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Fantastic Beasts and where to find them was released in 2016 November and was directed by the same person who directed the Harry Potter Films, David Yates. The film stares Eddie Redmayne, Collin Farrel, Ezra Miller and Dan Fogler. It waqs produced by Neil Blare, Tim Lewis and Rick Sennat.  The film is an extension to JK. Rowling's Harry Potter. This film in the Potter universe is set before the Harry Potter films, in the 1920's. It involves many little details which relate to the much loves Harry Potter films such as Newt's past Girlfriend/ lover was Bellatrix Lestrange's mother.


 The film fits into the genres of fantasy, action, romance and adventure. With modern themes involving racism and bigotry the film can relate to many people. The theme of racism and bigotry runs through out the film with the "nomags", otherwise known as in the UK as Muggles (someone who doesn't have wizardry parents), and the wizards fearing each other and fighting simply because they're different to each other. Eddie Redmayne has a brilliant line in the film of how American wizards treat Muggles. "You have pretty backward laws about one should treat a Muggle". Bigotry is a big theme used in the film when the character Mary Lou believes that Wizards and Witches should be eradicated from the earth.

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Imperium was directed by Daniel Ragussis.  Released in 2016 August. It is about a young FBI agent wanting to prove himself in the field so he goes undercover as a white supremacist to stop a bomb threat.

This film is a great example how the hypodermic needle theory is used through the younger generations by older members to continue on a belief. This belief is that white coloured people are superlative to the other coloured people. The genre the film fits into is thriller, social realism and crime. Themes involve racism, bigotry and supremacy.

It stares Daniel Radcliff taking on the main role of Nate Foster. He is a nerdy outsider who gets bullied in his work centre. At first he is reluctant to take on the undercover mission but once he is told he is the only person for the mission he discovers the passion within him self to take on the mission.

The film is told in a very simple way. It involves a linear narrative, simple character development, quams and dilemmas which are tackled by the protagonist and a resolution.  the film does not stray away from the savage reality of these white supremacist gangs. It involves the harsh societal norms in which they battle through such as fights, racist language, civil brawls between groups and trust within the "Movement".

The film manifests an idea that white supremacist gangs are more destructive to american than foreign terrorists. At the beginning of the film the chief of the FBI states how they need to investigate an african group of terrorists who are suspected of bombs threats. But the character states how the last bombing attempt was done by a KKK member.

Planet Earth 2 Islands.


This documentary was released in 2016 in November and explores the wild life and nature which surrounds the islands which circle the world. The documentary was produced by the BBC natural history unit.
It takes on the observational mode of documentary. This form of doc usually is the most authentic in dealing the with the real. The documentary films the real which supposedly occurs in front of the camera. techniques include long takes, inferring the filmmaker has not interfered with the 'real' by editing things out and synching sound, adding to the illusion. But it has a key factor which observational modes don't have. Which is a voice of God narration. David Attenborough narrating over the film. This voice over therefore also makes it a expository mode.  An expository mode uses common techniques which are found in fiction films, which is tempo editing and musical score. The doc includes two giant komodo dragons fighting for territory. This scene is edited with fast paced cuts and an intense musical score creating an action film atmosphere to the scene. It is a mix of both modes; observational mode and expository mode, because it includes components from both mode.


There still could be doubt with it being an observational mode. The camera operators had problems trying to find and film a golden eagle. In one of the scenes they find a fox carcass and if fortunately a golden eagle arrives to scavenge for food. The authenticity of this fox carcass is some what of a mystery. It is never revealed how the carcass appeared there. This is why the observational mode can be questionable for this documentary. This documentary is meant to film animals in there natural environment but when they can't find the animals they make the animals find them. This hence forth isn't the 'real' and isn't an observational mode of documentary. This incident I believe happens in a lot of  the Planet Earth 2 series but with the power of editing they do not exhibit these incidents. BBC wants to portray wildlife in an unaltered way. This is why exclude any human intervention with the wildlife. I also believe that BBC have David Attenborough narrating it because audiences have grown a relationship with him thus trusting in what he says is the 'real'.  He narrates in a very innocent manner and says nothing controversial as a result this contributes to the growing relationship between him and his audience and the observational mode of the documentary.


In conclusion this documentary is a mixture of the observational mode and the expository mode of documentary. There are questionable factors in the documentary which make me doubt that it is uninfluenced and true nature.

