Character Profiles.

• Lily
• 15/16years old. still in school.
• doesn't like a very privileged life, only child living with her mum, who is always working, so she never sees her mother.
•  short/small so she is seen as a victim, likes to make trouble.  
• she is quiet and weird. lonely, doesn't have much friends, she has some friends that care and question her wellbeing.
• finds the pencil-case and starts to give her mother money, but her mother questions her about where she is getting the money from.  she soon 'buys' friends. but then the pencil-case burns her hand because she is using it for the wrong cause, she is suppose to be helping her mum. 
• towards the end she starts to see visions and becomes quite crazy because of the witches power.
• Lily's Mum
•  Lily's mother is a workaholic, rarely every sees or speaks to Lily, if she does, they argue about money.
• her mother isn't very friendly, in a bad mood and is never happy, with everyone and everything. 
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• Lily's Friend ( Hannah)
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• Same age as Lily. Only speaks to her in school.
• she bullies Lily, she goes back to her and apologises  to her because she feels guilty.
• She doesn't care as much.
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• Crazy Witch Lady.
• She represents evil in the trailer.
• She is crazy and weird, she appears in Lily's dreams. 
• we decided to put her in the trailer because we wanted to show how their are unatural reasons for Lily's last breakdown. 
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Submarine- Before Viewing.

Music plays a big part in movies, it can describe peoples feeling without speaking.
Music also suggests the students personality throughout the movie.

After watching a few music video that Richard Ayoade directed...

Film Classification

12 year old and over.

Because of the story line or the effects they use. They might so nudity, inappropriate language, use of drugs, initial behavior, the children may copy the stunts in the movie, people may discriminate in the movie, they may get influenced in the drugs. 

Universal is made for everyone to watch. It is possible for a young child to watch it alone.

There would be no discrimination, no reference to drugs ( there would be an educational purpose and an anti - drugs message), no sex minor sexual behavior for example kissing. the theme for the film may be educational and  appropriate. 

Nobody over the age of 15 can buy or rent a 15 movie and nobody younger than 15 can see a 15 rated film in the cinema. Drugs may be used but will not be promote or encourage drugs.  
Language, they may use frequent use of swear words. Nuditiy will be allowed with strong context. There might be strong verbal and physical references to sexual behaviour.

Movie Trailer Pitch.

A six year old  abnormally small girl goes on an adventure around her house who finds crazy and weird things in the big mansion house and she is left all alone in the7 house when everything is extremely large for her.

Analysing Movie Trailer - Juno.

Editing.

• The tailer cut in in 0.06 seconds.
• Quick shot from one slide to another one.
• Fades into the titles.

Sound. 

• Music is fast and quick.
• It is non- diagetic.
• The music is lower when the people speak.
• The first person that speaks tells yoou the whole plot of the movie.

 Text and instition.

• The cuts through the trailer.
• 'Fox SearchLights Pictures.'

Picture.

• First part of the trailer is filmed in the teenagers bedroom.
• Lots of locations shot in the trailer : park, living room, park, school, field.
• Fades into white for a different shot.
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Analysing Movie Trailers.

Ferris Buellers Day Day Off Trailer.

Bueller speaks straight to the camera.
The characheters repeat the main charachters name "Buller"
The music changes quite alot : everytime someone speaks or its a fun scene.
Trailer starts very slowly and begins to get faster.
The titles are repeated in.
The institution that was shown at the beginning is the "20th Century Fox "

Pan's Labarythn Trailer.


Narration -telling you a story.set in Spain in the spainish revouloution
 only narrator speaks because of the language that the movie is in - Spainish.
Lighting (low key) mostly dark.
The music on the trailer is frightening and eerie. It gets faster by the end shows alot of pictures.
The young girl in the movie never speaks.
Nobody speaks and there are no subtitles, jst reviews.


Juno Trailer.


First few seconds of the trailer is set in a teenages bedroom. it shows you that she is a
The first sentence tells you the whole pllot of the movie.
The music is funny and fits in with the type of the genre of the movie.
The text in the trailer tells you what will happen during Juno's pregnancy.

Persepolis Trailer.

The film is an animation
It is also a narration.

Angus Thongs And Perfect Snogging Trailer.

British Movie.
Set in lots of different locations: school, beach, house, bedroom, club..
The movie appeals to alot of teenages.
Its a comedy..

Son Of Ranbow UK Trailer

About two boys, with two different lifestyles end up being friends and making an action movie together.

making a cup of tea.

Action Adventure Pitch...

• Aubrey and Adrianna win a competition on a back of a cereal box to the Grand Canyon.
• They live with their grandparents, too old to go, they go themselves 
• Find out that their parents are still alive, also find out that their grandparents are evil.
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Kids- brother and sister
Journey/Quest
Set ; Grand Canyon

Media.

