LEGO INDUSTRY TERMS

 

• franchise - a collection of films and products produced by one start. for example Marvel and Star Wars page 33
• synergy - when the combined effect or impact of a number of media activities is greater than the sum of their individual effects on consume page 47
• stent-pole production - In broadcast programming and motion pictures, a tent-pole or tentpole is a program or film that supports the financial performance of a film studio or television network. page 46
• ensemble cast - an ensemble cast is one which is composed of multiple principal actors and performers who are typically assigned roughly equal amounts of screen time.
• conglomerate -  a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, is something that not many people even know of, but it is crucial in understanding where your news is coming from page 45
• vertical integration -  Vertical Integration is when a Media Company owns different businesses in the same chain of production and distribution. For example, a 20th Century Fox owns the studios in Hollywood, they also own the cinemas, the TV channels and the DVD rental shops.  page 49

LEGO MOVIE

 Task 1: how does Emmet come across? How effective would this trailer be in promoting the film?

Emmet is not seen as a heroic person. He doesn't uplift the stereotypical charastrics as a hero for example : strong, brave, deceive. At the start of the trailer you can see Emmet doing jumping jacks, he got out of breathe after 3 and couldn't do anymore. this shows he is not very strong and a heroic type. Emmet shows that he is undeceive and needs help to come the best of him. When he feel down and Wyldstyle said "come with me if you don't want to die" Emmet follows her, which shows he thinks he cant survive on himself. he doesn't have enough self confidence. 

The trailer is very effective to promoting the film because in the trailer many memorable things occur, from mystery to comedy. One main thing that everyone will remember is "Everything is awesome" this is very popular and everyone knows it comes from the Lego movie. Emmet is not the stereotypical hero which makes the watchers want to know how and what he can achieve. Little kids would love to watch this as they know Emmet is just a regular guy in a city and then saves everything and becomes a hero, which makes kids think they can achieve things like Emment does.

Task 3: Go to the BBFC site and research age ratings. Why was The Lego Movie (2014) given a U rating? You need to click on the Ratings info

Age Restrictions are there to protect kids in what they watch. Ratings provides short description what the film, video, or DVD. U film rating is suitable for all, all ages and everyone. The Lego movie is potentially dangerous but no realistic or accessible weapons, there is also no discrimination language is U rating.  There is no drugs usually no nudity, sex and bad language that will offend younger childern. Lego movie falls under those categories which makes it a U rating 

FILM MAKING

In the film making we are doing at the moment in media, we have made stop motion films and a overall film. Last week we made the stop motion film. My group was Hannah W and Jasmine M. My group in the movie was Honor M, Flo M, Hannah W and Jasmine M. We filmed that around 4 weeks ago.

The stop motion was so fun and enjoyable. Jasmine, Hannah and I called it " tiger tales production" we decided to called this  as we had a jigsaw puzzle of a tiger, and pulled it apart. We used the school iMacs and a portable camera that an be bended to look over at a birds eye view. We had a white A3 piece of paper than wrote out 'tiger tales production" in the middle at the bottom of the paper. We used the tiger to cover the words and we look picture every time we spread out the jigsaw. We made sure we moved it very little amounts to make sure it looked smooth and not stop and start.

We used the app 'Hue' to edit, we took around 30 pictures of the jigsaw moving and then transferred it to iMovie. From there we added a roar sound and added our movie onto the back. Overall it was so much fun and I loved working on it and watching it all together was so enjoyable. 

CHRISTMAS ADVERTS

 CHRISTMAS ADVERTS - HW

In this picture you can see Mickey and Minnie mouse being animated to advise Disney. The lights are attracted to Mickey and Minnie mouse showing the are the main focus here. You can see the shadow behind the boy to see that the lights are dimmed but because all the light is focused it bright up to see there faces and show there reaction. 

In the picture there are loads of snow which suggest its Christmas time. They are all doing a family activity, this shows that the step dad is fitting in. The Christmas lighters in the background are very pretty and all the snow gives off a very relaxed scene. The dog is playing and the are all helping with the snow man which is very affectionate.

In this picture it shows the step dad and daughter having some bonding time, the light is very bright and high-key to show the peaceful and happy time. The Christmas decorations in the background set a happy and merry emotion. 

FILMING A OPENING SEQUENCE

 Today in Media we filmed a opening sequence, my group was Hannah W, Honor M, Jasmine M, Flo M and I. Our themes was a Japanese themed. We had a mother(me) who gave her baby and left her with some pearls. We filmed a live action and a birds eye view. This is was super fun. We explored lots about the Japanese and found what they wore, which was very interesting. We first did a rhumbas view. We had the tables filled with Japanese things and zoomed into a few pieces, for example the pearls and a picture. After doing this we did a live action, it was me putting the baby down with the pearls. We filmed this outside on the mansion steps. When we came back in we went onto the IMacs and air dropped them so we have them for next lesson! 

02 MUSIC VIDEO

I have watched Teenage Dirtbag by Wheatus and made a comic using ComicLife in class. It is about a high school boy, he plays the guitar and is a musician. He likes this girl who is called Noelle. Noelle is way out of his league because she flirts around with all the big high school football jocks, who think they rule the school. 

The boy writes songs to express his feelings about the love he has about Noelle, through the music video we get clips of him doing music with all different angles to show us how he plays music and shows different reasons, for example close up to show the reaction and expression.  

Throughout the music video we get a sense to show how he feels about Noelle, after time Noelle drops the football jerks and become a 'teenage dirtbag' just like he is. He doesn't do to much to himself, he wears messy and ugly clothes and doesn't dress himself how people would find him attractive

At the end they dance at prom together, but the disco balls drops and it was all a dream...

From the start of the video to the the positioning is the same, he is lying on the brown stairs asleep.

CULTURAL SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT

The Cold War 

From reading The Observer, I learnt that people were very worried about the Cold War.

The Cold War is a on going of a political rivalry that has been going on for since World War 2, the country's that are associated in the rivalry include; America and The soviet Union. The dates of the Cold War were 1941 - 1947 according to most historians. It is called the Cold War because United States of America or The Soviet Union declared war against each other. 

This affected lots of people and their lives. Not only did it split family apart but it spilt the world into two, making them rivalry's. This made the world crazy, the world was full on conflict all over the world, this led to nuclear weapons mostly been used in Russia and US.