Narrative Theory

Ending Scene

Prop:  The problem with applying Propp's theory of character roles on the film Avengers Assemble (2012) is deciding who the hero of the film is, especially when u can see the assemble trying to save the country from the alien invasion and from Thor brother Loki. They had to shut down the portal which was created by Thor brother Loki to stop the alien coming through the portal to enter there planet which they luckily succeed at the end by shutting down the portal with Loki sword (Sceptre).Thanos, the Mad Titan, is a villain who has been part of Marvel Comics since his first appearance in "Iron Man" 55 in 1973. He is an Eternal, a species originating on Saturn's moon, Titan. And he is bad news. Thanos loves and worships Mistress Death, a physical embodiment of death that appears in Marvel Comics. Badass Digest explains that's why Thanos smiles when The Other uses the phrase "court death.

Todorov: By the end of the film the scene shows The Other, the leader of the Chitauri -- the alien race recruited by Loki in his attempt to vanquish the Earth -- talking to the mysterious figure sitting on a throne he has been reporting to throughout the film. The Other says that they were mislead by Loki and that humans are stronger than they believed. He tells the figure, "To challenge them is to court death.The figure turns, revealing the purple face and glowing eyes of Thanos. In an interview with /Film, writer/director Joss Whedon discussed why he wanted to include the character in "The Avengers." Whedon said, "He for me is the most powerful and fascinating Marvel villain." He went on to joke, "He's the great grand daddy of the badasses and he's in love with death and I just think that's so cute." He explained that he wanted to have someone behind Loki's machinations in the film, and that Thanos was the character in the Marvel Universe that fit the bill.

Barthes: In the movie the avenger assemble the mighty earth heroes are trying to save the world from the alien invasion which was caused by Thor step brother loki so they working has a team to stop him and take him back where he came from, the only way the stopped the alien invasion was is to destroy the teleport machines which was created by a scientist who works with nick fury which they were successful on there mission at the end and save the country.

Levi-Strauss: The Asgardian Loki encounters the Other, the leader of an extraterrestrial race known as the Chitauri. In exchange for retrieving the Tesseract, a powerful energy source of unknown potential, the Other promises Loki an army with which he can subjugate Earth. Nick Fury, director of the espionage agency S.H.I.E.L.D., and his lieutenant Agent Maria Hill arrive at a remote research facility during an evacuation, where physicist Dr.Erik Selvig is leading a research team experimenting on the Tesseract. Agent Phil Coulson explains that the object has begun radiating an unusual form of energy.

Opening Scene

Prop: Captain america is looking at the ground like he has been defeated like all hope is lost. The woman also lost hope after seeing her team losing the fight trying to save her country. U could see Marie hill is having a meeting with her manager about the war which she is calling for retreat so she doesn't lose her hero's while rest of the hero's are trying to see how to end this battle.

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Cinematography

Analysis of Hot Fuzz

Sherlock Holmes sound analysis

Glossary

Diegetic - Diegetic sound is any sound that emanates from the story (or narrative) world of a film, which is referred to in film studies as diegesis.
Non Diegetic - Non-diegetic sound is sound whose origin is from outside the story world.
Ambient - Relating to or denoting advertising that makes use of sites or objects other than the established media (e.g. by placing slogans on the back of bus tickets).
SFX - The sound effects of the movie.
Mood - A mood is an emotional state.
Tone - Tone in film is very hard to separate from mood, setting the tone with sounds is very similar to mood as it sets the scene for whats happening.
Genre - A style or category of art, music, or literature.
Theme music - Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the intro, during title sequence and/or ending credits.
Voice over - Voice-over (also known as off-camera or off-stage commentary) is a production technique where a voice—that is not part of the narrative (non-diegetic)—is used in a radio, television production, filmmaking, theatre, or other presentations.
Musical Score -  Is original music written specific to accompany a film. The score forms part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects.
Synchronous sound - Synchronous sound is sound that is matched to certain movements occurring in the scene e.g when footsteps correspond to feet walking.
Asynchronous sound - Are not matched with a visible source of the sound on screen. Such sounds are included so as to provide an appropriate emotional nuance, and they may also add to the realism of the film. For example: A film maker might  opt to include the background sound of an ambulance's siren while the foreground sound and image portrays an arguing couple. 
Contrapuntal - composed of two or more relatively independent melodies sounded together.
Silence -   Is a film with no synchronised record sound, with no spoken dialogue.
Selective sound - Sound that focus on a particular character, to high light the scene.
Sound bridges -  Sound that begins with the carry-over sound from the previous scene before the new sound.

