Persuit of Happyness

The 2 bodies take up the left and the middle third of the frame. bright white light behind them suggest peace and happiness and innocence.

The backhround of the poster is white and it takes no attention away from the characters and aids with the contrast.

The production company is show as a gimic to help boost the reputatiuon of the film , as coloumbia pictures, is a very well established production company.

Besides the two charcters everything in this poster is in black and white, except for the word "HAPPY" which is in red. Red usually is a connotation of danger, love, anger ect, this could suggest that happyness comes at a cost but it is clear to see the love between the father and son displayed on the posters.

This poster doesnt really suggest a target audience, the only indication of a target audience is that both charcters are black and the name of the film is called the pursuit of happyness and black people are usually represented as struggling and striving to get out of their tough lives.

even though all posters do have the same job which is to sell the film visually , instead of taking the conventional route of packing the poster full with colour i think the pursuit of happyness just uses very simple methods to sell thier film and i do think they have done so sucessfully.

The conventions used in this posters link this film to a drama as it doesnt really have any bright colours or any action going on , it is very simple as mentioned previously.

There is a USP mpreset in the poster , which is will smith a very well known actor with a high repution and is high in demand for these type of films, we can see he is tyhe main figure in this poster as he is the biggest single object in the frame taking up a whole third and his name is placed above the title.

We used our moodboard to disect our moral of the story and try to display what each word really means and how each one could be interpreted.

Activity 2

1The main character in the this story is the slave because the narrative resolves around him, he is the one that escapes, helps the lion, and is the one who is captured.

2 the slave at the beginning couldn't wait to get away from civilisation to escape and then as the narrative progresses he ends up craving human contact. Plus he was a slave on the beginning and now he is free in the end.

3 Goals of the slave

1. Escape master
2. Find shelter
3. Survive the encounter with the lion
4. Help the lion
5. Human contact
6. Stay alive when facing lions
7. His freedom granted

4. The story feels finished because all loose ends have been tied up and the audience are bot left asking any questions because everthing has been resolved.

Activity 1

Option A

I think it's a bit boring other than the escape there is nothing to overcome, no character developement.

Option B

There is more events and information than the first alternative but there is no casual connection between the good deed to the lion and the better treatment he recieves from his master - so what Is the point?

Option C

this option is abit of s joke. It is almost a comical reversal of the audience expectations of the lions actions, the lion acts out of character because it's actions are unmotivated.

Cindarella

One of the earliest fairytales and regarded as a classic cindarella is a tale of a beautiful girl stuck and belittled in her own familybut she is able to rely on her fairy god mother for support and later rediscovers what it means to be lived through the prince.

This story is excellent as it is a rollercoadter ride of emotions as her father dies, she has to stay In a family who doesn't love her, she is bullied by them, she has no hope until her fairy god mother appears and allows her to go the ball. But as in real life nothing is ever perfect and she has a limit on how long she can stay. Her hastey exit causes her to leave her glass slipper behind and the is what sparks the princes nation wide hunt for her, and like in most fairy tales they end up living happy ever after.

These ups and downs keep the reader/viewer very interested and hooked as emotions vary throughout the narrative.

The moral of this story is to find you true love, never give up hope and it teaches lessons in humility.

This would be a great tale to modernise because it's main theme is love and love is what makes people happy and very much alive in today's society and there is a key elemt which is discrimination which,unfortuantely is still alive in today's society.

The Boy Who Cried Wolf

The story structure is good although repetitive. The boy cried out 3 times and on the third noone believed him. The boy must be young and immature to repeat something bad and then in the end he pays for it. This is unusual for fairytales as it has magic and not really a happy ending but it installs very hard morals. Which are don't lie, honesty is the bed policy and liars will be called liars even when they are telling the truth.

The boy is the main character even though he isn't named, and only really changes nearer the end when he realises the full effect of what he has been doing .

This would be a great fairytale to modernise as everbody could relate to this story as everbody has told a lie once in thier life and most of the te peoples lies go unpunished so this would be a great moral to show.

Beauty and the Beast

This story flows really well with lots of problems to overcome for example the father looses all his money , meaning thire family is poor, father has to give up his daughter, the death of the beast.
The fairytale, like most, has a feel good factor about it where everything is ok in the end and all issues are resolved. Like any story but espeacially in fairy tales there are good and evil characters, in beauty and the beast Bell is represented as the good characters , the protagonist and her sisters , who use Bell's good nature against her are represented as the antagonist , the evil characters. These two elements are key in making the fairy tale sucessfull.

Several morals are taught through this fairytal, such as; dont jugde a book by its cover, beauty is only skin deep, anyone can find love , be nice to people and what goes around comes around.

The father basically stays the same throughout the narrtive , he does rub off as a bit of a failure as a father , loosing money , but at the same time wantting to buy his daughters whatever they want, we can clearly see he loves his daughters. But then he comes across as a bad father when he gives up Bell's freedom to save his on skin.

The sisters are spoiled , decietful, high maintainance and jealous throught the narrative, not much change can be noticed in them.

Bell was more like her sisters at 1st but not as bad. Being poor effected her, she knew life wasnt al about riches, more than her sisiters she knew she had to adapt , which represents her as the most wise out of the 3. Unlinke her sisters in asking for expensive things she only asks her father for a rose which consequently lead to her being the beasts indefinate companion.
She grows to love the beast, and isnt scared of him , she treats him like and equal , having daily converstaions with him and throughout the whole the story she rememebers her family.
Maybe she is too kind possibly nieve, as she is easily pursuaded by her sister another day , and in her absense the beats dies from heart ache buts she returns , keeping her promis (honest), to him.
Ad even when he is dead she shows her compassion for him and tells him she loves him and even shedding a tear which is the catalyst to his ressurection and regeneration.

This would be a good fairytale to modernise because there are certaing issues and morals that are present in this