Amélie term 1

Amélie 

Film analysis:

Amélie is a 2001 romantic comedy film directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Jeunet with Guillaume Laurant, the film is a whimsical depiction of contemporary Parisian life, set in Montmartre. It tells the story of a shy waitress, played by Audrey Tautou, who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better, while struggling with her own isolation. The film was a co-production between companies in France and Germany. Taking in over $33million in a limited theatrical release, it is still the highest-grossing French language film released in the United Sates. The film received critical acclaim and was a major box office success. Amélie won Best Film at the European Film Awards; it also won four César Awards (including Best Film and Best Director), two BAFTA Awards (including best Original Screenplay), and was nominated for five Academy Awards.

Personal Reflection on the Film:

The difference between a Hollywood film and a Foreign film lies in the different lifestyle and attitude of people. Foreign films tend to make a more creative note on things. You will get to see a different perspective of things from foreign movies. Hollywood movies tend to be more laid back and fantasy driven. Foreign films usually address the world in transition as we are living it.

Final Shot List term 1

45 seconds	Cuts to an animation revealing statics about media use, animations of stick figures, emails, computer and phone come across the screen to support.	Voice of authority: “Researches say that approximately 90 percent of teens worldwide that have access to the internet use social media (Mozes, 2015) whilst this is shocking more than 93 billion emails will be sent today alone,” (10:05am on 28th 3rd 2016) in excess of 2 million cellular phones will be sold today” (10:07am on 28th 3rd 2016). And out of the 7.4 billion people in the world, over 3 billion - will use the Internet worldwide” (10:08am on 28th 3rd 2016)“It is shocking to discover that One in 16 young Australians are currently experiencing depression” “ as well as one in six young Australians, currently experiencing an anxiety condition”
60 seconds	Interview taken from Mass Appeal of psychologist Dr Rob Robinson. This interview is overlayed with other images (these follow below).	Psychologists discussing negative affects on teenager’s mental health. He also discusses a solution at the end. He provides evidence that this does in fact affect our mental health.
3 seconds	High angle of the locker room at St Hilda’s. Students walking through the lockers putting books away ect.	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
2 seconds	High angle, close up of girl in class looking at online shopping.	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
2 seconds	Close-up on screen, slight angle, showing clicking like on Facebook.	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
2 seconds	Fuzzy medium shot of laptop in the darkness	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
3 seconds	Close-up on screen, slight angle, showing Gig Hadid’s facebook page.	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
3 seconds	Close-up on iphone screen in the darkness	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
2 seconds	Close-up on screen, canted, showing Facebook.	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
2 seconds	Close-up on screen, canted, showing YouTube.	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
2 seconds	Medium shot, student on laptop in darkness. Shot from the back of the student.	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
3 seconds	Close-up on iphone screen in the darkness scrolling through Instagram	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
3 seconds	Medium shot, different angle, student on laptop in darkness. Shot from the back of the student.	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
2 seconds	Close-up on screen, Gig Hadid’s facebook, scrolling through, this is going fast. (This is the last over lay shot; these shots are all dispersed throughout the entire interview, cutting from interview to over lay shots.)	Psychologist voice of authority overlays
5 seconds	Back to psychologist: Medium shot from the right side of the psychologist in an office.	Psychologist wraps up the interview with her final words on the issue.

21 seconds	Shot type: Mid Shot Angle: Slightly below eye-level Movement: Still Lighting: Room light - colour correct to brighter Action: Narrator has dialogue. Once she finishes talking she put hand on hands in the front.	Narrator says “Youth today were born ‘technological natives’, and with technology playing a predominant part in teenagers lives, there is no way that it doesn’t have an large impact on their psychological health.”
14 seconds	Shot type: Mid Shot Angle: Slightly below eye-level Movement: Still Lighting: Room light - colour correct to brighter Action: Narrator faces the front straight on to camera. Narrator says dialogue. Once she turns to the left.	Narrator says “Is it right that Facebook, Instagram and other social media sites are not taking responsibility for the images and information that are shaping the minds of impressionistic teenagers today?”
4 seconds	Shot type: Medium Shot Angle: medium shot Movement: Still - may result in being slightly shaky,  Lighting: Room light - colour correct to brighter Action: Talks to camera, dialogue.	Narrator says “Are social media sites aware of this impact that they have? If they value the protection of their consumers, should their health come under that protection?”

