Little girl, wants to be accepted, she’s different and unique, kind and easily liked. She wants to be accepted by her step sister. Who is driven by jealously and envy because of the love the little receives instead of her.
In the end the little girl’s compassion and unconditional love shows the sister how wrong she’s been, and she changes her ways, with a new found love for her sister.
• Little girl is loved by mother and father
• Step sister is jealous
• Bullies little girl with friends
• Witch finds her crying, offers to help – gives name little blue
• Witches give her sweets to earn steps sister love
• Little girl tries to gain acceptance by herself, but fails
• Step sister shuns her more
• Witch decides to teach sister a lesson
• Little girl stops her
• Step sister realises how wonderful her little sister is
• They make up
• Witches job is done and leaves
• Happy end
Little Blue
Tagline
‘Love turns sorrow into happiness’
Or
‘The sweetest thing’
Pitch
The story of little blue is one of loss, envy and unconditional love. As this sweet little girl offers her love to someone who only offers hate in return, she tries to close the every growing gap between sisters, using a little magic along the way.
Treatment
Little Blue tells the tale of a little girl’s want of her stepsisters love. We begin our story with little blue being doted on by her parents, hand in hand, laughing and smiling her beloved smile, her blue coat making her stand out from others. Her sister hangs behind the loving scene, looking any where but the trio. / - other idea - with little blue, running from room to room, retracing discarded pens and papers from around the house preparing for school. Her parents help and laugh on at their precious daughters rushing, an older girl is still in her room, laying on her bed she frowns at the echoes of laughter and motherly cooing outside her door. Her father calls to her and as she rises from her bed she looks longingly at a picture of a woman by her bedside, getting up and closing the door behind her. As the story continues while the stepsister ignores little blue at home it’s rather the opposite at school, the stepsister along with her friends terrorise the little girl, to her the little girl has everything that should be hers, after her mother was ripped away from her the girl took away her father too. Why should she have to be the one to feel so alone? After a confrontation from the girls little blue runs away and hides away, while crying her unstopping tears an old lady approaches her, she asks why a lovely little girl should be so blue, as the girl confesses her sisters actions the lady comforts her, and presents her with some sweets, but no ordinary sweets, she asks little blue to give these to her sister, and she will love her. However little blue is unsure to give her step sister the sweets, she feels a simple token will not be enough to earn her sisters love. As she attempts to help her sister as much as she can, from completing her chores to taking the blame for her sister purposeful bad behaviour, however this only angers the step sister as her little sisters tries to not only look better for completing her jobs but also taking credit for her tries to gain attention. The stepsister friends take little blues bag, finding the sweets, they tempt the sister to eat them while little blues tries in vain to take them back. The sister argues back, once again she tries to take something all to herself, but before the step sister can join her friends in eating the sweets they suddenly turn of her, becoming furious and jealous of the step sister, as they continue to abuse her little blue stands up for her sister, confessing how wonderful her sister is in her eyes, stopping the girls insults. So touched by her little sister outburst she realises how wrong she’s been and confesses her own horrid treatment of her sister was her blaming her for her mothers death and fathers remarrying, and she was the one who had isolated herself. At this the witch appears revealing the spell on the friends reflected the step sisters own foolish feelings, and it was only little blues love that could cure both the friends and the sister.
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Enchanted
The movie immediately starts with a book being spread open showing different elements of the movie. The voice over which plays the narrator carefully describes fully what is happening? The first few minutes its very fairytale like with the witches, kings and queen etc. We get a lot of close up shots of different characters, which gives us a sense of character i.e. the protagonist is very lonely and vulnerable. The first scene is animated and cartoon like we get a sense of fantasy.
The movie immediately starts with a book being spread open showing different elements of the movie. The voice over which plays the narrator carefully describes fully what is happening? The first few minutes its very fairytale like with the witches, kings and queen etc. We get a lot of close up shots of different characters, which gives us a sense of character i.e. the protagonist is very lonely and vulnerable. The first scene is animated and cartoon like we get a sense of fantasy.
