Thursday, 22 May 2014

Cast/Props List for 'pencil troubles'



Props 
Pencil Troubles 


Equipment and props needed;
  • 6 Pencils:  We chose to use pencils as the main because pencils tend to get treated the worst than any other equipment, they get thrown around, chewed, snapped etc. 
  • Ruler: We used a ruler in the background so we could make it look like a audience was watching and rulers would witness a lot of what goes on. A ruler resembles a tall equipment that doesn't really get that badly treated 
  • Stapler: We used a Stapler for the interviewer because staplers are superior, they never get thrown around and they can cause pain if you don't use them correctly, A stapler would resemble a old man and thats why we chose it. 
  • Rubber: We used a rubber in the background so we could make it look like a audience was watching and rubbers would witness a lot of what goes on. A rubber resembles a innocent child as they are small and don't cause much pain.  
  • Sharpener: We used a sharpener in the background so we could make it look like a audience was watching and sharpeners would witness a lot of what goes on. We presented the sharpener as a bit of a simpleton as all they do is spin around to sharpen pencils. 
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    • Scissors: We used scissors because we wanted to show a pencil getting cut in half and scissors can be vicious because of its blades. 
    • Blue Tack: We needed blue tack to stick the goggly eyes onto the equipment 
    • Goggly eyes: We used goggly eyes to make the equipment have a bit of life to them so people would understand that we are doing a voice over of the equipment. 



     Ronnie 


    Other Pencils associted to ronnie

    Scissors

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    TRACKING HOLLY WOOD EXERCISE


    LOOPER                                                          





    Synopsis:

    Action/Science Fiction & Mindbender . In 2044, a professional killer (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who works for a criminal organization that disposes of undesirables sent from the future is tasked with eliminating his future self (Bruce Willis).
    Content Elements:
    Frequent use of the sexual expletive and variations in a non-sexual context; frequent use of scatological slang and profanity; infrequent use of cursing and vulgar expressions 
    Frequent hand-to-hand and weapons violence, some involving children – some blood and detail
    Infrequent breast nudity in a non-sexual context
    Frequent portrayals of substance abuse – some detail
    Thematic Elements:
    Self-awareness
    Self-interest versus altruism
    Power and control
    Elements of fate and destiny 
    Classification Rationale:
    Rated 14A for genre violence and coarse language
    Classification Date:
    09/19/2012

    In the futuristic action thriller Looper, time travel will be invented - but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past where a "looper" - a hired gun, like Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good...until the day the mob decides to "close the loop," sending back Joe's future self (Bruce Willis) for assassination. The film is written and directed by Rian Johnson and also stars Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, and Jeff Daniels.


    Looper was written and directed by Rian Johnson. After Johnson released The Brothers Bloom in 2008, he re-teamed with producer Ram Bergman, who produced Johnson's previous two films, with the goal of starting production of Looper in 2009. In May 2010, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was cast in one of the lead roles, which he would play after completingPremium Rush.Later in the month, Bruce Willis was also cast.In the following October,Emily Blunt joined Gordon-Levitt and Willis.Noah Segan, Jeff Daniels, and Piper Perabo were cast in January 2011. Filming began in Louisiana on January 24, 2011. Makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji created the prosthetics that Gordon-Levitt wore in the film so that he would physically resemble Willis.The film's score was composed by Nathan Johnson, Rian Johnson's cousin.
    Talking about Looper and time travel in film, Rian Johnson said:
    Even though it's a time-travel movie, the pleasure of it doesn't come from the mass of time travel. It's not a film like Prime, for instance, where the big part of the enjoyment is kind of working out all the intricacies of it. For Looper, I very much wanted it to be a more character-based movie that is more about how these characters dealt with the situation time travel has brought about. So the biggest challenge was figuring out how to not spend the whole movie explaining the rules and figure out how to put it out there in a way that made sense on some intuitive level for the audience; then get past it and deal with the real meat of the story.
    Looper premiered on September 6, 2012 at the opening night of the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was then released theatrically in the United States on September 28, 2012 by FilmDistrict, who obtained the domestic rights from production company Endgame Entertainment at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In turn, FilmDistrict chose to release the film with TriStar Pictures.
    The Chinese release of the film reintegrates a substantial number of scenes set in Shanghai. The move was requested by Chinese production company DMG Entertainment in order to further appeal to Chinese audiences. Several of these scenes were shortened or cut for the American release.

    Johnson released a free audio commentary on SoundCloud to be downloaded and listened to during the film, with the warning: "Needless to say, this is NOT to be listened to on a first viewing, or before you've seen the film."