38 seconds	A tight, close-up shot of Mr Andrews, Head of Year 8 and media teacher at St Hilda’s School, comes into view talking about “Policies of the school” and “Social media”.	Mr Andrews talks about the affect media has on his students and the number of students directly affected by social media use in relation to the questions asked, “Are there many students that come to you with issues regarding social media?”
5 seconds	Right angled medium shot of students sitting in class using their laptops.	Mr Andrews’ continued voice of authority
5 seconds	Close up of a hand typing on a laptop	Mr Andrews’ continued voice of authority, responding to the question, “Do you think there is any solution to this growing issue?”
15 seconds	Close-up of images popping up on Facebook.	My Andrews continued voice over of authority.
10 seconds	Back too: A tight, close-up shot of Mr Andrews, Head of Year 8 at St Hilda’s School, concluding on the impact media has on his students and the number of students directly affected by social media use.	Mr Andrews concludes talking about the impact media has on his students and the number of students directly affected by social media use.
20 secs	Cut to a series of close-up interviews with school students responding to the questions spoken by the narrator	Voice of authority:  “How many hours a day would you say you spend on social media?” “Have you ever stayed up late watching Netflix, YouTube or going on social media?”
30 seconds	Dissolves to a long shot, time-lapsed video of a schoolgirl standing in the middle of a pathway with people walking past her as she looks at her iPhone. The voice of authority speaks over the top. Footage of students faces, close up of typing on a laptop and close up of the Facebook page.	The voice of authority speaks over the top, “Social media isn’t going to vanish over night but if we simply turn the phones off and minimize hours spent online teenagers today would live healthier lives. We need to acknowledge the affect it’s having on teens today, where we make conscious decisions about the hours we spend online. Our mental and physical health are important, so why jeopardies that for a few more minutes of endless scrolling and unapologetic tweets?”

Statistics On Mental Health term 1

Statistics on Mental Health 

• In each year, approx one in every five Australians will experience a metal illness. 

• Mental illness are the third leading cause of disability burden  in Australia, accounting for an estimated 27% of the total years lost due to disability. 

• About 4% of people will experience a major depressive episode in a 12month period.

• About 3% of Australians are affected by psychotic illness; such as schizophrenia, where there is a loss of contact with reality during episodes of illness.

• Approx 2% of Australians will experience some type of eating disorder in their life, with women 9 times more likely than men. 

• A national survey showed that 35% of people with a mental disorder had used a health service and 29% consulted a GP within the 12 months before the survey.

• Adolescents with mental health problems reported a high rate of suicidal thoughts and other health risks behaviours including drinking, smoking and drug use. 

• Twelve per cent of 13-17 year olds reported having thought about suicide, while 4.25 had actually made a suicide attempt. Females had higher rates of suicidal ideation than males. 

• 23.1% reported smoking, 36.7 reported drinking, 18% said they had used marijuana.

• Only one out of every four young persons with mental health problems had received professional health care. 

Feedback term 1

Today in class, Mr Andrews took a look at our draft and gave us some verbal feedback. Listed below are some dot points stating the feedback that he gave us.

