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The Fundamentals of Caring Storyline: A writer (Paul Rudd) retires after a personal tragedy and becomes a disabled teen's caregiver. When the two embark on an impromptu road trip, their ability to cope is tested as they start to understand the importance of hope and friendship. Genre: The genre for the film ‘ The fundamentals of Caring ` is a comedy/drama. We know this because although Trever ( Craig Roberts ) is fighting a tough disorder, the film remains happy and jokey. I think the producer has done this so that it brightens up the mood and makes it not too sad and depressing. Representation : The social groups that are portrayed in this fil   are the disabled and the divorced. The disabled social group is represented very well as it shows that although you may have a disability and you may be restricted I what you can do, it doesn't stop you from trying new thigs and enjoying every moment of life. The divorced social group is also represen...

Toy Story - 1995 Toy Story is about a cowboy doll who is profoundly threatened and jealous when a new spaceman figure supplants him as top toy in a boy's room. Director: John Lasseter   Writers: John Lasseter (original story by),   Pete Docter (original story by)   | 6 more credits » Stars: Tom Hanks,   Tim Allen,   Don Rickles Producers: Bonnie Arnold, Ralph Guggenheim Storyline. A little boy named Andy loves to be in his room, playing with his toys, especially his doll named "Woody". But, what do the toys do when Andy is not with them, they come to life. Woody believes that he has life (as a toy) good. However, he must worry about Andy's family moving, and what Woody does not know is about Andy's birthday party. Woody does not realize that Andy's mother gave him an action figure known as Buzz Lightyear , who does not believe that he is a toy, and quickly becomes ...

Juno and Fish Tank comparison The videos we are referring to: Our comparison video:

Decisions and there Outcomes. We decided to have two people filming at one time to varied perspectives of the shot being filmed. Having done this, it helped us to change up the shots regularly to keep the audience interested. We used a wide range of camera shots to make the perspectives seem realistic. Some of the shots we used were ; the OTS shot the noddy shot the POV shot the weather shot Briefly, the over-the-shoulder shot is looking from behind a person at the subject. the noddy shot usually refers to a shot of the interviewer listening and reacting to the subject. We used the weather sot which is where the subject is the weather. it can be used for other purposes, e.g background for graphics. Finally, we used the POV shot which shows a view from the subjects perspective.  We also used a wide range of camera angles to demonstrate different aspects of the films setting. Some of the camera angles we used were ; eye - level birds eye view low angle We used ...

Making of Narnia Exterior We used a forest in Wymondham which was local to us so it wasn't too long of a walk to get to. Although, it was very cold and quite frosty, this just added to the atmosphere we wanted for Narnia as it supposed to be winter time. We made sure that our actors (when they weren't being filmed) had warm coats on as we didn't want them to get too cold.  We chose to not do snow to make our Narnia as we thought it would create too much mess and it would be hard for us to get the snow in every angle we wanted to film. If we were to do snow, it would mean that we would have to limit what we could film as we would have to make sure snow was in every scene and cover a lot of the forest area which would mean a lot of time would be spent after cleaning it up. We also chose not to use a lamppost as there wasn't any nearby to where we were filming so instead we used a tree as we believed it would be more effective than just having a lamppost in t...

DIRECTING STYLE EXTERIOR SHOTS For our LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE scenes, I looked at multiple directors, each with their own distinctive styles. I specifically looked at Wes Anderson, as his warm hues and centralised characters create interesting final outcomes. These images show how we have used the warmer hues and tried to centralise the characters. The lighting also created this warmer effect as the sun had been setting. These images are stills from the first part of the scene, when the two characters - Mr Tumnus and Lucy are outside, and when they first meet. The camera work was important, as we wanted to capture the bewilderment on Lucy's face as well as Mr Tumnus' shock of seeing a human. The directing style itself had been quite simple, because I didn't want to over complicate it. As I also played a large role in creating the storyboards, it allowed me to direct each scene nicely. DID ANY OF YOUR STORYBOARD IDEAS CHANGE ON SHOOT? ...

WORKING FROM A SCRIPT - DIRECTING OUR ACTORS Here are some pictures of the script that I have annotated explaining at points how I want the actors to perform through voice, expression and movement.   I had a discussion with the editor about what I wanted for the final piece, and how I wanted each part to look and sound. We made two different cuts using the same footage to get an idea of how we wanted each scene to look, one by the editors, one by the director and camerawoman we discussed the different shots that we had and went through each cut and picked out the ones that we wanted to use. The editors captured our ideas really well and the final piece is very similar to what we had imagined and the storyboards shown below.  After reading through the script, annotating it for the actors' directions etc. the editor drew some storyboards to get a better idea of what the final piece was going to look like. We had the storyboards w...