Hannibal Lecter screen writing 101 The Character tree

feet- what does the person look like?

Hannibal is a well dressed man (suit and tie), no hair.

Where do they live?

He lives is a Big white house in the middle of a town however he does not use his house often.

Where did they go to school?

He went to the school for Lecting in Leeds.

Do they have tattoos ? why?

No he doesn't like them as he believes they ruin the human body.

who is their best friend?

Will Gramham was his only friend before he killed him.

What is their occupation?

Therapist

Groin and Guts- What does this person WANT?

have a human farm.

How does their sexuality manifest itself?

He finds love for the man and woman in no sexual way but as food.

what do they feel about the7 deadly sins.

He thinks it defies  you as a person on what does they focus towards and what ones they don't.

What about them is basic and puerile?

hannibal lectors likes making weird moments.

Heart- what does the person need?

He need a friends that he don't want to harm or kill.

What will make them a more functional person?

If he went and got mental help for his eating problem.

Do they need to find self-confidence?

yes and no- yes because he is all alone and need the confidence to find a friend and no as he does cook human to the police trying to catch him.

Do they need to provide for their family?

No hannibal is all alone in life.

Throat-how does this person sound?

posh, intelligent and northen

How do they project themselves?

posh, sarcastic.

How do they try to come off to other people?

Posh, sarcastic and intelligent.

How do they actually come off to other people?

arrogant , posh and Northern

Left cheek- what is their intelligence

He is very intelligence

How does it manifest itself?

In they way he talks and how he explains things.

how practical are they?

he is also very practical and can think on his feet.

How do they solve problems?

he solves most problems by misleading people away from him or the problem.

Right cheek- What is their artistic/creative capacity?

He is brilliant at cooking and hosting parties.

What elements are NOT practical?

The fact that he will get arrested one day.

What is their spirituality.

Not at all he think god is a waste of time and effort how religion goes make people do amazing things (painting)

Crown- Review your answers. Do they represent a consistent character psychology?


What are their defining memories?

his first kill and cannibalism, his first friend and only friend and their time from meeting  him  to kill him.

How in a nutshell, do they behave?

He is mentally unstable and killed his only friend. But he thinks he can help people as he is a therapist because of this he is in denial that something is wrong with him and covers that up by helping mental ill people.

monster inc beat sheet

opening Image-

The opening image of monster Inc is doors opening and monster coming though them.
This shows what the films all about in the 1 min the title. 

 

Theme stated-

Henry is the CEO of monster inc. In this shot he is telling the audience why monster need to scare kids (energy).
 

Set up-

This image sets up the main location of the film( their work place monster inc)  and the two main characters Mike and
Sally who are at the front of the tv advert.

Catalyst- 

This part of the film mike has been told not to make his paper work late next time.

Debate- this part is when the monster enter the rooms to get energy 

Break into 2-  they find and enter boos door.

B- story- mike love life

fun and games- boo running around in the monster world

midpoint- randy give mike a time to hand back boo

bad guys close in- mike and sally go to henry to talk about boo

all is lost- boo is  captured by the villains

Dark night of the souls- Mike and Sally are left for dead in the Himalayas.

Break into 3- make and sally try to get back home

Finale- freeing boo and arresting the villain 

2nd sad point( most movie don't have this) - sally can't ever see boo again.

final image is sally relines to boo

genre

Im in support for  genre due to that fact that if we don't have it you could easily go and see the wrong films. Genre is a way for the media industry to advise and find target audiences for new films. This helps knowing what films you want to go and see are what you want it to be. As if you had no genre film industries will find it harder to find their  target audience and adverting the film will be harder as well.

Hidden plot messages ALIENS

Aliens is about the Vietnam war because the colonial marines represent america in the war. The nick-name of the soldiers in the Vietnam war  were marines and south Vietnam was a democracy country and america help all democracy in the cold war, south Vietnam was a colony of america and thats were the name colonial marines. The costumes of the colonial marines are very similar to what the marines outfit in the Vietnam. The dropship in the film also looks very similar to the helicoptar used in the Vietnam war.

marines has nick names on the helmet with they had in the war
lack of training and leader ship
corporations making money from it
now knowing where the aliens are Vietnamese lived underground

psychoanalytic theory

Vulnerability

Object for : New Born - babies are vulnerable as they can't do anything and need help for every task.

