I don't know if anyone has ever seen outnumbered, but it's in to the second series now. It's basically about an ordinary family, with three children, the 'fibber and anarchist', 'the vegetable hater and awkward questioner' and lastly the 'boy about to leave his childhood behind'. It's about what actually happens in life. Those embarrassing questions small kids ask, and the 'competition' with the 'perfect' family next door! I was reading an article on it in the Times culture section and found it really interesting! It was all about the filming and the script and i thought it relevant as we are learning about British films with Mrs Francis.
How did they end up with such a brilliant script? Well, seven years ago, Andy Hamilton was making a film and casted his daughter. Only to find many problems, such as the seven year old not being able to deliver her lines convincingly due to the fact she tended to stand still, when in fact children never stand still and are always playing with something! This mixed with the fact that when delivering the lines she would stand with her eyes fixed on the adult when in fact the adult is the last thing she would actually be looking at made Hamilton discuss the problem with actor Guy Jenkins. The conclusion was to deny the children the script, and thus produced Outnumbered!
Jake, 12, is the only child who gets to see the script because he is treated more or less as an adult. But the two younger ones, Karen and Ben are 'denied access to the script' Guy Jenkins whispers in Karen's ear and Hamilton whispers in Ben's' a 'mission statement' which the adults are denied from hearing, and have only their script! Therefore, everything is constructed for the unexpected - the children's striking and bizarre views. Two or three takes are recorded in the allotted time of the same scene, as no one knows in advance of the outcome of the scene.
The whole production is shot with two handheld cameras to make it as flexible as possible and the lighting is uniformly so the children can move as freely as desired without plunging into shadows. Also it allows for the children to come out with a 'brilliant line or funny diversion'. The parents are off screen here, and while the children are on their break, the adults have to shoot material to put the children in context.
Outnumbered portrays a real image of British humour, and doesn't need a 'series of disconnected gags or smart lines' to make it funny! The perfect thing for a Saturday night in!
For the whole article, click on the link bellow!!!
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article5247325.ece
Monday 8 December 2008
Saturday 29 November 2008
Mr Van Straten leason...
On Monday, before chapel, Jerome kindly told me that we were getting our media coursework next lesson, so after chapel i wandered off to media, thinking it was next. Mr V and Mrs S were talking in the classroom so i didn't go it. Then three year 13's came wondering up the stairs and were waiting too. After about ten minuets and no one in the class turning up, i decided to consult my timetable in my homework diary, only to find it was geography! Embarrassing!!!
So here's the work...
This is our ideas. After lots of research of horror films on u-tube, we are going to base our film on 'A stranger calls'...
Saturday 1 November 2008
Long awaited diary
sooooo, i haven't updated this in ages! i have never been good with a diary to be honest.
soo two weeks ago... was... half term. i spent three days in my room painting it! and listening to the radio and ipod on speakers! then in the evenings i watched some tv for about two or three hours.
Then the next couple days i have been watching tv, reading and listening to the radio in media terms.
The next week was my gold dofe training! on the five hour coach journey there AND back i listen to my ipod (which needs seriously updating) and reading some magazines ... love it!, closer, vogue, cosmo, new heat and reveal! which were shared around the coach!
during the trip... at the youth hostel (three nights), lots of ipod on speakers,
... in the tent, night one, cosmo in the tent!!! lots of laughs
... last night at youth hostel watched about 20minuets of 'wedding crashers'
back home... have watched a total of about 3hours of telly (yesterday and today)
... listened to Duffy's cd on way to nans (mums obsessed)
... read mums 'easy living' magazine and a few cloths catalogue's
now...Internet. i don't know for how long though!
soo two weeks ago... was... half term. i spent three days in my room painting it! and listening to the radio and ipod on speakers! then in the evenings i watched some tv for about two or three hours.
Then the next couple days i have been watching tv, reading and listening to the radio in media terms.
The next week was my gold dofe training! on the five hour coach journey there AND back i listen to my ipod (which needs seriously updating) and reading some magazines ... love it!, closer, vogue, cosmo, new heat and reveal! which were shared around the coach!
during the trip... at the youth hostel (three nights), lots of ipod on speakers,
... in the tent, night one, cosmo in the tent!!! lots of laughs
... last night at youth hostel watched about 20minuets of 'wedding crashers'
back home... have watched a total of about 3hours of telly (yesterday and today)
... listened to Duffy's cd on way to nans (mums obsessed)
... read mums 'easy living' magazine and a few cloths catalogue's
now...Internet. i don't know for how long though!
