Interesting facts about the King's Speech.

Five interesting facts:

• The King's Speech started as a screen play, when David Seidler decided to take on creative work after being diagnosed with cancer. 
• The UK Film council awarded the production £1million in June 2009.
• The film is distributed by Transmission in Australia and by Momentum Pictures in the United Kingdom. 
• The film won the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award.
• The opening scene, set at the closing ceremony of the 1925 British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Stadium, was filmed on location at Elland Road (used for the speech elements of the prince stammering his way through his first public address), home of Leeds United and Odsal Stadium (used because of its resemblance to Wembley Stadium in 1925), home of Bradford Bulls.

Representation of Gender.

Voice over:

Catherine, known as the famous Mrs. Brown.
She always donned body fitted outfits as it showed off the figure every man wanted and every woman dreamed of. Not once did she fail to make men stare at her but what she did fail was satisfying her husband, Mr. Brown.

Mr. Brown, a well known and respected entrepeneur. Always on time to work but always late home. Every day back from work, he always demanded for his food to be exactly how he wanted it, and when Mrs. Brown failed to meet his needs, he became the man every women feared.

Mrs. Brown always wondered how she could satisfy her man and what she did in the post to make him hate her. But what she didnt know was that he was having an affair with her sister.

Interesting blogs.

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One thing i found interesting about this blog is at the right hand side of the blog there are links to other blogs and media, twitter, newspaper articles from the guardian and journalists. This is interesting because not many blogs have links to other things, instead have only their archive, however, this helps the person looking at the blog more insight and a deeper understanding of what they are looking for.

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One thing i found interesting about this blog is the use of colour, videos and images. The use of these help to keep their target audience (A Level students) interested, as it is not full of writing but is also accompanied by images or videos to help their audience get a better understanding.

Sound in T.V Drama.

Spooks:
In Spooks, there are many sounds used to convey the action within the scene. Firstly, we see our main character in a Court House being convicted of murder, at first the music used is 'spooky and mysterious' this is used to create suspense as the main character awaits her fate. As her fait is told there is a sudden forward movement of the camera, which could be seen as how deep she breathed in and companied with a 'bang' from the judges gavel also which could be seen to portray her shock and her heart dropping. Soon after, sad and 'serious' music is played to portray the emotion of everyone in the judge room as different emotions such as happy and sad are shown. There are also used of realistic sounds in the scene where there are two men walking. In the scene where they have two men arguing, a hand is seen slamed on the table and th

Bleak house:

In Bleak House, the director decided to use a hand held camera to convey the different 'shakey' emotions from both our characters as both were scared. Music is used to convey the emotions of the two characters in the scene. Sad music is first heard as we see the characters discussing a depressing topic. The music soon changes into 'sharp' music as one character tells the other something. This helps to create the effect of the topic being serious and/or shocking which conveys the feeling of our other character. However, the music then changes into a more joyful sound as reveals he wants her to be his wife. The joyful sound is also used to reflect on what the character feels.

Eastenders:

In Eastender, the only sounds used are realistic sounds such as the door slamming and dialogue between our two characters. However, at the end, the shows theme tune is played - this theme tune includes several bangs and violins. The use of this could be to tell the viewers that something is not right and in the next show it will be revealed.

Spooks (MI5):

In Spooks (MI5), there are many techniques used to keep their viewers interested. Serious sounds are used to create suspense and keep the viewers wondering what's going on. This is then followed by evil and mysterious sounds as one character holds a gun to another's head. We then hear sounds from the CCTV camera to show that they work and people are watching what's going on, also as the armed police force come onto the scene fast and action sounds are played to show how serious and big the situation is. We soon hear class breaking and a sharp sound is played as our character has a flashback.

 

Desperate Housewives - Goodbye baby Lily:

In Desperate Housewives, ambient and realistic sounds are used as the police and social workers knock on one of the main characters doors. They reveal that the baby one of the main characters want to adopt, family wants her back. As this is told to our character, sad and distress music is played since it reflects on the characters emotions as she tried to argue for the baby back. As the baby gets taken away & the real family comes to take her, deep and hurt sounds play to reflect on how deeply sadden the character is. At the end, a voice over is then heard, as one of the characters round up everything that happened in the show. The use of this is to help the audience get a better understanding of what happened and to identify with what's being said.

Feeback from our film.

In class we were asked to show a rough, edited piece of our horror trailer. We received both positive comments and constructive criticisms. The positive comments we received were that; the foot steps sound, the colour effect we used in the beginning and the blur effect all worked really well in our film. One the other hand, the constructive criticisms were that; there weren't a lot of variety of shot types, we didn't include our title, the colour effect used wasn't consistent and the sounds used weren't consistent.

However, due to changes in our actress and scenes we decided to re-film all scenes with a reliable actress and use the constructive criticisms for improve our opening sequence.  

Review of a British Film.

Film:
4.3.2.1. is a British crime thriller film directed by Noel Clarke.

Brief:

4.3.2.1. is a British crime thriller set in London and New York, about the lives of four different girls. All are friends who get involved with certain individuals who cause them nothing but drama in a diamond heist. Starring some of the most amazing rising stars including Emma Roberts (Joanne), Tamsin Egerton (Cassandra), Ophelia Lovibond (Shannon) and Shanika Warren-Markland (Kerrys).

Medium close-up of the character - This is used to show the 'anger' and 'serious' emotion on her face but to also show how scared she is the movement of the gun reveals shes shaking as she tried to stand up to a woman looking for the diamonds.

Wide shot of the four main characters - This shot is used as our main characters are walking towards an aiport heading to America.  

Close-up - This shot is used to show the strong sadden and hurt emotion on the characters face as she sees her friend kissing the boy she likes.

Low angled shot - This is used to show that our four main characters along with an extra has higher status than the one on the floor as they fight off a man.

There are several other types other shots, including shot reverse shot and over the shoulder shot. The characters' clothing are very urban and up to date with today's fashion - their choice ofr clothing also reflects on the economic class. Sound in this film is used to create suspence, reflect on the characters emotions and the scene. Natural lightning is used to help make the film realistic.



Review:

The positive points about this film are that it is different from any other British film in the sense that it is based on the life of four economically different girls in London. For a plot that's short, simple and easy to get bored of; the director makes sure his audience do not get bored easily by deciding to use a different techniques in revealing the story line. Instead of having the plot play out in an obvious way, he decides to go through the events which occur in the four girl's lives by using a technique of 'rewinding' - a technique not used by many directors. Clarke himself appears in a small role as a supermarket employee. Infact, this is the best film by Noel Clarke, as it shows his creative side of directing and is different from his other films which are based on true life events. The only constructive point about this film is the acting wasn't impressive and Adam Deacon plays the obvious 'bad man' in the film. Other than that i would recommend this film as it is interesting and could be seen as a comedy for the younger generation.