For making the Eternal Wanderer I looked at the Highlander movie Franchise, Doctor Who, Dracula and Disney Pixar's Wall-E for the inspiration.
Highlander was for the story of two Immortals fighting each other across the eras. Doctor Who was for the Immortal wandering across the world. Dracula was for the Evil Immortal wanting to spread chaos across the world. And Wall-E about someone who has been alone for so long falls in love with a girl.
For inspiration for the characters themselves I used Connor Macleod (Highlander), The Doctor (Doctor Who), and Wall-E (Wall-E) for Nathaniel because of how they have lived their lives as Immortals who open up their hearts but when their loved one pass on they remain young except for Wall-E who is a robot that cleans up the rubbish left behind by humans when they left the planet but when a female robot arrives to survey the earth to see if it's habitable. Wall-E after centuries of being alone is instantly attracted to her.
I used the Joker from Batman and the Master from Doctor Who as well as Norman Bates from psycho for Perseus because they are insane and have grudges against their respective heroes.
I used Mary Jane Watson from Spider man because of the Damsel of distress trope and Clara Oswald from Doctor Who because of her caring nature for Charlotte.
Connor MacLeod is a Scottish Immortal born in 1518, when his Immortality was first discovered he was threatened to be burned at the stake because of witchcraft but was banished instead. Over the centuries he fought Immortals while fighting other to the death. the prize being able to die which is a desire I think Nathaniel the protagonist from my short film would have after being alive for centuries.
The Doctor is a time travelling alien who is roughly two thousand years old. During his travels he had numerous companions who are usually Human and female, however he has had several non human companions who also been female but he has had at least two mechanical companions traveling with him a dog-based robot called K9 and a shape shifting humanoid robot called Chameleon. he has had several male companions bot human and non-human the female companions hold the majority. When the doctor is mortally wounded or his physical age gets to certain point the Doctor has the ability to regenerate literally becoming a new man (Height, voice, eyes, hair, skin colour even his personality is changed.) Through varying circumstances his companions leave him either death, they walk out the doors/get left behind or they forget him. The reason I used him for inspiration for Nathaniel is for the wandering across the world. as time changes he does not.
The Joker is a psychopathic comic character that was first introduced in the 1940's and has had numerous iterations across the decades. the particular version of the Character I am drawing inspiration from, is from the 1990's batman animated series iteration voiced by Mark Hamill. He Joker while working in a chemical plant fell into a vat of chemical waste that bleached his skin, turned his hair green and his lips bright red. said disfigurement rendered him insane. The Joker is a champion of chaos and destruction willing to kill everyone on a whim.
The Master is from the same species as the Doctor. they were even childhood friends but when they left Gallifrey they chose different paths. The Doctor chose to explore the universe and to help where he could. whereas the master chose to conquer the universe. his personality changes with each iteration but like the doctor a few things remain the same. His intelligence, his ruthlessness, his complete lack of regard for sentient life and his determination to take over the universe.
Patrick Bateman is a from a wealthy American Family so he has taste for the finer luxuries of life. but he is also a psychopath who kills his co-workers just for having better business cards then him. the reason I chose him for inspiration when coming up with Perseus is because in the original novel he is slightly schizophrenic.
I used Mary Jane Watson for inspiration for Charlotte mainly because of the damsel in distress trope in which the protagonist and antagonist fight over her in a final battle. which is what happens.
I used Ashilda/Me from Doctor Who for inspiration because she is Immortal and I can't think of any other Immortal Female characters that aren't either gods, witches or demons. Ashilda was born in Scandinavia several hundred years ago in a Viking village. After the Doctor helped the town repel an attack from a warrior alien race. in which Ashilda died. The Doctor using alien medical Technology brought her back to life however doing so made her essentially Immortal.
Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Wednesday, 6 January 2016
Unit 26 - comparing movie posters
The Star Wars Poster has use of special effects, it's cluttered with multiple characters and objects in it where as the Indiana Jones Poster just has the title character roughly in the centre of the poster and the supporting characters and one of the antagonists in the corners.
the genre of the Star Wars poster is science fiction which can be seen with the lasers and space ships
where as the genre for the Indiana Jones poster is action/ historical/ fantasy which can be seen in the way the poster is styled. is looks like it was painted
Interestingly Harrison Ford is a main character in both movies.