Wednesday 8 October 2008
Media Diary
OK, so this week;
On saturday I meet up with CHAZ (an old friend who left the school last year) and we went up to london shopping, so I would have heard some music in the shops, and we had a crazy sing along on the tube (with i-pod) and saw lost of posters etc
then that evening went to Katherine's sleepover (FUN! FUN! FUN!) where the i-pod was on low and we watched 'Sex and the city!'
7.00-8.30/7.30-8.30 usual radio in the morning this week.
5.30-7.00 - TV tonight and many other nights unless i am doing something else!
5.00-6.45 last night was on the internet reseaching Sony for Mr VS's homework(IN FOR TOMORROW) and facebook
6.45- now - tonight did a little! same thing as last night
ermm in media studies last week we watched Yasmin with Mrs Francis and were analysisng Mis en scene! and this week we watched some of the Bill and analysed camera angles! Which was interesting! I think it seems like the editor is minipulating us through camera angles and cutting!!! (but im crazy)
Anyways, will post when i have more Media related things to say!!!
On saturday I meet up with CHAZ (an old friend who left the school last year) and we went up to london shopping, so I would have heard some music in the shops, and we had a crazy sing along on the tube (with i-pod) and saw lost of posters etc
then that evening went to Katherine's sleepover (FUN! FUN! FUN!) where the i-pod was on low and we watched 'Sex and the city!'
7.00-8.30/7.30-8.30 usual radio in the morning this week.
5.30-7.00 - TV tonight and many other nights unless i am doing something else!
5.00-6.45 last night was on the internet reseaching Sony for Mr VS's homework(IN FOR TOMORROW) and facebook
6.45- now - tonight did a little! same thing as last night
ermm in media studies last week we watched Yasmin with Mrs Francis and were analysisng Mis en scene! and this week we watched some of the Bill and analysed camera angles! Which was interesting! I think it seems like the editor is minipulating us through camera angles and cutting!!! (but im crazy)
Anyways, will post when i have more Media related things to say!!!
Tuesday 7 October 2008
Media
We were set some homework by Mr VS about sony, and i was on google researching when I stumbles across this article and thought it was quite true and it tied in with the whole media and being influenced by the media subject! I thought it was interesting to hear someone else say it..
''We mobile users are never satisfied. We're always looking forward to the next big handset, even when ours is still fairly new. It's partly down to the mobile industry itself, which makes its money from persuading us to upgrade to a new phone every 12-18 months with swankier features.Sometimes, our lust for new handsets is just wishful thinking. Such is the case, presently, with the rumours surrounding Sony Ericsson making a PlayStation Phone (or PSP for short. Er... hang on...).''
The rest of the article is about sony trying to make a play station mobile if you want to read it!!!
http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/r/Various/feature.asp?c=2740
Wednesday 1 October 2008
This time Mrs Franis asked us to analyse a film. So i chose the last one i had seen in cinimar!!
Brief Synopsis
Sophie is getting married and wants her father to walk her down the Aisle, but the catch is she doesn’t know who he is! So she reads her mums diary and finds out ‘there were three guys all around the same time.’ So Sophie invited them all, without her mum knowing, thinking she will know who he is when she sees him!
Things take off when they all arrive. Sophie hides them in the old goat shed and her mum soon hears something up there, so goes to investigate. She sees all the men, but how they were years ago. She doesn’t believe her eyes and breaks into song. She falls through the roof and sees them but doesn’t understand why they are there, and doesn’t stay around long enough to find out. Sophie doesn’t know her mum knows about the men and while her mum is tearing her hair out, Sophie is trying to find out which one is her father. She can’t decide, so says they can all walk her down the aisle but she is still left with how she is going to tell two of them that they can’t!
On the day of the marriage the whole plot is turned up-side-down when Sophie and Sky don’t get married at all, and it’s Sophie’s mum, Donna and the man who only ever had eyes for her, Sam Carmichael are the pair who get married. A shock comes out when Harry Bright let’s out he’s gay, and Bill Anderson ‘takes a chance’ on Rosie!
