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The  Duane Barry episode, part 1. 


-Dark, dull lighting in the beginning
-Tracking/Panning about-creates question for the audience
-Dramatic music
-Intro introduce main characters identity and what may be involved in this episode-work as a tease like
-Protagonist hand is cuffed when seeing the doctor
                    -Theatre of the mind is created
-Protagonist tells that something is about to happen
-Question on existent of aliens
-Protagonist known as crazy
-Mind tricks
-Sudden stop of electricity and water
              -Goes dark for a while
              -Sudden bright white light
-Builds up fear
             -Protagonist shoots aimlessly
-Use voice over
-Problem is bigger than expected
          -Abit like resident evil
-Attempt to save injured person-succeed

                  -Shows ways to get in

-Flashbacks

-Mention of time stop

-Creating suspense by pushing questions further

-Mystery of aliens

-Rely on communication through head piece

             -Only way to gain information

-Tense/sensitive moment of teeth

-Found new identity of protagonist-unknown to the audience yet

                -Creates theatre of the mind

-Loads of quick bright light and black scene

          -not suitable for epileptic people

-Leads the audience to guess what's true and false

-Government involved

       -Make audience not sure what's going on

-Moment where audience think protagonist is going to kill or snap into mentality

-History of protagonist

-Facts about protagonist body is all true

              -Shocks audience

              -Make audience think they know what is going on

-Caption to show location

-piece of metal is a Barcode chip

              -Creates code

              -Unknown to what it do or how it works

-Alien returns but unclear of their look

                -Unfocused camera shot

-Danger to the female investigator

-Empty moment

-Close up shot of protagonist face going crazy

-Close up of phone

            -Showing dramatic moment when female investigator shouts for help

-Left episode as a cliff hanger

         -End dramatically to catch the audience

                           -Make them wanting more, like a tease

Notes-Spooks

One of the many episode we watched in class...

-Recap of the storyline
         -To catch viewers
         -Like a trailer
-Start the episode blurry, with a man on a mission
-Voice over
-Panning, Zooming, tracking
-Point of view, birds eyes view, over shoulder
-Suspense music, cheesy music
       -Building up and volume rises
-Quick action scene
     -Cant see clearly what is going on
     -But audience can figure it out
     -Audience get a walk passer view
-Build up tension
-Cheesy sound effects-"Whoosh" sound when spotting for people scene (Point of View)
-Cross cut
-Not much colour-gritty and grey colour within the film
-Information given through by news report
-Communication
-Location
      -Busy place
      -Easy to blend in
-Taking newspaper to disguise
-Animation/technology used
-Intimidation
-Politic matter
-Blond girl gains after effects still after being in a terrorist bombing area.
-Flashbacks 

Notes-Misery

Things I noticed from the BEGINNING to MIDDLE ish.

