Wednesday 20 October 2010

Preliminary Task

For our task we are going to have Dean (me) and Ryan playing chess. I will walk down the corridor and enter room, as i'm entering the room we will have a match on action shot to show 2 different angles as I enter the door. Also we will use this shot when i'm walking down the ramp to face Ryan who is master at the game of chess. I think i'm turning up for a game of Uno with his mother. As they are platying, we wil have shot/reverse shot's from over the shoulder. We will consistently keep to the 180 degree rule. Matthew and Tom will be filming.


Wednesday 13 October 2010

Good or Evil?


From this graph we found out that more people expect evil to win a parody more than they expect a good guy to win.

Twist in a film.


This is a grpah to show a question from our questionaire. It shows that the villain winning is the least favoured twist whereas the superhero being the real villain is the main twist people expect to see.

Expectations of a parody


This is a question from our questionaire and we found out that stupid heroes are the main expectation from a parody. Lack of plot was least favoured.

Favourite Villain Graph


This is a question from our questionaire, we found out the Joker was the most favoured villain whereas Green Goblin is less favoured.

Favourite Superhero Graph


This is our grpah from our questionaire question. It shows that Spiderman, Superman and Batman are the favoured superheroes whilst Iron Man and Womderwoman aren't as well liked.

Wednesday 6 October 2010

Narrative

A narrative is a story as sories are endemic of people's lives. It has existed as long as human beings have since there was a cave drawing, thought to be from the stone age. To see the drawing click here.

The 3 types of narrative are:

Binary Opposition - to create meaning through establishing a role for a character and that the character must have an opposite. It conforms to the idea that we cannot have 'good' without having 'evil'.

Equilibrium - There are 3 states of equilibruim : Equilibrium - Normal everyday life
Disequilibrium - A problem occurs.
New state of equilibrium - The problem is resolved.

Character types :
Hero: Lead role ( can be man or woman)
Villain: Causes a problem for the hero and conflicts with him/her.
Heroine: Prize for the hero (man or woman)
Father: Authority figure, sometimes offers a reward for the hero.
Helper: Usually the sidekick or someone that helps the hero solve a problem.
Doner: Something that gives the hero a power, talisman, key etc.
Mentor: Someone who teaches the hero an important lesson in the story.

They are all usful in their own way like the Binary Opposition suggests there can be no good without any evil, this is true because without someone to cause a problem for the Hero, the film would be boring and not attract an audience. Equilibrium is good because people can see these states in every narrative they watch/read and there is plenty of evidence for it. Finally, the character types are visable in all narratives, if all of them aren't in the narrative then the majority are there.

Mood Board


This is our mood board, since we are making a superhero parody, we have added some superheroes and villains into it along with parody versions of them.

Questionaire


This is the questionnaire. We would like you to fill this out truthfully.