How the character is represented
Donna Sheridan played by Meryl Streep is portrayed as a head strong women, (which is shown in the fact she remains unmarried) who secretly wants to be looked after and be taken care of by an even more head strong man who knows what she wants, even though she is afraid to admit it for people thinking she is weak and can’t look after herself.
Most of the time Donna is drowned out in tatty old blue dungarees, which are broken and falling apart. They mirror the shape of her hotel. The dungarees also give her a laid back, hippie feel which helps emphasis her wild youth and transition into the relaxed but hectic older age.
How the character contributes to narrative
Meryl Streep makes Donna a very funny character. She is so laid back and goes with the flow, although she is a slap dash kind of person, and this is shown by the state of her hotel. Although she tries her best to keep the hotel running, she just has to keep mending things and doesn’t anticipate what will happen next, which makes her quit a airy fairy type of lady. So although all her worries are slowly building up, Donna seems to have quit a small tension span to one thing, and her mind keeps jumping from episode to episode. Meryl creates a character who desperately wants the best for her daughter but doesn’t want to be alone! And some on the cracks of her worries are beginning to show, until she is swept away by Sam.
Film review of Aladdin
Mr Van Straten asked us to do a film review of our fav films. I have so many, so here is just one...
Aladdin
Aladdin is an animated, adventure, fantasy musical based on an Arab folktale, about a young street boy named Aladdin who tackles the dangers of the street of a fictional Arabian city, Agrabah, many years ago, with his only friend, a trusty monkey, Abu.
The film begins with a man ridding a camel singing Arabian Nights. It creates an air of mystery and suspense as we don’t know where the man is going or why he is in the desert!
We meet Jasmine, a young teenage princess from the palace of Agrabah. She is not allowed to leave the palace walls, but must be married before her next birthday! Having turned away every suitor who has tried to win her, she is fed up ‘having her life lived for her,’ so she decides to venture outside the palace disguised, and on top of the wall she sees the dusty marketplace for the very first time.
She soon meets the mischievous Aladdin and Abu and their friendship begins to explode. Meanwhile the Sultans evil adviser, Jafar looks into his magical machine to see who the ‘Diamond in the Rough’ is, for that person is the only person who can go into the ‘cave of wonders’ to retrieve the magic lamp to complete the evil Jafar’s evil plan! The image reflected back to him is none other than...Aladdin.
I still remember the first time I ever saw Aladdin. I must have been about 5 or 6 and I was living in Antigua. It was hot so I had all the windows open for a draft.
It was on Sky (courtesy of my dads’ job) and I was sitting on a cushion on the wooden floor with my back against the blue sofa. After I’d seen it I asked for it on video for my birthday: I got my mum to make me a Jasmine outfit and bought a purple and sparkly silver hair tie with Jasmines’ face stuck on it which I wore all the time in a pineapple! I think this is one of my favorite films, not only because it’s a classic Disney film but also in the Caribbean I had some of the best times in my life and the film adds to my fairytale image of what it was like living over there.
Aladdin is an animated, adventure, fantasy musical based on an Arab folktale, about a young street boy named Aladdin who tackles the dangers of the street of a fictional Arabian city, Agrabah, many years ago, with his only friend, a trusty monkey, Abu.
The film begins with a man ridding a camel singing Arabian Nights. It creates an air of mystery and suspense as we don’t know where the man is going or why he is in the desert!
We meet Jasmine, a young teenage princess from the palace of Agrabah. She is not allowed to leave the palace walls, but must be married before her next birthday! Having turned away every suitor who has tried to win her, she is fed up ‘having her life lived for her,’ so she decides to venture outside the palace disguised, and on top of the wall she sees the dusty marketplace for the very first time.
She soon meets the mischievous Aladdin and Abu and their friendship begins to explode. Meanwhile the Sultans evil adviser, Jafar looks into his magical machine to see who the ‘Diamond in the Rough’ is, for that person is the only person who can go into the ‘cave of wonders’ to retrieve the magic lamp to complete the evil Jafar’s evil plan! The image reflected back to him is none other than...Aladdin.