Bridget Jones's Baby.

Bridget Jones's Baby is drama, comedy, romance directed by Sharon Maguire and is about the famous hopeless romantic Bridget Jones finding love again and bringing a new love into the world. The film was released in September 2016. It was produced by Debra Hayward, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan and the production company was Mirimax, Studio Canal and Universal Pictures. 

I believe it portrayed a very honest depiction of today's man and woman. the two male protagonists in this film are played by Colin Firth playing the role of Mark and Patrick Dempsey playing the role of Jack. When the two male characters would argue it wouldn't turn into a physical fight ,they would argue both with each other, sometimes calling each other rude names but it wouldn't develop any further. In the last Bridget Jones We saw Hugh Grant and Colin Firth fighting over Bridget Jones like two cave men. This film has matured the male representation and has turned it in to more of a sophisticated, sensible and modern image. The writers or producers might have done this to show a more positive representation of men and the fact that it is a woman and not some fox network, testosterone injected brute directing it, makes me believe that they wanted a very honest depiction of men. 

The depiction of the average woman is a very true representation. The main stereotypes of woman are they have to be sensible and respectful they have to be able to cook and clean, they are dependent on a man and are unintelligent and weak. These stereotypes are replaced with new ones to present more of a authentic representation of women. Bridget Jones is independent and has her own flat and job, she is intelligent and takes risks going to the festival, strong by carrying a baby on her own and still turning up to work and finally she's tough by taking on authoritarians in her work place.   

In conclusion Bridget Jones's Baby has a honest and true depiction of the modern woman and man today. 

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The Man who Squeezes man's muscles: The search for Purple Aki is a short documentary made by Benjiman Zand and was made in 2016 in September and is about the urban legend of Purple Aki and if it is true or not.
The film is single camera film with a voice of god narration and is a investigative documentary. so it poses a question and solves it and tries to solve it. It uses long shots of people walking along the side walk, waiting at the bus stop and walking through train tunnels. The long shot with the voice of god narration constructs this creepy and tense atmosphere. Almost like this urban legend is watching us.

It uses people's interviews to reconstruct events which have occurred with innocent individuals and the sinister Purple Aki. It was first a headliner for the Daily Mail, no surprise there, and it started to gain popularity from there.
"Muscle Obsessed Pervert".
TA lot of the shorts and scenes are taken at night contributing to the creepy atmosphere. With the people interviewed there a certain enigma about it maybe the filmmaker is trying to confuse the audience. It ends without a definitive answer and with text appearing in the shot saying "we tried to contact Akinwale Arobieke He did not want to speak". The text faded out of the shot. The use of the text appearing and disappearing is almost phantom like and contributes further to the enigmatic nature of the Film. n

Undefeated 

Undefeated is a documentary which is about the Manassas American football team who have never won a play off game and aim to win one this year. It fits in to the genre of social realism and sport. It's directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J Martin and was produced in the year of 2011. It has the themes of hope, character and strength. It is filmed through the means of hand held cameras. This enables it to achieve a honest aspect to the film. There is no narration through the film and it relies on Bill Courtney, The high school football team coach, to be able to take us through the team's journey on the pitch and off the pitch. The method of presenting a true documentary is subjective and is hard to create the reality of the subject but I believe that this gives a very true, honest and gritty portrayal of the Manassas's football team journey.  

The absence of a narrator presents the film in a pure fashion. If there was to be a narrator it could give a different and more structured format. The concept of getting the coach to narrate contributes to the film's pure style. The people's lives and struggles became struggles with the audience. It was heart wrenching to see that "Money" couldn't play football his team because he broke his leg. The team's conflicts were felt through the coach and the coach then emphasized how important this was to us. The audience then was able to see what the coach thought and what the team and the individual thought.  

What Makes a Documentary?  

Documentary is a term that is popularly used first by John Grierson, to  describe Robert Flaherty's film "Moana", coming from the French documentaire, a form that grew out of realities actually cinema. While describing one feature from "Moana" the term gained a new meaning in relation to the film's approach to depicting the real. However a more familiar use of the term presented its self after the birth of early cinema with the polish filmmaker Boleshaw Matuszewski, who suggested a use for the form as a museum of contemporary life, capturing events and activities which would be of interest for documentary.  

