http://www.bbc.co.uk/cultureshow/videos/2009/08/s6_edinb_3_penelope/index.shtml
Linda Marlowe explores the world of Ulysess and Penolope by looking at two different theatre productions of the story.
The first theatre production she looks at is done by The Royal Ballet of Flanders. The story is about Penelope and her wait for Ulysess to return home from war. The Mise- en- scene in this particular story is very dark colours and a plain back drop.
The stage is only filled with one table at the back and a couple of boxes for the dancers to stand on and leap off from. On the table there is a record player and they play love songs, rock songs and classical music out of this to show how Penelope feels at that moment in time. The stage is constantly dimly lit because the story is a depressing one and it shows how Penelope would have been feeling. The dancers and actors wear very plain clothes. The women wear black dresses and nothing else apart from Penelope who wears a crown to symbolise the fact that she is the queen of Greece. The men wear Plain black suits apart from one person who comes along the stage wearing a white tutu and some white flippers and nothing else. The camera work in this paticular shot is a long shot so you can see what is happening in the back ground, but the shots do change from being long to going to a medium shot to even a close up of just Penelop standing in the background.
In the next theatre production Linda looks at a puppet opra version of the story of Ulysess and Penolope. Its about Ulysess dieing and Penolope being extreamly upset. The puppets are made out of wood. The colours are much brighter in this version. The main colours are reds, silvers, golds. The back drop is one of big grand pillers and greek furniture. The lighting is bright but sometimes can go very dim. Penelope wears a sliver top and a red skirt and Ulysess wears stripy Pyjamas. In the shot there is a bed and a small bed side table and that is it. The shots are usually Long shots but sometimes they go to medium shots.
The sounds in this clip are mainly diegetic sounds, but when Linda speaks over the top of the clip then they turn from being diegetic to being Non- diegetic sounds.
When the dierectors and producers of each show are being interveiwed the camera is usually medium shot apart from the end when Linda has a close up. This is because that way you are concentrating more on what the director or producer are saying rather then looking at the background.
Behind Linda you can see the sea because she is on a greek island and lots of big rocks. The colours are bright but they have bits of gray in them most likely because of the editing and the camera shots.
At the end when Linda gets a close up they do this because she is giving her final conclusion about the two plays and this adds more effect.
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Thursday, 7 October 2010
The Auditions
On Friday the 1st Ocotber the Creative and Media Diploma group went to veiw a group of students practising for a show that they have to do in a couple of weeks time.
It started of with a short monologue from a student. She was very good apart from the occasional muttering of the word 'Prompt' because she had forgotten her line/word. The next group of students who were two girls did a preveiw of their little show they were going to do. They pretended that one of the girls sisters had given her a book all about boys and how to break up with them and let them know you like them. They did a funny bit where one of the girls pretended to be a boy and the other themself and they tested some of the things in the book. This sketch was very funny and the girls only used the word 'Prompt' if not at all. The next little preveiw was a girl doing a monologue but because the girl who was meant to be doing it wasn't there she couldnt do it very well and so she stopped.
There were more preveiws and they were all very good and gave us insight into what else you can do in the college and the Creative and Media course.
The purpose was not only to practice their parts but to also show us what we could all be doing. They were all very good, some better then others, and some really shocked us and made us laugh.
They of course could have been better if some of the people that were meant to be there had been there because then it would have been better but it was still good, and made me really want to do something like that aswell.
I woud give it 5/10 because they were only practising but even though they were they tried their hardest and battled along and some i thought were brilliant.
It started of with a short monologue from a student. She was very good apart from the occasional muttering of the word 'Prompt' because she had forgotten her line/word. The next group of students who were two girls did a preveiw of their little show they were going to do. They pretended that one of the girls sisters had given her a book all about boys and how to break up with them and let them know you like them. They did a funny bit where one of the girls pretended to be a boy and the other themself and they tested some of the things in the book. This sketch was very funny and the girls only used the word 'Prompt' if not at all. The next little preveiw was a girl doing a monologue but because the girl who was meant to be doing it wasn't there she couldnt do it very well and so she stopped.