-Font-type writer
         -refers to the fact that's their a writer involved.
-Typing sound in the beginning-refers to the fact normal day and life.
-Paul Sheldon smoking, drinks wine-enjoying daily life,
-Snow on car- weather issue (clue)
-Close up shot
-Point of view
-Mixture of shots in the beginning to show credits.
-Quick scene of Paul holding his bag (clue).
-Unfocused screen shot to represent weather-leading to accident.
-Annachronic
-Sound effects to make it sound dramatic and eerie.
-Illusion scene
-Get rescued, build up to make it seem harmless, nothing special.
-Film creator produce false image of Annie-how she nice yet creepy.
-Gruesome leg scene
-Cross cut
-A person think Paul gone missing-question created (clue and Theatre of the mind)
-Tense scene of investigator thinking-creates fear.
-Slowly gaining more information about Annie each time the audience see her.
                                       -Crazy Paul Sheldon fan
                                       -Cross necklace-religious?
                                       -Nurse
                                       -Swearing issue, mental?
-Other civilian think Paul Sheldon missing is nothing, does not acknowledge he gone missing.
-Audience gaining more information about Paul Sheldon.
-Tense music often-creates suspense. 
-Paul Sheldon does not know what is going on or day or time- no idea about outside world.
-Scene of Broken tree-Clue for investigator.
-Odd humour
      -investigator get stuck in snow
      -what investigator wife says
-Tense moment-Investigator was really close to accident scene but missed it.
                        -Annie drives pass investigator.
-Annie avoids Paul questions
                    -Does not allow him to contact people.
-Other shots used
     -Panning
     -Tracking
     -Birds eyes view
     -worms eyes view
-Annie mentalnist snaps
          -Paul tense up as he is scared and he may die.
          -Dramatic music volume goes up.
-Fearful moment when door opens and no Annie, Paul tense up.
              -Build up tension for the pig to come in, to put Paul and audience at ease.
-Paul starts to be creeped out.
-Flashback of history of her life.
-Odd woman
      -Wavering a Urine bottle.
-Atmoshpheretic music
-Annie is a crazy fan
         -Way too into the story of the character.
-Annie tells Paul the truth, fear shows up.
           -Psychological
-Pick right moment to do stuff
             -at night, when its dark and vision is reduced.
-Tense/suspenseful moment
            -Paul trying to get out bed
            -Broken legs
-Paul trying to get to the door to escape, dramatic moment keeping audience on the edge of their seats.
-Realise he been locked in
-Investigator gives up
-black fade in with a point of view start
              -Paul wakes up on the floor, looking up at Annie
              -Slient moment of her staring, Paul gets scared as she may do something crazy.
              -makes audience think what happens next
-Annie makes him burn the book as she does not like the ending
          -Forcful, no choice.
-Paul has no control of himself
-She starts to spread oil on his bed, fearful moment.
-Annie hears helicopter, suspect house how the car she owns is not the one that is registed.
                       -Something up
-Close up of the pills
-Annie daily life-enjoying TV and food on the bed.
-Paul hiding the pills (Clue)
-Wheel chair comes into the scene, where things begins.
-Annie expects Paul to write
-Paul tells Annie the paper smudges (clue)
-Annie freaks out when she gets told its the wrong paper
              -Te silent moment
-The volume changes
-Mid shot of the hair clip
           -Paul trys to get rid of Annie
-Extreme close up of Paul trying to unlock the door
-Paul has not been around the house, does not know any rooms
-Dramatic music starts when he starts to move-trying to escape.
-He stops when he realise doors are locked.
-Phone is dead (clue)
-Close up of the pengiun-creates Theatre of the mind.
              -Paul knocks it over. Makes audience panic/on edge of their seats.
-Main room is filled with photos of him
                    -Audience and Paul knows she is not something simple.
-Shocking moment of storage of pills and other medical equipments
-Cross cut, building tension
        -Annie on the way home
        -Paul exploring the house, finding a way to escape.
-Challenges is created for the protagonist
-All doors are locked, Paul see no hope in escape.
-Paul hears Annie coming home- Panic
-Panic for the protagonist and the audience
-Annie has no idea, she thinks everything is still the same and fine.
-Annie dropping paper and using the wrong key to create more time for the protagonist.
-Paul want his pills to make her leave the room
-The awkward moment, Annie staring at him creating suspense.
               -The silent creates question
-Annie expects Paul to write FOR her
                -Like her lover
-Locked in for life
-Car been found, people think Paul is dead
              -Investigator find marks on car
                           -believes Paul is not dead but been rescued.
-Close up shot of Paul dealing with the pills powder (clue)
-Making it personal
       -Paul write whats on his mind
-Annie does not like the story and make Paul redo it
         -Dominate
         -Wants story to be based on her
-Annie mental issue comes up when she thinks of her pass  or when something she doesnt like happens.
-Paul satisfield her by bringing story character back alive.
-Paul ask Annie to have dinner with him to get on her good side
           -Something been planned
-Another long shot of the penguin
          -Showing that Annie did not notice
-Paul gets Annie to drink
             -Something has been planned
-Paul get rid of Annie so he can drug her drink with the pills powder
            -Plan fails
-Cheerie music is being played to show time gone by
-Paul lift typewriter
      -Showing recovery and gaining strength
-Change of dramatic weather-Thunder
                -Annie goes depressed, she confess she loves Paul
-Annie slowly losing her mind
          -Also notice Paul is recovering
-Annie has a gun
       -eyes widen and walks out of the house with it
-Dramaic music speeds up when Paul gets a hold of a knife
-Investigator picks up clue by reading Paul Sheldon books
-Paul goes into the other room and finds Annie memory scrap book
         -Finds out about her and her crazy pass
-Paul finds out she killes babies
-Paul goes into shockness as he does not know what he got himself into.

