Thursday 14 January 2016

Homework: Writing a paragraph about a film

Homework: Embed a 3 trailers or key scenes from your favourite films, write a paragraph about each, explaining what each film is about and why you like them.

 
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows part 2

This film clip is of Harry Potter and Voldemort's final battle in the 'Deathly Hallows Part 2'. This film is about  A clash between good and evil awaits as young Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) prepare for a final battle against Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes). Harry has grown into a steely lad on a mission to rid the world of evil. The friends must search for the Horcruxes that keep the dastardly wizard immortal. Harry and Voldemort meet at Hogwarts Castle for an epic showdown where the forces of darkness may finally meet their match, it ends as them both not dying but Harry gets the important wand and then snaps it so he can live his life which is what he ends up doing, him and Jinny have 2 kids which get sent to hogwarts. I like this film because it is an interesting film, there is always something  going on meaning there's no reason to get bored. I also like the films because there's a storyline through all 7 movies.  I like these movies because they are easy to get to in to and they're unexpected.



 
This film is of knowing, this film is about a girl who was at school and they was doing a time capsule; each student had to put something in there, this one girl made a sheet of paper with all these numbers on, each set of numbers where a date of which a disaster happened. The time capsule is then opened and a little boy ended up with the piece of paper, his dad then looks at the paper and looked in to it and realised the numbers meant something. During the film about 10 different disasters take place and he visits each on in order to try and help or prevent it from happening.  He spends hours on end trying to figure out what it meant. In 1959, student Lucinda Embry hears whispers as she stares at the sun. When her class is chosen to contribute to the school's time capsule, each child is asked to draw what they believe the future will look like. Lucinda writes a page of seemingly random numbers and adds it to her elementary school's time capsule, which is set to be opened in 50 years. Lucinda's teacher calls for the pupils to finish but Lucinda continues before her teacher takes it off her desk unfinished. Lucinda then goes missing after the time capsule is dedicated, and is found by her teacher, Mrs. Taylor, in a utility closet scratching numbers into the door with her fingernails bleeding. In 2009, Caleb Koestler is a pupil at the same elementary school. When the time capsule is opened, Caleb is supposed to read and write about some of the capsule's contents. He's given the page of numbers written by Lucinda. His widowed father John, a professor of astrophysics at MIT, notices the numbers have a specific set of sequences referring to the times, number of deaths, and locations of fatal disasters over the last 50 years, including 911012996 (the date and death toll of the 9/11attacks). The last three sets of digits on the page are dated in the immediate future. In the following days, a car drives by the family home with two strangers. They give Caleb a small smooth stone. Caleb later dreams of one of the strange men, who points to the window showing the world on fire with burning animals running out from a forest. I like this movie because it's interesting and quite jumpy because there's a lot going on. It's an exciting film to watch because of all the dramatic scenes. 

2 comments:

  1. WWW: There's a lot of fine detail here which shows your dedication to film as an art form. Well done.
    EBI: Accelerated Understanding Task: Investigate the history of film. Submit your research in your chosen format,, as a new post.

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  2. You are currently working at grade B.
    To improve you need to:
    • Use media terminology with precision
    • Refer to audience categories more often in your analyses
    • Show an awareness of media theory

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