Stardust
Starts of with a fairytale like soundtrack, which is very calm and peaceful music. Whilst the soundtrack is playing there is a voice over which is the narrator explain what is happening in the scene along with this the camera movements shows different parts of what is being mentioned in the voice over. So we get an understanding of why a letter is being written. The camera effects are really good because in order to change to a new scene is dissolved into different shots and gave us a sense of place that it was very fairytale like with the village and woods. We get a sense of character that the protagonist is rebellious. We get a sense of a drama genre with the argument but as the scene cuts away we see another side which show fantasy things like small elephants, eyeballs in a jug etc. We see a lot of unearthly objects; the director has been explicit with the genre of the movie so we get a clear understanding.
Starts of with a fairytale like soundtrack, which is very calm and peaceful music. Whilst the soundtrack is playing there is a voice over which is the narrator explain what is happening in the scene along with this the camera movements shows different parts of what is being mentioned in the voice over. So we get an understanding of why a letter is being written. The camera effects are really good because in order to change to a new scene is dissolved into different shots and gave us a sense of place that it was very fairytale like with the village and woods. We get a sense of character that the protagonist is rebellious. We get a sense of a drama genre with the argument but as the scene cuts away we see another side which show fantasy things like small elephants, eyeballs in a jug etc. We see a lot of unearthly objects; the director has been explicit with the genre of the movie so we get a clear understanding.
Tuesday 10 November 2009
I researched a director that portrays both genres in his movie to see what elements they use and what ideas i can use my opening. I also rsearched this so i can know which types of audience to attract Steven Spielberg is a famous director that has published so many movies with this genre such as:
Jurassic park
Indianna Jones
War of the world
E.T
Jaws
With these types og movies i found the target audience was teenagers and adults. I was also showed me that with this genre we can attract any typs of audience it al depends on the types of elements i use either to mske it very fairy tale like or more action or whether i could combine this.
Jurassic park
Indianna Jones
War of the world
E.T
Jaws
With these types og movies i found the target audience was teenagers and adults. I was also showed me that with this genre we can attract any typs of audience it al depends on the types of elements i use either to mske it very fairy tale like or more action or whether i could combine this.
My group decided that we wanted to use a drama and fantasy genre because most of our fairytales were based on these gernres.
Fantasy Genre
Fantasy films are films with unique themes, it usually includes magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. Fantasy films exceed the bounds of human possibility and physical laws. Fantasy films are often in the background of the imagination, dreams, or hallucinations of a character or within the vision of the storyteller. Fantasy films often cosist of many factors like magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. They may appeal to both children and adults, depending on the film film.
The boundaries of the fantasy literary genre are not well-defined, and the same is therefore true for the film genre as well. Categorizing a movie as fantasy may then require an examination of the themes, narrative approach and other structural factors of the film.
Films that depent on magic primarily as a gimmick, e.g. the 1976 film Freaky Friday and its 2003 re-make in which a mother and daughter magically switch bodies, may technically qualify as fantasy but are nevertheless not generally considered part of the genre.
The target audience are more likely to be young children from 8-17 years mainly women.
Drama Genre
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena.
This film genre can be contrasted with an action film, which relies on fast-paced action and physical conflict but superficial character development.All film genres can include dramatic elements, but typically, films considered drama films focus mainly on the drama of the main issue.
Some well-known drama films include The Godfather (1972), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Schindler's List (1993).
Drama films have been nominated frequently for the Academy Award (particularly Best Picture) - more than any other film genre.
The target audience for drama is usually teenagers to adults. Depending on the type of drama depends on what type of audience.
Crime drama and Legal drama –This appeals more to male teenagers and adults.
Historical drama (epic) (including War drama) – This appeals to more middle age groups including both females and males.
Docudrama- This attracts more male adults.
Comedy-drama:- This appeals to most ages from 11 upwards.
Melodrama: -This appeals to more female teenagers and adults.
Romance –This appeals to female teenagers and adults from about 12 to about 30
Tragedy:-This can appeal to all ages.