Monday, 4 January 2016
what we did on 20/12/2015
Today, myself, Taylor, Matthew Taylor, Chloe did the filming for our four Christmas adverts for John Lewis. The adverts were filmed at Taylor's mother's house in one afternoon. Taylor was director
Matthew was camera operator, Chloe was production designer and I was there to sort out any of the technical issues such as how to remove the camera from the tripod and how to place the camera on the tripod which my fellow members of the crew had no idea on how to do.
We spent most of the time shooting in the living room with Taylor's younger brother, Georgie
Matthew was camera operator, Chloe was production designer and I was there to sort out any of the technical issues such as how to remove the camera from the tripod and how to place the camera on the tripod which my fellow members of the crew had no idea on how to do.
We spent most of the time shooting in the living room with Taylor's younger brother, Georgie
Tuesday, 15 December 2015
Unit 30: Advert analysis- John Lewis's Monty the Penguin
Monty the Penguin was a Christmas advert for the department store chain John Lewis in 2014.
The Structure of the advert is that of a romance story about someone who wants to find love after seeing other peoples experience love. The song of the advert was "Real Love" which was performed by Tom Oddell but was originally created by John Lennon.
The advert starts with the boy and "Monty" the penguin watching the show Pingu which is also about a penguin. doing various hijinks in the north pole. It then cuts the pair playing hide and seek in a back yard.
And then the penguin helping the boy build something out of Lego then to the two jumping on a trampoline with boy encouraging the penguin to jump higher but the penguin is unable to do so.
Then to the pair in fort made from bed sheets reading a book with the aid of a torch. then the boy and "Monty" with the boy's mother and older sister in the park with Monty waddling behind them then to the penguin jumping in and out of the pond with the boy watching.
To at night with Monty and the boy sleeping with the penguin at the foot of the bed. Then to the boy Kicking the ball with Monty trying to catch up. then to the boy eating his dinner who sneakily feeds a fish finger to Monty. Then to the boy and his parents putting up a Christmas tree. then to the boy drawing a Christmas card for Monty.
Then to the four watching a Christmas film when the boy notices that it is snowing but Monty ignores this but paying more attention to the film which at that point has two characters romantically embracing. and then to Monty and the boy sliding down a snowy hill. the boy then falls off his sled laughing but the boy sees Monty staring at a couple walking in the snow.
Then to a bus in the city where Monty take note of an elderly couple embracing on a bench. This makes the boy realise something. Then to Christmas morning. the boy wakes Monty up and walks him to the stairs. which then cuts the living room door open with the boy's hands over Monty's eyes.
and when the boy uncovers Monty's eyes it reveals a female penguin who Monty waddles over to meet with. but it turns out it was all the boy's imagination.
The advert is shot mainly with close ups on either the boy or the title penguin with the exception of long and wide shots which are used as establishing shots.
One of the things advertised was Pingu a children's stop-motion cartoon which the advert presumably takes inspiration from. the television is which the boy watches it on is a Panasonic I think because the name of the brand is blurred most likely to avoid paying copyright or something. something else that is advertised is Lego when the boy is building a house from it. Also while not strictly advertised in the advert John Lewis did release a line of products to tie into the advert such as Monty the penguin scarves or soft toys of Monty which is ironic because in the advert "Monty" tuned out to be a toy but were rather expensive.
The target audience of the advert is that of a general audience because it's Christmas it's supposed to be about being with family.
Monty and the female penguin were animated creatures that interacted with the live action cast
The Structure of the advert is that of a romance story about someone who wants to find love after seeing other peoples experience love. The song of the advert was "Real Love" which was performed by Tom Oddell but was originally created by John Lennon.
The advert starts with the boy and "Monty" the penguin watching the show Pingu which is also about a penguin. doing various hijinks in the north pole. It then cuts the pair playing hide and seek in a back yard.
And then the penguin helping the boy build something out of Lego then to the two jumping on a trampoline with boy encouraging the penguin to jump higher but the penguin is unable to do so.
Then to the pair in fort made from bed sheets reading a book with the aid of a torch. then the boy and "Monty" with the boy's mother and older sister in the park with Monty waddling behind them then to the penguin jumping in and out of the pond with the boy watching.
To at night with Monty and the boy sleeping with the penguin at the foot of the bed. Then to the boy Kicking the ball with Monty trying to catch up. then to the boy eating his dinner who sneakily feeds a fish finger to Monty. Then to the boy and his parents putting up a Christmas tree. then to the boy drawing a Christmas card for Monty.
