1.Why did film makers and producers move to Hollywood?

-The mountains, plains and low land prices made Hollywood a good place to establish film studios.

Name some of the big stars, directors and pictures from the Silent Era of Hollywood?

-Charlie Chaplin

Produced his own films did the sound and sets for them. Charlie did his own stunts as well. Charlie Chaplin was one of the greatest and widely loved silent movie stars. From ‘Easy Street’ to ‘Modern Times’. He also made many of the funniest and most popular films of his time. He was best known for his character, the naive and lovable Little Tramp.

-Clara Bow

Actor- Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom during the silent film era of the 1920s and successfully made the transition to ‘talkies’ in 1929.

-Douglas Fairbanks

Action hero and he did all his own stunts. Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor and filmmaker best known for being the first actor to play the masked Vigilante Zorro and other swashbuckling roles in silent films. One of the biggest stars of the silent era, Fairbanks was referred to as ‘The King of Hollywood’.

In what ways were the early Hollywood studio system like a factory or production line or even the Premier League?

-The studio system operated like a factory, with stars, directors, writers, and crew all working under long-term contracts.

Why did the end of the silent era cause problems for some performers working in the film industry?

-Due to the unsuitability of their voice and/or acting abilities with the new medium.

What was happening in America(and around the world) at this time?

In America at the time the country’s wealth doubled from 1920-1929. Although in the 1930s the great depression hit and America suffered its largest struggles it had seen as a nation. World War 1 was also happening. It started in 1914 up until 1918.

Golden Age of Hollywood 1930- 1947

The five big Hollywood studios where – Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers Studios, MGM, 20th Century Fox and RKO.

9/10

Amazing film. I highly recommend it to watch. The romance mixed in with war is very gripping. A scene I remember is when it was a flash back from Casablanca to Paris. The editing towards this section is smooth and understandable.

Humphrey Bogart

Ingrid Bergman – Ilsa Lund

Paul Henreid – Victor Laszlo

Peter Lorre – Ugarte

Claude Rains – Captain Louis Renualt

Verisimilitude– the quality of seeming true or of having the appearance of being real.

Social Realism– It is showing a realistic representation on what life was like at that moment in time. E.G- Making a WW2 film as accurate as possible. -Saving Private Ryan

Magic Realism– E.G- Harry Potter

Hyperreality– A film set in the future with amazing technology. E.G- The Matrix

Iconography– Iconography simply refers to the pattern of signs we associate with a particular genre. An obvious example would be the combination of futuristic costumes, props, and settings in science-fiction films. 

Intertextual Referencing– it’s where a movie overlaps with another work of film. -Family Guy

Visual/ Sound motifs in film– Objects, colours, shapes, settings.

James Bond

Colour Grading– digital tools or photochemical processes are used to make videos or films look better or change the colour tone and mood. 

Auteur Trademarks– A reference (character, an angle a theme) that is recurrent to the directors work. E.G- Tim Burton

Tone

Pathos, or the appeal to emotion, means to persuade an audience by purposely evoking certain emotions to make them feel the way the author wants them to feel.

 Bathos, Anticlimactic ending. Expecting something but gets something else.

Suspense, a sequence leading up to a jump scare. Tension within the scene.

Comedy, professional entertainment consisting of jokes and sketches, intended to make an audience laugh.

Dramatic irony, occurs when the audience knows something that the characters don’t. E.G, When the Jaws music plays we know the shark is near.

Distancing Effect, Reminding the audience that you are watching a film. Breaking the 3rd wall in the film E.G, Narration, Deadpool when he speaks to the audience.

Postmodern Humour, when a comedy presents an undeceived view of life.

Reframing is the general change in a person’s mindset, whether it be a positive or negative change.

Throughout Joker, cinematography is used effectively to create a sense of chaos within the films diegetic world.

Here, the camera is used to position the spectator.

This suggest to the spectator that.

This reframing of the central character.