Fantasy Genre
Fantasy films are films with unique themes, it usually includes magic, supernatural events, make-believe creatures, or exotic fantasy worlds. Fantasy films exceed the bounds of human possibility and physical laws. Fantasy films are often in the background of the imagination, dreams, or hallucinations of a character or within the vision of the storyteller. Fantasy films often cosist of many factors like magic, myth, wonder, escapism, and the extraordinary. They may appeal to both children and adults, depending on the film film.
The boundaries of the fantasy literary genre are not well-defined, and the same is therefore true for the film genre as well. Categorizing a movie as fantasy may then require an examination of the themes, narrative approach and other structural factors of the film.
Films that depent on magic primarily as a gimmick, e.g. the 1976 film Freaky Friday and its 2003 re-make in which a mother and daughter magically switch bodies, may technically qualify as fantasy but are nevertheless not generally considered part of the genre.
The target audience are more likely to be young children from 8-17 years mainly women.
Drama Genre
A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, crime and corruption put the characters in conflict with themselves, others, society and even natural phenomena.
This film genre can be contrasted with an action film, which relies on fast-paced action and physical conflict but superficial character development.All film genres can include dramatic elements, but typically, films considered drama films focus mainly on the drama of the main issue.
Some well-known drama films include The Godfather (1972), The Shawshank Redemption (1994), and Schindler's List (1993).
Drama films have been nominated frequently for the Academy Award (particularly Best Picture) - more than any other film genre.
The target audience for drama is usually teenagers to adults. Depending on the type of drama depends on what type of audience.
Crime drama and Legal drama –This appeals more to male teenagers and adults.
Historical drama (epic) (including War drama) – This appeals to more middle age groups including both females and males.
Docudrama- This attracts more male adults.
Comedy-drama:- This appeals to most ages from 11 upwards.
Melodrama: -This appeals to more female teenagers and adults.
Romance –This appeals to female teenagers and adults from about 12 to about 30
Tragedy:-This can appeal to all ages.
Analysis of Kill Bill
The movie starts of with a voice over of a woman breathing; the camera is going at a slow pace and leading us to the location of the sound. The breathing gradually turns into a diegetic on screen where a woman is placed n the floor with cuts and bruises. We get a close up of the woman’s face this gives us a sense of the character. Through this first scene we see that the women is fragile and scared, we get a high angle shot of the woman showing that she is inferior. Another character is introduced and a dialogue has taken place. We also see that the man is superior because we get a low angle shot of the man; we get a sense that he is violent. Ambient lighting is used throughout the first scene stays black and white. There is a lot of sound used throughout the first scene there is a lot of music to build tension which goes with the theme of the movie which is revenge and violence. Another aspect of sound used is diegetic off screen where we here the sound of a gun shot but the gun is not shown but we know it’s been used because the woman stops breathing. Other sound used was the soundtrack which was played towards the end of the movie the lyrics were ‘’bang bang he shot me down’’ this gives us taster of what may happen in the movie. During the editing the director tries to use alt of clues in the first scene so that the audience keep asking questions. The camera movements show us status, sense of character and place. We are automatically introduces to characters and their backing story. Each cutaway flows to show why he woman was shot. The first scene explains the concept of the movie using sound , movement and lighting.
The movie starts of with a voice over of a woman breathing; the camera is going at a slow pace and leading us to the location of the sound. The breathing gradually turns into a diegetic on screen where a woman is placed n the floor with cuts and bruises. We get a close up of the woman’s face this gives us a sense of the character. Through this first scene we see that the women is fragile and scared, we get a high angle shot of the woman showing that she is inferior. Another character is introduced and a dialogue has taken place. We also see that the man is superior because we get a low angle shot of the man; we get a sense that he is violent. Ambient lighting is used throughout the first scene stays black and white. There is a lot of sound used throughout the first scene there is a lot of music to build tension which goes with the theme of the movie which is revenge and violence. Another aspect of sound used is diegetic off screen where we here the sound of a gun shot but the gun is not shown but we know it’s been used because the woman stops breathing. Other sound used was the soundtrack which was played towards the end of the movie the lyrics were ‘’bang bang he shot me down’’ this gives us taster of what may happen in the movie. During the editing the director tries to use alt of clues in the first scene so that the audience keep asking questions. The camera movements show us status, sense of character and place. We are automatically introduces to characters and their backing story. Each cutaway flows to show why he woman was shot. The first scene explains the concept of the movie using sound , movement and lighting.
