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.
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