There were more preveiws and they were all very good and gave us insight into what else you can do in the college and the Creative and Media course.
The purpose was not only to practice their parts but to also show us what we could all be doing. They were all very good, some better then others, and some really shocked us and made us laugh.
They of course could have been better if some of the people that were meant to be there had been there because then it would have been better but it was still good, and made me really want to do something like that aswell.
I woud give it 5/10 because they were only practising but even though they were they tried their hardest and battled along and some i thought were brilliant.
Friday, 1 October 2010
Events in Warwickshire in October 2010
Events in Warwickshire 2010:
Peter Pan the pantomime is on at Coxs Yard from the 2nd-4th of October 2010.
It starts on Saturday 2nd of October at 2.00 Pm at Coxs Yard in Stratford. There are no age restrictions so anyone can go. You have to order the tickets online but you can also get them at the door on the day of the performance but they don't start selling them until 1.15 Pm.
WEBSITE http://www.coxsyard.co.uk/entertainment/event/2284
Vampires Rock is on at Leamington Spa on the 3rd October 2010.
The country's only musical rock theatre does another tour round England. A twist with a bit of rock and comedy. Jam packed with a load of anthems we all know and love. Music includes We will Rock you, Sweet Child of Mine and Bat out of Hell. Tickets going fast so book now.
WEBSITE: http://www.visitwarwick.co.uk/events-dairy/view.asp?ref=10161
Haunted Halloween is on at Kenilworth Castle from Thursday 21 October - 31st October 2010.
Go to the doomed dungeons and see the past come to live. See ghosts and Ghouls. Kenilworth's younger visitors will be taken to solve the halloween mystery. With the trail over they have to report to the dungeon master to receive a small sweet prize.
TELEPHONE: 01926 852078
Peter Pan the pantomime is on at Coxs Yard from the 2nd-4th of October 2010.
It starts on Saturday 2nd of October at 2.00 Pm at Coxs Yard in Stratford. There are no age restrictions so anyone can go. You have to order the tickets online but you can also get them at the door on the day of the performance but they don't start selling them until 1.15 Pm.
WEBSITE http://www.coxsyard.co.uk/entertainment/event/2284
Vampires Rock is on at Leamington Spa on the 3rd October 2010.
The country's only musical rock theatre does another tour round England. A twist with a bit of rock and comedy. Jam packed with a load of anthems we all know and love. Music includes We will Rock you, Sweet Child of Mine and Bat out of Hell. Tickets going fast so book now.
WEBSITE: http://www.visitwarwick.co.uk/events-dairy/view.asp?ref=10161
Haunted Halloween is on at Kenilworth Castle from Thursday 21 October - 31st October 2010.
Go to the doomed dungeons and see the past come to live. See ghosts and Ghouls. Kenilworth's younger visitors will be taken to solve the halloween mystery. With the trail over they have to report to the dungeon master to receive a small sweet prize.
TELEPHONE: 01926 852078
Monday, 27 September 2010
The Hole in 3D. (12A)
On the 25th September Me and my friend,Jade, went to the Apollo in Leamington to see the Hole in 3D.
The film was about a family of three, Susan (mum) and her two sons (Dane and Lucas). They move to a rather sleepy little town called Bensonville and the only thing Dane likes about it, is their next door neighbour, Julie.
When the boys decide to explore their new house, they find a creepy hole in their basement. Julie comes round and looks into the hole with the two boys. They soon realise that because they have looked into the hole their worst fears come out of it and chase them. The whole film is about them figuring out how to get rid of the hole and how to get rid of their worst fears with it.
The aim of the film was to make a kids horror film that was still scary but wouldn't give kids nightmares about it for weeks on end. The reason they shot it in 3D was because they wanted it to be extremely life-like and also because every new film coming out is shot in 3D.
