The project was to make a circular narrative film.
The first part of the film is the linear narrative version of the film.
The 2nd part of the film is the circular narrative version of the film

Slumdog Millionaire context

Slumdog Millionaire context

Year 9 recap task

Year 9 recap task                                                                            Louis Hedge

I'm using the film back to the future.

For Laura Mulvey's male gaze theory works in back to the future with Marty Mcfly's mum. Marty's mum is presented as good looking. They have presented her like this for male gaze but also to make the situation for Marty feel even weirder: he has travelled back in time and has accidentally ran into his mum who is the same age as him.

The second is a theory about genre: Henry Jenkins made a theory that the genre is constantly breaking the rules of the genre. Most people would agree that back to the future is a sci-fi film. it follows the theme of time travel which makes it a sci-fi film but it breaks the rules because apart from the time machine everything else is pretty normal. The film is filled with normal iconic 80s items.

Blumler and Katz's theory was using and gratification theory (audience). I would say the film is an escapism. Although it is all set on Earth with normal humans but the events that happen in the film are things that wouldn't normally happen.

The final theory is Todorov's theory of narrative devolopment.
Although the film travels through time it still follows Todorovs narrative theory. Martys life is pretty normal then he travels in time and gets stuck in the past. He then needs to get home.

For the scene on the right >
In the scene they are at a car park, the prop is the delorean, the characters clothes are their iconic outfits, they don't have any make up on because its normal. Marty looks confused and Doc looks excited to show Marty the time machine.
Cinematography, the camera shows mainly doc and marty then lower shots focusing on the delorean.
Editing, shows the time machine lots then cuts back to Marty's reactions.
Finally, the sound in the scene is mainly music with the noise from the time machine. There is some dialog from Marty as he reacts to whats happening.

Fighting with my family on IMDB

Fighting with my family on IMDB

1. The overall user rating is 7.3
2. In the opening weekend in the US the box office made $138,780 (so quite well)
3."Overall, it was a fun time and I can give a hearty recommendation even if you don't care for wrestling"
4. "at the end of the film I actually realised the most important thing, something that isn't even being used for the promotion of this feel good film, it's actually a true story!"
5. The film comes under biography, comedy and drama
6.The tagline is: A Comedy About a Family That Fights a Little Differently
7.The film was directed by Stephen Merchant. He has also worked on Logan.
8.The main stars of the film are working on:
Dwayne Jonson: Jumanji 3, fast and furious 10, hobbs and shaw
9.The ones ie heard of which they've starred in are Jumanji, Fast and furious, rampage, skyscraper 10.The funniest one I found was the scene at the start was set in 2000 but the T.V is much more modern

Representation of ability/disability on screen

Auggie is represented as dum. The other school children tell him that science is very hard and even ask him if he knows what an eraser is. This could make the other children look mean but really they don't know his situation.
Near the end of the clip we actually find pout that he is actually quite smart. This is because he has been home-schooled, which removes the distractions from normal school like friends and other students. They then continue to ask whether hes been part of a car crash or whether he was caught in a fire. They ask this because of how his face looks. They might do this because he acts normally and is quite smart but looks different to everyone else.
Because he looks different the children think he will be mentally disabled and not understand the things they learn and talk about at school. The fact hes been home-schooled, to the other children, means he he hasn't been educated and he doesn't really know anything. He actually corrects the other child, who was picking on him, how to say the word properly and then moves onto say maybe he could be home-schooled as well.

Edgar Wright film studies video

Cinematography in Submarine

Cinematography in submarineThe first image is a close up as the main focus is Jordana. She is the main focus because she is the only thing that Oliver cares about and you can see the background is not in focus and this shows she is his priority.
The other type of shot is the low angle shot. This makes her look more important. as the camera is pointing up to her. It also could infer that Oliver looks up to Jordana and if you look up to someone it often means they are important.
The first type of shot is a medium shot because you can see quite a lot of the class room. Although it is Oliver who takes the most attention. How he is sitting is angled: it is almost as if he is on the edge of the class and the other people his age. The other type is an eye level shot because the audience is at the same level as the students and the teacher is much taller and seems more important. Additionally in the classroom there are lots of different shades of blue. From the navy of the school uniform to the pale blue on the walls as well as the medium blue on the door and on the notice board. This could be one of the many references to the film name 'submarine' and the different shades of blue could represent the water.

Teen film genre

This is mise-en-scene for the teen film genre 😃

Sci fi mood board

Mise-en-scene ice dance scene

Mise-en-scene with kim dancing in the snow 

Howard the duck review

This my first attempt at a film review so here goes,

My first film I'm reviewing and watching is Howard the Duck. An interesting choice of first film to review. Made by George Lucas all the way back in 1986, Howard the Duck is the first marvel film.
Based on the "not so famous" marvel comics, Howard is sent to Earth throwing him  through an adventure you'll never forget. That's the bad part though: Howard the duck is famous but not always for the right reasons.


Many, Including George himself, thought the adventure of the super hero duck would be a success. After the success from George Lucas with Star Wars, he thought he'd be rich (he already was but,  still), but actually he almost was bankrupt from the failure of the duck.

It still did have some exciting and fun scenes like an exhilarating car chase but the sense of excitement only lasted until you reminded yourself that a load of highly skilled, fully grown police officers were chasing a duck.

For me the moral of the story is just because there's stunts chases and a massive amount of money has been thrown at it, doesn't mean that its
a block buster.