I still remember the first time I ever saw Aladdin. I must have been about 5 or 6 and I was living in Antigua. It was hot so I had all the windows open for a draft.
It was on Sky (courtesy of my dads’ job) and I was sitting on a cushion on the wooden floor with my back against the blue sofa. After I’d seen it I asked for it on video for my birthday: I got my mum to make me a Jasmine outfit and bought a purple and sparkly silver hair tie with Jasmines’ face stuck on it which I wore all the time in a pineapple! I think this is one of my favorite films, not only because it’s a classic Disney film but also in the Caribbean I had some of the best times in my life and the film adds to my fairytale image of what it was like living over there.
Today...
Today we were told to search you tube and find things that make us laugh. Basically to define ourselves by Media 'things'
I just LOVE this advert. cracks me up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJ_oOQ3jCo&feature=related
and thanks to Jerome for introdusing me to the funniest show in the world...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuYojcmZpI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldkVuzJH_Kk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZsdtlTo20k&feature=related ...these guys are nutters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx_YLCV8z14&feature=related ...am loving this advert (does that make me a guy?? ohh or a guy lover...)
will add some more things when i can think of them... don't realy know the type of things which are expected!
I just LOVE this advert. cracks me up...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwJ_oOQ3jCo&feature=related
and thanks to Jerome for introdusing me to the funniest show in the world...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGuYojcmZpI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldkVuzJH_Kk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZsdtlTo20k&feature=related ...these guys are nutters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tx_YLCV8z14&feature=related ...am loving this advert (does that make me a guy?? ohh or a guy lover...)
will add some more things when i can think of them... don't realy know the type of things which are expected!
Media Diary!
Hey.
Just to add to my media diary.
Most mornings are the usual 7.00-8.25 capital radio listening, although today it was 7.30, and I was late to school, thus missing chapel!!! My dads comment was 'blame it on your mother'!!!!
Now am listening to heart radio, (because I'm cool) and early at the South Africa meeting we watched 'Goodbye Bafana'! Some parts were sooo sad but others were heart warming. It was really moving and it’s a must watch!!! So go get it out at blockbuster!!!
In business studies we were on the internet for about half an hour researching franchise!!
Quite boring, but you can go have a look if you want, www.franchisedirect.co.uk
www.totalfranchise.co.uk, and www.franchiseexpo.co.uk if you want to have a look???
In Media Studies we were looking at a PowerPoint presentation about Media
I can't think what else I have done to do with Media!!!
Just to add to my media diary.
Most mornings are the usual 7.00-8.25 capital radio listening, although today it was 7.30, and I was late to school, thus missing chapel!!! My dads comment was 'blame it on your mother'!!!!
Now am listening to heart radio, (because I'm cool) and early at the South Africa meeting we watched 'Goodbye Bafana'! Some parts were sooo sad but others were heart warming. It was really moving and it’s a must watch!!! So go get it out at blockbuster!!!
In business studies we were on the internet for about half an hour researching franchise!!
Quite boring, but you can go have a look if you want, www.franchisedirect.co.uk
www.totalfranchise.co.uk, and www.franchiseexpo.co.uk if you want to have a look???
In Media Studies we were looking at a PowerPoint presentation about Media
I can't think what else I have done to do with Media!!!
Wednesday 24 September 2008
Media Diary
Hey! Mr V.S told us we have to make a media diary!?! It's quite random but i must say i noticed a big weekday routine in my life! This thing is ongoing so there should be many more posts!!!
Thursday 18th Sept
5.30-6.00- watched TV
5.55-6.40- listened to the radio...in the shower!! (should explain my mum bought me a new shower radio so tried it out!!!)
7.35-9.00-watched TV
Friday 19th Sept
7.30 til basically 8.25 - listened to the radio getting ready for school and in the car!!
10.15-10.30 - watched a video in business studies about inocents smoothes (although no samples were given) The keason was very boring)
1.30-2.45 - watched afew 5min clips in enrichment studies on youtube...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mz1vaTeUSY...hope you have a strong stomach...
4.30-4.45-listen to the radio home from school
4.50-5.00 - radio to drumming
5.35-5.45 - radio from drumming!!
Saturday 20th Sept
9.00 - 9.50 - radio getting radio for a day of ...SHOPPING!!
