What a Day Updated

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Yearbook Reflection

Our story was about: A kid who had a nightmare about forgetting to buy a yearbook with only one possible way of obtaining it. He then wakes up and realizes he needs to pre order a yearbook.

The idea for the story: Came from Jacob and I as we tossed different ideas back and forth on what to do and finally settled on a humorous plot.

Percentage of the story concept I was responsible for: About 50%

The Protagonist in the story: Is the kid who forgot to order a yearbook.

The Antagonist in the story: Is Mr.Klein who wouldn't let the kid buy a late yearbook.

The Type of Conflict in the story is: External Conflict

The Climax of the story is when: Mr.Klein turns into a yearbook, making the kid wake up and realize he needs to buy a yearbook.

The Story resolves itself when: The kid wakes up and pre-orders a yearbook from Mr.Klein

The resolution of the story is: Comic because the kid realized that he made a mistake and that it could be solved after a revelation through dream.

Some elements of exposition include: Rising Action, climax, falling action, resolution

To adjust to no spoken dialogue: We used speech bubbles with on screen text.

The content in the dialogue had to do with the story and humor.

The entire video was made in iMovie and had to be constructed frame by frame.

The Song in our video was: Only time

The Band: Enya

The song was not featured in any other known movies.

It was suggested by myself.

It was chosen because it conveyed a sense of sorrow and despair as the kid couldn't think of what to do after realizing he hadn't pre-ordered a yearbook.

We included many sound effects in our video.

They were used to show shock, pleasure, dissapointment, all around emotions.

My involvement in the sound effects would be about 60%.

2 things I would have done different would add more sound, and sync it up better.

My partner was: Jacob Borntreger

Both my partner and I shared the responsibilities of creating many frames for the animation by hand and putting it together in iMovie with sound effects.

I felt in sync with my partner throughout the entire project.

Both our experience with iMovie is little to none, though we picked up quite quick.

All of the partnership worked well, we communicated and worked together flawlessly to create a great video.

A GRAND DAY OUT

Exposition:

There are a few main characters of the short film including Wallace, Gromit (a dog), and a strange robot on the moon.  Wallace is protagonist in the film. Most of film takes place on the moon, where Wallace finds “cheese” but some of the film takes place in Wallace’s garage.  The beginning is in a generally happy mood and continues throughout the film.

Rising Action:

Wallace wishes to have cheese and crackers but soon finds out that there is not cheese.  Thus, he sets out to build a rocket ship on the notion that the moon is made of cheese.

Resolution:

The resolution of this can be seen as a comic resolution. Wallace and Gromit set out on a mission to retrieve cheese for their crackers and achieve it. The Robot on the moon even profits, as he gets makeshift skis from their rocket.

Close Reading of a Film: Toy Story

Title: The opening scene of the movie shows Andy, playing with his toys and shows how his toys are important to him. It’s a cinematic sequence and builds the characters. It plays “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” to convey friendship.

Story/Plot/Narrative: The toys of a young boy come to life while humans aren’t around. A cowboy by the name of Woody who belongs to his boy, Andy, feels threatened when he buys a new toy, Buzz Lightyear. Buzz feels as if he is a real spaceman and doesn’t come to the realization that he is a toy like the others. Andy’s family moves to a new home and the toys must escape the house of his crazy neighbor who has gotten ahold of them.

Motifs: Woody is seen throughout the movie with the feeling of jealousy, always wanting to be Andy’s favorite toy. All of the toys convey the emotions of needing to please their owner and keep him happy. Together in the movie they work together to complete tasks and build a friendship, trumping their stubbornness.

Characterization: Woody: Andy’s oldest and favorite toy, the protagonist, always loved Andy. Andy plays with him all the time but buys a new Buzz Lightyear and Woody becomes jealous and feels the need to be the favorite again.

Buzz: Buzz Lightyear is another main character who can be seen as an antagonist and protagonist. He sparks jealousy in Woody and almost replaces him. However he and Woody become best friends towards the end of the movie.

Sid: Sid is the next-door neighbor and is the Antagonist. He gets a hold of the toys and does horrible things to them. The toys have to escape him and get back to Andy.

Scene/Sets: The movie takes place in the real world. It can be considered the Disney Pixar Universe, and is completely animated. The sets/scenes relate to the real world and give the sense that toys actually come to life while no one is around.

Plot: The main conflict in the movie is how Andy’s toys are captured by the deranged neighbors and Andy finds that they are lost. Together, after fighting through personal relationship conflicts, the toys work together to escape Sid, the evil neighbor, to get back to their owner, Andy.

Theme: The theme behind Toy Story could be showing how teamwork can bring all together, and that even if someone finds a new friend, it doesn’t mean they can’t have old friends. When Buzz and Woody learn to get along together, they make it through the conflicts of the movie.

Rising Action: The rising action of Toy Story is the part where the toys escape Sid’s house and leave to find their owner Andy.

Resolution: The Resolution of the movie is at the end, where after Andy thinks his toys are lost, he finds them in his toy box when they ended up going on an adventure of their own.