat shot there is using 'romantic media' this is what you should expect to see; mid shot, close up, long shot, birds eye, worm eye, extreme close up and more. this is the conclusion of what we came up with.

does media merely reflect society?

Does the media merely reflect society or is it instrumental in constructing it?
In this essay I will be sharing my opinions and attempt to answer the question to whether media really is a reflection of society or is it simply friction for the audience to be interested in, I will be looking at different types of media for example magazines, TV programs, internet, etc.
Different types of media suggest different aspects. Magazines are all about the gossip and headlines usually attract the target audience of that magazine, for example Look, OK! Heat, Closer, More, Hello, Cosmo, is based on woman from the age of 14 to the age of 45. The headlines like ‘Jordan and Pete at war’ and ‘Leona’s secret’ which will make its audience want to buy and read more about the story to catch up with the gossip. Magazines are all about the Gossip, so women will want to know gossip about well known celebrities. What’s well known right now is the “Pete and Jordan” situation, when they were together they where hassled an awful lot, about petty arguments they had and simple rumors going round about them. But now they have broken up they are in every magazine going with headlines everywhere seen, even newspapers have them on their first page. I feel that magazines are cheeky with their way of getting the target audience to buy their magazines, as they have really shocking quotes on the front page, soothe audience will buy it, but when they go to read it to find that the story is completely different to its heading, it’s a rip off but it sure does work. This kind of media doesn’t merely reflect the society completely even though it does tell the audience the top gossip; it really is a load of rumors. But there are some very rare magazines that do reflect society in a way that these magazines teach us about a different culture or places around us, or how to handles and do things, for example some magazines are on how to handle pregnancy, there is a magazine called the ciam, that tell the audience about a culture that they are advertising. Most magazines tell us about the celebs and the gossip but only few reflect on the society.
The TV is also a key way of media expressing society. There are all different types of channels for the different kinds of media for example, channels 1,2,3,4 and 5 presents the news giving us all the top news we need to know or want to know, which is mostly the truth. The TV also presents different kinds of way about talking about the society around is, for example ‘Watchdog’ this program is merely a reflection of what the society is like in the company world, the program has one big known character, one of them is Anne Robinson, she is very big gobbed and loves to have a go at many people and point out the bad sides of them and nag allot, this side of her was recently shown on a quiz show called “weakest link”. This show I feel does reflect on society it’s more like a chat show with a tint of undercover, by this I mean that it catches out and argues with the people who might be ripping us off.
But a game show that does not reflect society is called “Big Brother” which is worldwide, the people that go in to this are fake or has a plan, I feel that if they were to present a real show the fake ones shouldn’t enter, it is a huge rip off. But this is the key off the show, the fact that fake people are on their makes us hate them which makes us watch the show, which I feel is what the producers want us to react like. This show does not reflect society in any kind of way as it is simply a waste of money and time.
Although I feel this I do enjoy watching shows like ten year younger, how to look good naked, but my favorite kind of shows are called the chat shows, when celebs gob off about one another. This does not reflect society at all. Which I feel is a very bad influence on teens and adults infact everyone, we should be learning about society in a fun sort of way not celebs and gossip. I feel the media does effect us as a community so much it unbelievable, we just don’t know it, I mean if we were to watch shows about our society we would feel the same way about that subject than we would feel the same way about that than how we feel about gossip and society and this fake world we are living in.
Internet is an obvious basic of reflection to the society; it covers everything in the world. Facebook, bebo, hotmail, myspace, twitter, are what we all go on, our minds are totally around it, we don’t think about anything else but that in our free time we spend it on that, but you could say that these were set out to make us become more social and learn about different types of cultures, but we have formed that into a subject of talking to friends and causing arguments. When we could be exploring what there is out there. This kind of media does reflect society but only if you are looking for that kind of subject, if not then you will be on the internet doing different things.
In conclusion to this question I don’t feel at that the entire media does reflect society at all it just reflects things that we should stay clear of. I mean learning about the Hollywood, or celeb life is not as exciting as it sounds, it isn’t society at all its just peoples dream. Magazines, TV, and internet don’t reflect society entirely at all. The sad fact is that if you want to know about society then you have to search deep for it. Do you think that is right, or should society be noticed as much as everything else we obsess over?

Little Miss Sunshine

From the moment were the father, Richard, says there is a phone message for Oliver to the long shot of the camper van travelling through an arid semi-desert landscape I have been asked to analyse the camera work.

