Sequences and their uses.

Telling Lies Evaluation

Telling lies is a short film by Simon Ellis, it is represented through Text. It is clever because of its use of colour, it is called telling lies because of the whole premise of this short film is when the actors tell lies the text would give their real meaning. This is clever because the text would flash white when they’re telling a ‘White Lie’. The story is of the characters previous night which did not go well as his Girlfriend kissed another man and then proceeded to ring him to tell him about it.

60 Second Film Evaluation

In this sixty second film I am explaining who I am in as short a way as possible, I explain my interests and Ethnicity. I feel it is a good a quick representation of my character and I felt it was short enough as to achieve the task set. I could have improved on my articulation as I was a bit flustered and had frequent stops, over all I feel like it was a good telling of myself and in the future I could expand on it given the opportunity

Media Class Review

The Dawn of The Planet of The Apes Review

The dawn of the Planet of the Apes review

The Dawn of the planet of the Apes is a sequel to the popular ‘Rise of the Planet of the apes’ which is a good reboot of the original franchise. This film differs from the first as where the original was less action oriented and focused more on the story of Caesar, who is the main protagonist of both films. This film differs as it is told after the events of the first film where humanity has already mostly collapsed and only fleeting splinters of them remain, as well as the now escaped apes roaming the forests.

The story is engaging and has good plot development and strong characters; the highlight for me was Caesar who was played by Andy Serkis. The character is the most intelligent of the apes and is their leader; he interacts well with the humans as he is the only chimp who seems to take pity on them to an extent. There was a lot of vital commentary on the futility of war and violent conflict, the film does not expect you to pick sides too easily as hostility between the last few remaining humans on earth and the intelligent apes arise.

They do a good job of showing both good and characters on both sides as to make it not a straight good and baddie story. The conflict spins more and more into chaos, and there is little anyone can do. As in the previous film the CGI is incredible, with credit to motion capture acting and the accompanying special effects. The gloomy post-apocalyptic atmosphere and great cinematography all adds up to an intelligent and entertaining continuation of the story.

The ending was somewhat disappointing as I felt it did not bring the whole movie together so much as to leave you on a cliff-hanger in anticipation for the third film. The basic plot was somewhat simple; it did not deviate from a fairly standard Hollywood formula. Though this is forgiven in light of the other aspects of the film which make the whole package a good blockbuster and thoroughly enjoyable.

Ralph Film Review

Ralph film Review

Ralph is a Comic Love story set in Southern France in and around the Marseille train station, it follows the story of Ralph a 16 year old boy who has come to France in search of his friend Clare and to declare his love for her. The story opens with Ralph stepping off the train; he looks every part the foreigner and looks out of place as with what he is wearing. He quickly makes his way to a payphone and attempts to put in Claire’s number, but she has left a number out. Then actor does a good job of showing his frustrations at the fact he has a missing number and attempts every combination of numbers to try and piece together his friend’s number.

The cinematography is good throughout the film has a constant muted colour palette which helps with the dower nature in the beginning it also uses a lot of close ups and wide shots for when the camera. Apart from when Ralph is speaking the rest of the film is in French this helps us identify with Ralph as unless you’re able to adeptly speak French you would be just as confused as him, this confusion is helped by the actors portrayal of the character as he has a constant confused look upon his face.

The theme of the film is that of a quest, Ralph comes to France without his parents to find Claire and confess his love for her, although this is side tracked by Julia. Who is the waitress at the café he sits in when he is using the pay phone, when at first she is annoyed with him for tripping her up. By the end of the film she is attempting to help him with said quest in locating Claire for him. But once Claire arrives it is clear to see that she has changed her feelings from him altogether and by the end of the film he is forced to decide between her and Claire.

Overall it is a well shot and directed film, in my opinion in thought the story was a little lacklustre and the conclusion to it was a little dubious. I wouldn’t say it was a film for me but I can see why another person would enjoy it.