The Dorm - Film (Week 12)

Crew:
Director - Rachel Talalay
Writer - Sean Hood
Producer - Michael Frislev & Chad Oakes
Music - David C. Williams.
Cinematography - Craig Wrobleski

Cast:
Sarah - Cassie Steele
Marcus Harp - Jake Croker
Vivian - Alexis Knapp
Phillip - Max Lloyd-Jones
Heather - Rami Kahlon

Genre:
Horror.

Themes:
Trust, Friendship, Betrayal.

Budget:


Box Office:


Time:
79 minutes.

Year:
2014.

Production Company:
Normadic Pictures.

Narrative:
The Dorm is a psychological horror movie that revolves around an awkward college freshman who struggles with major self-esteem issues but undergoes a transformation into a flawless, seductive beauty at the hands of her new dorm mates. But what she doesn't know is that she is being turned into an ex room mate.

Trust:
Trust is a major theme within the film. It shows you cannot really trust people you do not know. The friends seemed very nice and welcoming at first, but they would do anything to get their own way. They lured her in and she could not escape. 

Friendship:
Friendship is another main theme within the film. The new dorm mates seem to want to be her friend but end up only using her to bring back an old friend.

Betrayal:
Finally, betrayal is another theme within the film as the dorm mates lead the protagonist in to being their friend. They help change her appearance to make her look better, and also make herself feel better. But they en up betraying her and killing her to bring back their old friend from the dead. 

A Teacher - Film (Week 11)

Crew:
Director - Hannah Fidell.
Producer - Hannah Fidell & Kim Sherman.
Writer - Hannah Fidell.
Music - Brian McOmber.
Cinematographer - Andrew Dorz Palermo.

Cast:
Diane Watts - Lindsey Burdge.
Eric Tull - Will Brittain.
Sophia - Jennifer Prediger.
Jessica - Julie Dell Phillips.
Hunter Watts - Jonny Mars.

Genre:
Drama, Romance.

Themes:
Love, Trust, Obsession.

Year:
2013.

Budget:
(Low budget known).

Box Office:
$8,348 (?)

Running Time:
75 minutes.

Production Company:
Oscilloscopes Laboratories. (Independent Company)

Performance:
The Performance for this film is very unique and unlike many other films. The film relies heavily on the emotions shown of the actors to give the story across to the audience. The facial expressions from both the actors are shown very well, they are not over the top but they aren't too little. It is very realistic. Many of the emotions shown are either sad ones or happy ones. As there are many close ups during the sad emotional scenes, the audience feel closer to the audience because they are possibly seeing the characters in their worst state. 

Lighting:

The lighting within the film is very natural. During very emotional scenes the lighting can get very dark to give off more of an intense atmosphere for the audience. Lighting is a big part of films as it can help change the mood. The natural lighting also keeps the film look and feel more realistic for the audience to watch. The murky, dark night scenes can show how they know they shouldn't be together and can somewhat connote the bad and 'dark' ending that the movie has.

Obsession:
The theme of obsession is very important to the film as it is based around it. The teacher becomes too reliable and too in love with the student that she becomes obsessed with him. She keeps everyone at a distance. She constantly checks her phone to see if there are messages from Eric and looks through his facebook photos.

Pan - Film (Week 10)

Crew:
Director - Jason Wright
Writer - Jason Fuchs
Producers - Greg Berlanti & Paul Webster & Sarah Schechter
Music - John Powell
Cinematographer - John Mathieson & Seamus McGarvey
Film Editing - William Hoy & Paul Tothill

Cast:
Blackbeard - Hugh Jackman
Peter - Levi Miller
Hook - Garrett Hedlund
Tiger Lily - Rooney Mara
Sam Smiegal - Adeel Akhtar

Genre:
Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Themes:
Family, Trust 

Year:
2015

Running Time:
111 minutes

Budget:
$150 million

Box Office:
$123 million

Production Company:
Warner Bros, RatPac-Dune Entertainment

Narrative:

A 12 year old orphan child is brought to a magical world called Neverland, where he discovers his importance there. He needs to become the hero that Neverland was waiting for. 

Sound:

The sound within this film using lots of non diegetic music and sounds. The music adds a lot of emotion and tension to specific moments during scenes. Without the music the film would not have to desired affect it does on the audience. For example, during a battle scene, there would be fast music with lots of crescendos. This would make the audience feel tense but also gives them an adrenaline rush. Other scenes would have slow, emotional and soft music to give off an emotional and sad atmosphere which could make the audience feel sorry for the character and feel closer to them. 

