Creative task 2- Match on Action

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Representation in film

Task 9 from Jii Hol

Narrative Structure

Propp:
Movie: I Am Legend
Hero(Protagonist): Robert Neville(Will Smith)
Sidekick: Sam(German shepherd)
This scene shows the two main characters in the movie. The opening scene shows a man and his dog who act as the protagonist and sidekick of Prop's theory
Other Propp characters in the story come later on in the movie as this movie is mostly about the isolation of a man with his dog.

Movie: Deadpool

Todorov-Tzvetan Todorov's narrative theory suggests that all narratives follow a three part structure where they begin with equilibrium, where everything is balanced, progress as something comes along to disrupt that equilibrium, and finally reach a resolution, when equilibrium is restored

This scene shows the protagonist hunting with his companion, which is soon disturbed by a pack of lions stealing his "prey". This suggests that the movie will be about Man vs Nature. The equilibrium of this part is where the man and the dog are in the car together. The dog has her head out the window showing how peaceful it is.

The disruption that soon takes place is a group of deer running out in front of the car. The man now becomes more serious with intent as they start hunting. This equilibrium is soon disrupted  by a pack of lions stealing his prey.
 There seems like it is going to be conflict but it is soon resolved as the hero hears his watch go off indicating it was time to leave


Levi-Strauss- Binary Opposites(Good vs Evil)
In the I am Legend Opening scenes the Binary opposites are made very clear using lighting. There was a normal and somewhat warm vibe coming from the parts of the scene where there was light but as it became darker the mood changed. There was also fear in the protagonists eyes as he looked into the darkness as if he shouldn't be there.

Barthes:
Barthes said that texts were either open or closed and had a theory that films all followed the same codes. there are many different codes he said that films followed for example The Hermeneutic Code, The Enigma Code, The Symbolic Code, The Cultural Code and The Semantic Code

Learning Comment

From completing this task I have become aware of multiple narrative theories, and why it is important to have a structure to your film. I have also learned how important it is to give the audience some information within the opening sequence in order for them to get hooked into the plot of the movie using structures that are commonly seen in movies . I could use a dress code to help differentiate the binary opposites of good and evil. This would make it easier for the audience to keep up.

Title Research

Task 7 from Jii Hol


Learning Comments

From doing this task I've realised how important it is that the style or font is important and should either directly link or relate to the movie. I think that the typography helps you try to guess what type of movie it is. This is important as the audience will then immediately be drawn into the movie. If there was just a boring font you might lose the attention of the audience too quickly. I also think that the background behind the typography is important.

Creative Task 4: Create a Title Credit Sequence

Remake
This is the remake of the opening scene credits of the film Drive. I chose this because I like the typography as it is an eye-catching font type. It may not be an 80's film but the font type has an 80s look. We couldn't replicate the original the original font as iMovie dint have the exact font type so we chose a font type which was similar to the original(Brush Script MT Italic). During this task we focused on typography so the remaking of the scene was not important.

Learning comments
The first thing I noticed about remaking this title sequence is the timing is important. If the words appear too quickly after each other or disappear too quickly this makes it too hard to read. The style/font of the typography is also important as it reflects the style and mood of the movie. Another thing which is important is consistency. If a word was up for too long then this may make it lose its importance. I think that some breaks in the title sequence were too long and some words may have been missed by the audience as they were focusing on the background of the movie.

Creative Task 3- Opening Scene Remake

This is the remake of Step Brothers (2008) scene where the two main characters meet for the first time. This is also the scene where the title appears which adds to the dramatic mood which is set between the two. This scene is important because it shows immediate tension between the two setting a serious mood to the film even though its a comedy.
Learning Comments

From making this I learned the importance of control of things like background noises and the wind. This can be solved my fitting microphones on our shirts. We got around this by lowering the sound of the surroundings. Another thing that is important is consistency. I had to mark out different foot spots so I remembered where I stood to ensure that it was consistent.

Audience Research

Audience Research

Audience Research from Jii Hol

Task 5

Greg Mottola Director Case Study- Oojii Hollis from Jii Hol

Learning Comments
From this I learned that director's try and use personal experiences or other peoples experiences to base a movie around. This helps viewers to associate with the things that happen with in the film and relate them to their own lives. This not only engages the viewers but may also help them feel nostalgia about stuff, for e.g their awkward teenage years(which Mottola usually focuses on).