The enchanted kingdom of jealousy
Once upon a time lived a two brothers who were very close and loved each other. One day as they were walking through town to find ther true loves they came across a beautiful lady named Ophelia. Both brothers wanted her but she feel in love with King David his brother john only felt jealousy towards him. This was because he truly loved ophelia. John really wanted to get his brother and Ophelia back because he felt betrayed. He planned for days and weeks what evil plan he will do. One day John went to the woods to find a witch that will fufill his wish which was to make sure King David and Ophelia's first born will die. However John did not know he was being follwed by a noble servant. The servant quickly went to report the news to King David. Therefore Johns plan backfired, King david and other people within the kingdom cursed John into a beast untill he changed his selfish ways. Since then John has not been seen and his plan failed.
I used the theme jealousy which I found interesting when I researched the fairytales. A fairytale that was similaer to my fairytale was the envious neighbour. I based my ideas on this that the neighbour was jealous of this couple because they had what he wanted. My story shows many elements of tis theme. I wanted there to be a moral that you shouldn’t be envious of other people’s treasures.
Once upon a time lived a two brothers who were very close and loved each other. One day as they were walking through town to find ther true loves they came across a beautiful lady named Ophelia. Both brothers wanted her but she feel in love with King David his brother john only felt jealousy towards him. This was because he truly loved ophelia. John really wanted to get his brother and Ophelia back because he felt betrayed. He planned for days and weeks what evil plan he will do. One day John went to the woods to find a witch that will fufill his wish which was to make sure King David and Ophelia's first born will die. However John did not know he was being follwed by a noble servant. The servant quickly went to report the news to King David. Therefore Johns plan backfired, King david and other people within the kingdom cursed John into a beast untill he changed his selfish ways. Since then John has not been seen and his plan failed.
I used the theme jealousy which I found interesting when I researched the fairytales. A fairytale that was similaer to my fairytale was the envious neighbour. I based my ideas on this that the neighbour was jealous of this couple because they had what he wanted. My story shows many elements of tis theme. I wanted there to be a moral that you shouldn’t be envious of other people’s treasures.
Fairy tales from other countries
Fairytales
The Envious Neighbour
An old childless couple loved their dog. One day, it dug in the garden, and they found a box of gold pieces there. A neighbor thought the dog must be able to find treasure, and managed to borrow the dog. When it dug in his garden, there were only bones, and he killed it. He told the couple that the dog had just dropped dead. They grieved and buried it under the fig tree where they had found the treasure. One night, the dog's master dreamed that the dog told him to chop down the tree and make a mortar from it. He told his wife, who said they must do as the dog asked. When they did, the rice put into the mortar turned into gold. The neighbor borrowed it, but the rice turned to foul-smelling berries, and he and his wife smashed and burned the mortar.
That night, in a dream, the dog told his master to take the ashes and sprinkle them on certain cherry trees. When he did, the cherry trees came into bloom, and the Daimyo, passing by, marveled and gave him many gifts. The neighbor tried to do the same, but the ashes blew into the Daimyo's eyes, so he threw him into prison; when he was let out, his village would not let him live there anymore, and he could not, with his wicked ways, find a new home
The slave mother
A couple of tenant farmers had five sons. One day the woman heard an owl ask her whether she would rather be rich while young or in old age. After telling her husband of it, she told it in old age. Soon she went out to get greens for a salad and was carried off by pirates. The family lamented her but had to go on.