I think the film achieved these aims really well. When Jade and me went to see it, we were scared and even though it didn't scare me afterwards like most horror films i've seen, it scared me while watching it. The film is very sinister and depressing. The audience was mainly 14-15 year old's with some parents and their kids. I think the audience was impressed by the film because while it was playing the cinema was silent and after it had finished there was a buzz about the film and a lot of the people were talking about it and how good it was.
I think maybe to make it better the director (Joe Dante) could have made more sinister things for the characters to be scared of. Apart from that the film was brilliant and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good childrens horror film.
8/10
The film was about a family of three, Susan (mum) and her two sons (Dane and Lucas). They move to a rather sleepy little town called Bensonville and the only thing Dane likes about it, is their next door neighbour, Julie.
When the boys decide to explore their new house, they find a creepy hole in their basement. Julie comes round and looks into the hole with the two boys. They soon realise that because they have looked into the hole their worst fears come out of it and chase them. The whole film is about them figuring out how to get rid of the hole and how to get rid of their worst fears with it.
The aim of the film was to make a kids horror film that was still scary but wouldn't give kids nightmares about it for weeks on end. The reason they shot it in 3D was because they wanted it to be extremely life-like and also because every new film coming out is shot in 3D.
I think the film achieved these aims really well. When Jade and me went to see it, we were scared and even though it didn't scare me afterwards like most horror films i've seen, it scared me while watching it. The film is very sinister and depressing. The audience was mainly 14-15 year old's with some parents and their kids. I think the audience was impressed by the film because while it was playing the cinema was silent and after it had finished there was a buzz about the film and a lot of the people were talking about it and how good it was.
I think maybe to make it better the director (Joe Dante) could have made more sinister things for the characters to be scared of. Apart from that the film was brilliant and I would recommend it to anyone who likes a good childrens horror film.
8/10
Friday, 24 September 2010
On Friday 24th of September some Yao Chinese performers came to Stratford-Upon-Avon to perform a little bit of their act to the students of Stratford College.
The event started off with the Yao performers singing some cultural songs from China. Then the rest of the Chinese group went off the stage and two men came onto the stage with a green pole and started doing acrobatics. They lifted each other up using the green pole. Then they asked if any of the students would like to come on the stage and have a go at pushing the Chinese men into a wall. One of the students came out of the audience and tried to push one of the Chinese men but he ended up being beaten by the Chinese man. Then another student came out from the audience and tried to push one of the Chinese men and he managed to push the Chinese guy into the audience. TWICE!!
The audience were shocked at the performance and enjoyed it. The audience got involved in the singing and clapped along with the music. When the two Chinese men came out with the green pole they were a bit weary and also curious about what was going to happen. When the men started to do the acrobats then they really clapped and were really quite impressed by the performance. When the two boys came out of the audience then there friends started cheering them on and got really involved.
You could tell that the audience really enjoyed it because there was a buzz afterwards and people were saying bye to the performers.
They came over to Stratford to show the people their culture and what they enjoy. I think the students liked their culture and thought about the Chinese the culture more.
I thought it was good but a bit weird. It made me want to know a bit more about the Chinese culture but not to much. The singing was nice but i enjoyed the acrobatics more, because it was really exciting and it was unusual. They portrayed the culture really well and it must have been hard for them to show their culture to a load of students who didn't have much idea about the Chinese culture. I enjoyed it very much and I would love to find out more about the Yao culture.
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Blog one: Cinema
Hi guys me again :)
So today I went to the cinema and saw a film. Well what else do you go to the cinema for. I couldn't think of another media event in such a short amount of time, so the cinema it was.
The film I went and saw was a film called Cyrus. Lets just say it was pretty rubbish.
The main characters were played by some pretty big comedy actors. John C Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and Catherine Keener.