Notes Characters Archetypes

Protagonist-Good person
                 -They are not aware on who is on their side.

Characters archetypes-
       Both Protagonist and Antagonist can be False Hero

Handicapped Protagonist-Paul Sheldon 
                                                  -Broken legs
                                      -Bone Collector
                                      -Rear Window

You can get Physical handicapped and Mental handicapped.


Antagonist- Bad Person

Antagonist types-Manipulative
                         -False Villain
                         -False Hero
                         -Government/Agencies-Conspiracy thriller
                         -Companies-Conglomerates/Organisation  
                         -Criminal-Murderers
                                       -Kidnappers
                                       -Assassins
                          -Absent Villain
                          -Supernatural
                          -The Protagonist is the Antagonist

Handicapped-Deformed
                     -Mental
      
Picaresque Hero-Use wits and charms to escape problems.

Unaware Hero-Mistaken identity
                      -Becomes involved in the problem by mistake.

Unreliable Narrator-Tells the story in their point of view, bias.

Dramatic Irony-Where the viewers knows more than the characters.

                             
 

Notes Types of thrillers

Within thrillers their is few types of them such as (there is more!):

-Psychological thriller
-Paranoid/Conspiracy thrillers
-Supernatural thrillers
-Crime thrillers
-Political thrillers




Psychological Thrillers-
In a psychological thriller you would expect confusion for the protagonist and the audience itself, as the story plays with people minds. It does not require blood and gore to create a thrill.

Example: Memento-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0209144/
              Inception-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/



Paranoid/Conspiracy Thrillers-
Within this type of thriller the protagonist tend to be a lack of experience investigator or a journalist, who starts off finding out about something small but somehow it leads to something big and unexpected. Which builds up to the fact that their life is in risk.

Example: The Adjustment Bureau-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1385826/
               Enemy Of The Sate-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120660/


Supernatural Thrillers-
Supernatural thriller refers to the fact that the protagonist has special powers and is in conflict with another person who does not have any special ability. Occasionally the protagonist will be in a tough situation where there is no easy way out, which creates alot of tension. Though supernatural thrillers can also show other ability or creatures such as aliens, where people can choose for themselves if they exist or not or if it can actually happen.

Example: Dorian Gray -http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1235124/
              What Lies Beneath - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161081/

Crime Thrillers-
The role of the protagonist tends to be a criminal, focusing on their life and how the problem end up happening. Crime thriller tends to have alot of suspense scene and thrill as it makes people wonder who is actually good and bad. Along the crime that is happening, tends to have other smaller crimes linked to it, like a chain of event.

Example: Se7en-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114369/
              Reservoir Dogs-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0105236/
           
Political Thriller-
Political thrillers is the kind that has one large problem but have many small ones within it, like a network. Showing from politic struggle to how they succeed and what methods they used to gain it. Which leads to the protagonist to be the person who is there to stop some political matter or make some political matter happen.