10.15-10.35- radio to hemel
3.35-3.55 - radio home after an exhorsting day!!!
4.00-5.00- watched TV
Sunday 21st Sept
10.10-11.25 - radio getting ready, shower, hair, dressed etc
between 11.30-3.00 was at work and free Willy was on, so caught abit of that!!!
4.30-5.00- watched a little telly
5.00-6.55 - internet..facebook nd stuff. My dad bought me a dress and jacket thing from the New Look website. http://www.newlook.co.uk/1546431/154643169/ProductDetails.aspx. It doesn't look to nice here but it looked good in the shop! a word of advise. always buy things when you see them!!!
8.00-10.30 - Watched love actually!!
Monday 22nd Sept
7.00-8.25 - listened to radio getting ready for school and in car!
4.20-4.40- radio home from school
5.30-7.00- watched some tv
Tuesday 23rd Sept
7.00-8.25 - listened to radio getting ready for school and in car!
4.20-4.40- radio home from school
6.00-8.00 - went to Pizza et Pizza for a house meal and music was on in the background!!!
Wednesday 24th Sep (MY MUMS BIRTHDAY)
7.00-8.25 - listened to radio getting ready for school and in car!
3.00-3.30(ish) - watched abit of Dragons Den in Business Studies about a failure pitch from the David Beckham look alike!
4.55-5.10- radio home from school
9.10-now- an on the internet!
So overall i listen to the radio ALOT. Mostly Capital radio, Have a listen http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/player/default.asp?s=1&e=0
Since I've been back at school i haven't been watching much telly but have come to the conclusion there is NOTHING worth watching!!!
Thursday 18th Sept
5.30-6.00- watched TV
5.55-6.40- listened to the radio...in the shower!! (should explain my mum bought me a new shower radio so tried it out!!!)
7.35-9.00-watched TV
Friday 19th Sept
7.30 til basically 8.25 - listened to the radio getting ready for school and in the car!!
10.15-10.30 - watched a video in business studies about inocents smoothes (although no samples were given) The keason was very boring)
1.30-2.45 - watched afew 5min clips in enrichment studies on youtube...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mz1vaTeUSY...hope you have a strong stomach...
4.30-4.45-listen to the radio home from school
4.50-5.00 - radio to drumming
5.35-5.45 - radio from drumming!!
Saturday 20th Sept
9.00 - 9.50 - radio getting radio for a day of ...SHOPPING!!
10.15-10.35- radio to hemel
3.35-3.55 - radio home after an exhorsting day!!!
4.00-5.00- watched TV
Sunday 21st Sept
10.10-11.25 - radio getting ready, shower, hair, dressed etc
between 11.30-3.00 was at work and free Willy was on, so caught abit of that!!!
4.30-5.00- watched a little telly
5.00-6.55 - internet..facebook nd stuff. My dad bought me a dress and jacket thing from the New Look website. http://www.newlook.co.uk/1546431/154643169/ProductDetails.aspx. It doesn't look to nice here but it looked good in the shop! a word of advise. always buy things when you see them!!!
8.00-10.30 - Watched love actually!!
Monday 22nd Sept
7.00-8.25 - listened to radio getting ready for school and in car!
4.20-4.40- radio home from school
5.30-7.00- watched some tv
Tuesday 23rd Sept
7.00-8.25 - listened to radio getting ready for school and in car!
4.20-4.40- radio home from school
6.00-8.00 - went to Pizza et Pizza for a house meal and music was on in the background!!!
Wednesday 24th Sep (MY MUMS BIRTHDAY)
7.00-8.25 - listened to radio getting ready for school and in car!
3.00-3.30(ish) - watched abit of Dragons Den in Business Studies about a failure pitch from the David Beckham look alike!
4.55-5.10- radio home from school
9.10-now- an on the internet!
So overall i listen to the radio ALOT. Mostly Capital radio, Have a listen http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/player/default.asp?s=1&e=0
Since I've been back at school i haven't been watching much telly but have come to the conclusion there is NOTHING worth watching!!!
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Hey everyone. This is my first post!!!(so be nice)
thanks to Jerome for helping me set this thing up!!!!!
thanks to Jerome for helping me set this thing up!!!!!
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