Mise en scene:

Mise en scene within this film was very good, the first scenes were showing London, but the scenery and costumes gave the hint that is set within world war 2. Then never land was very extravagant. It seemed like a dream world which was made up from someone's imagination. This would make the audience want the urge to live here or visit there. They want to be part of the film. 

'71' - Film Analysis

Crew:

Director - Yann Dermange

Writer  - Gregory Burke

Producers - Angus Lamont & Robin Gutch

Music - David Holmes

Cinematographer - Tat Radcliffe

Editors - Chris Wyatt

Cast:

Garry Hook - Jack O'Connell 

Thommo - Jack Lowden

Training Corporal - Paul Popplewell 

Jimmy - Adam Nagaitis

Carl - Joshua Hill

Themes:

The themes within the film include things such as Betrayal, Trust, Violence, and Exposure.

Genre:

The film falls under the genres of Action, Drama, and Thriller.

Year:

71 was released in 2014.

Running Time:

The film runs for 99 minutes.

Budget:

The budget for this film was £8.1 million.

Box Office:

The film made £1.6 million in the box office.

Production Company:

The production companies for this film are Crab Apple Films, Protagonist Pictures, Warp Films.

Sound:

The sound within 71 is very is very unique at times. One particular moment that caught my attention was the bomb scene. When the bomb goes off, all of the sound becomes diluted and there is a constant non diegetic ringing sound over the top. This makes the audience feel like they are part of the scene and as they can hear what the characters can hear. It can make the audience agitated because they noise is constant and they want it to end which is what the characters want. 

Cinematography:

The foot chase is shot with a handheld camera to bring a sense of terror to the scene for the audience. The camera moves a lot and is very jults a lot, showing the urgency that the protagonist has to escape the pursuers. Over the top was up beat non diegetic music and heavy sounds of fast breathing, making the scene even more intense for the audience.

Trust:

Trust is a big part of the film as the protagonist has to trust a little boy who says he will bring him back to his barracks. Nearer the end, he also trusts the Irish couple to look after him and stitch him up, and he trusts the young boy not to shoot him at the end. Within the film, trusting people is hard because you do not know who is on what side. Which is why the protagonist is held back when trusting the child because he did not know where he was being taken. He has to trust people and rely on them in order to get back to where he was.

Exposure:

I think exposure is another main theme within the film because the protagonist is not in his own territory. The people living there want to kill him, therefore he is very exposed to lot of danger and has to try and survive. He is in an environment he doesn't know off and has to trust others to help him, not knowing whether they will kill him or not.

Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 - Film (Week 9)

Crew:
Director - Francis Lawrence
Writers - Peter Craig & Danny Strong
Producers - Nina Jacobson & jon Kilik
Music - James Newton Howard
Cinematographer - Jo Willems
Editors - Alan Edward Nell & Mark Yoshikawa

Cast:

Katniss Everdeen - Jennifer Lawrence
Peeta Mellark - Josh Hutcherson
Gale Hawthorne - Liam Hemsworth
Haymitch Abernthy - Woody Harrelson
President Snow - Donald Sutherland

Genre - Action, Sci-Fi, Adventure.

Themes - Love, Courage, Power, War.

Running Time - 136 Minutes.

2015 Film.

Production Company - Lionsgate, Color Force.

Budget - $120 million
Box Office - $100 million (first weekend)

Narrative:
Katniss and her friends, Peeta, Gale and Finnick team up for the ultimate ending. Together, they leave District 13 and head towards the Capitol with all the rebels from the other Districts, with only one mission, to kill President Snow. What lies ahead of them is the toughest Hunger Games yet. With the city covered in traps created by many Game-Makers, they have to make their way through to even get close to the Presidents mansion.

Cinematography:
Many establishing shots are used within the film, not only to show the audience where about they are and where the film is set, but to make the characters look small against the giant city. It will give the audience the impression that the character don't stand a chance against the capitol.

Sound:
The music and sound within this film is very strong and is very fitting for the moments it is used. During scenes with lots of tension, the music would make it even more tense for the audience. The music makes the film more interesting and gripping for the audience and allows them to feel more emotions. 
During the scenes when the characters are underground, there are moments when everything goes silent. This will make the audience feel on edge because they will feel awkward. They will want something to happen. 

Audience

There are three theories to to concept of audience. The theories are The Hypodermic Needle, Uses & Gratifications and The Reception Theory. They all have very different uses and goals within them. 