Sound is vibrations sound has pitch, rhythm, tempo, and volume. It resources, in film there types of sound diegetic and non diegetic. After watching a clip of Sherlock Holmes. In the scene I could hear sounds like:

• Gun loading
• Horse footsteps
• Piano 
• Glass broken
• Fire
• Crow 
• Doors tweaking 
• Gunshots

In the sherlock Holmes video the scene starts off with slow paced music then as the scene goes on the music get louder and faster they're also using classical music this is using non diegetic sound. in the scene you can also hear the horses moving and the sound of a bird and the man reloading his gun. Diegetic sound is any sound presented as originated from source within the films world. It can also be either on screen or off screen depending on whatever its source is within the frame or outside the frame. This type of sound can create many different meanings for an audience. Non diegetic sound is either visible on the screen nor has been implied to be present in the action. Non diegetic sound is represented as coming from a course outside its story space.

After watching the opening of the Sherlock Holmes clip, the diegetic sounds being made are the guns getting cocked and loaded, the chains rattling, the scream at the start, the horses hooves clanking together, the crow squawking, the boots rattling from when he jumps and the glass breaking.

Sound

The Raid

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th

The movie is about a group of college students. About 5 to 6 went on a trip and they found a place in a far away forest and they decided to stay there. later they found out that the son of the owner lives there who likes killing people who decide to live there. They all ran for their lives. Suddenly the killer showed up and killed two of the college students which the other four trying to escape the forest which they couldn't he wouldn't leave them unless he kills them all so they decided the only way they could survive is to kill Jason voorhees the killer.

Settings 

Its a normal house in the forest which is a camping house people come and enjoy their holiday with there family or friends. Suddenly they found out a killer lives there name Jason voorhees which he doesn't like anyone staying and kills them. The house is quite isolated which is typical of horror movies. Most of the horror movies are based in the woods or in the house to make people feel everything is fine.

Props

This film mostly used are: Knifes, Gun, Machete, Broken Glass, Axe, most of the horror movies they use mainly knifes but this movie particularly they used all kind of weapons. In this movie Jason Voorhees wearing a white masked with a machete in his wright hand going for his victims but in horror movies you can use everything to kill as the point of the movie it to get everyone dead.

Hair/make-up

In this movie Jason Voorhees is wearing mask bag to scare his victims. all the actor who are he's victims have done blood make up on them to give the audience the real effect of blood, most of the time the victims are killed by a Rope or getting burned so there's no blood.

The Scottish Referendum on Independence? 


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I think scotland should vote no in the referendum simply because it would be a great leap in a hugely uncertain direction economically. great britain being one of the biggest economies in the world it would guarantee a sustainable future for all the nations in the union. I believe that will be better for all of us there's  less of a chance of a war breaking out. Originally the referendum had three options until westminster took the middle ground 'advanced devolution' off the table , now the scottish people will only be asked if they want an independent scotland or not.


I watched the two videos. The first video I watched  was called YES campaign and the other one was the views of young voters. If we leave the UK, Scotland, and the rest of the UK become separate countries. Sharing the UK Pound would need agreement with people in the rest of the UK to set up a Eurozone-style currency union.

The Scottish Independence 
1. About third of scotland's 4 million voters think that scotland should leave UK and become independence. Ending the 305 years old political union.

2. A brief history - Scotland's relations with its larger neighbour have often been difficult. none more so than in the wars of independence 700 years ago led by williams wallace and then robert the bruce. He defeated edward ii then attempting to subjocate scotland, at Bannockburn in 1314.
in 1707, that union was cemented by scotland and england's political union, forced on scotland in part by a financials crisis following the abject failure of its colony panama.
in the 1800's scotland economy strengthened, its cities boomed and its citizens took a leading role in the british empire.

3. Salmond is in talks with David Cameron, the prime minister, about securing the legal powers that holyrood needs to set up the referendum. salmon wants to pass legislation in november 2013 but laws affecting the U.K constitution are reserved to the U.K parliament.

4. What does it mean for us? Someone born in scotland: it should mean a greater direct say over one's government and more political freedom, but also greater economics risks, less security and more differences with england.
Non-scottish UK citizens: Not a great deal, but the UK economy will be smaller, oil and whisky may be expensive, british identity will be diluted and britain status overseas will be weaker.