Textual analysis American Pie

Camera- 

There have been many shots used in the opening scenes:

- high angle

- low angle 

- medium close up

- extreme close up

- over the shoulder

- tracking

- close up 

- two shot

Sound

When the film began there was music playing, as the characters were getting introduced. There were many significant sounds in the film, like the sirens of the police cars. also the voice was louder and bolder when he used the machine that shouted for him.

Shot list

These are the shots that we are planning on using for our two minute opening sequence:

• Opening shot, interview room- Over the shoulder, two person shot
• Editing- Fades out into a long shot
  
• Long shot of Spike and Demonte walking to the front gates of college
  
• Medium Close up shot over the shoulder of Spike and Demonte having a conversation before entering the college. 
• Medium close up from the front of  Demonte dancing 
• Close up to Spike saying " Come on you big girl, lets go and get this party started."
• Long shot over the shoulder of them walking down the drive 
• Medium shot of Demonte and the rest of the group siting at the table having a conversation
• Close up of person 1, when she is talking
• Close-up of Demonte when is says  "Erm no, i don't really see girls in that way, that's not the way i flow"
• Extreme close up of person 1, 
• Medium close up of Demonte and the rest of the table. You then hear someone in the background shout something
• Low angle shot of Demonte when he gets up from the table and walks away
• Cuts to the interview room, over the shoulder shot of interviewer to spike and Demonte
• Medium close up of spike in his bedroom
• close-up of him on the phone
• Cuts to college where they are doing the petition
• long shot of the whole scene
• tracking in to a close up shot of spike
• then switches between the others
• extreme close up of Spike talking to Demonte
• close-up of Demonte shouting
• cuts back to the interview room, over the shoulder shot of interviewer on Spike and Demonte
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film pitch

The Advantures Of Spike And D

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powerpoint presentation

16th January 2009 - During this lesson we started to create a pitch for our movie on a powerpoint presentation. Within it we had to include developments, production stages and distribution.

we will carry this on until the due date which is thursday the 22nd of january.

19th January 2009 - We carried on our presentation. When we logged on we found that our previous presentation and disappeared, and so we had to try to catch up as much as possible. We managed to catch up as much as possible, and nearly completed the presentation. Although we have one slide to Complete next lesson.

22nd January 2009 - We finished our presentation. 

textual analysis "mean girls"

Camera -
when Lindsay Lohan is saying goodbye to her parents on her first day of school, the camera shot that is used is; a two shot, high angle and a close up. They are also taking pictures of her so a freezing shit is used whilst this is happening.
-Throughout the rest of the opening sequence shots such as;
-medium close up
-close up
-long shot
-over the shoulder
-pan held
-tracking

Sound
At the beginning when Lindsay Lohan's parents are saying goodbye, non diegetic sound is being used, as Lindsay was talking as the narrator.
when they were at the school there is a lot of non diegetic sound, such as music playing in the background, students talking in the background and the school bell ringing.

Mise en scene
The Mise en Scene throughout this opening sequence is mainly of the school and Lindsay's home, the things that are included in theses shots are;
-Modern day clothing
-Class rooms / desks / boards etc
-School playing field
-Natural lighting is used throughout the opening sequence

Representation
The opening sequence to Mean girls represents teenage life, school life. and the importance and difficulty to settling in somewhere. The different type of social groups is also shown very quickly into this opening sequence. Stereotypes are represented in this film very clearly, there are the "Plastics, Nerds, Asians, Fat people" it comes across very clearly as they have used, costumes, personality, the actor, script and mise en scene.

Editing
There did not seem to be a lot of editing in the opening sequence, however there was a bit of freezing shots, when pictures where being taken. When going from shot to shot a straight cut was used.

synopsis

Its a new term of college with a new year of students, two students have hidden a secret that they have been a couple for a while, finally decide to come out and admit their feelings to everyone that they are in fact gay and in a relationship. They have never admitted to their feelings before to anyone else, other than to each other because they were scared how people would react and what they would say.

lesson one creating production company

MONDAY, 5 JANUARY 2009

Today we had our first production meeting we all discussed our strengths, timetable and we discussed what we would prefer to do, we came up with the following:

Director/actor- Conor
Producer-Sophie
Camera- Tasha
Sound-Catherine
Editing- Everyone

However we may make some slight adjustments, when our idea if finalized.


-Thought of names for the production company

-Researching genres of the films e.g. Horror, romance, Action, comedy, thriller and are own ideas for our 2 minute opening sequence

We thought of resources that we have access to to give us a better idea as to what and where we could film, we came up with the following:

-College
-Houses
-Car
-Park
-Car-park
-Prop's in college (Prop cupboard)
-Costumes

we used this video because t is a lot like the genre and film type we have chosen for our 2 minute opening sequence.