Two years later, the family found a treasure in the fields. They smuggled it off, gave up the farm, and went to the city to live a fine life. One day the sons wanted to buy a beautiful young slave girl. The father refused, saying they should buy an old slave woman, who knew how to work. He saw one and bought her, and they gave her new clothing and put her in charge of the house. Still, she sighed every time she saw the five sons. The old man asked her one day, and she explained that she had once had five sons, but she had been taken by pirates while gathering greens for salad. The old man realized she was his wife. They were delighted to have her back, and she lived her old age in wealth.
The princess who never smiled
There was once a princess never smiled or laughed. Her father promised that whoever made her smile could marry her, and many tried, but none succeeded.
Across the town, a honest worker worked hard for his master. At the end of the year, the master put a sack of money before him and told him to take as much as he wanted. To avoid sinning by taking too much, he took only one coin, and when he went to drink from a well, he dropped the coin and lost it. The next year, the same thing happened to him. He took the same amount of coin as before,but when he drank from the well, he did not lose his coin, and the other two coins floated up to him. He decided to see the world. A mouse asked him for alms; he gave him a coin. Then he did the same for a beetle and a catfish.
He came to the castle and saw the princess looking at him. This astounded him, and he fell in the mud. The mouse, the beetle, and the catfish came to his aid, and at their antics, the princess laughed. She pointed him out as the man, and when he was brought into the castle, he had been turned into a handsome man. The honest worker, now a handsome man, married the princess
The grateful beast
Three sons set out to seek their fortune. The youngest, Ferko, was so beautiful that his older brothers thought he would be preferred, so they ate his bread while he slept, and refused to share theirs until he let them put out his eyes and break his legs. When they had blinded and crippled him, they left him.
Ferko crawled on and, in the heat of the day, rested under what he thought was a tree, but was a gallows. Two crows talked together, and one told the other that the lake below them would heal any injury, and the dew on the hillside would restore eyesight. As soon as evening came, he washed his face in the dew, and crawled down to the lake and was whole again. He took a flask of the water and went on. On the way, he met and healed an injured wolf, mouse, and queen bee.
Ferko found a kingdom and sought service with the king. His two brothers worked for the same king and were afraid he would reveal their wickedness. They accused him of being a wicked magician who had come to kidnap the king's daughter. The king summoned Ferko, told him the accusation, and said he would execute him unless he performed three tasks, in which case he would be exiled. His brothers suggested that he had to build a castle more beautiful than the king's. The princess was distressed by the cruelty of their act. Ferko despaired, but the bee came to him and heard his plight. The bees built such a castle, of flowers. For the next task, they suggested that the corn had been cut but not put in barns; let Ferko put all the corn in the kingdom into the barns during the night, not losing a stalk. The mice gathered the corn for him. For the third task, the brothers suggested that he drive all the wolves in the kingdom to the hill they were on. At this, the princess burst into tears, and her father locked her in a tower. The wolf gathered all his fellows and came to the hill, where the wolves tore the king, the wicked brothers, and all his court to pieces.
Ferko freed the princess and married her, and the wolves went peacefully back to the woods.
The witch
poor widower with twin children, a girl and a boy, remarried. The stepmother had several more children and mistreated the twins. Finally, she told them she was sending them to her grandmother, in the woods, where she knew where there was a witch; she said they would have to serve her, but would be well-rewarded. The girl said they should visit their own grandmother first, and their grandmother knew the woman was a witch. She advised them to be civil and kind, and never touch a crumb belonging to anyone else, and gave them bread, milk, and ham.
The witch set the girl to spin, and the boy to carry water in a sieve. The girl, who could not spin, wept. Mice came up to her and asked for bread. She gave them some. They told her to give the cat ham, and it should show them a way from the woods; meanwhile, they would spin for her. She went out, where her brother was trying to carry water. Wrens flew up and asked for some bread. They gave it, and the wrens advised him to stop up the holes with clay. They then gave the cat the ham. It gave them a handkerchief and comb, which would become a river and a forest, if they threw them behind them while they fled.
