Paper Story Board

Paper Story
Fat sassy black american man
Inside a rock
A map
Why did peter pan eat so many golden nuggets?
Focus pull and pan
Mr.Johns Emporium
Dixie Normus
Applause and Gun shot
A dinosaur comes in and kills everyone

Rough Plot

• There was a fat sassy black american man who was cursed to live inside of a rock
• The only way to get out of the rock was following a map he found inside of the rock with a mysterious note on it "Why did Peter Pan eat so many golden nuggets"
• There is a focus pull and a pan over the black man walking inside of the maze inside of the rock searching for answers
• The black man finds an amazing place inside the  maze called "Mr.Johns Emporium" and finds a man who might have answers
• The mans name is Dixie Normus and was also cursed inside of this rock and had a way out which needed two people
• When they leave they are greeted by an old woman who sent them there in the first place, just as she is about to send them back but then as she applauds your efforts she gets shot in the back
• Then a giant dinosaur that was also cursed to the rock appears and kills all of her minions closing in on you

Hansel and Gretel: Script

Characters:

Hansel: Jude
Gretel: Wil
The Witch: Adam
Dad: Wil
Mum: Adam

Opening title sequence

(Hansel is sitting in oven)
 Hansel: I guess you want to know how i got here. How I left my own sister for a woman I didn't even know. I guess it all comes with the job description, but it could happen to anyone

*Flashback to house*

(Hansel enters the room to talk with his parents)
Hansel: Hi mum and dad
Dad: You see this Jar? Its empty, you and Gretel need to get some sweets
Hansel: But what about-
Mum: Head to the forest and don't bother coming back unless you have any sweets. Now go!
(Hansel wexits the room)

*Flashback to Hansel and Gretel walking in the forest*

Hansel: Why did mum and dad tell us to come out here we're never gonna find anything
(Gretel nods)
Hansel: I Brought some bread in case we need to know the way back
Gretel: I also stole Dad's gun so we would be protected
Hansel: Thats good!
(Cuts to Hansel and Gretel lost in the woods. Then a twig snaps)
Gretel: What was that?
Hansel: Come on lets go, I don't like this
(They come to a split in the path, bot leading different ways)
Hansel: The road splits into two ways, I can see a house down there
Gretel: I think it could be risky...
Hansel: They could have sweets, that's what we need
(Gretel shakes her head disapprovingly)
Gretel: It could be dangerous we should not go there
Hansel: Well I'm going this way!
Gretel: Fine!
(They storm off, taking one path each)

(A beautiful lads catches Hansels eye and he follows here willingly)
Hansel: She looked gorgeous standing there. So I guess thats what i gave in to
(Hansel follows the woman inside)
The Witch: Take a seat
(They sit at either end of the table)
The Witch: You looking for these? (Taunts Hansel by shaking the bag)
Hansel: Where did you get these?
The Witch: Does it matter? Go ahead, try some
(The camera switches between Hansel, the Woman and the Sweets creating an intesnse scene. Eventually Hansel eats one of the sweets)
(While Hnasel is 'dazed' from the 'sweets' the Woman locks him insde of an oven)

*Flashback to furnace*

Hansel: So, now you know how it happened. My sister off somewhere else in no life threatening danger. But me, stuck in a furnace, waiting for death
(Gretel takes out her phone to call Gretel)
(Hansel's phone starts to ring)
Gretel: Hansel, I should have never of left you
Hansel: No Gretel there's no time for that, I need you to save me
Gretel: Wait what?
Hansel: Come...come to the house quick
Gretel: OK I'm on my way

(Gretel enters the house with her dads gun ready)
Gretel:(She whispers) Hansel, Hansel?
(Gretel slowly walks through the corridor, and comes to a room. She sees the Witch as she stands in the door frame)
The Witch: Who are you?
Gretel: I'm looking for my brother Hansel...
The Witch: Hah, your too late
(Gretel shoots the Witch in the leg out of anger, she walks over to the witch on the ground and takes the killing shot)
(Hansel's muffled screams come from the furnace and Gretel runs to it)
Gretel: We need to leave!
Hansel; No, we need to get those sweets
(Hansel grabs the sweets)
Hansel: Now we can head home
(As they walk out of the door, it cuts to them walking home in the woods)

The End

Hansel and Gretel Noir: Bloopers

HaG Blooper Reel from Jude Clark on Vimeo.

