#preliminarytask

date : November 16th, 2021

upload : March 30th, 2022

Todorov's narrative theory is about how a narration story is created. Todorov said that there are five stages that a character would go through, which include: Equilibrium, Disruption, Recognition, Repair, Disruption and Equilibrium Again.

This blog will use 'Ender's Game', the recent movie I watched, as an example.

ENDER'S GAME

Equilibrium - The first part of the story introduces the characters

Ender was introduced to the other kids on a spaceship, and we; all are moving to the headquarters where they will be training to become soldiers.

Ender shows the commander his intelligence.

Disruption - Second part of the story which contains issues or something that disrupt the happiness of a character

Through his intelligence, Ender got to lead his new team. Every day they practised their techniques and tried to find the best way to defeat the army.

a. Ender was struggling to win the practice Battle

Recognition

When he successfully won the last battle, Ender realized that the war was real

a. Ender was mad at the commander as they made him kill all the species (genocide)

b. He knows that he could communicate to the aliens, but the action is undone as all the species are already gone.

Repair the Disruption

He felt guilty about his action, so he went out of the headquarters to find the queen.

He told the worker that he'd find a new home for the species, returning the favour for what he did to the alien's planet.

Equilibrium

Ender became an admiral of the army, giving him the ability to travel wherever he wished.

Ender uses the chance to find a new home for the queen.

The movie cuts out after Ender starts his journey of travelling the space.

date: August 23rd, 2021

update: March 30th, 2022

This screenshot was captured on last week's Thursday. It was not a surprise to me that my daily average phone use was more than 6 hours a day.

As you can see, most of my most used applications are entertainment-based, I tend to spend my free time creating content on TikTok and searching video editing tutorial.

I enjoy listening to music in the morning or when I'm feeling like analyzing another piece of music which has a thick texture; it is entertaining to imagine how many musical instruments are in one song.

date: September 30th, 2021

update: March 30th. 2021

As the Lion King was re-created into a live-action based on their old cartoon animations, so it is a good opportunities for those who write media blogs to write some details about it.

ANIMATION They used a low angle extreme long shot to show the direction of where Scar ran to in the beginning of the scene, then they changed it to the high angle shot after he reached the cliff to show the audience how deep it goes. 0:24 - They used an eye-level mid shot to captured Simba’s expression, we can noticed the detail when his face is distorted due to the heat of fire. During the dialogue, a mid-shot were used very often to show the character’s feelings and emotions through their face. 0:39 - 0:48 - A reverse shot was used as the conversation between Simba and Scar occurs. After that, the shot changed to a low angle close-up shot to show that Simba is currently the one who’s more powerful than Scar 1:17 - There’s a possible insert shot on a thing that could be a hot soot as it was he weapon that scar used to tricked Simba before he attacks him.

During the battle, dutch angle were used while both the lions are tremble over each other. There’s also a full shot to show the lions’ entire body while fighting

date: June 10th, 2021

upload: March 30th, 2022

TOOTHLESS AND LIGHT FURY SCENE

How to train your dragon is an animation based on a children’s book by Cressida Cowell and produced by Dreamworks. The story is about a young Viking teenager expected to follow his tribe’s tradition of becoming a dragon slayer. Still, it somehow becomes friends with Toothless the Night Fury, the rarest dragon in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaf5QD3s_24

This scene comes from the third movie of HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON, presenting you the (potentially) last journey of Hiccup and his dragon Toothless.

The scene I chose is the scene when Toothless and The Light Fury are flying along each other. As it’s one of my favorite scene among the three movies I’ve watched.

MOVIES ANALYSIS

Convention

As the movie is about a journey based on viking mythology. It is mainly an adventure-fantasy movie that made for children/family, means that there’s not much of  things that express the action of violence.

Codes

Technical Codes

As the dragons were flying, the scenes are mostly a high-angle shot, showing us the texture of clouds that were drawn. There are a few over the shoulder shots to see both Night Fury and Light fury together in one scene. There’s also a long wide shot which shown both of the characters in the middle so the audience focus on the two dragons only. Many lightning effects were used in the movies because the scene started around the evening and the sky was getting darker and darker. The special effects are also the highlight of the movie as dragons are fantasy creatures, Dreamworks did a really good job in animated dragon’s power/abilites such as spitting fires are more. The song was composed by John Powell like every other movies. Even if there’s not much of an impact made in the song, it helps the dragons carry the scene’s emotion very well. With different dynamics, the audience will hear the packed instruments in a climax/intense moment and the loose instruments in a scene where we’ll be focus on the dragons’ actions.

Written Codes

There’s no written codes needing during this scene as the things that carried this scene were the dragons and the music.

Symbolic Codes

As dragons cannot speak, it is very important to exaggerate their expression. We can tell that Toothless was so happy to meet the Light Fury when his eyes became very wide and made a little growl. We can see a different tone of lights during the scene, the warm tone that comes from the sun in the beginning and the cool tone came from lightning and thunder caused by Toothless and Nature.