Draco Malfoy 

Draco is Latin for dragon, ultimately the ancient Greek drakōn, meaning serpent. The first part, mal, should be easily recognised as meaning evil or bad. It shows up in English in such words as malevolent, malicious or malign, and comes from the Latin adjective “malus” meaning evil or bad.

Complete the sentences below and go to develop this short paragraph by including the adjectives (descriptive words) in sentences that give a well-developed analysis of this character.    

Draco Malfoy

Blond hair is usually associated with ……….

but in Malfoy’s case it makes him look…….

His slicked back hair signifies to the audience that he is……

He look because……

Villain

Sly

Strange

Different

Noble

Aryan race (pure blood)

Cold

Creepy

Devious

Cunning

Shrewd

Astute

Machiavellian

Deceitful

Rubeus Hagrid is an enthusiastic and cheerful character who is always thoughtful towards others and relatively fatherly towards Harry. He is constantly giving advice to the students and he is always positive during the hardest of times. Many of the students go to him for help since he is a caring and helpful person and always making them feel welcome. His appearance can seem scruffy and dirty but deep down he is soft and gentle person.

Happy

Enthusiastic

Cheerful

Positive

Caring

Thoughtful

Fatherly

Scruffy

Welcoming

Smiley

Advisable

Fun

Helpul

Prof Dumbledore is a major character in series of films. He is a loving and wise man that helps Harry grow up. He is mysterious closed and secretive and you don’t find out about his life until the last few films after he dies. His style dress is quirky and interesting and suggests academic gowns.

Has a very big role in the Harry Potter films. His appearance is very magical and this is demonstrated by the style of his robes which includes stars and necklaces. He has a very mysterious and secretive character and you only really get a sense of what he is like in the last couple of films before he dies. He only confides in a few characters. The mysteriousness of this character has the effect of extending audience interest.  

Is one of the main characters in the Harry Potter series. He is closed off secretive character but he enjoys teaching harry about the magical enters from book one and seems to think particularly fondly of him. Although he the loudest character in the films he is a very brave intelligent one who seems to put others before himself. He is a very magical character clothes and character wise. The robes that he wears especially suggest that he is a smart man and his wizard hat emphasises that he is a magical character. The beard also implies a certain level wisdom about his character and the colour contrast between his dark grey clothes and his lighter grey beard suggests that he is quite a neutral man- this could also reflect back on his fairly consistent personality.

Intelligent

Quirky

Kind

Wise

Clever

Interesting

Friendly

Old

Noble

Caring

Mysterious

Magical

Wonderful

Severus Snape is quite a major character with a dark and sinister appearance. He is shifty and deceptive, with an unsettling look.

Is a mysterious character that keeps the audience guessing whether he is good or bad. His first appearance makes him look particularly evil with his dark looks. These being his robes, hair and physical looks (pallid and sallow).

Is a dark and complicated character to understand. The way he acts suggests that he is shifty and evil person but nearer the end of the movies he turns out to be good. He seems bitter and cold towards the students he teaches as if not wanting to show his true colours.

Long black hair

Dark

Shifty

Tall deceptive

Unsettling stare

Sarcastic

Droning voice

Difficult

Snape = snake serpent like

Cold

Black hearted

Mean

Stubborn

Complicated

Pallid 

Sallow skin

Bitter

Insecure

Short temper

Calm 

Draco Malfoy 

Draco is Latin for dragon, ultimately the ancient Greek drakōn, meaning serpent. The first part, mal, should be easily recognised as meaning evil or bad. It shows up in English in such words as malevolent, malicious or malign, and comes from the Latin adjective “malus” meaning evil or bad.

    Draco Malfoy

Blond hair is usually associated with …...confidence. 

but in Malfoy’s case it makes him look…….evil and cocky.

His slicked back hair signifies to the audience that he is...... a slimy, greasy and creepy character.