Location:  Rich woman in a poor area. Poor areas are normally full of crime and a rich woman is more likely to be a target for thieves and murders.

Brief Description of how this too fight into each other.

A rich woman gets attacked when going to the shops with her new born baby and was killed. One of the killers looks after the baby when the other 2 try to kill them as the baby is top priority for the police to find, and if the baby is found then the killers would also be found out as it will lead to them being found by the police.


EGO-SUPER EGO and ID Theory

Ego being a moderator to ideas

Super ego is what gives orders to your ego

ID is the subconscious that gives ideas that are normally useless but can be useful as well and its up for the ego to sort thought the useless stuff and the good stuff

E.G.

Super ego- I NEED MONEY- ego- OK ILL GET MONEY- id- LETS ROB A BANK- ego- NO THAT A BAD IDEA.

UNCANNY theory

This theory being that something is a childhood object or memoir thats in an unformilar form. E.G Chucky is a toy that kills people.

Mirror Phase Theory

Mirror Phase is when you realise that your on your own and u try to reconnect with your child self but trying to complete a life goal.

Guillermo del toro

Distinct visual style, technique and recurring themes
His movies are surreal with fantasy/fairy tales or horror in modern or near modern day times. E.g Pan's labyrinth is a fantasy set in 1944. His movies are also very dark and though might end with the hero winning at the end of the film they don't win with out a lost. E.g Cronos the hero becomes a vampire.
The main characters are also isolated for the rest of the work. E.g Hellboy want to be know but the world.

Guillermo uses two main colours Blue and Red and his posters help show this. His Period movies are all set in spain or Mexico. He also uses at the idea of bugs or bug like creatures a lot E.g. Mimic is about cockroaches. As well bugs he also uses teeth a lot e.g. vampires.

Recurring cast and crew

Screenwriter

• Matthew Robbins (Mimic, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Crimson Peak)

Producers

• Bertha Navarro (Cronos, Under a Spell, The Devil's Backbone, I Murder Seriously, Chronicles, Pan's Labyrinth, Insignificant Things, Rage)
• Alfonso Cuarón (Chronicles, Pan's Labyrinth)

Cinematographers

• Guillermo Navarro (Cronos, The Devil's Backbone, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim)
• Dan Laustsen (Mimic, Crimson Peak)

Composers

• Javier Navarrete (The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth)
• Marco Beltrami (Mimic, Blade II, Hellboy, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark)
• Fernando Velázquez (The Orphanage, Julia's Eyes, Mama, Crimson Peak)
• Ramin Djawadi (Pacific Rim, The Strain)

Actor

• Federico Luppi (Cronos, The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth)
• Ron Perlman (Cronos, Blade II, Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim, Book of Life)
• Norman Reedus (Mimic, Blade II)
• Doug Jones (Mimic, Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Hellboy II: The Golden Army)
• Fernando Tielve (The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth)
• Íñigo Garcés (The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth)
• Luke Goss (Blade II, Hellboy II: The Golden Army)
• Karel Roden (Blade II, Hellboy)
• Santiago Segura (Blade II, Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Pacific Rim)
• Ladislav Beran (Blade II, Hellboy)
• John Hurt (Hellboy, Hellboy II: The Golden Army, The Strain)
• Belén Rueda (The Orphanage, Julia's Eyes)
• Diego Luna (Rudo y Cursi, Book of Life)
• Jessica Chastain (Mama, Crimson Peak)
• Javier Botet (Mama, The Strain, Crimson Peak)
• Charlie Hunnam (Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak)
• Burn Gorman (Pacific Rim, Crimson Peak)
• Robert Maillet (Pacific Rim, The Strain)

Significant body of work

yes Guillermo Del Toro has a Good body of work he made 8 full length films and 3 short films.

the thing remake and reboot

https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo&authuser=0#folders/0B_xQFfydR5ATcVlndlNMWHp2R2c
Video pod cast-The Thing

The Thing Remake video blog notes

Remake video blog

The thing from another world-1951

The thing -1982

The thing-2011 

The Thing 1982 was the more gory and more special effects remake of The Thing From Another World.