The story line is about a guy (John C Reilly) who has divorced from his wife but there still really close. His wife after seven years has decided to re-marry and of course John who is played by John C Reilly isn't very happy about this. His ex wife (Catherine Keener) and her partner persuade John to go to a party where they try and make him get a girlfriend, but when he cant find one he decides to get very drunk. He goes out into the garden where a woman (Marisa Tomei) called Molly starts talking to him and of course they fall in love. One night though when she leaves early he decides to follow her home and in the morning he goes and knocks at her house, where a young lad (Jonah Hill) comes outside and introduces him as Molly's son. John finds out the young lad is called Cyrus and that he and Molly were bestfriends and so she sort of took him in.
Cyrus invites John to stay over the night with him and Molly and so of course John says yes. The next morning John wakes up and gets ready for work, when he cant find his pair of shoes he left in the living room the night before. He asks Molly and Cyrus where his shoes are and they say they don't know where they are.
The film sort of moves on then and Cyrus says he will move out of the house Molly and John are now living in and decides to rent himself a room. Cyrus asks Molly to pack up all his stuff for him but because Molly is at work John packs up Cyrus's stuff and finds his missing shoes hidden in Cyrus's closet.
From there on the film is about Cyrus and John fighting to get Molly to believe them. Molly always believes Cryus so she has difficulty trying to decide who's telling her the truth. It ends up with John leaving Molly and getting his flat back and Cyrus coming round and saying sorry about all the stuff that's happened between them and how Molly is really upset about whats happened.
The camera shots were very different, sometimes they would be a little blurry, they would keep zooming in and zooming back out at random times.
All in all i didn't like the film but I think for people who like the actors and who like those kind of plots then its a good film to see. Its a very short film so its good for someone who wants to catch a quick flick.
The story line didn't do it for me and i found bits where I was falling asleep.
I would give this film a 5/10 because I think there were bits that were funny, and sweet but I didn't like most of it.
So today I went to the cinema and saw a film. Well what else do you go to the cinema for. I couldn't think of another media event in such a short amount of time, so the cinema it was.
The film I went and saw was a film called Cyrus. Lets just say it was pretty rubbish.
The main characters were played by some pretty big comedy actors. John C Reilly, Jonah Hill, Marisa Tomei and Catherine Keener.
The story line is about a guy (John C Reilly) who has divorced from his wife but there still really close. His wife after seven years has decided to re-marry and of course John who is played by John C Reilly isn't very happy about this. His ex wife (Catherine Keener) and her partner persuade John to go to a party where they try and make him get a girlfriend, but when he cant find one he decides to get very drunk. He goes out into the garden where a woman (Marisa Tomei) called Molly starts talking to him and of course they fall in love. One night though when she leaves early he decides to follow her home and in the morning he goes and knocks at her house, where a young lad (Jonah Hill) comes outside and introduces him as Molly's son. John finds out the young lad is called Cyrus and that he and Molly were bestfriends and so she sort of took him in.
Cyrus invites John to stay over the night with him and Molly and so of course John says yes. The next morning John wakes up and gets ready for work, when he cant find his pair of shoes he left in the living room the night before. He asks Molly and Cyrus where his shoes are and they say they don't know where they are.
The film sort of moves on then and Cyrus says he will move out of the house Molly and John are now living in and decides to rent himself a room. Cyrus asks Molly to pack up all his stuff for him but because Molly is at work John packs up Cyrus's stuff and finds his missing shoes hidden in Cyrus's closet.
From there on the film is about Cyrus and John fighting to get Molly to believe them. Molly always believes Cryus so she has difficulty trying to decide who's telling her the truth. It ends up with John leaving Molly and getting his flat back and Cyrus coming round and saying sorry about all the stuff that's happened between them and how Molly is really upset about whats happened.
The camera shots were very different, sometimes they would be a little blurry, they would keep zooming in and zooming back out at random times.
All in all i didn't like the film but I think for people who like the actors and who like those kind of plots then its a good film to see. Its a very short film so its good for someone who wants to catch a quick flick.
The story line didn't do it for me and i found bits where I was falling asleep.
I would give this film a 5/10 because I think there were bits that were funny, and sweet but I didn't like most of it.
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