The Hypodermic Needle Theory:
This theory is about how the media has power over the mass population and is influencing them by injecting information into their heads for them to believe so they can get the desired response they want. The audience is seen as powerless and cannot withstand the effect of the information given. The audience would then start to believe it because different platforms of media are giving the same information. Many think this is the reason that there is a link between the violence seen on TV, films and video games and the violence in real life.
Children seem to be influenced most from the media as they are not fully developed to know what is right or wrong. They would imitate and copy what they see. For example, Jamie Bulger was murdered by two 10 year old boys. Apparently the boys had watched a Chucky film called 'Childs Play 3' before they had murdered the boy. They may have been influenced by the film because his death was quite similar to one within the film. 

Uses & Gratifications Theory:
This theory is quite different to the the Hypodermic Needle theory as the media see the audience as normal people and let the audience make their own decisions on the media and interpret it how they like. The audience chose what media meets their needs and how they use with in their lives.
- Identity - Be able to identify the person or product you are being shown. Also to help form certain behaviours and values to you.
- Surveillance - Receive information that would be suitable and relevant to living. (Weather, finance)
- Education - Being able to receive information, have knowledge and understand the information in order to self educate.
- Entertainment - The media should be able to entertain so you enjoy it and you should be able to escape your worries for a short amount of time.
- Social Interaction - Media helps create friendships and communication with others. 
The internet lets us do all of these things. It allows us to be entertained via youtube because the audience are able to chose what they want to watch. This applies to films because the audience can chose whether they want to watch the trailer to a film. They are not forced to watch it. It helps the audience escape their worries of reality for a period of time.

The Reception Theory:
media texts are encoded by the created/producer and decoded by the audience. The media text may have a message to get across to the audience. They then interpret it in different ways. The audience are and it is understood that they can react in different ways. Many think that the reactions are caused by their cultural background and how they were brought up.
Dominant - The intended reaction that the media wanted. Audience believe and agree with the media. Not much different to the hypodermic theory.
Negotiated - Questioning the information received, but gives it a chance.
Oppositional - Completely against the information.
This comes into the film industry when there is a trailer for a film or the film itself. The audience are given choices whether they like it or not.
This also comes into film because the audience are given the chance to have their own opinions on them. They could either be Dominant and react to the film how the media want them to, Negotiated and give the film a chance, or oppositional and be totally against the film.

12 Rounds - Film (Week 8)

Crew:
Director - Renny Harlin
Writer - Daniel Kunka
Producer - Mark Gordon & Michael Lake & Josh McLaughlin
Music - Trevor Rablin
Cinematographer - David Boyd
Film Editing - Brian Berdan

Cast:
Danny Fisher - John Cena
Miles Jackson - Aidan Gillen
Molly Porter - Ashley Scott
George Aiken - Steve Haris 
Hank Carver - Brian White

Genre - Action, Crime, Thriller.

Themes - Love, Determination, fear, revenge.

Running time - 108 minutes.

2009 Film.

Production Company - Fox Atomic, Mark Gordon Company, The Midnight Sun Pictures.

Budget - $22 million.
Box Office - $18 million.

Narrative:
A cop called Danny Fisher (John Cena) stops a very successful criminal from performing a heist. During this, the criminals girlfriend is accidentally killed. For revenge, the criminal breaks out of prison to kidnaps Danny's fiancé. To get her back, Danny has to perform and successfully complete 12 extremely difficult tasks otherwise he will see her die at the hands of the criminal.

The cinematography in the film is very good. At the start of the film, the whole scene is quite intense. The camera movements make it seem like the audience are part of the film and viewed from specific characters points of view. For example, there are moments within the scene when the camera seems like binoculars zooming on on its target. It makes the audience feel part of the movie. There are many establishing shots to show the location of the film and to show how busy it is. Long shots changing to close up shots prove the style of the binoculars, showing the characters from afar and up close. High angles from the building tops makes it seem like the police looking down to the targets. most of the camera wok in the scene is hand held, making the audience feel past of the scene and to really get into the action. Fast paced music adds to the tension of the first scene and makes the audience engaged and on edge to see what is about to happen. The editing within the video is very quick, cutting between long shots and close up shots to add to the fast pace of the scene. Many close ups on characters faces make the audience see their real emotions and help them get closer to the characters.