The thing 2011 prequel thing 1982

Location’s

1. All the films are based in the arctic reserch base

2. The thing from out of space is in the era of the cold war this. this represented Russia because the army is sent in. 1951

3. The thing from out of space is a plant alien (mutation)when the alien in the thing -1982 and 2011 is an alien that hides among us. (Terrorists)

Fears
1951 mutation was the fear around because of russia and the cold war and nuclear bombs going off the threat to mutation of animals and people. other films are THEM and GODZILLA.
1982 the fears where spies and Terrorists  who could be your next-door neighbour or your husband or wife.

Budget

The Thing from another world- 1.3 million to start with later became 1.6 million.

The Thing 1982 – 15 million

The Thing 2011 -38 million.

All of these films had huge budgets this help making the franchise so successful.

The audience

The Thing From another world  - aged 16-30. And fans of the book who goes their.

The Thing 1982 – was 18 to 26 year old who are fans of the old one and of the books

The Thing 2011 was 15-24 and fans of the thing 1982

Why the films

 1942 first rocket into space this lead to a mass of sci-fi films including the thing from another world.

1977 star wars first came out and sci-fi film came out as it is a the same genre including the thing 1982

world when the films came out

 1950’s- Korea war started

-       First origin transplant - relates the film because origin fustian is in the film

1980’s  royal wedding

lots of assassination

Art or money

1982 art because he followed the book more the version 1951

and there are very few similarities between this and 1951

2011 was about money however as they called it a remake and fans called it a prequel.  So they don’t know what they made and don’t really care.

Advertisements

 They all used posters and trailers. That’s they would show in movie and sci-fi magazines and newspapers around.  Poster and trailers would also be shown in the cinemas. The film of 2011 would also be able to use the Internet as the other film couldn’t, as the first web page was available in 1991. 9 years after The Thing 1982.

Distribution

The Thing 1951 and 1982 both come out months after the release of the US, as film is big and expensive to make. So they make enough for the US  and give them out to the rest to the world after they used them. However The Thing 2011 was released worldwide the same day as technology have made film distribution easier ands cheaper.

News of the film

The Thing 1982 was popular and was giving good reviews from both the audience and critics but was more popular with the audience.

tomb raider reboot

For this new tomb raider film it will be filmed in England ,Russia, Brazil, and Egypt. The plot for the film is that Lara try's to get the Spear of Destiny before Sergei Mikhailov ( Russian mafia boss) and Admiral Yarofev(Russian submarine captain that works for Sergei) (villains from one of the early games) does.

Lara croft will be played by Camilla Luddington this is because she is the voice of Lara in the game so fans can relate to her to the game more with don't work with the original films.

Mads Mikkelsen will play the role off Sergei Mikhailov  as he has the Russian boss look which is shown when he plays Hannibal in the TV show Hannibal .

Admiral Yarofev will be played by some on not famous as theirs few people I feel that could play his role that are famous actors.

pirates of the caribbean space reboot

Film Advertising essay- Starship Troopers

British poster for the film.