Documentary is an approach to real life events and activities opposed to fictitious events and activities. Dealing with issues of fact, of actuality. The approach is popular with audiences and is highly significant. John Grierson explained that it is not just actuality but it is the creative treatment to actuality. The filmmakers hand will always be behind the structured representation of the subject. What is seen on screen isn't always the actual truth and is sometimes what the filmmaker wants you to see.  

The process of constructing the images seen on screen give them meaning. Images do not posses meaning on their own. Therefore on a grand scale a filmmaker can never depict the real, so instead exhibits a selective "real". It is argued that only the true documentaries were made in the original early cinema of actualities.  

There are many documentaries in the modern film world today. Documentaries have expanded into different genres now. Social realism is a popular selection for documentaries such as "race riots", "on benefits and proud" and "far right and proud" etc. People enjoy watching social realism's because the documentary takes them too a place where they don't to go because they're scared or they can't go to. Another popular genre in documentary is biography. The documentary film "AMY" by Asif Kapadia won an academy award for best documentary feature. People take pleasure in learning about their favorite celebrities lives.  

You could say that the only way to make true and real documentary is place a camera, press record and don't touch it but in the process of doing that you have planned where that camera has been placed, what way it's going to point and so on. Therefore by that example you can never get a true documentary. I believe that's what makes documentaries so interesting because it's filmmakers trying their hardest to get a true and honest depiction the real. 

Winter's Bone Tom Slade 

Winter's Bone is a film directed by Debra Granick. It was made in 2010 and it is a thriller, social realism and drama. The film is about a girl named Ree who struggles to keep her family fed has to hunt down for her drug dealing father so that she can keep her house. The film deals with the themes of protection, misandry, misogyny and determination. It's strong female lead, Ree, is played by Jennifer Lawrence. `her performance in this film earned her a nomination a academy award winner for best performance.  

The definition of misandry is dislike of, or contempt, or ingrained prejudice against men. The male character's within the film are represented negatively. Ree's father is a drug dealer and has left them, Teardrop (Jessup's Brother) is aggressive towards his wife and females in particular and is a drug dealer, The Farmer who lives across from Ree's house bullies her into getting him in the car and the list goes on. These male characters construct a negative representation for men in this film. Men seem to be represented as stubborn and misogynistic.  This film doesn’t particularly portray women in a positive way. The main character Ree has the attributes of a strong independent female but other females characters such as Gail and Teardrop's wife are represented as dependent and weak individuals. It exhibits the male and female stereotypes. Potentially this film is trying to that these stereotypes are wrong prejudice  

This film is a more realistic version of the hunger games. The lead character is played by the same actor and the protagonist has the same initial goal. Which is to protect her family. "Catness" volunteers as tribute because she wants to save her little sister from the hunger games. Ree goes on this mission to find her father because she knows that she will lose the house and then potentially send her family into famine. You could say that they are both up against the authoritarians in their society. Ree is up against the men and the law and "Catness" ends up going up against "Snow" the dictator. The film releases are only separated by two years. Gary Ross (director of Hunger Games) maybe saw Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone and spotted potential. The characters are similar and their goals making it easier for Jennifer Lawrence to be chosen because it wouldn't be much of a change of character. Jennifer Lawrence achieved Best Actress from various academies. The differences in this film are the setting and time period. 

Enemy film analysis.

Enemy film analysis

Enemy is a film directed by directed denis villeneuve in 2013. The film fits into the genre of thriller and drama. The themes of the film are personality disorder, spiders and control. The film has an incredibly thought provoking narrative plot structure. The protagonist is played by jake gyllenhaal and is named adam and anthony. 

My theory for the two characters looking exactly the same is that they are actually the same person. the first character is Anthony St.clare. St.clare in german means hypocrite. He second character is Adam Bell. The surname bell is an attention seeker, am exclamation mark to illustrate how something is wrong with him. Anthony's wife knows he has a split personality but plays along with it because she loves him and doesn't want to hurt him. The director has made it seem like these two character are two different people but with the exact same looks and physical attributes. The character Adam states in one of his lectures that he the first time a political event happens twice and how the second time it is a farce. The definition of Farce is an event or situation that is absurd or disorganised. My hypothesis is that adam is the farce. So the first one Anthony is the first event or situation (which goes well- evident that he is a actor with a beautiful wife and she's pregnant) and Adam is the second event or situation which is why he is neurotic and has a lower economical status-  evident that he is a university professor. 