Then to the four watching a Christmas film when the boy notices that it is snowing but Monty ignores this but paying more attention to the film which at that point has two characters romantically embracing. and then to Monty and the boy sliding down a snowy hill. the boy then falls off his sled laughing but the boy sees Monty staring at a couple walking in the snow.
Then to a bus in the city where Monty take note of an elderly couple embracing on a bench. This makes the boy realise something. Then to Christmas morning. the boy wakes Monty up and walks him to the stairs. which then cuts the living room door open with the boy's hands over Monty's eyes.
and when the boy uncovers Monty's eyes it reveals a female penguin who Monty waddles over to meet with. but it turns out it was all the boy's imagination.
The advert is shot mainly with close ups on either the boy or the title penguin with the exception of long and wide shots which are used as establishing shots.
One of the things advertised was Pingu a children's stop-motion cartoon which the advert presumably takes inspiration from. the television is which the boy watches it on is a Panasonic I think because the name of the brand is blurred most likely to avoid paying copyright or something. something else that is advertised is Lego when the boy is building a house from it. Also while not strictly advertised in the advert John Lewis did release a line of products to tie into the advert such as Monty the penguin scarves or soft toys of Monty which is ironic because in the advert "Monty" tuned out to be a toy but were rather expensive.
The target audience of the advert is that of a general audience because it's Christmas it's supposed to be about being with family.
Monty and the female penguin were animated creatures that interacted with the live action cast
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
Unit 16 - Skyfilm opening scene narrative analysis
The scene opens by fade from black showing James Bond but is silhouetted turn into the far end of a hall way and he walks forward until his face is revealed to the audience.This is where the equilibrium is set
But it is then disrupted by Bond entering a room to discover fellow agents lying dead.
the disruption is confirmed by Bond seeing a gutted laptop which is missing it's hard drive and an agent who was shot bleeding out whom Bond tries to help but is ordered to get the hard drive.
But it is then disrupted by Bond entering a room to discover fellow agents lying dead.
the disruption is confirmed by Bond seeing a gutted laptop which is missing it's hard drive and an agent who was shot bleeding out whom Bond tries to help but is ordered to get the hard drive.
Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Unit 29 - Music video completed
The second week of November myself and several others filmed our version of Itchycoo park a song by the band Small Faces and it is now just recently been completed so below is my version of the completed product enjoy.
Class task - Christmas Movies
Every year we inundated with Christmas movies some of them good and some of them just to make a quick quid however I am discussing my favourite Christmas movies which are the Muppet's Christmas Carol and the first Home Alone.
I enjoy Home Alone because it's funny seeing a 10 year old kid out smart two fully grown burglar's who attempt to rob the house. And I enjoy Muppet's Christmas Carol because it's the Muppets every body loves the Muppets.
they are both Christmas movies so they are best when sat with the family.
While Michal Caine is a British actor the Muppet's Christmas Carol is mainly made in America however it is set in London so it's a mixture unlike Home Alone which is set in Chicago so it has no British influences.
The Narrative of Home alone is that a kid gets accidently left behind when the rest of his family goes on Holiday (Vacation) why they would at Christmas I have no idea but the boy Kevin then has to stop two burglars from robbing his house and does so with amusing antics.
The narrative of The Muppet's Christmas Carol is just the classic dickens' story with the Muppet's added on to it.
The details in presentation for Home Alone is that it is slapstick comedy and The details in presentation for The Muppet's Christmas Carol is that of family peace and quiet for the Muppets there for kids just for a quiet night in.
I enjoy Home Alone because it's funny seeing a 10 year old kid out smart two fully grown burglar's who attempt to rob the house. And I enjoy Muppet's Christmas Carol because it's the Muppets every body loves the Muppets.
they are both Christmas movies so they are best when sat with the family.
While Michal Caine is a British actor the Muppet's Christmas Carol is mainly made in America however it is set in London so it's a mixture unlike Home Alone which is set in Chicago so it has no British influences.
The Narrative of Home alone is that a kid gets accidently left behind when the rest of his family goes on Holiday (Vacation) why they would at Christmas I have no idea but the boy Kevin then has to stop two burglars from robbing his house and does so with amusing antics.
The narrative of The Muppet's Christmas Carol is just the classic dickens' story with the Muppet's added on to it.
The details in presentation for Home Alone is that it is slapstick comedy and The details in presentation for The Muppet's Christmas Carol is that of family peace and quiet for the Muppets there for kids just for a quiet night in.
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