Villain

Sly

Strange

Different

Noble

Aryan race (pure blood)

Cold

Creepy

Devious

Cunning

Shrewd

Astute

Machiavellian

Deceitful

Laundry List - Chloe and Simone

Harry Potter analysis: Setting - The location in this scene is in Hogwarts the school of Witchcraft and Wizardry and the action takes place in the dining hall. The fact that the pupils are sitting at the tables with plates and cutlery and the teachers are sitting at the long table at the end of the hall, facing the students. This indicates that they are about to eat but at waiting for the new students to arrive. The lighting in the hall was golden and warm with lots of pupils sitting in it. The plates and cutlery are silvers and shiny. There are torches hanging on the wall which suggests that it is warm and light in the hall, which is very big and has candles floating above them which gives off a very magical feeling. I think this indicates that the films has a family, fantasy and adventure genre. The setting indicates a very warm and grand feeling, for me the lighting, colours, props and all the students and teachers being in there together gives of that mood. The setting suggests the Dumbledores character is very important. He is sitting in the middle of the grand hall, in the middle of the table, sitting the biggest chair with lots of different patterns and colours on it, and he is wearing unique robes and hat out of all the teachers.The setting also suggest that Draco Malfoy's character is very dark. When the camera is turned onto him the music goes to a very dark, slow and low. This shows that he is going to be a bad character in the film and he is going to cause trouble. Costume - The costumes suggest a magical and traditional period. The teachers are all in gowns and hats which comes across as if they are quite powerful and traditional, but there is type of querky feeling towards them, that they have their own styles and unique qualities.

Pirates of the Caribbean analysis

Pirates of the Caribbean – Analysis Grid
Embed the video clip of Pirates of the Caribbean into your IB Film Studies blog in the same way as you have done with your previous clips. http://youtu.be/sptUbkTOxUg Textual Analysis Task: Thoroughly analyze the clip and comment on the 4 areas, camera, editing, sound & mise-en-scene. Use your definition sheets to help you. Once you have identified the technique go on to say why you think the technique was used. For example: “The extreme wide shots of the ship following the other ship across the sea shows the proximity of danger to the heroes in this chase.” Complete this grid by TUESDAY 06/11/12: my email dajoy@kentcollege.co.uk
Timings	Camera, Angles, Shots, movement & position.	Editing	Sound	Mise-en-scene
Blank screen first 5 seconds	The beginning of this clip, it starts off with a low angle towards the ship.	It clip starts off with the ship  in the ocean, this gives the viewer a sence of the entire size of the ship. The speed is quite fast showing that there is a sense of urgency. There is then a cut to the black pearl coming up from behind, they shoot this on the side of the ship so that you get Keira knightly’s sence of looking out at the boat. There is a wide distance from their ship to the black pearl. This then cuts back to the intensity on deck . It cuts to below deck, which shows a different story of whats happening up on deck. This is showing jack sparrow being put in prison.	Diegetic sound, and there is incidental music in the background.	The colour design was mostly blue, the sky was a clear blue and the sea was a dark blue. There is smoke and a misty cloud around the ship, making the boat look depressing.
0.5-1 minute	The first part, Keira Knightley is getting out and the she is in a Medium close up. Then a low angle of a guy shouting. Then another low angle of the woman steering the boat. It then shows the boat behind closing in in a long shot. There is then a high angle shot of Keira looking down on her as she starts climbing up to the same level as the camera.  There is then a point of view shot of jack sparrow looking into a hole in the side of the boat out to sea.	It goes to the men getting the cannons ready, which shows the watchers that a fight is about to break out.  There is then a switch to watching both the boats sail, that shows how close the black pearl is. Then cuts to back on deck.	There is incidental music going in this first minute, and there is diegetic sound of the wheel turning around and the sea in the background. There is also diegetic sound . There is diegetic sound going on when jack sparrow is walking through the water in the cell.	The first part of the location in this first minute is on the boat and its showing all the pirates rushing around on board. The colours in this scene are all quite dark. The woman steering the boat is wearing a pirates hat. The lighting is bright on the boat, then changes to being dark when they show jack sparrow being pushed into the cell.
1-2 minutes	At the beginning of the second minute of this scene, it shows a close up of a man shouting at other pirates.. A low angle shot happens when the flag is being hoisted up. There is then a medium long shot of a guy looking out to sea whilst standing on the side of the boat. Then there is a low angle shot looking up at the same guy. As the boats go past in the next part, the camera is on a high angle shot.	This scene shows the speed when people are loading the cannons, and quicklygetting ready . It cuts to the guys loading the cannons.. It then cuts up to the captain looking down on the ship. You then see jack sparrows view when he’s looking out of the hole in the side of the boat. The speech on deck is getting louder.	There is still incidental music going on, and s also diegetic sound is happening when the cannon holes open up on the side of the boat.. They use diegetic sound when they throw a barrel into the water.	The location in this minute is mostly up top on the boat. The lighting is bright and the sky is quite blue and clear. All the costumes are the same,dirty and old looking. The makeup in it is just dirt on the faces and making the people look dirty.  There is a flag at the top of the boat suggeting the symbol of death.
2-3 minutes	The location in this minute is mostly up top on the boat. The lighting is bright and the sky is quite blue and clear.The costumes are all dirty and rough looking and the make-up makes the people look dirty. There is a flag at the top of the boat with a skull suggeting death.			The location is on the boat. It looks dark and depressing. The costumes and make-up are the same. Jack sparrow has a'lot of eye make-up on and his costume is a more multi-coloured than the others. On the boat behind there is smoke suggeting that it isn't a nice place to be.
3-4 minutes	At the start, there is a extreme close up of the mans face when he has the monkey. There is a pan going round the boat. Then there is a low angle of two guys pushing the steering wheel around. Then the other shot is coming in front and then it shortly changes to jack sparrows extreme close up of his eye looking through the hole in the side of the boat. There is a point of view shot of the pirates looking across .		At the beginning of this minute, you can hear the anchor being hit against a rock, and this is diegetic sound.  There is interval music going on in the background. You can also hear the waves crashing and the steering wheel spinning around which is also diegetic sound. There are sound effects of cannons going off, this is also diegetic sound. You can hear the wood being thrown off the boat and braking.
4-4.20 minutes	There is a high angle shot, looking down on the two boats. There is then a extreme close up . There is then a medium close up of another guy with a fork in his eye. Towards the end of this clip it shows a guy in a medium close up take the fork out, but puling the eye ball out too.		Here is sound effects off wood breaking off the boat and flying around. Diegetic sound is played of cannons going off. There is squigy sound of the fork in the guys eye and when the guy takes it out, there is the same squgy sound.	The location again is either up on deck of down bellow shooting cannons. The atmosphere is very cloudy and mysterious. On the inside of the boat it is dark and sad. The mens faces are dirty like they haven't had a wash in a really long time and their eyes are a bit yellow suggeting that they are the healthiest people and maybe the drink a bit too much alcohol.