Love:
Love is a main theme within the film because a the plot happened in revenge of love. The criminal lost his love and blamed it on Danny. Then took Danny's fiance to make him feel the pain he felt himself.

Determination;
Determination is another main theme within the film because Danny loves his fiance and would do anything to get her back. He completes all 12 tasks which test him to his limits but he still completes them.

Short Horror Film

When creating my idea, I started reading many short horror stories online. I came across stories that are just two sentences long. Here are a few examples:

"I woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, I thought it was the window, until i heard it coming from the mirror again."

"She asked why i was breathing so heavily. I wasn't."

"There was a picture in my phone of me sleeping. I live alone."

"I begin tucking him into bed and he tells me, "Daddy, check for monsters under my bed." I look underneath for his amusement and see him, another him, under the bed, staring back and be quivering and whispering, "Daddy, theres somebody in my bed"."

These sort of stories gave me the idea to do something like that. I watched some videos that are based on the two sentence horror stories.

During the 2am scene at its peak, I want this part to be like the moments within this trailer at 1:25. 

As the film has to be 2-5 minutes long, a suggested idea to me was to have the protagonist see the number '2' everywhere during the day. The film Focus does the same type of thing in this scene...

Images from movies that will influence the way my film is filmed:

tilted camera

low shots

close ups

UWantMeToKillHim? - Analysis.

Cinematography:
The cinematography within this film is very unique. When it is following the main protagonist, it is usually a handheld camera to show how his life is unsteady and not very good. It makes the audience feel part of his life as they feel like they are living it with him because it is a handheld camera. There are many close ups to him to show his emotions and to make the audience feel closer to him. during the scenes when he is online talking to people, there are extreme close ups on the words. This is to emphasise on the fact that when something is put online, it is there forever. It can also show how extreme some of the conversations are that he has.

Lighting:
The lighting during the film is very dull and cloudy, like England normally is, but it is like that from the start. It tells the audience straight away that it is not going to be a happy film. grey is seen as a dull, emotionless colour that represents loss and depression. This means the colouring of the film from the start somehow foreshadows what is going to happen at the end. There is loss and depression within the movie. The only time the protagonists face is lighten up brightly is when he is on the computer talking to people. This shows how it is the only thing that makes him happy.

Mise en Scene:
The setting of the film is in London. There are many scenes in estates of flats. The characters there would wear hoodies which portrays the stereotypical type of person that lives there. Most of the clothing the protagonists wear are either their school uniform or hoodies. The school uniform can connote a young and innocent person but the story of the film makes the characters not innocent at all and they know what they are capable of doing.

Performance:
The young actors were very goof during the film. None of the line and emotions seemed forced which made the overall feel of the film very natural. The topic of the film was very serious, and the young actors portrayed it well in a sensible and accurate way. Their characters seemed very realistic and gave off a warming feel to them. This would mean the audience would be able to feel close to easily and understand them.

Trust, friendship and revenge are the main themes within the film, because trust is what the whole film and friendship relies on. The main protagonist (Mark) trusts people online too easily and early into their friendship and ends up falling for them. He even trusts someone online when they tell him to stab his best friend. He goes along with it and follows through with it. Revenge comes into it when he realises that the person he trusted was lying to him the whole time. He then does not regret stabbing him and says he deserved it.

Other themes include violence and obsession. Mark gets over obsessed with people online and it tends to consumes his whole life. He turns to violence when everything is bad, to think it would help sort everything out just because someone online told him to.

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension - Film (week 7)

Crew:

Director - Gregory Plotkin 

Producer - Orin Peli & Jason Blum

Cinematographer - John W. Rutland 

Editor - Michael Aller 

Cast:

Ryan - Chris J. Murray

Emily - Brit Shaw 

Leila - Ivy George 

Mike - Dan Gill

Skyler - Olivia Taylor Dudley 

Genre - Horror

Themes - Family, Exploitation

Running time - 88 minutes

2015 film

Production Company - Blumhouse Productions & Paramount Pictures

Budget - $10 million 

Box office - $16 million 

Key scenes:

- The ritual scene.
- The scene when the protagonists realise that what is happening is for a reason. (They notice they are in the house for a reason, the antagonists wanted them to be there. Their daughter has a connection with Hunter which is why they are being haunted.)

Narrative:
The story leads on from the third film, but includes a new family who find the tapes of Katie and Kristi. They soon realise within the tapes, Katie is describing their home. The adults of the family do research into the tapes and the events and find out that Hunter (Kristi's son) and the Leila (the little girl from the new family) have the same birthdays. 6th June, 2006. They also found a cult who use the blood of two firstborns to bring something into the world. In this case, Toby.