Spiders are a visual metaphor for something which is important. There are four scenes with visible spiders in the film. One in the strip club, two is the woman in the hall way upside down, three is the giant spider which walks across Toronto and four is the giant spider at the end of the film. I believe that in the club at the beginning the men are not enjoying them selves and the woman on the table is not pleasuring her self but actually giving birth to a spider.  When the spider appears everyone seems disappointed and disgusted. The second spider scene or sequence is P.O.V shot through Anthony's eyes. His inner troubles are reflected in the outside world. The third time the giant spider above the city walking, it is not real since there is no shots of people looking up above their heads reacting to it. The giant spider is a metaphor for something moving through the city. The final one is the scene where Adam walks in to his wife's room and there is a massive spider. Adam's face exhibites signs of disappointment. The same facial expression from the beginning of the film. This is because he knows he isn't Adam anymore, it is Anthony who sees the spider. The spider represents Anthony's sex drive. Anthony is the spider. Every time he gets excited the spider instinct kicks in. He sees spiders in the club with the women, His wife turns in to the spider when he looks at her and the woman walking down the hall way turns into a spider. Anthony is not resenting that he is a father and it's not the relationship which is suffocating him but it's the drive inside him which doesn't let him rest. He is disappointed that he cannot control his urge. But he wants to and this is why he creates a multiple personality which is a professor who teaches every thing about control and has a monotonous machine like life.  

Case Studies 

The selfish Giant- Clio Barnard, 2013

Genre- social realism, drama 

Themes- exploitation, friendship, poverty, anger 

Important scenes- opening scene, Swifty death, kincking the horse and the copper wire for the first time, Washing up scene, fight scene, ending scene

Fish Tank- Andea arnold, 2009
Genre- Social realism, drama, coming of age
Themes- escapism, poverty, control, life, destiny

Important scenes- opening scene, Trying to free the horse, Horse Dies, First time connor is round, Connor sex scene, Strip club scene, Ending scene, Car scene, Connor leaves and Mia runs after him.

My Brother The devil- Sally El hosiani, 2012
Genre- Social Realsim, drama
themes- Aspiration, Family, Loyalty, love/friendship- relationships

Impotant scenes- opening scene, Friends dies, Rash gets kissed by Sayyid, Rash Can't kill Demon

71- Yann Demannge, 2014
Genre- Thriller, Period Drama
Themes- Betrayal, humanity, loyalty

Important scenes- Opening scene, ending scene, Gary and Bridget (why do they fight), staff sergeant betrayal scene, doctor and Gary (piece of meat scene) 

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Reflective Analysis

Through out my film I wanted to focus on the micro features usually used in the horror genre. I decided upon the horror genre for my film because I personally derive gratification from the thriller genre and I admire some of the complex intricut narrative plot lines in thriller films such as the film insidious. I decided at the beginning of my pre production my narrative would also be complex. My narrative wasn't multi stranded but it was thought provoking with the cliff hanger left at the end and the enigmatic photos. 

I wanted to create the theme of enigma with the protagonist. he opens the folders and doesn't understand what's going on- this is told by his facial emotions and body language. When the first file appears on his screen I had a mid shot to include enough emotion from Luke but i didn't want a close up because it would deliver to much tension to the sequence. I didn't want to do that because it is to early to intiate a flux of emotions  yet I wanted to include a small quatatity of character  emotion so that the metaphorical roller coaster of emotion starts. Luke frowns and his eyes squint. He mimes the word "what". The nuances exhibited by the facial expressions develop the character to allow the audience to build a concrete understanding of the character. His knee jerk reaction to the file appearing is to look out the window. But he doesn't just pear through the window he crawls off the bed, opens the window and sticks his head out the window. I believe that this specific reaction high lights his determined personality. This reaction with the scattered books on the floor and the fact that it is night time paints a portrait that he has a determination to finish what ever he starts. Luke is the one to open the folder, in consequence he is the one who initiates the narrative plot line. Luke, knowing that he started something he wants to finish it. This performance reaction with mes en scene builds a certified character development. 

My second sequence starts when Luke opens up the second file I wanted to conjure up more of a mysterious atmosphere. So I added a creepy score in the back ground of the sound. This sound track had a minimalistic approach of creating suspense. It has loud crescendo pasts or unexpected spikes in volume. It was constant and had the sound of deep low strings being played. The sound track initiated when Luke clicked on the second folder. 

