Day 3: 3/9/2010

During today's film class, we started off today's lesson sharing the scripts we wrote with our partners. Because Kazia Tam was sitting beside me, she was my partner, but because she forgot to send herself the script, I didn't get to see her's. After she read my script, she pointed out some errors in the description, but other than that she said it was good. Another thing which she also said was that the storyline/plot for my script was very limited, which I agree with her because this script was really only made for one scene, as it can only be stretched so far. After listening to her comments, I realized that doing this kind of thing will not only help me become a better film student or just a student in general, but it'll also help me become a bit more open-minded to other concepts and expand an idea further.

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For homework, we had to find a fictional video on youtube and embed the clip onto here and talk about what the signifiers and the signified things are in the clip. The clip I chose to embed is the trailer to a new movie coming out soon called "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows". This is the first part of the final movie in the installment of Harry Potter movies, which is based on the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling.

The reason why I chose this trailer was because right after I watched this trailer, it made me feel anxious to watch this movie, and it also made me speechless because of how well this movie was shot and directed. This movie might just be the first part of the final Harry Potter movie, but the way the director captures the reason why Harry Potter is a worldwide phenomenon, and he also showed how all the past movies have led up to this final one.

This movie is based on the final book of the Harry Potter series, and although I haven't read the books, it looks quite similar to the overall concept of the books. The music played throughout the trailer tells us a lot about the movie; it's an action film which is going to be filled with suspense. I would also categorize this movie as fantasy as well as adventure because the plot for this movie is Harry, Hermonie and Ron going on an adventure to find Voldemorts remaining Horcruxes and destroy them, which shows that this movie is also a fantasy film because of all the magic involved. The acting in the trailer was amazing even though there wasn't much dialogue in the trailer, you can feel the intensity and the darkness in their voices. All the snippets of clips in the movie tells us more about the movie because throughout all those snippets, you can sort of characterize the relationship between each character based on their emotions on their faces, which proves that the quote "a picture is worth a thousand words" true. The lighting in this movie was beautiful; the way the people on worked on the lighting used the proper amount of lighting during each scene shown in the trailer, for example; when Harry Potter was talking to Voldemort near the beginning of the trailer, they didn't add much lighting because in my opinion, i think that that particular scene was suppose to be dark and intense.

This trailer definitely captures the importance of all the past Harry Potter movies and why this is going to be a movie worth remembering, and a movie worth watching. November seems too far away!