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A Midsummer Night's Dream

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What are the influences of dreams? How do you feel about them? Are they significant to real life in any way? Can you think of any other stories tath involve powerful dreams? What other concepts do we associate with term "dream" other than the concrete definition?


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Sharks vs Jets -- Puerto Rican girlfriend (Anita) Dancing

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Opening 25.1.10

What happens in the opening moment? a) You get a long helicopter shot of new york in the intro scene. This has been used in many other movies that i have seen. It is used in Hancock, and Lord of The Rings.

What mood does this set? b) This sets an exciting but unexpected mood to the scene.

How does the CAMERA, with shot selection and editing, suggest the mood? Describe three or four different scenes. c) The music in this scene fits and adds to the unexpectedness of it. Also contrasting well with the shot and the mood. At the end of the movie when Tony gets shot by Chino. The camera angle is low to try and express Maria's point of view and the sadness that it projects over everybody. When she rises so does the camera then she grabs the gun. This shows that she has power and now she hates like everybody else. In that scene she has a huge up of priority. The camera changes again in that scene when it goes into a high medium shot, when the Sharks and the Jets both carry Tony. This is a sign of bonding between the two gangs. Earlier in the film, the scene where Tony and Maria are imagining that they are getting married, the camera goes into a low shot of Maria and Tony kneeling under the light. This also makes it look like a church because the shop seems stretched.

What place does SOUND and DIALOGUE have in this scene? d) (Talking is not the first this that shows in the scene. The scene starts on the Jets with the finger clicking. This is filmed to try and say these are the good guys, and then that the Sharks and the ones that butt in.) beginning. In the scene at the end where Chino kills Tony. It starts with Tony shrieking out the name Chino through the streets wanting Chino to come and kill him. Then there is the Gunfire, the love song with Maria and Tony and then he dies. Then there is police sirens a little background music and Chino hands the gun to Maria. Then she starts ranting about how she can hate as-well as the two gangs.

Important Scene 7.2.10

Choose an important scene. What happens? a) I choose the scene at the dance when Maria and Tony meet and fall in love. Maria is one of the Puerto Rican's and Tony used to be a Jet. This is forbidden love, because it is not permitted by any one of the gang members from either the PR's or the Jets.

Why is it important? b) This scene is important because it changes the atmosphere between the Sharks and the Jets. Even though Tony is not a jet anymore he is still considered one by the PR's. This is somewhat unfair for Tony because he loves Maria and doesn't want any fights. When the two gangs are met under the bridge ready to rumble. Tony appears and tries his hardest to stop the fight. The two gangs don't let him. Tony ends up killing Bernardo in revenge for Riff.

What mood is present? c) The mood present in this scene with Maria and Tony, is LOVE, CONTRAST (of the the two gangs), HATE (because Bernardo hates the Jets and that his sister would be hooking up with one would be absurd, he was just not going to have that. So the Sharks and the Jets break out into a fight at the dance. Maria is sent home, and Tony runs after her. Then the Jets challenge the Sharks at a rumble. This sets an exciting blood pumping mood, while you wait for the rumble.

How does the CAMERA, with shot selection and editing, suggest this mood? Give details of three different shots. d) At the dance there is a close up shot of Maria and Tony when they first meet and around them everything blacks out, this sets a love like mood that they are enclosed in their own world. Another shot is the long birds shot from the top of the room, where you see everyone dancing. Then there's the medium high shot when the PR's and the Jets are being talked to by officer Krupky.

What place do SOUND and DIALOGUE have in this scene? e) the music in this scene is romantic and slow paced.

What effect did the scene have on you? f) This scene was not one of the most exciting scenes in the whole film, but it did stimulate the "awww" senses.

Character 7.2.10

Choose an Important character:

I choose Action, Riff's second hand man **

a) The main aspects of this character is he's very NOW! By that I mean he's very energetic and I want this now. That's probably why he's called Action, he wants all the action to happen as soon as possible. Action is all over rumbles and fights, thats what he likes. In the first scene when the Jets are singing the their song, Action is there with all the action. He always hangs out with Ice. Cool is the "cool" one of the gang. He's that best fighter of them all but he's the relaxed one (like in the scene when he sings the song, "play it cool boy"). The contrast between Ice and Action is that they are nearly opposites. Action was dressed with a sleeveless vest that went over his shirt. His clothes stood out to me I think because I liked them. He talks back at people like when the man shouts at him out the window and the he shouts back something rude. His manners aren't perfect, they could be improved.
 * What aspects of this characters personality do the directors pick out?

Three scenes this character is in. b) One of the scenes is when Ice is singing his song and Action is always going POW. This explains his explosiveness. He doesn't really go with the song until the end. When he calms down. At the beginning of the film Action is behind Riff being his second hand man. They are all clicking their fingers to the beat. This shows that he is very musically talented.

Themes/Ideas What are the three main ideas this film dealt with? **

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 * Gangs
 * Racism


 * Love


 * What did the film make you think about them? **
 * I don't know who "them" is... If them is the characters then I thought they were quite well casted.**
 * I preferred the PR's because I felt bad for them being treated horribly the whole time.**

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