    The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in North America on December 31, 2012. The film was also released on January 28, 2013 in online UK stores and a general release on February 4, 2013. The US iTunes store released the film on December 21, 2012 to own in HD and SD forms as part of an early release deal it has on certain films.
    Looper holds a 93% "Certified Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 247 reviews and an average score of 8.1/10, with the reported consensus: "As thought-provoking as it is thrilling, Looper delivers an uncommonly smart, bravely original blend of futuristic sci-fi and good old-fashioned action."On Metacritic, the film holds an 84/100 average rating based on 44 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".
    James Mottram of Total Film gave Looper 5 stars out of 5, concluding that it was "the best sci-fi movie since Moon. The best time-travel yarn since 12 Monkeys. And one of the best films of 2012."

    Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, calling it "an engaging, neatly worked-out time-travel sci-fi thriller", but also criticizing the effects involved in making Gordon-Levitt resemble Willis: "At first, the effect is a bit odd, and you can't quite put your finger on what's off; then it feels downright weird to be looking at a version of Gordon-Levitt who is no longer the actor you've known for a few years now."

    Peter Debruge of Variety also gave the film a positive review, writing that writer-director Johnson's "grandly conceived, impressively mounted third feature shows a giddy, geeky interest in science-fiction, then forces it into the back seat and lets the multidimensional characters drive. In a genre infamous for loose ends, this thinking man's thriller marshals action, romance and a dose of very dark comedy toward a stunning payoff."
    Kim Newman of Empire magazine gave Looper 5 stars out of 5, writing, "Intelligent science-fiction sometimes seems an endangered species—too much physics and there's a risk of creating something cold and remote, too many explosions and get lost in the multiplex.Looper isn't perfect, but it pulls off the full Wizard Of Oz: it has a brain, courage and a heart." Noel Murray of The A.V. Club gave the film an A− grade, writing, "Looper is a remarkable feat of imagination and execution, entertaining from start to finish, even as it asks the audience to contemplate how and why humanity keeps making the same rotten mistakes." Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing, "Looper is way inventive but it wears its creativity lightly, like it's no big deal. This is a highflying, super-stylish science-fiction thriller that brings a fresh approach to mind-bending genre material. We're not always sure where this time-travel film is going, but we wouldn't dream of abandoning the ride."
    Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing, "Looper's heady blend of time travel, gritty action and a jot of romance is such a thrilling and cerebral mind-bender that it will likely have moviegoers gathering outside the theater afterward to hash out details of its intricately constructed universe. Not that that's a bad thing." Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising the performances of Willis and Gordon-Levitt and concluding, "Lacing tremendously exciting action with touching gravity, Looper hits you like a shot in the heart." Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising its screenplay and writing, "Looper, a smart and tricky sci-fi story, sidesteps the paradoxes of time travel by embracing them. Most time travel movies run into trouble in the final scenes, when impossibilities pile up one upon another. This film leads to a startling conclusion that wipes out the story's paradoxes so neatly it's as if it never happened."

    Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+ grade, writing, "The time swivels in Looper evoke some of Inception's fancy temporal tricks (some of which, of course, also involved Gordon-Levitt straddling multiple time zones at once). But it's the glimpses of Children of Men-like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight". Keith Staskiewicz, also writing forEntertainment Weekly (reviewing the DVD) and also giving a "B+", said, "The film's premise is markedly inventive, and [writer-director Rian] Johnson spends a lot of time making his universe seem lived-in and believable, but he's not just concerned with whiz-bang what-ifs. The showdown of selves illuminates just how little Gordon-Levitt's character has changed over the intervening years, stuck as he is in a feedback loop of drug use and violence despite his pipe dream of moving to Europe. The retro trench coats and firearms also suggest a sort of eternal recurrence, and as Looper's plot gets more complex, its central question simplifies: If we can't fix our mistakes, can we at least make sure we don't repeat the same ones over and over again?"

    Richard Corliss of Time magazine gave the film a positive review, calling Looper a "hybrid, mashing Quentin Tarantino and Philip K. Dickinto a species of pulp science fiction" and also writing, "A fanciful film with the patina of hyper-realism, Looper is well served by actors who behave not as if they were dropped carelessly into the future but spent their whole desperate lives there." Dana Stevens of Slate gave the film a mixed review, writing, "Looper felt to me like a maddening near-miss: It posits an impossible but fascinating-to-imagine relationship – a face-to-face encounter between one's present and future self, in which each self must account for its betrayal of the other – and then throws away nearly all the dramatic potential that relationship offers."

    Audiences polled by the market research firm CinemaScore gave the film a B+ grade on average. - 
    Looper wikipedia

    Awards and Nominations 

     Domestic Gross (Worldwide)




    The Gross takes direct impact on the films profit and further aspects for the future if there are sequels. The most profit came from china as they interest in films of genres like these.

     Nominated films are more guaranteed to be in cinemas twice as long as films that dont receive any nominations. As Looper was nominated for a various amount of films which gave it the chance to stay in films much longer than non nominated films at that time. The nominations in awards also affect the parties that'll be commonly watching the films as it brings the films to more peoples by being in Nominations and awards they achieved.