Starship Troopers is a sci fi action movie in which it shows how propaganda can change the way people think and the action they do in their lives. This can be told by the lines "what's the difference between a citizen and civilian?" http://www.youtube.co/watch?v=w_urWSSZgwU

 This shows how the propaganda effects people in the film. Starship Troopers is based on the book by Robert A. Heinlein. The movie expectation was high as with all films based on popular fiction. The storyline hinted throughout the film on how the propaganda  takes effect on the world and those who live in it. A lot of people were not expecting the film to be very violent and gory, maybe because of the political propaganda theme of the books, but also because the posters were misleading.  The poster on the left makes the film look like a poster for children's sci fi movie like Star Wars -  this is because of the colours used in the poster are blue, which are cold colours and that the bug/alien does not look scary or menacing. Even with the certificate rating of 15, people still had expectations of some thing this film wasn't. Audiences felts that the storyline, marketing and certificate rating were misleading.  In fact it was felt it was so far from what the audiences would expect, with violence and gore, for a 15 certificate, that the BBFC said sorry for the wrong age rating when it come out on video tape by changing the age rating from 15 to 18. Due to this misrepresentation, the film also received bad reviews when it was first released.  However opinions have changed and now the film has received good reviews, and even considered as art.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y07I_KER5fE This was the original trailer for the film the trailer and the posters show that the target audience was males aged 15-25 and fans of Robocop and Total Recall. This is demonstrated by the fact there are explosions, fighting and showing it's from the same director as Robocop, which has the same target audience. I would also say the target audience would be fans of the book and middle class people as the story is about propaganda and a political system, which working class people will not get the hints about it or like that it's about that and upper class people won't like the idea of a sci fi action film as they're more into realistic films. The producers test screened this film to see how popular it was with the audience. They also did focus groups to see if the idea was liked. The film's received negative views as audiences thought the acting and humour was rubbish and aimed at  children. The audience also thought the film was misleading, because of the bad reviews and bad word of mouth, the film made $22,058,773 on 2,971 screens on the opening weekend in America when the budget was estimated to be $100,000,000. The movie did not do as well as the production company had hoped and as a consequence of this, the company didn't make a large profit from the film from the cinema goers at the time.

french movie poster

Spanish movie poster

Starship Troopers was marketed in different ways around the world. In France, it was advertised as cheap sci fi horror film. This can be told by the limited use of colours (just three - blue white and black) and also shows the lack of effect and money used on the poster implying it's a cheap film.  The drawing of the bug spike going down to the person's head, almost impaling them, shows it's a horror film.  When Spain advertised this film, it was clear from the posters that it was a sci fi action film. This is demonstrated by the imagery, showing the alien is running to the person and the person running to it it, as well as showing a battle in the background. These posters show how the same film is advertised, with different messages, in different countries to suit their audience members. This is another reason why the audience was mislead about the film.

Starship Troopers miniatures board game come out in 2005

Even with the film failing the financial expectations of how much profit it was going to make, the film still has a huge income from the merchandising that is still being made today. There is a huge list of film merchandise that was produced, from trading cards and party invitations, to shot glasses  and a model board game like the War Hammer branded games. The film has become more and more popular over the years. When it first came out it was a flop, but after seven years they made a second film that went straight to DVD and  following the success of the first two films, a third film was released, 1 CGI film, a reboot for the film aimed for children and an anime series. The anime series was made to appeal to their Japanese fan audience a year after the film was released. This helped not only with their Japanese fan base and anime fan base but also appealed to the young adults audience and comic book fans. The children's toys based on the film which were sold would of course appeal to dads who buy them for their sons so they could have some thing in common but also collectors of comic book and film merchandise, whilst the Xbox game appealed to the next generation of viewers who may have been given the toys from their dad when they were young and fans of first person shooter games. All of this merchandising helped make the film get its name out there, years after the film was released and helped it advertise to an audience that may not have watched it otherwise as they liked reading comics instead of watching a film as well as reaching people in a different generation.

test screening week 2

Test Screening

I learnt that before the internet film companies did test screening and if the film scored less than 70% there was something wrong with the film. however film companies did not care if the audience don't like the film, but it all changed with the film Batman and robin were it was very unpopular and the film company don't care however one of them uploaded his review online and people read the review and don't see the movie since then test screening has become less and less in the media industry.

Misrepresentation week1

Misrepresentation

In this lesson I looked at different ways that movie industry Misrepresented films. I looked at Sweeney Todd trailer which shows the film as a horror action film when its really a musical. I also made a movie poster that was made to mislead its audience to see this film when they other wise would not go and see it.

Hello

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