Hansel and Gretel

Final Evaluation

What went well:

• The locations that we used were spot on for what we needed, the woods had all the parts we needed: a path for laying the bread which helped stick to the fairy tail and the space of the woods allowed us to use different spots making a unique view for each shot we took

What could be improved:

• Location had a few nicks, this was mainly the high key lighting which didn't give it the menacing/darker effect we wanted for when we were lost in the woods. If we had of filmed outside of school we could have changed the time of filming giving us more flexibility with lighting
• Sound was a very big issue for us. It was either the wind being picked up by the microphone or us not being loud enough unless you had it on full volume, but even when we tried  to increase the volume when editing the background noise was also increased meaning we had to keep it at the original level. To improve this we could have used a separate microphone from the camera or added in the speaking after

Careers In Media

Neo Noir

Background Of Neo Noir

Neo noir can be a range of things, it could be that they use the general rule of noir, dark and thriller, but they put a modern twist on it. They could have color in certain parts of the film or have the location set in a future settings.

One of Misfits episodes had a Noir spin on it. In the episode one if the main characters, Curtis, falls in love with a Femme Fatale. This episode has some conventional methods of Noir with there being a Femme Fatale, an Everyman. 

Yet apart from its conventional characters, it has very unconventional twist to it aswell. One of the main things being a zombies who weren't really in films apart from horror. Also a Black main character would not have happened in 1950's. Also aside from all of that its set in Britain rather than america, the whole thing is in colour although a grey sort of filter seems to have been put over the top.

Sin City can be mistaken for a traditional Noir from the black and white posters and covers. But it has some very interesting style types and unique colour choices. The one I watched had two of the main characters, Everyman and the Villain. A majority of it is narration from the Everyman. Another thing is that is contains traditional Noir music even though it set in modern day.

The film is an adapatation of the graphic novel 'Sin City' The unique style they use is having all of the film in black and white, yet when a definitive colour, such as a bright red dress comes into the scene, this will be the only thing in colour meaning all attention is drawn to this. In the Sin City I watched there was a villain called 'Yellow Bastard' and quite literally his whole body was yellow, and this drew attention to him in any scene

Red Riding is set in the 1950's and is a British film. This is slightly more conventional, it has the dark and grimy feel, and it starts at the end and tells the whole story. Along the lines of characters it has the usual ones like the Everyman. It also uses smoke the same way typical Noir's do.

Although the story draws away from the traditional noir, this time the trouble is being caused by the Femme Fatale. The music is also more guitar based, and has a very effective way of building up tension. Finally the Everyman is a lot younger than you traditional Noir, he is more in his 20's

Top 10 Movies

Freeze Frames

Freeze Frames
Our teacher wrote out a short noir opening scene. She then asked us to re-create it using freeze-frame images for each scene in any order we liked.

Buster Rayburn is in a prison cell His voice over can be heard 'Here I am again. They said I wouldn't make iton the outside. If only i didn't meet that dame'

Flashback to buster walking out of jail

Buster is drunk in a bar on his own when a gangster who says they have a job for him. Buster turns the job down

The gangster's girlfriend Lacey Lane appears. Buster can't take take his eyes off her 

Back to buster in jail. Voice over 'if only I had walked away when i had the chance'

Buster is back at the same bar drinking bourbon. Lacey lane walks in a whispers seductively in his ear

Lacey gives buster a gun and a kiss

Buster shoots the gangster as he leaves his house one morning

Buster and Lacey meet in his dingy hotel. She thanks him and says that she will run away with him that night 

Buster waits for Lacey at the railway station. The cops turn up and arrest him. Lacey can be seen in the background. She has obviously reported him to the police 

Buster quickly grabs a police mans gun after a struggle, manages to fire a shot which hits Lacey and she dies 

Back to buster in jail. His voice over can be heard 'You see dames always bring a man down. She wont hurt anymore suckers now'

Media and Me

Media and Me

This is a vlog about how i sue media and how it affects me. This is my first blog on this blog so I wasn't very confident and I stuttered a little

What is Film Noir?

Film Noir is a type of film that appeared around the 1930s. It originated from American and is a dark and mysterious film. Noir brought the standard 'gender specific' roles to TV and film. These included the Everyman, Femme fatale, henchmen and the villain. Film Noir became popular during and after the war, this was because everyone from the war had become to used to death that people decided to make films playing around with death. And this was ok because the war was a depressing period for everyone watching.

MAIN CHARACTERS

Everyman

The Everyman is our main protagonist/narrator. He is as his name explains, an every-man, he has a normal job with a normal life. He was designed this way to be relatable to anyone watching the film/show. He is usually at the wrong end of the stick when it comes to being betrayed and ending up being killed at the end. This is in most conventional Noir, but sometimes he survives or just get sent to prison. Although sometimes the Everyman survives, otherwise all the 'real everymen' would dislike the fact that the character they relate to, always dies

Femme Fatale

The Femme Fatale, this is always the woman to seduce the Everyman, normally she is asking him to do a favour for her and uses her seductive ways to convince him. The Femme Fatale was created, because during the war women had started to help in the factories. With this they gained authority and so Noir was made to give the Everyman authority, and the woman to just be seducative and causing all the problems.

