Task 1 Gotham scences

Task 1    https://prezi.com/-a8oj81zp1sg/gotham-scene-prezi/

Week 2 Task 3

Teen Drama homework                                                                                                                                  

 

There are many different teen dramas. Skins for example, while the trailer is rather dated in my opinion there are many of the typical teen drama conventions. And here is a list of the typical teen conventions:

Behaviour and attitude 

In this trailer for season one we start off with a very wild teenage party with drinking, making out, people dancing and even one person in a bear costume. The attitude and behavior is very wild and carefree which sums up that kind of age when you don’t have many responsibility’s and do whatever you want however, later on in the trailer we see people arguing and some people end up vomiting. Showing the consequences of their actions.    

 

Stereotypes and Appearance

Another thing many teen dramas have is stereotypes and stereotypical appearances, for example the leader of the group in Skins has wild black hair and gets most of the attention for the girls. Another well known stereotype type is the nerd: who is usually the smart, calm and socially awkward. The reason we use stereotypes is because we could relate to a certain stereotype, an example be someone who can relate to a socially awkward teen that can get nothing right.        

 

How Teens are represented is Dramas

How most teens are represented in teen drams (and dramas all-round) is that they are wild, uncontrollable and usually have a storyline when they go of the rails. However, while that is not always that case most teen characters in dramas have one thing in common: a dark, tragic childhood that they must let get over.

Week 2 Task 2

Linear storytelling and non-linear storytelling

Linear and non-linear storytelling and the two most known ways of telling a story, both have pros and cons to them however, if ether are done right they could make a truly amazing story. These are the basics of both linear and non-linear.  

 

Linear

Linear storytelling follows the three act structure: Act 1 is the set-up of the story, we meet our hero and the plot point is established, Act 2 is the conflict of the story, we usually meet our villain and the story moves on and finally in Act 3 we have the final battle, the hero rescuers the damsel and they live happily ever after.

This way of storytelling usually leaves us with no lose ends. But this is the major con of this structure, it’s unrealistic: real life doesn’t give us the all the answers, the hero won’t always get the girl sometimes the villain wins. Still, this moves us on to the major pro it makes the story nice and simple. This makes it so that younger audiences can enjoy it, and sometimes it’s nice just to watch a very nice and simple movie, Up for example has a linear storyline and yet people off all ages watch it.

 

Non-Linear

Non-linear storytelling doesn’t follow the three act structure, thus making the story far more complex. Non-linear can be shown in a flashback, dream or nightmare point of view. This moves us to its major con: it complexity, a non-linear story has to put in more effort to keep the audience engaged in the story, and if the audience gets lost on the way there’s no way of salvaging the product  

On the other hand some audiences want to be challenged with a complex story, and it has worked before, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind didn’t follow the 3 act structure exactly and it was praised for it. Plus non-linear adds verity to its stories and can be more unpredictable. Making it a bit more true to life and interesting.   

week one homework

Week 1 home genre

Miss-en-sence and Genre  

 

The suicide squad trailer has something interesting in the beginning of the trailer: the two titles screwing backwards (this is a pun on “a screw lose” saying). Another thing we see in the start is something that stays throughout the trailer is dim lighting which makes us feel uneasy.

Another thing bound to grad your attention is the music, it’s like a single person from a choir singer, (which usually makes us think of something peaceful, calm and pure), but as the trailer goes on it picks up becoming more louder and more twisted, which makes us feel uneasy and just not very nice.

Also what you see in this trailer is a lot of even mid-shots that usually capture the entire group which tells us that this group is very close together( understandable because they all have one thing in common, getting rid of Batman. 

The locations in this trailer are only a few, an insane asylum, a training ground and the city which all have very dim/dark lighting and are all very gritty and unpleasant, which capture the tone of the film perfectly, and tells us that is isn’t very friendly. Something else you might notice are the colours on the costumes of these characters 

Only two of the group have very bright, flashy colours and they are: The Joker and Harley Quin this shows us whom the leaders in the group are (the colouring is also very fitting because it counters Batman’s all black costume

 

The lighting and colouring alone tells us that this is a horror film, because as like the music it makes us feel uneasy and scarred, we feel disturbed and wonder what exactly this group is going to do.  Given that they don’t look like the typical super-hero squad, which also makes it more interesting