PEEL Structure

The structure of the paragraph shows a clear structure of point, evidence, explain and link to spectator.

-point-evidence-explain-link

Critical score – 9.5/10

In my opinion ‘This is England’ is the best movie that we have watched on our course so far. I loved the setting the movie was based on in the mid 80s. I also liked how the sets where real places each time. Nothing was made or set up for the movie. I liked how accurate it felt as well. I know i was not alive in the 80s. Not even close. Although the movie felt as if the director Shane Meadows was really accurate of how lower class England looked in the 80s.

One of my favourite scenes was near the beginning as Sean was reading a comic and the shop keeper took it off him. I like the way Sean was dealing with it with not a care in the world. Wanting his cola cubes.

Over all this was a great film to watch and I highly recommend it to whoever has not seen it.

All aspects of film form including narrative contribute to the representations of cultures and societies (gender, ethnicity and age) including ideology nature of those representations.

An ideology is a set of beliefs.

Performance:

Age

Ethnicity

Costume

Facial Expression

Body Language

A stereotype is a fixed general image or set of characteristics that a lot of people believe represent a particular type of person or thing.

Countertype: The opposite to a stereotype. The ideas of breaking away from a stereotype. Like when we think of an American president we think of a white man. You could think of a black man instead. Think of a different angle.

A stereotype within Terminator 1 is how Sarah Connor is seen to be a waitress with no passion within her life. She is stereotyped as a weak character within the first movie.

In Terminator 2 Sarah Connor is a countertype to herself within Terminator 1 as she is depicted to be fully in control of herself and went from a waitress to be comfortable around guns. She is countertypeed to her original self.

Representation in Trainspotting

1.WHO IS DOING THE REPRESENTATION? The main Characters – Renton, Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and Robert.

1.WHO IS BEING REPRESENTED ? The Scottish poor and minority who live within the worst parts of Scotland. Also people who are addicted to drugs and their life depends on the next hit.

2.WHAT SOCIAL GROUPS ARE OMITTED FROM THE REPRESENTATIONS? Low class people addicted to drugs and have no aspiration in life.

3.WHAT MESSAGES ABOUT PARTICULAR SOCIAL GROUPS ARE BEING CONVEYED? The message of the movie is almost an advert on why you should not do drugs and the consequences of these drugs.

4.WHICH CHARACTERS OR SOCIAL GROUPS HAVE POWER WITHIN THE REPRESENTATIONS? The “Mother Superio” who supplies the drugs has power because everyone on heroin comes to him.

Young People

In Trainspotting young people are presented as being trapped in a dull and hopeless society. Not once do you see a cheery young person. They are always depicted as trying to escape the area. Danny Boyle makes young people to be low as they are drinking, taking drugs and running from the law in this movie.

Older People

Older people are seen in the movie as either loving couples with out of control children or drug addicts who are seen to only be looking for trouble.

Addicts

The whole film is almost an advert on not to do drugs. It shows the most horrible scenes which are based on real events. The drugs dens are scummy and disgusting and the addicts are presented as not caring, only caring on the next hit of the drug.

​	What went well?​	What Went Wrong​	What do I need to do next time to ensure things go better?​
Group Communication/ Role Allocation​	Everything went well, all members knew what they where doing and what their roles where.​	People were doing more than others.​	Give everyone an equal role​
Timing/​Task Completion​	We got most of the filming finished. We could of film more but overall we got a good handful.​	Did not film as much as we wanted because of the time frame.​	-Have some more time. ​-Be quicker on certain shots.​
Understanding the Task​	We understood the task well and pulled off shots we had planned.​	We had to many ideas and couldn’t pull them all together.​	​
Controlling Task Conditions (location etc.)​	I think we had the best location in the school for the mirrors and dark lighting.​	Because of the mirror the camera man was sometimes in shot so we had to redo certain shots.​	​
Skills Required​(Technical)​	The communication between us was clear.​	Confidence​	​