My objective through out the film was to confuse the audience and give them little fathomable information. This then boggles the audience. BUT I didn't want to do it much because the audience loses interest because it is to hard to keep up with the film's narrative. Such as the film by Christopher Nolan Inception. - I allowed the audience the ability to "catch up" with the narrative when Luke calls his friend max for a kind of reality check and confirmation. max suggests that it might be another friend hacking into his laptop. The character Max was meant to be a escapism for the audience, from the narrative. Max takes us back to reality. He suggests reasonable and down to earth answers. The shot with max and Luke in the same frame is there create contrast.

Luke has clearly been working for a long time and is becoming slightly delusional. This could be all in his head from the beginning. The mes en scene tells the audience that he has been working for a very long time and he is tired. He is clearly tired, evident from the visible sleep bags under his eyes and he rubs his eyes through out the film. This demonic entity chasing him through the pictures could be a self illusion made by his own delusional state of mind.  I have made this a question to the audience so that it adds to the confusion of narrative. 

It is common to see progression in film when a character is moving from the left side of the screen to the right side of the screen. It is a common conception put into practice in films. I decided to use this concept in my film when Luke moves from his bed to the door with the cricket bat in his hand. luke is moving from the right side of the screen to the right side of the screen highlighting how he isn't progressing in his journey and by moving left he is further deepening him self into a enigmatic conclusion. He finds no evidence of anyone outside when looking out of his room. therefore suggesting that this trip has solved nothing. 

DNA Production Company

DNA  Production Company 

Who are they? 

DNA films and TV are a production company owned and run by Andrew MacDonald and his producing partner Allon Reich and is one of the UK's most successful production company. It was founded by Duncon Kenworthy. It was set up in 1997. 

Duncan Kenworthy is British film producer started his career in television, after he graduated from Christ's college, Cambridge, producing a series popular shows such as Fraggle Rock, The story teller and story tell: Greek Mythology which at the time was quite succesful and won him a TV BAFTA in 1989 and 1992 for best children's program. Shortly after he produced four weddings and a funeral which earned him a total of about $246,000,000. the success of the film gave him a BAFTA award in 1995 therefore making his production company a trademark success, He was the chairman of the BAFTA's between 2004 and 2006.  

Feature films include trainspotting (1996), 28 days later (2002), The last king of Scotland (2006), The history boys (2006), Sunshine (2007), Dredd (2012) and Ex Machina (2014)

DNA FILMS partners with Fox network group to create new TV company DNA TV limited. New venture to produce dramas, comedies and Limited Series for World-Wide Distribution. UK based DNA has teamed up with Fox networks group (FNG) to make their first foray into television. The new company will call on DNA’s deep relationships with an incredible stable of UK-based writing, producing and directing talent, to create TV dramas, limited-run “event” series and comedies for UK and international broadcasters around the world. Fox network will have the first look to provide co-finance.

DNA films connection to global distribution network assisted them to make notable DNA films, making the production company successful particularly in advertising terms of getting the attention of their target audience. Additionally DNA films is also supported and funded by UK film council which distributes government grants and findings from the national lottery community. 

DNA TV Limited will be owned and operated as an independent TV production company.  The management and creative decision making of the company will reside in the UK.  Andrew MacDonald stated  that he believed utilizing the British talent and Broadcasters they can produce great television that will resonate in the UK and hopefully as well as with fox's audience in the US and around the globe. I suspect that DNA has done this to achieve a wider audience and therefore increasing it's awareness and it's globalization. 