The next morning, the witch set the girl to weave, and the boy to chop wood into chips. Instead, they fled. A watch-dog sprung up, but they threw it the last of their bread. Birch trees nearly put out their eyes, but the girl tied a ribbon on their branches, and they let her by. Meanwhile the cat was tangling the weaving, and when the witch saw it, she demanded to know why it had not stopped the children. It told her that she had never given it a bone, and they had given it ham. The dog and the birch answered likewise, and she got her broom to follow.
The children threw down the handkerchief, but in time, the witch found a way to ford it. The children threw down the comb, and the witch found it impossible to force her way through it. They found their father again, and he drove the stepmother out of the house.
These fairytales are based around the theme jealousy, each story has a moral. The fairytales are from all over the world such as Japan, Sweden and france. For my fairytale I want to include the theme jealousy and envy..
The Envious Neighbour
An old childless couple loved their dog. One day, it dug in the garden, and they found a box of gold pieces there. A neighbor thought the dog must be able to find treasure, and managed to borrow the dog. When it dug in his garden, there were only bones, and he killed it. He told the couple that the dog had just dropped dead. They grieved and buried it under the fig tree where they had found the treasure. One night, the dog's master dreamed that the dog told him to chop down the tree and make a mortar from it. He told his wife, who said they must do as the dog asked. When they did, the rice put into the mortar turned into gold. The neighbor borrowed it, but the rice turned to foul-smelling berries, and he and his wife smashed and burned the mortar.
That night, in a dream, the dog told his master to take the ashes and sprinkle them on certain cherry trees. When he did, the cherry trees came into bloom, and the Daimyo, passing by, marveled and gave him many gifts. The neighbor tried to do the same, but the ashes blew into the Daimyo's eyes, so he threw him into prison; when he was let out, his village would not let him live there anymore, and he could not, with his wicked ways, find a new home
The slave mother
A couple of tenant farmers had five sons. One day the woman heard an owl ask her whether she would rather be rich while young or in old age. After telling her husband of it, she told it in old age. Soon she went out to get greens for a salad and was carried off by pirates. The family lamented her but had to go on.
Two years later, the family found a treasure in the fields. They smuggled it off, gave up the farm, and went to the city to live a fine life. One day the sons wanted to buy a beautiful young slave girl. The father refused, saying they should buy an old slave woman, who knew how to work. He saw one and bought her, and they gave her new clothing and put her in charge of the house. Still, she sighed every time she saw the five sons. The old man asked her one day, and she explained that she had once had five sons, but she had been taken by pirates while gathering greens for salad. The old man realized she was his wife. They were delighted to have her back, and she lived her old age in wealth.
The princess who never smiled
There was once a princess never smiled or laughed. Her father promised that whoever made her smile could marry her, and many tried, but none succeeded.
Across the town, a honest worker worked hard for his master. At the end of the year, the master put a sack of money before him and told him to take as much as he wanted. To avoid sinning by taking too much, he took only one coin, and when he went to drink from a well, he dropped the coin and lost it. The next year, the same thing happened to him. He took the same amount of coin as before,but when he drank from the well, he did not lose his coin, and the other two coins floated up to him. He decided to see the world. A mouse asked him for alms; he gave him a coin. Then he did the same for a beetle and a catfish.
He came to the castle and saw the princess looking at him. This astounded him, and he fell in the mud. The mouse, the beetle, and the catfish came to his aid, and at their antics, the princess laughed. She pointed him out as the man, and when he was brought into the castle, he had been turned into a handsome man. The honest worker, now a handsome man, married the princess
The grateful beast
Three sons set out to seek their fortune. The youngest, Ferko, was so beautiful that his older brothers thought he would be preferred, so they ate his bread while he slept, and refused to share theirs until he let them put out his eyes and break his legs. When they had blinded and crippled him, they left him.
Ferko crawled on and, in the heat of the day, rested under what he thought was a tree, but was a gallows. Two crows talked together, and one told the other that the lake below them would heal any injury, and the dew on the hillside would restore eyesight. As soon as evening came, he washed his face in the dew, and crawled down to the lake and was whole again. He took a flask of the water and went on. On the way, he met and healed an injured wolf, mouse, and queen bee.