Lighting:

The lighting within this scene is very dark as it is night time. The lighting is quite natural but spooky. The dark colours and lighting gives a scary mood to the scene. When in the dark, the protagonists can seem helpless because they can not see very well. Most of the scene has dark black-like lighting. The colour black means power, death, and evil. The power is shown by the demon having power over the protagonists within the film. It is also the colour for grief, which is shown by Leila being controlled by the demon and taking her away from her family. 

Performance:

The acting within the scene is quite natural. The film series has been known for not using scripts for the films because they wanted the dialog to be as natural as possible. I assume the same has been done with this film. The dialogue from the mother sounded very worrying which was realistic and 

Sound:

The scene uses both non diagetic and diagetic sound. The diagetic sound being the recorder payed by Leila. It would have been edited to be heavier during the scene to give more of a sense of tensions. Although much of the sound would have been diagetic, it would still have been added it during the editing stages. Especially the bang on the window. 

Family is the main theme of the film. It shows how one thing can break a family apart and how they would put their lives on the line for each other to make sure they are okay. 

Another theme of the film is exploitation. The demon takes advantage of young Leila who does not know the difference between right and wrong. She does what Toby says and trusts him, not knowing the consequences. 

My Brother The Devil - Analysis

Crew:
Director - Sally Hosaini
Writer - Sally Hosaini
Producers - Gayle Griffiths & Julia Godzinskaya
Music - Stuart Earl
Cinematographer - David Raedeker
Editor - Iain Kitching

Cast:
Rashid - James Floyd
Mo - Fady Elsayed
Izzi - Anthony Welsh 
Sayyid - Said Taghmaoui
Hanan - Amira Ghazalla 

My Brother The Devil is a 2012 British film directed by Sally Hosaini. It is a social realism drama film and its main themes are love, hate, betrayal, family, violence and crime. The Production company for the film was Roots Nest Entertainment and the Wild Horse Films Company. The film earned $10,305 in the box office.  

The story is about two Arab brothers, living in Hackney. Mo idolises his older brother Rash, who is a businessman and a member of a gang as a drug dealer. He is able to use the money for family luxuries at home. This shows he is a caring person.
Mo is robbed by the rival gang and then calls Rash when he spots them at a corner shop. Demons (the rival gang leader) dog gets killed which makes him retaliate and kill Izzi, Rash's best friend. Rash gets a gun and heads to kill Demon but his little brother is there so Rash runs away. 
Rash grows close to Sayyid, a French photographer who was a friend of Izzi. He tells Sayyid that he wants to leave the gang which is when Sayyid offers Rash a job. 
Mo takes ups an offer to fill Rash's place in the gang when Rash ends up in an unexpected relationship with Sayyid.
Mo finds out they are together and tells Rash's former girlfriend that he is gay. She ends up spreading it around the gang. Someone gives rash details on Demons address which is actually a set up to kill Rash. However Rash does escape. 
Mo gets tricked into bringing members of the gang to Rash but ties to divert them when he sees a glove in one of their pockets. Mo ends up getting shot when he tries to protect Rash.
Rash sees Mo after he is release from hospital and they have a conversation. Rash walks away after they hug.

Love, hate and family are all themes that are shown together through Rash and Mo. Throughout the film they grow to hate each other. However they still love and care for each other when they look out for one another at the end of the film. For example, Mo protects Rash from being shot.

Violence and Crime go together hand in hand and are both shown throughout the entire film. This includes fighting, guns and drug dealing.

Betrayal is one of the main themes in the film and occurs a lot. Rash's brother betrays him when he finds out Rash is gay and also takes his place in the gang.
The gang also betrays Rash because they want to kill him after they find Rash is gay. 

Without mise en scene, the audience will not know what the film is about and where it is set. From the shots we can see graffiti on the walls and tall buildings that hold flats. We also see the people living there mainly wearing hoodies and tracksuits to try and blend in to the life of that area and try and stay within the mould that society there has created. Many of the props in the film are guns, drugs, knifes, alcohol and cigarettes. This shows it is a rough area because it connotes the violence and crime that is constantly happening there. 

The cinematography uses a handheld camera a lot to show the rough life of the people living there, and especially the main protagonists. this showed the audience how shaky their lives are living in that area and being surrounded by bad people. Many shots used are point of view shots, showing the audience what the characters see. This makes the audience feel closer to the characters in the film and see the plot through their eyes. 

