Sound Analysis

This is a presentation thats shows me analysing the sound in a Hunger Games scene

Photo of Blog Assessment

This my teacher's assessment of my blog. Things highlighted in yellow means its incomplete and the things highlighted in orange means its not in the right place.

Assignment 8: Narrative Theory

Assignment 7: Narrative Analysis In A Scene

This is the group powerpoint presentation where myself and my group analysed the final scene from 'Slumdog Millionaire' and how narrative is presented within the scene.

180 Degree Rule

In my lesson today, I learnt about the different editing techniques. One editing technique I found interesting and useful was the 180 degree rule as it shows how to stay on one side of the characters otherwise if this rule is broken the characters will be placed in different ways and disorientate the audience.

This image shows how the camera has to stay on one side of the characters otherwise  they will switch places and confuse the audience

Here is the video my teacher showed our class to help us understand the 180 degree rule:

Assignment 6:Simple Film Narrative Structure Analysis

Assignment 5 (draft 2) : Assessment Record

Self Assessment
Peer Assessment	N/A
Teacher Assessment
Grade	The grade I received for this task was This is… my target grade
Targets to Improve	To improve this work I need to: -Annotate more photos -Expand on work and go into more detail -Do more slides, so the presentation is equally split between myself and my partner

Assignment 5: Film Study & Conventions In A Film (Draft 2)

This is the second draft of my assignment that I had to do with my partner where we explored a film from a specific genre and ours was the thriller genre. The work in blue is my work and the work is red is my partner's work.

Assignment 3 (draft 2): Assessment Record

Self Assessment	WWW: -Gave a range of film examples -Text is clear and understandable -Layout is organised EBI: -Need more of a range for the different hybrids -Use more key terms
Peer Assessment	N/A
Teacher Assessment
Grade	The grade I received for this task was B1 This is above my target grade which is a C
Targets to Improve	To improve this work I need to: -Develop hybrid section -Write the conventions in bullet points to make the text less bulky

Assignment 3: Draft 2

This is my second draft of my genre exploration task.

Ideology Advert Analysis: Assessment Record

Self Assessment
Peer Assessment
Teacher Assessment
Grade	The grade I received for this task was C Which is on my target grade which is C
Targets to Improve	To improve this work I need to: -Be more detailed -Place punctuation appropriately -Complete the rest of the task

Ideology Advert Analysis

This is a picture of the perfume: advert myself and my group had to analysis

This my group's analysis of the advert and how dominant ideology is presented

The Hunger Games

In film enrichment, myself and my class watched  a hybrid film called 'The Hunger Games' that falls under the category of action, adventure and sci fi. This film was directed by Gary Ross and stars Jennifer Lawerence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth.

The Hunger Games is about a girl named Katniss Everdeen who sacrifices herself to take part in the 'hunger games' instead of her sister. By volunteering to take her sister's place in the 'hunger games' Katniss has to fight for her life in order to win the 'hunger games' and be reunited with her family and her district.

I enjoyed watching this film as it showed how quickly people turn to savages when they have to save their own lives. I also enjoyed this film as it doesn't use the typical action convention of the protagonist being male, in this film Katniss plays the protagonist who saves the 'damsel in distress' which is comically Peeta. I found this comically as usually its the male who saves the female but in this case its the female who saves the male.

Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog millionaire is a film about a teen from Mumbai, India called 'Jamal', who goes on the Indian version of 'Who Wants To Be A Millionaire' hoping that his childhood friend 'Latika' is watching the show. Because of his low status of being from the 'slums' Jamal is arrested under suspension of cheating. From Jamal's interrogation from the police the audience realizes that its Jamal's life experience with his brother and Latika that helps him win this game show.

Before and after the film myself and my class discussed the representation and narrative within the film. To help use used the film our teacher showed our class a website that showed interviews of Danny Boyle (the director) answering questions about the making of the film.
This is the website we used in our class dicussions:
http://www.filmeducation.org/slumdogmillionaire/interview.html

Here are the questions Danny Boyle answered in his interviews:

From watching these interviews I've learnt that filming in busy cities such as Mumbai is a problem for film  producers and directors as they have to improvise with their surroundings and put camera men on skates and roller blades so its easier for them move from one place to another. I also learnt that at least one Bollywood film that is released each week falls under UK's top 10 films.

One question we discussed in class is 'What perspectives of life in India does the film offer?'
The film shows how life in the slums of India is a daily struggle for many of its people but also shows how the children still try to enjoy their childhood despite their environment. The film also show how without a good male role model orphan boys in India either end of as beggars or as thugs. Whereas, orphan girls end up in the music industry and are control by men.


As a class we also watched a YouTube clip of Danny Boyle winning an award for 'best director' for Slumdof Millionaire.

Memento Short Vlog Review

This is a short vlog of what I thought of the film 'Memento'.