    Looper used Viral Marketing in many social networking which highly increased the gross of the film alongside making it more known to those who are more interested in the film. In countries who use social Networking sites more commonly than others ( UK, Spain,South Korea and China and Russia etc.) All had a relatively higher gross compared to the other countries, They had total gross over $3,000,000 making them a high margin the total domestic gross worldwide.


    Tuesday, 20 May 2014

    Documentaries Genres

    Observational
    Doco-drama
    Mockumentary


    Personal Documentaries focus on Life stories and revolve around the things/ situations they have  experienced in their lifetime to current or around one constant specific  event / lifestyle they have to deal with, Personal documentaries are usually deep and touch very sensitive subjects for some viewers.

     Britain by Bike                                         



    Clare Balding sets out on a two-wheel odyssey to re-discover Britain from the saddle of a touring cycle.
    The six-part series, Clare follows the wheel tracks of compulsive cyclist and author Harold Briercliffe whose evocative guide books of the late 1940s lovingly describe by-passed Britain - a world of unspoiled villages, cycle touring clubs and sunny B roads.
    Carrying a set of Harold's Cycling Touring Guides for company and riding his very own Dawes Super Galaxy bicycle, Clare goes in search of the world he described with such affection.Her journey to the Isle of Wight explores its unique sense of otherness - a strange power which could cure Dickens's writer's block, repel the deadly attentions of the Luftwaffe and give Victorian poet laureate Tennyson a comforting sense of his own death. - 'BBC Iplayer'.
    This documentary is a personal documentary as it focuses on Claire Balding  'Journey', as sheds practically trying go through his journey in his way to gain the magnitude of what is him approaching his own death.


           Marilyn, the Last Sessions

    'A unique look at the life of Marilyn Monroe, focusing on the relationship she had with Freudian psychoanalyst Ralph Greenson shortly before her death' - 4OD (Video currently unavailable)

    This would be classed as a Biographical documentary due to the documentary only focusing on Marilyn Monroe's Relationship with Ralph Greenson Before her death.



     

    Mind Control: America's Secret  War                                   

    It is one of the ill-kept secrets of America's intelligence agencies--for decades, they have worked virtually non-stop to perfect means of controlling the human mind. But while many have suspected the existence of these projects, the details have long been preserved.
    Mind Control blows the lid off years of chilling experiments, drawing on documents reluctantly released through the Freedom of Information Act and interviews with some of the victims, including a woman whose past was literally taken away.
    Hear from John Marks, the author of In Search of the Manchurian Candidate, who broke the story of the CIA's abuses by unraveling the mysteries contained in financial records. All the other records pertaining to the experiments were destroyed by the agency in an attempt to prevent the details from ever being known.
    After viewing this important program, you'll have reason to wonder about your own thoughts.

    This is an Historical documentary as it focuses on an event in which happened in the past, and goes more in depth on the event and what led to it and what change the flow of the event, and the journey to the end of the event.



    ANIMA                                                                                  

    From Dominoes Falling Productions, Anima is a feature length documentary using a collaboration of various material.
    Other themes include our creativity and our power as individuals and as a collective to manifest our own reality.
    The film examines our relationships with ourselves, others and the environment around us. -Documentaryaddict.com
    This would be classed as a analytical documentary since it focuses on one investigation and goes completely in depth so that it analysed and clarrified, what also makes the documentary special is that it uses alot of archivial footage made from various materials which works very well.

    7/7: Ripple Effect                                                                

                                                              


    Regarding the 7/7/2005 terrorist attacks in London, let us look at the facts, and what we were told, and compare them. Then, using Ockham's Razor and common-sense, let us see what conclusions are to be drawn, so we can all understand what most likely really did happen that day. - http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/77-ripple-effect/

    This would be classed as a caused and effected documentary since it compares the facts we were told at the time and try and comprehend the situation that actually happened on that day.


    When We Grow... This Is What We Can Do

    When we grow is a documentary about cannabis in the UK. It looks at the history of the plant, the facts, its many uses and the laws and politics surrounding it.
    Follow two young filmmakers on a shoe string budget, as they try to unravel what prohibition of cannabis really means, who it affects, who profits from it and why it was prohibited in the first place.
    Featuring interviews with; a cannabis activist, a hydroponic grow shop owner, a cannabis dealer, a professor of neuropsychopharmacology, who just so happens to be a former government drugs policy advisor and a medical marijuana user who would rather die than live without it.

    This would be considered as a persuasive documentary as it is supporting an illegal substance and strengthening reasons why it should be legal and how it helps and not many of the negative facts behind it.




    The Lady in Number 6


    The Lady in Number 6 is one of the most inspirational and uplifting stories of the year.  As the world’s oldest pianist and holocaust survivor, 109 year-old Alice Herz Sommer shares her views on how to live a long and happy life. She discusses music, laughter and how to remain optimistic come what may. The film features beautiful photographs and rare film footage that truly brings Alice’s extraordinary story to life. - nickreedent.com
    This documentary would be an Eye witness since everything told in the documentary is from her own recollection, thoughts and feelings in that present time.