Portals - At the beginning of this scene there is slow motion eg. when the pens are being put down and when they are taken, I think this makes the clip look like it is a very bad that the pen has been taken, even though its really not that bigger deal. It is also quite clear that the pens have been taken which gets the sets the story off. When it shows me coming out of the bathroom, even though I walked out of the classroom, a medium close up was used. I think this shows that I was confused about where I had ended up and that I didn't know I was going into different portals. The when Aaron comes out of the bathroom, another medium close-up is used, to me shows that even though he didn't know he was going into a portal, he was determined to get his pen back. Then when I am running down the stairs, it is clear that I am coming out of another portal because I had just gone upstairs and then I am going downstairs. When I run into the camera, and then come out is another portal, I end up in the quad and start running again. I think that editing was good then, because it really looked like I was coming out of a portal. Then, when I am running into the locker, it quickly cuts and shows Aaron running past, that shows that the chase isn't over yet and he is still trying to look for me which keeps the intensity of the clip. After, I am in the locker rom and I sit in the chair and end up in the chapel. The camera shot and the cutting was really good them because it went dark and when I sat up I was in the chapel instead. I think this shows that I didn't have time to sit down, that I had to always find a different place to hide. After I have run out of the chapel, Aaron comes through the door, but he hasn't come through a portal, but he still knows where I am going, and then he walks starts walking to other door, the clip then ends which keeps it a bit of a mystery of whether he ever found me and got his pen back.