Friday 25th September 2009

What Was Today's Lesson About??
In todays lesson we watched the opening sequences of two films; Memento and Insomnia, both films have the same genre, Thriller!

Memento is a 2000 psychological thriller film written and directed by Christopher Nolan, adapted from his brother Jonathonss short story "Memento Mori". It stars Guy Pearce as Leonard Shelby, a former insurance fraud investigator searching for the man he believes raped and killed his wife during a burglary.

Insomnia is about a local 17-year-old girl named Kay Connell (Crystal Lowe)who is found murdered in a small fishing town of Alaska. Two LAPD detectives, Will Dormer (Al Pacino) and Hap Eckhart (Martin Donovan) are sent up to assist the local police with their investigation.

I will be talking about Memento.
I think Memento was succesful as it had a non linear plot. As soon as the film started it went back to where he was in the motel room, which is in black and white, symbolising his memories. The goes back to colour again to show what happens next, which i find really effective. Memento had 2 Oscar nominations, another 42 wins and 32 nominations, so other viewers thought it was effective too. (Video unavailable at present time)

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Wednesday 16th September 2009

What Are Signifiers??
Today's lesson, we were learning about signifiers. We learnt that denotation is what you see but a connotation is what you associate the image with. This image i have picked out from the film Psycho, is the shower scene, where this woman gets stabbed to death. The picture is obviously of her in fright, and you can see from the mouth shape she is screaming, which is the denotation. The connotation is the fear this woman is in, it is not a calm image as she is in distress. This scene is what we would expect in a horror film, the blood, the gore, the violence and agony.

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Monday 14th September 12:42

Introduction to.....ME :)
Hi im Lucy, and this blog will give you an insight into my school life...well my media studies project. I will be updating on here everything i do in the project, and keep you posted on anything if it changes. The project sounds very exciting, doing an opening of a film sequence is the first major project, which i cannot wait to do! It should be amazing. We have already looked at opening sequences such as Spiderman 2, Pleasantville (which was a trailor), Die Hard with A Vengence, Great Expectations and Indianna Jones Raiders of The Lost Ark :) Hopefully ours will be as good!

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