Ferko found a kingdom and sought service with the king. His two brothers worked for the same king and were afraid he would reveal their wickedness. They accused him of being a wicked magician who had come to kidnap the king's daughter. The king summoned Ferko, told him the accusation, and said he would execute him unless he performed three tasks, in which case he would be exiled. His brothers suggested that he had to build a castle more beautiful than the king's. The princess was distressed by the cruelty of their act. Ferko despaired, but the bee came to him and heard his plight. The bees built such a castle, of flowers. For the next task, they suggested that the corn had been cut but not put in barns; let Ferko put all the corn in the kingdom into the barns during the night, not losing a stalk. The mice gathered the corn for him. For the third task, the brothers suggested that he drive all the wolves in the kingdom to the hill they were on. At this, the princess burst into tears, and her father locked her in a tower. The wolf gathered all his fellows and came to the hill, where the wolves tore the king, the wicked brothers, and all his court to pieces.
Ferko freed the princess and married her, and the wolves went peacefully back to the woods.
The witch
poor widower with twin children, a girl and a boy, remarried. The stepmother had several more children and mistreated the twins. Finally, she told them she was sending them to her grandmother, in the woods, where she knew where there was a witch; she said they would have to serve her, but would be well-rewarded. The girl said they should visit their own grandmother first, and their grandmother knew the woman was a witch. She advised them to be civil and kind, and never touch a crumb belonging to anyone else, and gave them bread, milk, and ham.
The witch set the girl to spin, and the boy to carry water in a sieve. The girl, who could not spin, wept. Mice came up to her and asked for bread. She gave them some. They told her to give the cat ham, and it should show them a way from the woods; meanwhile, they would spin for her. She went out, where her brother was trying to carry water. Wrens flew up and asked for some bread. They gave it, and the wrens advised him to stop up the holes with clay. They then gave the cat the ham. It gave them a handkerchief and comb, which would become a river and a forest, if they threw them behind them while they fled.
The next morning, the witch set the girl to weave, and the boy to chop wood into chips. Instead, they fled. A watch-dog sprung up, but they threw it the last of their bread. Birch trees nearly put out their eyes, but the girl tied a ribbon on their branches, and they let her by. Meanwhile the cat was tangling the weaving, and when the witch saw it, she demanded to know why it had not stopped the children. It told her that she had never given it a bone, and they had given it ham. The dog and the birch answered likewise, and she got her broom to follow.
The children threw down the handkerchief, but in time, the witch found a way to ford it. The children threw down the comb, and the witch found it impossible to force her way through it. They found their father again, and he drove the stepmother out of the house.
These fairytales are based around the theme jealousy, each story has a moral. The fairytales are from all over the world such as Japan, Sweden and france. For my fairytale I want to include the theme jealousy and envy..
Opening scenes
Transporter
At the beginning we feel uneasy because we are unaware of what is going on because we see an empty car park with only one driver. There are many types of soundtrack being played, this builds up tension as to what the director wanted us to feel. The way the scene is set up is as though the cast member is up to something because of the soundtrack and that there’s no dialogue. The use of props of the man wearing all black shows that he may be a crook.
Director’s commentary
He wanted us to question what the cast were up to, to keep us alert. He gave us a sense of character by doing close ups of the character and his possessions. He gave us a sense of what may happen such as violence, crime and drama. He played a lot of soundtrack to show the mood of the atmosphere.
Lord of war
This is another opening that keeps us in suspense because again we want to know what is happening. This is because there are a lot of continuity shots that show different elements of war. The protagonist is smoking and reporting some news we assume here that he is a news reporter; here we are getting a sense of character. After this shot there is soft music being played very suttle, this is in contrast to what the director is showing we see a lot of fire arm and bullets. At this point as to what message the director is trying to show.
Directors’ commentary
Throughout the first scene the director wanted us to be in suspense so kept using different camera techniques and sounds. He kept a lot of attention on the firearm so we get a taster of what may appear in the movie. At the beginning when the protagonist is using dialogue its used to convey a message that firearms are accessible now a days. Lastly the first scene is also to give us a sense of place.