Most of the cast in inexperienced but the acting within the film seemed very natural and not forced. James Floyd, who played Rash won an ward for best actor in this film. He would make the audience feel close to him because he can be relatable and his character was genuine.

UWantMe2KillHim? - Film (Week 6)

Crew:

Director - Andrew Douglas 

Writer - Mike Walden

Producer - Simon Crocker & Steve Golin 

Music - Jon Hopkins

Cinematographer - Tim Wooster

Editing - Michael Elliot

Cast:

Mark - Jamie Blackley 

John - Toby Regbo

Detective Sarah Clayton - Joanne Froggatt

Janet - Liz White 

Rachel - Jaime Winston

UWantMe2KillHim? is a 2013 British film Directed by Andrew Douglas. It falls within the genres of Drama and Thriller. The production company is Tribeca Films and the movie is 93 minutes long. 

I don't know exactly how much the film make but the budget was low. 

Story Narrative:

A schoolboy, Mark, used chat rooms a lot and falls in love with a girl called Rachel. She's makes him befriend her brother John. Rachel would tell Mark everything about her stories of domestic abuse from Kevin, her boyfriend. John informs him that Kevin had killed Rachel, making Mark plot revenge. He then plans to stab John after an MI5 agent contacts him. It is revealed hat John made up the entire thing. There is no Rachel or Kevin or MI5 Agent. He did it purely to get to Mark. 

Never Back Down - Film (Week 5)

Crew:

Director - Jeff Wadlow 

Writer - Chris Hauty 

Producer - Craig Baumgarten & David Zelon

Music - Michael Wandmacher

Cinematographer - Lukas Ettlin

Editors - Victor Du Bois & Debra WeinField 

Cast:

Jake Tyler - Sean Faris 

Baja Miller - Amber Heard 

Ryan McCarthy - Cam Gigandet 

Max Cooperman - Evan Peters 

Margot Tyler - Leslie Hope

Never Back Down is a 2008 film Directed by Jeff Wadlow. It's falls under the genes of Action, Drama and Sport. The production company is Summit Entertainment and its budget was $20 million. In the box office it made $24 million. The films running time is 110 minutes and it is rated PG-13. 

Story Narrative:

At his high school, Jake helps out a kid who is getting bullied. The boy invited Jake to learn martial arts with his trainer. Jake is then invited to a party of a friends boyfriend. The host of the party has seen footage of Jake helping Max (the boy who was being bullied) and challenged him to a fight. Jake refused but then accepts when his dead father was brought up. Jake unfortunately gets defeated. 

He enters the Beatdown competition just to face Ryan (the host of the party that beat him up). 

Both Ryan and Jake get into the semi-finals but Ryan is disqualified. Jake taps out because Ryan is out and all Jake wanted to do was face him. 

Ryan approaches Jake in the car park and they fight. 

Jake finally wins after a big fight. 

Micro-features Essay - (Draft 2)

The Hunger Games - Katniss and Peeta's Beach Scene.

Hunger Games Catching Fire was released on the 21st November 2013. It was Directed by Francis Lawrence, who also directed Hunger Games Mockingay, I am Legend and Lady Gaga's 'Bad Romance' music video. Its running rime is 146 minutes.
The genre of this film is Adventure, Sci-Fi, and Thriller. Its themes include love, trust, death, friendship, courage and competition.
The films Crew includes Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik (Producers), James Howard (Composer), Jo Wellems (Cinematographer) and Alan Bell (Film Editor).

The films includes actors like Jennifer lawrence who plays Katniss Everdeen, Josh Hutcherson who plays Peeta Mellark, Liam Hemsworth who is Gale Hawthorne, Woody Harelson who is Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks who plays Effie Trinket and Donald Sutherland who is President Snow.

The Production Companies for this film were Color Force and Lionsgate. Its budget was $130 million and in the box office it made $828 million worldwide.