Example:The Manchurians Candidate (2004 film)-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368008/
              The Ghost-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1139328/

The power of Google

We all love Google. We use it all the time when we need to find something out or go to certain websites. As it literally has everything we need on it,like many people say"I don't know what I'll do without Google!". It is a true fact in some ways hahaha....
 Though its funny how there is so many other search engine like Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, Bing etc, yet the first one people think of is Google so they say "Google it!".

Google keeps on improving, as they now have their own social place like Facebook. However the thing I like most about Google (part from searching) is that when you go on the main page. As they tend to have different designs on the word Google, relating it with history. Its interesting as it's different and it also teaches people some facts at the same time. That is for sure "you learn something new everyday"! The designs are quite smart, must be hard to think of it though as they have to relate it to the history AND using it to spell out Google. I remember awhile ago they had a robot one where people can actually play with it.


This print screen one (sorry for my many tabs!) is celebrating the 100 birthday of  Charles Addams.

 The creator of The Addams Family *click* *click*. A famous cartoon that everyone watched back in the old days, it is a childhood memory for many people.
Also I love the fact that in this Google Doodle they have all the main characters of The Addams Family and at the same time it can spell out the word Google.
To be quite honest I personally doubt that many people will know this if it wasn't for Google...

Ahhhh...at the end it probably is just me that find these little doodles interesting and amusing along inspiring....
But overall we should be thankful to Google for their efforts and their greatness. Without Google most of us will be lost or we know less stuff. Soo... Thank You Google! =D

The Phantom Of The Opera-Theatre version Review

I went to see The Phantom Of The Opera in west end. It was amazing!!!!
Though sadly from what i heard before, they changed the chandelier, to a smaller one due to health and safety reason. The chandelier still crash down to the stage but done slowly, so it does not hit the audience nor scare them. So the thrill there is abit gone, but hey if you don't know it wouldnt hurt.

Comparing to the film, the film is not as good. As in the theatre you can feel the Phantom love for Christine Daae quite deeply. Especially when he sings "All I Ask Of  You", where the phantom is standing on a gargoyle at the top and then slowly coming down, that scene was filled with so much emotion. It was a complete unexpected scene! As no one would of expect the gargoyle on the top of the stage to come down. Also in the theatre you can feel the fear Christine Daae have towards the Phantom. While in the film, Christine did not show much fear towards the Phantom but seem interest in him like she partly in love with him. But within the whole story, in the beginning Christine believes that the Phantom is the angle of music sent by her father until the moment he starts to control her. That's when it hit her that he is not the angle of music sent by her father, he simply is just another man but not known to life as he is always hidden, away from people.

If  you watch the film first then theatre, you may not like the person who played the character as much. As Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler shall ever be known to you as the Phantom and Christine. It will also be the same if you watched theatre first then film, just different people, as they portray the character in that way.

Though what i notice within the film is that it tells the audience about the Phantom life more, while in theatre it does not, instead it brings out the evil side of the Phantom more. Which is quite interesting and some of the songs are in different order or does not exist in one another. For example when Christine got told to play the main character for the last show, in theatre they sung that part and Christine snapped back to Carlotta. While in the film they didn't and Carlotta did not have much role. Along Christine seemed like she had no back bone, she didn't defend herself at all, it was always people defending her while in theatre Christine seemed more brave.


Well I can be here forever comparing the two together, so I shall stop here and let you decide for yourself.
Though in 2011 it was The Phantom Of the Opera 25 anniversary. The show was performed in The Royal Albert Hall. In my opinion it was filmed badly and made the show not as good, but it seemed like if you were there to watch it, the show would of been spectacular!
The ending of the show was eyes opening, where Andrew Lloyd Webber came out and thanked people. He invited 4 of the previous Phantoms to sing with Sarah Brightman. Amazing scene, seeing all those phantoms and how they all portrayed the Phantom quite differently.

I even wrote a review on it, on the Amazon.co.uk. Amazon even listed my review as most critical review, which was interesting and quite pleasing. =D