Little Comets - One Night In October

This clip shows visual features that resemble the song as the lyrics are put on a blackboared that the lead singer of the band is stood infront of. The lyrics individualy pop up on their own which makes the audience focus their attention on them and read each line. The video is fast paced which represents the tempo of the song. The constant replacement of lyrics keeps the audience alert and interested as the different fonts and colours used makes it appealing and easy to read.






Guitars are played throughout the song and to resemble the sound of them being used the band are shown playing them, this gives it the live performance effect which makes the music look more realistic. This also helps with the fast paced tempo of the song as the video is shown in fast motion to resemble the style of the song.



The camera work in this uses long shots to show the whole band playing their instuments to give the feel of a live performance. It focuses on the the lead singer/Guitarist of the band. This is to show he is focal point of the band and the audiece immidiatly recognises that. This also gives a relation between music and visuals as we can see the instuments being played and the audience

Analysis Little Comets

Question 5 essay plan

Media Essay Plan

This clip has been put together to show how the sub-working class behaves in a middle class enviroment. It shows steroetypical of the sub-working class in the clthes they wear. They have tracksuits and shinny jewellery which shows the chav look. They dont show the sub-working class in the same shot as the working class librarian, this is to show they are worlds apart in the way they live.

The production notes

-The director Joe Wright, oscar winning Jamie Foxx and oscar nominee Robert Downey Jr are all from the acadamy Award nominated 'Atonement'.
-Dreamworks pictures and universal pictures present in asociation with studocanal and participant media.
-The filmmakers followed a suggestion from Dreamworks' head Stacey Snider about a young, rapidly rising British director.
-The director also won a BAFTA award for best picture of the year with 'Atonement'.
-Wright thought that this film would benefit from his distinctly outsiders point of view.
-Foxx said the first script he read gave him an emotional reaction.
-The more Foxx spoke to nathaniel the more he realised how hard it must have been for Steve Lopez to talk to him.

Let the right one in

The Sweedish horror film 'Let the right one in'(2008) directed by Tomas Alfredson, is an adaption of a Sweedish, gothic horror book written by John Ajvide Lindqvist. Although the film was given a small budget of £4 million to produce, the film has more than trbeled this amount to date and has become very successful. There are plans to recreate the film in America but development has not started yet. The film is set in the 1980's in a small town outside the capital city Stockholm, and was film in the harsh winter as snow is seen in every outside shot. The main characters are a young boy called Oskar who is twelve years old and lives in a block of flats with his mother, he is harshly bullied at his school by class mates and this immidiatly makes us feel sympathy for him. He meets a girl named Eli who is of similar age and they meet outside the flat. Eli lives with her father who we immediatly discover is a viscious murder and performs inhuman tortuers on his victims. We later find that Eli is a vampire and feeds on blood. Oskar is unaware of this as she decides not to tell him what she really is. They immidiatly become friends.
The director uses many different sounds to show emotion and feelings within the characters. Sound is used to build tension in key parts of the film, they use recognisable sounds such as the opening of doors and creeks in the floor to let you know someone is there. Music is also used to build tension and we are introduced to loud sudden music just before a killing. The repetition of this makes the audience know when a dramatic scene is about to take place.
There is a lot of variety in the camera work of this film, There are close ups to show emotion of the character when a significant part of the has happened such as a murder. We then see long to show an incident happening, eg:When the body is found in the frozen lake. This is to give the audience an all round picture of what is happening and the location. We also see panning shots when someone enters a room or a new location is being shown, this is also to show the audience the surroundings. We see over the shoulder shots when a conversation is taking place and also close up of faces are used to show the charcters emotion.
The lighting in the film is also very important, the dark nights add to the horror as night is assosiated with that genre. The lighting we see in the houses are artificial and are usually dimmed low. The day shots that are filmed in the natural light are shown to be very bright, the snow and the pure white sky add to this so artificial lights were not needed in those scenes.
Claude-Levi Strauss and his theories played a big impact in 'Let the right on in'. It was his idea to add binary opposites into films such as Boy versus Girl, good versus evil, young versus old. Binary opposites are shown throughout in this film. We first see a common opposite of boy versus girl, through Oskar and Eli. We see innocent versus bully when Oskar gets bullied at school. There is also good versus evil, which is shown when Oskar fights back against the bullies and with the murser victims. We also see human versus non-human in the freindship of Oskar and Eli, we see how they can both help eachother and learn from eachother.

The soloist

Cast
• Jamie Foxx
• Robert Downey
• Catherine Keener
• Tom Hollander
• Lisa Gay Hamilton
• Rachael Hamilton
• Jena Malone
• Diana Gomes
Budget: 60 Million dollars

Director: Joe Wright

Writers: Susannah Grant (screen) and Steve Lopez (book)

Production Company: DreamWorks, Universal pictures

Official Reviews : Based on a book by Steve Lopez, a Los Angeles Times journalist, it deals with the plight of Nathaniel Ayres (Jamie Foxx), a homeless schizophrenic and gifted musician. Lopez (Robert Downey Jr) discovers him, playing Beethoven exquisitely on a violin with two strings and writes human-interest columns about him that capture the public’s imagination (Telegraph)

The Soloist bucks the trend by pulling a bait-and-switch: going in it seems obvious that this will be the story of Nathaniel Ayers (Jamie Foxx), former student at the prestigious Julliard music school turned crazy homeless man on the streets of Los Angeles, who gradually reclaims both his dignity and his sanity under the watchful eye of well-meaning newspaper columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr). (The vive)