Weekly Film School Portrait

School Portrait is a short film directed by Nick Scott and produced by virgin media shorts film competitor. This film's genre is comedy and drama. The themes of the film are blissful ignorance and finding hope. The film is about a school photographer who is taking school photos for primary school children. But this does not go as usual as you expect. For every child who comes through the door and sits down  he gives a vision of what the future will be for them by saying Mortgage, banking crisis, no pet haven and university fees and so on. When ever he says these lines the children have to repeat what he says and when they do they are saddened and say the line in a very monotonous way.  Except for the last child who can't stop smiling. The man has been trying for some time to stop her smiling. You can tell that he has been trying because he starts his sentence with "and" suggesting that he had been trying to get this girl to stop smiling earlier by saying his usual lines but she was still smiling. His arm is over his head highlighting how he might be tired of trying to get this girl to be disgruntled and frown. But this girl no matter what he says still smiles. It gets serious when the man comes up to the camera for a close up. You can clearly see the frustration in his face (this is why it's a close up). When he comes closer to the camera he starts talking about divorce and moving house. You can tell he is talking from past recent experience because after the reverse shot on the girl he backs away from the camera and sighs, drops the trigger for the camera and puts his arms over his head almost like he is realizing how monotonous his life has become with his wife leaving him and having to move house. It then switches to a close up of the man's hand. The girl's hand puts the trigger back into his hand. He then realizes that this girl won't stop smiling for her picture. This gives him a feeling of hope. Although it may be going bad for him now, with his wife leaving him, but he still has loads of his life left. In the next shot it is a wide and long shot. It shows that the man's arms position has changed and dropped down to his legs. He is saying how he might get a new house. The conversation subject matter and informal body language highlights that the man has been talking to the girl for some time. The girl after the man asks if her mum is single shrugs. This suggests that the girl has either been not talking at all and simply giving of body language answers or she has been saying one word answers. This, for the man. is almost like his therapy to get over his recent past quams. I noticed that he says "is your mum single" this is a turning point for him because he getting over his wife and moving on to different women and different things. The little girl's role seems small initially but in actual fact it is a very large a imperative role in the man getting over his dilemmas. There is a saying that close ups are for drama and tension and long shots are for comedy. This is evident in this film when it is a close up it creates tension and drama for when he is reminiscing about his past life and when it is a long shot we see that the man has been talking for a long time with the girl therefore delivering comedy. This film shows me that the you don't need many actual shots to convey a meaningful piece of drama. It has a very minimalistic and unique way of creating a drama and story. 

Lord of the Rings 

The film Lord of the rings trilogy is directed by Peter jackson This is all from a devoted Christians opinion. Lord of the rings is an allegory for separate religions. The elves represent the Christians. They are tall, blonde, the superior race, and they eventually will travel in to the un dying lands of the valar. The dwarves represent the stereotypical jew. They have big noses and have lots of money. the dwarves throughout the film are constantly picked upon just as the jews were through out the film. The Orcs and and orchids represents satan's army. They are evil and fallen elves. Just as satan's army is full of fallen angels. The race of men are to represent the atheists and agnostics. They have little faith and wisdom and will predominantly focus on building castles and kingdoms. The wizards all represent angels sent from god. Gandalf is sent from illuvatar and just as jesus does resurrects from the dead.  

What Richard Did

What Richard Did is a thriller, social realism and drama. It was made in 2012 and it was directed by Lenny Abrhamson. It is about a Boy named Richard who's life is turned into a spiral of depression when he hears his rugby friend was found in a ditch near the house party he was at last night. The themes of the film are betrayal, friend ship, relationships, family and love.

This film portrays a perfect picture of evocative portrait of guilt and mourning whilst also parsing stickiest notions of guilt and innocence. Richard keeps flip-flopping on the idea of turning himself in as he learns he's not a suspect, a wishy-washy belief that suggests nothing. It frees him, the idea of coming clean, but at the same time he understands the pain and suffering he would be causing his family and community by going away. Richard seems like he would do a lot more good out of prison than inside, particularly with the upcoming young kids he's shepherding through school. What's important, What Richard Did asks, is that we understand the difference between binary understandings of good and bad, and why it's never as simple as making amends or admitting to an accident. Tough and unsentimental, What Richard Did is a superb examination of the thin line behind harmless recklessness and stark tragedy.

What Richard did represents that admitting to your mistakes is not always the greatest moral way out of turmoil. Richard's father understands and empathizes with his son that simply admitting will not solve his problems. This is shown through the performance and cinematography. The shot within in the scene where Richard tells his father that he killed Connor is on sticks and it is a close up. This shot drags for a considerable amount of time therefore allowing the audience to feel the pain and suffering that Richard is in. The close up allows the audience to fathom what the characters are feeling by seeing their facial expressions and the tight framing centres the attention on the characters emotions. I do believe that the scene did achieve it's meaning of displaying the character's emotion. But I believe that they could have included more close ups of the father's hands on Richard's head or a tear running down of his face. This would have shown the relationship between the father and Richard and therefore able to show the audience more of the emotion.

Miracle at St Anna vs Inglorious Basterds.