The Narrative of the story carries on from the first movie instalment. After Katniss and Peeta won the 74th Hunger Games, they think they can just live their lives as normal. Until President Snow announces the 75th games, which is called a Quarter Quell. For this, the competitors (one boy and one girl from each district) will be chosen from the existing pool of victors. Katniss is the only female winner from her district. In the arena she teams up with Finnick and Mags, both from district four. What Katniss does not know is that the tributes had a plan with the Game-maker to save everyone and escape. The plan is to eliminate the victors that arent part of the plan first, by connecting wire to the tree that is struck by lightening every night and bring it to the water. The plan fails and the wire is cut. Katniss is attack and goes back to find Peeta buy only sees Finnick. She is about to kill him when she notices the lightening occuring in the sky. She attaches the wire to her arrow and fires it into the sky which causes a black out and the arena to shut down. The blast had Katniss near unconscience. She wakes up in an aircraft on her way to district thirteen because her home, district 12 has been destroyed.

The scene I am analysing is Katniss and Peeta's Beach scene when they are inside the arena.

Mise-en-scene immediately affects the audience with the colours used. The blue tint of colour used to help create the calm atmosphere that is created in the scene. The colour blue symbolises trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence and faith, most of which are noticed within the scene. 

Also, the positioning of the characters and the setting are a big part of mise-en-scene. The scene is set on a beach, with the waves gently flowing and the sunset fading. This is an ideal and romantic location for the audience. Katniss and Peeta (the characters in the scene) are positioned sitting close to each other. This could connote that they have some sort of close relationship. They are relaxed by the way they are sitting which shows they are comfortable in each other’s presence.

Both of the characters are wearing the same costume, a black, white and grey jumpsuit. The colour black means power, elegance, and death, while the colour grey is associated with loss or depression. This links to the story because there is a lot of loss and death. Their costumes are also worn out (dirty and partly ripped in places).

The only prop used in the scene is a gold locket, which Peeta gives to Katniss. Inside it are pictures of her loved ones. The locket gives her a reason to keep going. It is attached to a necklace, so when it is worn; the people in the photos are close to her heart. The colour of the locket is gold, which is precious metal which is associated with love, compassion, and courage. This links very well to the photos inside, because they are if the people she loves most, who are also the most precious to her.

As it is set on a beach, the sea gives off a really calm mood to the audience, making them feel at ease and relax with the sounds and look of it. 

During the kiss, Katniss and Peeta’s body’s turn into silhouettes in some way. The light background makes their bodies look dark. It will make the audience concentrate and observe the image so that they can directly relate to it and hopefully feel the moment.

There is a lot of dialogue and interaction between the two characters during the scene. They both speak with soft voices, which shows how they are comfortable with each other, but also to show the audience that they are being secretive and they are planning something that they don’t want the other characters to know about.

Throughout the scene, there are lots of pauses from each character. This is for dramatic effect and creates suspense for the audience keeps their attentions because they want to know what comes next.

As we know Katniss and Peeta already seem close by the way they are sitting on the beach. But then they kiss, which shows us that they are more than just friends. For the audience, this scene is perfect, the setting, and kissing on a beach when the sunset goes down. The audience will crave this. 

Katniss is much more negative than Peeta in the scene. She sees things in a much more realistic way and notices her surroundings. From this the audience realises how smart she is. Once she has her minds set on something, she will not change it. It shows her determination.

The overall acting is very natural and realistic. We understand this from the pauses in the scene and especially their facial expressions when they pause; it looks like their characters are really thinking about the certain situation. When Peeta gives her the locket, she doesn’t say anything, her facial expressions give away her reaction. The way she looks at the locket makes it seem like she is thinking about them which makes the audience feel sympathy for her because she may never see them again.

Katniss says one line that caught my attention. When Peeta is telling her that without her he’ll have nothing, Katniss says “Peeta...” in a very realistic way. It sounds like her voice is about to crack like she is going to cry. This lets the audience see a softer side to Katniss and how she really does care for Peeta.

The conversation gets really sad during the end when Peeta says he has no one. He puts on a smile even though he is sad. He does this to stay strong for Katniss, because he doesn’t want her to see him sad. The audience feel lots of sympathy for him because they know he isn’t happy but he still smiles through it. Also, Peeta looks to the floor a lot during the scene. This could be because he feels intimidated by Katniss as she is seen as the better fighter. He could also feel embarrassed because he is in love with her, but she isn’t in love with him. 

Katniss looks at the ground after she kisses Peeta, this could be to hide her true feelings from him, but could also mean that she regrets doing that because if they get too attached to each other while they are in the arena, and one of them dies, then the other will be in a very bad state.

After Peeta tells Katniss that no one needs him, she pauses and hesitates, then says “I need you”. She said this so he had something to fight for when he is in the arena. If she didn’t say it, he wouldn’t have anything to live for and would probably give up. However, she hesitated before she said it, debating whether she should say it or not. This makes it seem like she actually has feelings for Peeta and was nervous about telling him.

