Concept 35

Row 1- Concept 16- Relatable Characters Give a story an audience-

Row 2- Concept 17- Relatable characters come from everywhere- Use people you've met. Take aspects from each person.

Row 3- Concept 35- When losing isn't an option- obstacles are good, but they have to figure out a solution by the end.

Row 4- Concept 38- Characters enhance conflict. Conflict fueled by traits. Foil.

Row 5- Concept 39-

African American Genre

The African American genre has changed a lot over time. African American's can be portrayed as many people, but one thing i've noticed is in films, they tend to be the bad guy, the drug addict, or the gang member. This was a lot in the old times. Now African Americans are getting a more variety of roles, such as the hero in the film, in the main role, or the good guy.  African American roles vary. Back in the day, they were very limited, but now there's a lot of variety. African American's can be anything in their roles today.

Identify Suspense Techniques in Script for Rear Window

Dialogue Means Nothing- Use facial expressions, have one character not listening to the other, dialogue can be a lie. 

Keep the Story Simple- Linear and streamlined. Keep your story simple, but  characters complex.

Characters Must Break Cliche- Lisa breaks into the apartment, Thorwald respectable murder. 

Use Humor to Add Tension- Characters in ironic situations. 

Two Things Happening at Once- Distract audience, Thorwald hiding the knife, Miss Lonely hearts

Suspense is Information- Dog returning to the garden

Surprise and Twist- Son is the mom in Psycho, Rear Window has moments where Thorwald looks innocent.

Warning May Cause MacGuffin-Drives the story forward, the thing that everybody wants, 

Psycho- $40,000

Part II: Label which techniques are used in scene from Rear Window

Surprise and Twist- Pushes him out the window. 

Two things happening at once- 

Film Festival reflection

I watched the film "No Look Pass". To be honest, at first i thought it was going to be really boring, but it turned out to be really interesting. I loved the parts when they showed her playing basketball and when she would shoot, it would go in slow motion. It was really interesting. I loved it.

Concept 65 #1

1. Aw man!
2. Stupid school has no tacos!
3. Gunderson sucks!
4. I bet the taco's were bad anyways..
5. Who cares!
6. I'll just get a burger..
7. Looks like i'm not eating lunch today!
8. I'll have to wait till next week.

Concept 64 #3

I actually think it would be a good idea for one of the characters to have a big speech. It would really make things intense. It would explain a lot of more about our topic.

Concept 63 #2

2. My favorite music video currently, is Turn up the music, by Chris brown. Emotions that i can visualize are the intense faces he makes when he dances. These do send the message of the lyrics, because it's basically saying, forget about everything for a night, and just have fun.

Twilight Zone Blog

Some techniques they used for suspense was in the beginning, they didn't show any of the faces. When they finally unwrapped the bandage from the girl's face, we could see the face, but they still wouldn't show the doctor's and nurses faces. Then they finally showed their faces. It makes you think, what's wrong with the girls face. When you see that her face is perfectly normal, you think, what's wrong with the doctor and nurse's faces?

Concept 61 #1

1. Shrek, Ella Enchanted, Cinderella.
This technique was effective because in all the movies, it helped the audience understand what was happening. The narrator would basically explain what was going to happen, before it happened. Sometimes the narrator would leave a suspense kind of feeling.