Key points:

Family friendly.
Not too many special effect.
Global Appeal.
TV Focus on marketing. - Trailer.
Making a making of programme, or an interview on a chat show with on of the actors/directors or planning a TV advert for merchandise ( action figures etc.. )

Task 1 - codes and conventions and representation
Task 2- institution and audiences- why hey are made, why they are popular and with whom
Task 3- ideas for films and synopsis.
Task 3- storyboard for TV trailer.

Media

What makes Gladiator an action hero?

o   He wears amour.

o   Fighting swords.

o   Strong

Statements about the hero in action adventure.

Spiderman

The hero needs to be physically strong and to be able to fight and travel long distances across difficult terrain.

Spiderman needs to be strong because he is a superhero and saves people.

He wears a costume to hide his identity.

He was power: his spider web.

·      Spider senses.

·      Spider webs.

Who is your favourite hero?

My favourite hero is Spiderman because you wouldn’t think of him as hero because he is a geek.  You wouldn’t think that a nerd would be a hero.

Iconography – the set of symbols or images used in cinema.  

How does the iconography help us with the genre?

The sword fighting.

Goonies

 This movie looks like they are on a adventure searching for something because they are holding a map. The miser en scene in a cave so they are searching for something maybe treasure. The facial expressions on the kids are confused and puzzled like they don’t know how to read the map. 

Casino Royale

§  Men – Guns, cars, violence, explosions, gambling fighting, machines money attractive women

§  Women – romance, James Bond, womanizer

§  Teens - stunts, action explosions, action cars

§  Adults – fighting violence

§  British viewers – British accent British classics.

§  American viewers- cars

List as many elements that appeal to the following groups.

§  Do you think the makers of the film and trailer intentionally tried to involve the two top groups you identified and alienate the bottom two groups? Why or why not?

Yes because men like to watch films with explosions, fighting and guns. They like to watch action adventure films. Most teens like to watch violence and action.

§  The movie made a quite a lot of money in the UK, because it was an action adventure movie and their audience was mainly men and teens.

§  The Fugitive

§  The man running away from something. Fugitive means on the run.

§  The text at the bottom.

§  The way the background is blurry

§  Gladiator.

Sword.

He’s wearing gladiator armour.

He’s in a arena.

Fighting.

Something dark.

The movie that fits mostly in the genre is Pirate of the Caribbean, because the it looks most obvious because in the poster there is sword fighting. You can tell that there is going to be action by the name.

The movie that is mo hard to define is Avatar because in the poster it looks more peaceful and you wouldn’t think that there is any action in it.

Dark Knight.

Characters  -

§  Hero - Batman.

§  Villain. – The joker.

Why are action adventure films so popular with audiences?

§  Action

§  Fighting

§  Cars

§  Sometimes romance.

§  Explosions

§  Weapons

§  Villains and Heroes.

§  Good guy saves the day.

§  Suspense.

Action movies are usually “ high concept “ films where the whole movie can be easily summarized.

Why do some people criticise action adventure films?

§  Simple theme

§  Cheesy storyline.

§  Low quality scripts.

 15.

 The Oldies.

an group of retired pensioners have one last job, to save the day from evil youngers 

Synopsis on a new Action Action Movie.

Set in the a olds peoples home in the heart of San Francsico, a group of old aged pensioners go out on a day trip into town,when they come across the town destroyed. who could it be ? Their old enemy, who plans to take over the world with an 24 hour countdown. They were retired, retired superheroes who had one last job to finish.Will they save the world in 24 hours ? Will they keep there identies hidden ? Will they carry on living superheroes? Watch Oldies to find out.

TV Advert Analysis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1KLi1HBmZM

Virgin Media A more exciting to live.

The first shot is of a birds eye view of all the houses and cars. the next few shot are houses and trains after that a there is a voice over, the voice over starts as the music gets louder.
The music becomes louder as the scenes change.

The camera shots are either through the windows and getting a long shot of all the families in the video.
The ligting is sometimes lowkey and sometimes highkey. the light is mostly coming from lamposts, flashing cameras, sidelamps, discoballs and TVs.
The scenery is mostly homes.

Print Advert Analysis.

The target audience for this advert is for woman from the age of 20 - 40, and woman that are working not woman that stay at home.The model is look like peaceful and elegant with her mascra. This model is a role model to the older woman because she make lots of money models and shows that woman can be independent. The picture of the model is a close up to so you can see the mascra and the effect of the product.

The font for this is plain and simple. The black background matches with the mascra.The layout of the ad is simple it has one side of the model and the other side of the mascra and the close up shots of it, they also put most of the words in bold to make it stand out so the reader may see the product

Advert Homework.

i would buy this because it is aimed at woman and shows you what it can do if you use this product and tells you it has been voted 'product of the year' so people actaully use it and say that it works.