From Paris With Love - Film (Week 4)

Crew:

Director - Pierre Morel 

Producer - India Osbourne 

Music - David Buckley 

Cinematography - Michael Abramowicz

Film Editing - Frederic Thoraval 

Cast:

Charlie Waz - John Travolta 

James Reese - Jonathon Rhys Meyers 

Caroline - Kasia Smitniak 

Ambassador Bennington - Richard Durden 

From Paris with Love is a 2010 film Directed by Pierre Morel. It's genre is Action/Thriller. It's running time is 92 minutes its production company is EuroCorp. The films budget was $52 million and made $24 million in the box office. The main themes of the film are Love, Trust and Friendship. 

The narrative of the film is about an assistant of the American Ambassador in Paris. James works minor jobs in the CIA. Until he gets partnered with Charlie Wax (John Travolta)  Theyvgovon the hunt for terrorists that deal coccaine that are also going to attack the American Deligation. What James doesn't realize is that one of the terrorist are close to him than he thinks. The suicide bomber going to attack the deligacy is his fiancé Caroline. 

Role Within The Film Industry

James Wan is an Australian Director, Producer and Screenwriter.
He was born on the 26th February 1977 in Kutching, Sarawak in Malaysia.
He is worth and estimated $50 million.

He is known for directing SAW (2004), the Insidious franchise and the Conjuring (2013).

James Wan's Filmography:

Director:
SAW (2004)
- Budget $1.5 million
- Box Office $103.9 million

Dead Silence (2007)
- Budget $22 million
- Box Office $27 million

Death Sentence (2007)
- Budget $20 million
- Box Office $17 million

Insidious (2010)
- Budget $1.5 million
- Box Office - $97 million

The Conjuring (2013) 
- Budget $20 million
- Box Office $318 million

Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
- Budget $5 million
- Box Office $161.9 million

Fast and Furious 7 (2015)
- Budget $190 million
- Box Office $1.5 billion

The Conjuring 2 (2016)

Aquaman (2018)


Executive Producer 
SAW 2
SAW 3 
SAW 4
SAW 5
SAW 6 
SAW 3D


Producer
Annabelle
Demonic
Insidous Chapter 3
Lights Out

Video Games
Worked on the Saw video games
Directed the Dead Space game trailer


                   

The Selfish Giant - Analysis

Crew:
Director - Clio Barnard
Producer - Tracy O'Riodan
Writer - Clio Barnard
Cinematography - Mike Elay
Editor - Nick Fenton 
Composer - Harry Escott 

Cast:
Arbor - Conner Chapman 
Swifty - Shawn Thomas 
Kitten - Sean Gilder 
Mary - Lorraine Ashbourne 

The Selfish Giant is a 2013 film Directed by Clio Barnard. Its genre is Drama and Social Realism. The narrative of the story is about two young teenage friends named Arbor and Swifty, who turn to a scarpyard for jobs to try and support their family. Kitten, the man that runs the scrapyard, uses them to his advantage. By putting them into danger and taking their money. He makes them go and retrieve cables from a power station which is where the film reaches its climax. 

Arbor and Swifty are two complety different characters. Arbor is very agressive and restless while Swifty is gentle and slow. Even though the boys different, they are the best of friends which would make the audiences automatically like them because th boys do not care about the differences.

The cinematography used lots of establishing shots in this film. Which keeps the audience remembering where it is set and is closer to home than they think.
The shots show fields with horses on them, which is peaceful. It can represent Swifty and his love for them.
The cinematography could also show juxtaposition. For example, Arbor was going through the street with the horse and cart and also showing up to the school with it.

Another example could be Arbor and Swifty being the only children working at the scrapyard. The audience thinks it is wrong for them to be there but ultimately know it is realistic and happening in the modern day.

Power:
Kitten feels like he has power over the boys and can tell them what to do because they are chuldren. This would make the audience want to help the children because they dont really know what they are doing.

Trust:
The kids do not know Kitten that well but still trust him because he owns the scrapyard. This will frustrate the audience because they know it will not end well for them. 

Friendship:
The boys friendship is very strong, even though they have arguements, they still end up being the best of friends. When Swifty dies, Arbir is heartbroken. The audience will feel sympathy for him because they knew how good friends they were.

Exploitation:
Kitten uses the children to his advantage. He makes them go and do illegal deeds for his benefit, with them not knowing.