Shot 1 shows the main star, Olive in an extreme close up, the emotion shown is concentration This is important as the audience can see that she is a young girl with a adult concentration.
Key Shot 2
This shot is a close up of Olive practising her reaction to winning the pageant contest. This shows the audience the young inspiring girl wants to be a beauty Queen.
Key Shot 3
The shot of the beauty queen shows the contrast between Olive's family's lifestyle and the lifestyle of a beauty queen being glamorous.
Key Shot 4
The audience is introduced to Olive's dad, we are given the impression he is a hard working character who wants to provide for his family the best he can.
Key Shot 5
Olive's brother doesn't say anything in his shot however is doing some exercise, which shows concentration and possibly he is made to feel the need to take care of his appearance.
Key Shot 6
The sixth shot is of Olive's grandfather, who is seen taking heroin, this suggests to the audience he is not a great influence to Olive, giving the audience someone to criticise.
Key Shot 7
This shot shows Olive's mum smoking whilst driving this shows she doesn't lead a healthy lifestyle which could be due to a stressful life. This allows the audience to judge her relationship with the family.
Key Shot 8
This shot shows (Olive's dads brother) Uncle Frank in a wheelchair with a gown on in a hospital. This suggests to the audience he is incapable of looking after himself because of the hospital environment.
Key Shot 9
This close up of Uncle Frank shows the audience the emotion of exhaustion and gives the audience a sense of a deeper meaning behind his admission in to hospital.
In the
beginning of Juno there is a close up of her feet walking followed by a pan, mid
shot of her walking away, and then a tracking long shot of her walking towards
the camera. This shows Juno to be deep in thought as she is walking
effortlessly around the surrounding area she knows well. It tells the audience
that she has possibly grown up here and feels comfortable in her surroundings.
This is then confirmed to the audience, as there is a close up of her face with
a smirk. The tilt, low angle shot of the electrical cables shows the area to be
established, a mid shot shows houses helping the audience to recognise the
surrounding scenery to be the suburbs. There is an over the head, zooming shot
showing her walking along the street, this shows the audience of her
vulnerability as you can recognise she is a teenager and not an adult. We
receive a closer look at Juno as a teenager with a tilt that starts from the
ground to her eye line. Through most of the shots in the opening we see Juno
walking this may be to replicate her journey in life or to show the surroundings
to the audience in an interesting way and meet the main character Juno. We know
Juno is the main character as she is the only person in the shots; this keeps
the audience focused in finding out her story is.
Editing
The editing used is slow and it is in time with her walking
creating a relax pace to the beginning of the movie and entices you at the end
of the opening as to what major disruption is going to occur. There are a lot of
straight cuts with zooms and dolly zooms showing her turning corners and makes
the viewing more interesting to the audience as they see Juno from many angles,
so they can recognise her comfortably before meeting other characters.
Sound
The entire opening scene has a sound track with complements the
pace of her walk and relaxed attitude. The lyrics of the soundtrack are
representing the story as the couple end up together. Here are some lyrics.
All I want is you, will you be my bride Take me by the
hand and stand by my side All I want is you, will you stay with me? Hold
me in your arms and sway me like the sea.
The genre of the movie comes across in the song as carefree and
in love. This helps the audience to identify with the film as many have possibly
felt these feelings before, creating a stronger empathetic feeling.
Mise – en – scene
The opening scene is all animated with a grainy colour wash
effect creating an effect of everything is not as simple as shown, creating
mystery to the opening as she is walking but we have no idea where to.
The settings complement the storyline as a teenager in the
suburbs shows she still lives with her parents and younger siblings. This helps
the audience to identify her background and lifestyle making it easier for them
to relate to her.
Camera Shots
The opening shot to 21 Jump Street
s a zoom high angle of people exiting the school bus, we then follow one of the
main characters by a tracking mid shot walking towards the school. These shots
are chosen to introduce to the audience the main character so they can identify
him in the crowds around the high school. The audience is given a timeline as
there is a zooming close up towards a prom poster this allows the audience to
follow the characters as they grow up, and see how there social life changes. An
over the shoulder shot shows the main character talking to his next door
neighbours asking her to the prom, we then have a close up of her reaction. The
audience feels some what embarrassed for the main character as there is a close
up of the jocks laughing at the situation, we as the audience emphasis for the
main character. After the conversation there is a mid shot of the 3 people, the
main character, jock and the girl. This helps the audience to see the social
hierarchy in the high school, We identify that the main character is of the
lower hierarchy of the high school, which makes the audience feel pity towards
him.
Editing
Through the opening scene the
editing is fast paced with jump cuts of the main character walking towards
school and through the corridors, this is to fit in with the music for this
scene, it gives the main character a persona of being the cool person at school.
This creates humour for the audience as he does not seem to be in any
stereotypical high school group, except possibly the outcasts. During the
dialogue the editing is slowed so the audience can understand what is occurring.
The use of zoom occurs at the bus, poster and during the conversation, this is
so more detail can be achieved from the camera position giving the audience more
detail in which they can distinguish what is happening in the
scene.
Sound
In the opening scene non - diegetic
sound is used to help create a persona of the main character. The sound track
accompanies the image in the scene of the character looking like Eminem. This
create a humour aspect as Eminem is well known and popular however the main
character is neither, but aspire to be like him as he dresses and has bleached
his hair to obtain the look of Eminem.
Mise - en -
scene
The use of props such as the school
bus, posters, school bags and lockers helps the audience to identify the
surroundings before even seeing the set of a high school. The use of miss - en -
scene help to create a more realistic idea of the story line as the audience can
believe it and relate to it
This is our remake of the Breakfast club, whilst editing it we relised that areas we need to improve on are lighting, as alot of our shots as dark and the steadness of the camera. We used the original soundtrack from the movie as alot of our shots are in time with the original movie. Overall this task has highlighted alot of areas in which my group can improve on.
This task is showing the thriller genre as, it is situated in the mountain, which is used to show mystery and the isolation . The storyline starts with two brothers fighting over the inheritance left by there dead father. The 4th shot shows one of the brothers shooting the other brother, the following shot shows the brother fall into the lake by this brother to discard of the body.
This story link in with Todorov's Equilibrium as the beginning is smooth, and the disruption is caused by the discussion with the brothers and the death of one, the discard of the brothers body in the lake is the equilibrium being returned as no one knows about this event occurring.
We decided to do Drama/Comedy. We based our story line on a princess's love story, such as Cinderella. The girl is lonely in the tower looking for her prince. The prince then is spoken to by his noble side kick, and told to find a princess. The Prince then is confronted by his arch villian, trying to stop him being king. They have a fight in which the Prince is successful in defeating the villian. The Prince finds his Princess and they live happily ever after. THE END
We used Vladimirs Propp's theory of having 8 borad character types to make a story. We only have the Princess, Prince, Villian, Side Kick. Also the use of Todorov equilbrium is also used here as the disruption is shown in the fight scene. An aspect of Levi Strauss Binary Opposition occurs here as the Prince has a Villain.
This is our prelim task which was about a teacher concerned for the wellbeing of the student, (louise). They have a dicussion in which nothing is settled. We had to include 180 degree rule, shot reverse shot and match on action.
I found creating a realistic situation hard as we wanted the audience to believe
in the situation. The easy part was cutting the shot, reverse shot in the
conversation, as the shots seemed to cut in exactly on time.
This was our first ever video were we had to use as many different shots as possible. We called it The Reunion as it is about 2 friends seeing each other for the first time in a long time and the other friend becomes upset.