Miracle at st Anna was made in 2008 and was directed by Spike Lee. The genre of the film is action, thriller and period drama. The themes of the film are  racism, White Supremacy, war, survival, trust, betrayal, mythology, religion and death. The Film Inglorious Basterds was directed by Quentin Tarantino and was made 2009.  The film's genres are action, thriller and period drama. The film's themes are bigotry, hatred, survival, trust, racism and disloyalty.

The film similarities are that they both do not glamourise world war two. Quentin is excessive use of blood in his films. He does not hide away from showing how rough the war really war. For example in inglorious basterds, LT Aldo Reighn wants as many Nazi scalps as possible and there are plenty of times you view the scalp of a Nazi being taken off. There is also the last scene where two of the inglorious bastards are shooting hitler and himler. In Miracle at st Anna there is the scene where the Nazis start shooting through the trees whilst the Americans are walking over the river and a soldier in front of Sam Train gets shot and blood is splattered Sam's face. There is also the scene where loads of Italians are all shot in front of a church. Even after all of them have died Max Malatesta goes round shooting the rest of them to death. There is a link of mythology in both of these films. Inglorious Basterds the scalps are represented as a strength item, the more have the more powerful you are or the more legendary you become. A lust of power is shown through LT Aldo Reighn. he repeatedly states how he wants scalps. Now the representation of mythology in the film Miracle at St Anna is shown in the statues head. Sam train in the first battle scene stands there whilst there are many explosions and gun fire going on and Sam doesn't get shot or hurt. Sam also lifts the wooden bar of the boy to save his life. Sam also gets shot multiple times and still is able to lift another soldier. Sam states how the statue's head gives it the owner or the occupier of the head the strength of 5 men and the heart of a lion. Mythology is represented to be an enhancement to who ever wields the mythological object.

The differences between the two films is the forth wall break in inglorious basterds and the more realistic character development in Miracle at St Anna. The forth wall is illusive through out inglorious basterds. During the end of the film there is the film of Fredrick Zoller shooting loads of enemies. As an audience reaction to fredrick Zoller's film I am disgusted because it is mindless violence. The audience watching Fredrick Zoller's film in the scene are laughing and cheering. But when watching inglorious basterds I realised that I am also laughing and cheering at mindless violence. I am like the Nazis in the cinema at the end of inglorious basterds. Quentin Tarantino is almost mocking the audience by putting this is in and getting the audience to realise that we are just as bad as the Nazis laughing at the film. The character development in Miracle at st Anna is a lot more realistic and believable. I think that this is the consequence from  having four major key characters. Sam, Hector, Bishop and Stamps. Yet inglorious basterds has 12 major characters therefore it would be difficult to keep steady development on each character.

COULSDON COLLEGE: MEDIA TEXT INFORMATION SHEET

TITLE:

Wallace and Grommit - the Curse of the were rabbit

YEAR OF PROD:

2005

TYPE:

FILM A

TELEVISION

DOC.

MUSIC

ADVERT

MUSIC VID.

OTHER:

DIRECTOR

Steve box and Nick Park

PRODUCER

claire jennings, peter lord, nick park, carla shelley, david sproxtin

WRITER

nick park, steve box, mark burton, bob baker

PRODUCTION COMPANY

KEY CAST /ARTIST

Peter Sallis, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fiennes

KEY CREW

Music by Julian Nott Cinematography by Tristan Oliver ... director of photography Dave Alex Riddett Film Editing by David McCormick Angharad Owen Gregory Perler Casting By Jennifer Duffy ... (as Jenny Duffy) Production Design by Phil Lewis Art Direction by Alastair Green Sarah Hauldren Matt Perry Production Management Giles Johnson ... production manager Michael Solinger ... post-production supervisor

GENRE

animation, comedy, family and thriller

BUDGET

30,000,000

BOX OFFICE

192,000,000

THEMES

legend, myth, relationship, trust, man’s best friend, humane

AWARDS

NARRATIVE: the protagonist- wallace and grommet. more grommet than wallace. Lady tottey as the damsel in distress The were Rabbit- unexpected villain- actually wallace antagonist- victor quartermaine, Great plot twist- the realisation point is when grommit stumbles upon the half eaten vegetables in wallace’s room and realises that wallace is the were rabbit. Equilibrium- the part where pesto company are taking care of the rabbits for the neighborhood disturbance- The first night when the whole neighborhood is calling for pesto.   realisation- when wallace notices his furry rabbit ears.