Editing Quiz

For our Editing quiz, we watched a slideshow on different clips of films which were labelled from 1-18, we watched these clips around five times and on the second time we were give a sheet to fill in, on the sheet it had names of different featured clip types, this is what i did.

clip of film 1- crosscutting, AKA parellel editing; editing that alternates shots of two or more lines of action occuring in different places, usually simultaneously. the two actions are therefor linked, associating the characters from both lines of action.

clip of film 2- cut in, cut away; an instaneous shift from a distant framing to a closer view of some portion of the same space, and vice versa.

clip of film 3- dissolve; A transation between two shots during which the first image gradually disappears while the second image gradually appears; for a moment the two images blend in superimposition. dissolves can be used as a fairly straightfoward editing device to link any two scene, or in more creative ways, for instance to suggest hallicinatory states.

clip of film 4- Iris; a round moving mask that can close down to a end scene (iris-out) or emphasize a detail or it can open to begin a scene (iris-in) or to reveak more space around a detial.

clip of film 5- Jump cut; an ellipitcal cut that aooears to be an interruption of a single shot. Either the figures seem to change instanly against a constant background, or the background changes instantly while the figures remain constant.

clip of film 6- rythem the perccived rate and regularity of sounds, series of shots, and movements within the shots. rythmic factors include beat (or pulse), accent (or stress), and tempo (or pace). rythem is one of the essential features of a film, for it decisively contributes to its mood and overall impression on the spectator. it is also one of the most complex to analyse, since it is achieved through the combination of mise-en-scene, cinematography, sound and editing.

clip of film 7- superimpostion; the exposure of more than one image on the same film strip. unlike a dissovle a superimpossition does not signify a transition from one scene to another.

clip of film 8- wipe; a transition betwen shots in which a line pases across the screen, eliminating the first shot as it goes replacing it with the next one.

clip of film 10- graphic match; two successive shots joined so as to create a stronge similarity of compositional elements (e.g, clours, shape)

clip of film 11- match on action; a cut which splices two different views of the same action together at the same moment in the movement, making it seem to continure uniterrupted.

clip of film 12- long take, AKA plan-sequence; a shot that continues for an usually lengthy item before the transition otthe next shot.

clip of film 13- overlapping editing

clip of film 14- wipe; a transition betwen shots in which a line pases across the screen, eliminating the first shot as it goes replacing it with the next one.

clip of film 15- elliptical editing; shot transition that omit oarts of an event, causing an ellipses in plot and story duration.

clip of film 17- montage; 1. a synonym for editing. 2. an approach to editing developed by the soviet filmakers of the 19920's such as Pudvkin, Verotv and eisinetien; it empahseizes dynamic, often discontinous, relationships between shots and juxtapostition of images to create ideas not present in either shot by itself.

clip of film 18- continuity editing; a system of cutting to maintian continous and clear narrative action. continuty editing relies upon matching screen direction, position , and temporal relations from shot to shot. the film suports the viewers assumption that space and time are adjoining between successive shots.

MANIFSO

If I were to describe myself as a student I would say that even though I can be very easily distracted by anythink that happens, I do catch on easily, most teachers might not think that as I seem to "limit" myself, in other words I never used to think possitive of myself, or feel that I could achieve anythink, but once I found out my GCSE results I feel I can actually achieve most things unexpectedly, Imean I never even studied my subjects propably(bad i know), I feel that if I did I could of got outstanding levels(not being big headed ofcourse), so after the fear of failing every subject I took, or studied, I found out I passed maths and english with a C (Quality) an A for Fine art (Jesus/unexpected) B for media (proud as*) D for drama(Ha) science I got a D for the test and a b/c for the coursework.
I didnt just choose media because I got a B for it, I chose the subject because I am such a opinionated character and when im older, I really would love to work for a magazine company, so that I could live in the media itself, and share my feelings toward anythink to everyone. I already know about films and how magazines work, but I have such a big appetite for the media and gossip and celebrities.. I think you get what I mean.
My dream is to get an A* for this subject but i supose that is in my dream, I would love to push myself into getting an A, but I think the only good grade i will get is an B. Hopefully if I really get my head down and more than just take note and actually study. Do ALL the work even if it not needed, just so that I know I am praticing. Im really into media, so for 6th form I'm gonna prove that to the teachers and get stuck into what media has on the menu for me.
I think I will play a big part in the media class. I am very expressive, and tend to have a oppinion on EVERYTHING! I know I will enjoy this subject alot, I mean I enjoyed Media GCSE's. So even though typically these two years are going to be much more challenging, who says I aint up for a challenge?
So overall, even if I do get a C, or a B I know I tried my best, because this is all I want for the future!