The Villain/Big Boss

The Boss is a character, normally presented as the Femme Fatale's husband or employer.  He is the general  bad guy, he has lots of wealth and dangerous henchmen to do his bidding. This character of Noir normally end up being killed or sent to Jail. This was for everyone watching to get a sense of justice, rather than the villain prevailing. Although in some Noirs we see out of the Boss' perspective and feel empathy for hi, rather than the Everyman



OTHER CHARACTER (could be included)

Henchman

The Henchman are usually employed by the villain, this could be to keep the identity of villain secret. They usually come in a group of two or more, otherwise they tend to be assassins rather than a Henchmen






The Girl Next Door

The girl next door tends to be a false attraction from the Femme Fatale. When the Everyman has been broken, due to the Femme Fatale causing the problems, he goes to the Girl Next Door and she helps him

Examples of Film Noir

Research Into Film Noir

What Is Film Noir

Film Noir can be a black and white Thriller from the 1940's, the reason I say 'can' is because there are now more recent ones, called neo-noir, where there are the same type of movies but in colour. These films could be violent and sometimes graphic, the reason for this was because the war was happening and people were used to the idea of guns and war meaning they wont find it as distressing, due to them coming to terms with what was happening.

Generic Conventions

Camera: Lots of different camera shots were used such as panning, close shot, zoom and many others. For example; In 'The Killers' a man is running to warn his friend. He is running down the road and jumping over fences, all the meanwhile the camera keeps level and follows him, this is called 'panning' The composition of the camera means what is inside of the shot and how it is arranged. Another example would be; If it was meant to be a scary shot of a house, the camera would be quite low giving the house a towering, menacing feel. And it would be very shady or have lots of shadows so that people wouldn't want to go near it if it was dark

Editing: Editing tends to happen when all of the movie has been shot and it just needs to be put together in the right arrangement to tell the story correctly. In normal films you would have the default story and then the reveal at the end, but with film noir they can tend to start at the end so that you now want to know why it has happened, rather than how it happened. If a film is changing scene a classic way to edit it would to be cutting to another scene, but some films, like star wars, use fades where is fades from left to right or vice versa. 

Characters: Noir's tend to include classic characters; Everyman (anti-hero), Femfatal, Villain, Henchmen/man. The Everyman usually is the main character, but on the occasion the Femfatal or Villain can be the main character, and he is the one being twisted by the Femfatal to do her biding. This was portrayed by the Femfatal seducing the Everyman and asking him to steal or do something to annoy the Villain. In the Killers, the Everyman is Swede and the Femfatal is Kitty, she asks Swede to help her steal a load of money from her lover. Swede gets the money for Kitty but then she runs off and leaves Swede in trouble, but in most film Noir's the Everyman tends to die and the Femfatal dies or gets punished in some way. Finally is there is one more character who can be included, The Girl Next Door, this is the woman who is in love with the Everyman but he doesn't love her until it all goes wrong and he turns to her for help at the end. An example of this is the Black Dahlia where Bucky turns to Kay when he has no where else.

Sound: Sound can cover many different things but the mains ones are; narrating, voices/conversations and music/instruments. The music matches the scene happening, so if a car chase is happening the music will  be quite frantic and go to the speed of the chase/scene. If the Femfatal is trying to seduce the Everyman the music could slow down and start playing smooth Jazz of some sort of 'sexy' music. Finally the narration could be a crucial part, the narration tends to be from the Everyman/main character and they could give some backstory or dialog to sum up what is happening or how they are feeling about the situation/scene

Home Alone Sweded Trailer

Home Alone Sweded Trailer: Summer Project

Our Assignment

Over the summer holiday we were assigned work to make a sweded trailer of any film we likes withing the past thirty five years.

What a Sweded Trailer Is

First you have to pick a trailer withing the past thirty five years, we picked home alone. Then you have to re-make the whole trailer using your own camera and no budget. It has to be all filmed so no getting and sound effects from the internet or adding in music over the top, it would have to be all vocal or done by an instrument played by yourself.

Who Was Involved

Me, Jack Cullum and Fabian Harrison chose Home Alone, we used Fabian's camera, Jack's idea and my house for the filming. We had help from four others; Mitchell, Greg, Max and Thomas who were used as other roles we couldn't play or extras.

Extra Notes

It was all filmed in one day, and this is fine because the assignment said it has to be cheap and cheesy, meaning we weren't expected to spend week or two on it.

Welcome To My Blog

Welcome to my Blog,

This Blog is for my AS Media Studies in Sixth form.
I will be posting things such as blogs, videos, links and anything else that is related to media and i can upload


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Jude Clark