At the beginning we feel uneasy because we are unaware of what is going on because we see an empty car park with only one driver. There are many types of soundtrack being played, this builds up tension as to what the director wanted us to feel. The way the scene is set up is as though the cast member is up to something because of the soundtrack and that there’s no dialogue. The use of props of the man wearing all black shows that he may be a crook.
Director’s commentary
He wanted us to question what the cast were up to, to keep us alert. He gave us a sense of character by doing close ups of the character and his possessions. He gave us a sense of what may happen such as violence, crime and drama. He played a lot of soundtrack to show the mood of the atmosphere.
Lord of war
This is another opening that keeps us in suspense because again we want to know what is happening. This is because there are a lot of continuity shots that show different elements of war. The protagonist is smoking and reporting some news we assume here that he is a news reporter; here we are getting a sense of character. After this shot there is soft music being played very suttle, this is in contrast to what the director is showing we see a lot of fire arm and bullets. At this point as to what message the director is trying to show.
Directors’ commentary
Throughout the first scene the director wanted us to be in suspense so kept using different camera techniques and sounds. He kept a lot of attention on the firearm so we get a taster of what may appear in the movie. At the beginning when the protagonist is using dialogue its used to convey a message that firearms are accessible now a days. Lastly the first scene is also to give us a sense of place.
Thursday 5 November 2009
Lord of the rings
Lord of the Rings the whole of the beginning sets the tension up for the rest of the movie. The first 2 minutes of that will draw you into watching the entire movie, no matter what you're doing. You will stop what you're doing, and watch it till it ends. They have a voice over which explains what is happening so the audience are more intrigued as to what is happening. They use lowkey lighting but at the same time there are flashy parts, these are used to keep the audience focused and geta sense that people are having war with each other. During the first scene there are alot of men this shows that war links in with men. The theme music is very fast and mysterious goes very well with the concept of the movie. The cast are extremely good actors so they help build up the tension more. The camera is able to show all elements which the voice over is explaining.The beginning of the film all ties in with the genre that its a fantasy/drama because og the war and the magic ring. The beginning really engages the audience because of the voice over and the flashing lights, but throughout the first few minutes we wanted to know what the ring was conveying so we felt confused. I think this is what the directed tried to do so the audience keep asking questions. I think by leaving us in suspense was a smart choice because we literally wanted to know what will happen next.
What makes a good Opening
A good opening is if you have captured the audience with something that keep them focus. In addition to this if the theme of the music goes well with the movie and keeps us alert. Thirdly if the actors are good at making the storyline understandable and intriguing, another element is if the camera person has shown the audience what they need to see and keeping it sharp, clean and flowing. The opening scene has to play a role in keeping their audience interested.
Lord of the Rings the whole of the beginning sets the tension up for the rest of the movie. The first 2 minutes of that will draw you into watching the entire movie, no matter what you're doing. You will stop what you're doing, and watch it till it ends. They have a voice over which explains what is happening so the audience are more intrigued as to what is happening. They use lowkey lighting but at the same time there are flashy parts, these are used to keep the audience focused and geta sense that people are having war with each other. During the first scene there are alot of men this shows that war links in with men. The theme music is very fast and mysterious goes very well with the concept of the movie. The cast are extremely good actors so they help build up the tension more. The camera is able to show all elements which the voice over is explaining.The beginning of the film all ties in with the genre that its a fantasy/drama because og the war and the magic ring. The beginning really engages the audience because of the voice over and the flashing lights, but throughout the first few minutes we wanted to know what the ring was conveying so we felt confused. I think this is what the directed tried to do so the audience keep asking questions. I think by leaving us in suspense was a smart choice because we literally wanted to know what will happen next.
What makes a good Opening
A good opening is if you have captured the audience with something that keep them focus. In addition to this if the theme of the music goes well with the movie and keeps us alert. Thirdly if the actors are good at making the storyline understandable and intriguing, another element is if the camera person has shown the audience what they need to see and keeping it sharp, clean and flowing. The opening scene has to play a role in keeping their audience interested.
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