• At 3 seconds of the film,  the black screen transition can be a little shorter
• As well as the second black transition - too long
• First transition is okay, second might be too long
• Sound effect of the rapid shots at the start of the documentary can be changed from a negative buzz to a Instagram shutter sound - we can use effects from garageband or iMovie or Final Cut Pro. If not, we can use Instagram and record the sound it makes when we take a photo
• At 18 seconds, instead of using a straight cut, try fading the shot out to black - the transition will look smoother
• During time lapse it might be a good idea to add in some medium close up shots of her on social media - You see her looking over at her phone rather than the phone being the focus of the shot
• Once the mood has changed to negative, the buzz/crackle sound effects with he rapid shots work well and suit the tone
• With the statistics in the animation, rather than saying the entire number of the statistic, have the narrator say something like "over 2.3 billion people" "in excess of 30 billion" "more than 9 thousand" it will be more effective; however, keep the whole number on the screen - just change what the narrator is saying
• Trim the interview - also pop the title of the television show at the beginning of it

Brainstorming on the effects of social media term 1

Brainstorming 

Assignment documentary Ideas

Expository documentary

• Effects of social media on society and individuals 
• Effect on Socialisation and communication 
• Cyber-bullying online Harassment 
• Cyber safety- lack of privacy, stalking and padophalia of young teenagers 
• The effects mental health has on young teenagers 
• Internet trolls 
• Sexting 

Miss Representation

Miss Representation Documentary 

What type of documentary was Miss Representation?

Miss Representation argued that women in the media are only valued for there physical appearance. The documentary made some strong points on women in the media and how its all about how you are expected to look, the message that was sent out to the audience especially younger girls is that you are supposed look like the women in the media and that personality doesn't matter. I think that Miss Representation is more of a expository documentary as it has made clear statements about women  needing to look a certain way because its what society expects and made strong arguments about women in the media and what society expects of them.  

FTVNM Film Noir Style Production Self-reflection and evaluation

FTVNM Film Noir Style Production Self-reflection and evaluation

1. Discuss your feelings about the production task:

I'm not that satisfied with how the film has resulted as there was a lot of things that could of being done and filmed in a better way, such as where we filmed the scenes, props, and the time we had. I think that we didn't work enough as a group so when it came to the filming and getting things organised they didn't turn out as well as things could of being.

The project defiantly didn't need anymore time added as I thought it was plenty of time to put together a Film Noir project. Maybe for next time we just need to manage a time and organise more.

The things that could improve with our film would be managing our time and doing more planning so  that we know exactly what we are filming and how.

If I had to change the film project it would be changing the locations and the story around as I didn't think the film was the best it could of being.

2. As this task focused on the Film Noir Style:

The specific elements used to depict our film was the lighting, as the lighting of the scene created much more tension to the scene and the places we filmed at engaged the atmosphere to look like a Film Noir.  

The shot types used to convey the story where the ones shot inside as i thought that those scenes really made a clear vision of what was happening at the moment through the use of lighting in the background and the room.

I thought the genre for our film could of made a little more sense as I don't think that the whole storyline is very clear to explain what is happening throughout the film.

3. Personal reflection and evaluation:

The aspect that I chose to focus on the most was picking places of where we had to film and putting together a shot list for the film which I thought went well with our film, and setting sense to make it look like a Film Noir, but I wasn't to please with how things went throughout the production as I thought we needed to focus more on planning and putting everything together. The improvements that I think I have made from my tasks that I did for the film was managing my time in getting things organised.

4. Reflecting upon your completed task:

I showed our rough edit to a few people and I defiantly used there feedback as I was also told on things that could be improved such as the lighting, the locations and the props used.

I think the group did use the planning guide effectively but I did think that the storyboards and the shot list that was written were not used as much as they needed to be used, so I kind of made our film rushed and not the best it could of been.

The difficulties that I had during filming was working with the group as I did think there was a lot of time wasted throughout this and the filming wasn't the best without  a good plan of what we needed to do.

I think that the work that I have done also in the previous terms could of being better, such as trying to keep up with the blog and trying to film a production in only a certain amount of time. I think that just by managing my time and planning more my work could have being the best of what it can be.