Dark Knight Advertisement Poster

Heres a series of advertisement posters for Dark Knight the same font, colours are used.

Total Film Review; SALT

http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/salt-1

Empire review; Eat Pray Love

Heres a Empire review of the new movie Eat Pray Love, This research was to get an insight on the format of reviews so when it comes to making my review for my film it can look professional.

http://www.slide.com/r/YbxGrvub6D8fdEnANUI_vKbFYYUg2vQZ?previous_view=mscd_embedded_url&view=original

River thames creative image 1

This photo was taken by the river thames in beckton, i like the way i captured the reflection of the light in the river and how the buildings blend into the sky.

Liverpool Street Building creative image 2

This shot was taken in liverpool street, i found this building fasinating as the windows look like doors which relates to "THE FALL" and the idea of escapism and reminded me that as we grow life gets harder and the only person you can really rely on is yourself.

Brick Lane creative image 3

This photograph was taken down brick lane, the image of the man standing on the dog contradicts the concept of "A man is a dogs best friend". The picture also represents the power and authority a man holds over his family as men are normally the main form of income and also are normally the main figure that the other family members would look to for safety and protection.

Triangle building creative image 4

The triangle windows create a tile affect as if the building is a flat surface leading towards the sky

Peacock feather creative image 5

Law Abiding Citizens

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTk7w7vG1dI Youtube would not allow me to embed this link onto my page therefore the address is attached.

Seven Pounds

When i was first given the task to ask myself what does "THE FALL" mean to me instantly i thought of death as a process of struggle which also made me think about suicide as "THE FALL" could be someones mental state. I had imagery of "THE FALL" being at your lowest point where the only escape to peace is death this could be due to a loss of someone or something, as in the video above "Will Smith" who play the main character "Ben Thomas" loses his will to live and blames himself for his wifes death and six other victims therefore he feels he needs to redeem himself by giving seven other people another chance to live but by doing so ends with the emotional death of his own.

Tom and the Twenties- Silent movie

As we are are looking at silent movies in A2 Media Studies i used this opportunity to upload one that uses text and is also in black and white grain effect.

The fall (Trailer)

In media we watched the fall as the film tells the story in a creative and beautiful way, there are a lot of dramatic scenes which i thoroughly enjoyed watching as the movie was unpredictable and exciting.

Physical theatre

Physical theatre is used to describe any mode of performance that pursues storytelling or drama through primarily and secondarily physical and mental means. There are several quite distinct but indistinct traditions of performance which all describe themselves using the term "physical theatre", which has led to a lot of confusion as to what the definition of physical theatre actually is.

Physical theatre may utilize pre-text, but the primary focus is on the physical work of the actors, expressed through the use of their bodies. It is a highly visual form of theatre. The action in physical theatre may have a psychological base, or symbolic resonance, or point to an emotional centre, or have a clear storyline miming, or any combination of the above, and it may grow out of codified forms, improvisational work, or invented gestural language, among other means of creation. However, the means of expression are always primarily physical rather than textual.

Some analysts believe that physical theatre was influenced by Bertolt Brecht Dympha Callery suggests that despite the problematic use of the definition of physical theatre, some common characteristics may occur - though she stresses that these examples should not be seen as either exhaustive or that all are necessary all the time.

These include:

Method Acting

Method acting is another way of telling a story but through action and emotions a phrase that loosely refers to a family of techniques by which actors try to create in themselves the thoughts and emotions of their characters in an effort to develop lifelike performances. It can be contrasted with more classical forms of acting, in which actors simulate thoughts and emotions through external means, such as vocal intonation or facial expression. Though not all Method actors use the same approach, the "method" in Method acting usually refers to the practice, advocated by Lee Strasberg, by which actors draw upon their own emotions and memories in their portrayals, aided by a set of exercises and practices including sense memory and affective memory.

Method actors are often characterized as immersing themselves in their characters to the extent that they continue to portray them even offstage or off-camera for the duration of a project. However, this is a popular misconception. While some actors have employed this approach, it is generally not taught as part of the Method.

Method acting has been described as "revolutionizing American theater." While classical acting instruction "had focused on developing external talents," the Method was "the first systematized training that also developed internal abilities (sensory, psychological, emotional)."[1]

Method acting continues to evolve, with many contemporary acting teachers, schools, and colleges teaching an integrated approach that draws from several different schools of thought about acting.

Brandy feat Ray J Another Day In Paradise (Stargate Remix)

I chose this song as another example of storytelling thoughout a song and a creative and interesting way of gaining awareness.

Black eyed peas- Where is the love

I uploaded this video as the song includes a message whilst telling a story.(Where is the love)

Radio drama

Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the story.

Radio drama achieved widespread popularity within a decade of its initial development in the 1920s. By the 1940s, it was a leading international popular entertainment. With the advent of television in the 1950s, however, radio drama lost some of its popularity, and in some countries, has never regained large audiences. However, recordings of OTR (old-time radio) survive today in the audio archives of collectors and museums.

As of 2006, radio drama has had a minimal presence on terrestrial radio in the United States. Much of American radio drama is restricted to rebroadcasts or podcasts of programs from previous decades. However, other nations still have thriving traditions of radio drama. In the United Kingdom, for example, the BBC produces and broadcasts hundreds of new radio plays each year on Radio 3, Radio 4, and BBC Radio 7. Drama is aired daily on Radio 4 in the form of afternoon plays, a Friday evening play, short dramas included in the daily Woman's Hour program, Saturday plays and Sunday classic serials. On Radio 3 there is Sunday evening drama and, in the slot reserved for experimental drama, The Wire. The drama output on Radio 7, which consists predominantly of archived programs, is chiefly composed of comedy, thrillers and science fiction. Podcasting has also offered the means of creating new radio dramas, in addition to the distribution of vintage programs.

The terms "audio drama" or "audio theatre" are sometimes used synonymously with "radio drama" with one notable distinction: audio drama or audio theatre is not intended specifically for broadcast on radio. Audio drama, whether newly produced or OTR classics, can be found on CDs, cassette tapes, podcasts, webcasts and conventional broadcast radio. "Radio drama documentaries" are also called "feature".

Thanks to advances in digital recording and internet distribution, radio drama is experiencing a revival.

A example of Radio Drama:

Festivals

Storytelling festivals feature the work of several storytellers. Elements of the oral storytelling art form include visualization (the seeing of images in the mind's eye), and vocal and bodily gestures. In many ways, the art of storytelling draws upon other art forms such as acting, oral interpretation, and performance studies.

Several storytelling organizations started in the US during the 1970s. National Association for the Perpetuation and Preservation of Storytelling (NAPPS), now the National Storytelling Network and the International Storytelling Center. NSN is a professional organization that helps to organize resources for tellers and festival planners. The ISC runs the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, TN.[6] Australia followed their American counterparts with the establishment of storytelling guilds in the late 1970s. Australian storytelling today has individuals and groups across the country.

As of 2009, there are dozens of storytelling festivals and hundreds of professional storytellers around the world, and an international celebration of the art on World storytelling day.

Aesthetics

The art of narrative is by definition an aesthetic enterprise, and there are a number of aesthetic elements that typically interact in well-developed stories. Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure, with identifiable beginnings, middles and ends or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines; a strong focus on temporality that includes retention of the past, attention to present action and protention/future anticipation; a substantial focus on characters and characterization which is “arguably the most important single component of the novel”[4]; a given heterogloss of different voices dialogically at play—“the sound of the human voice, or many voices, speaking in a variety of accents, rhythms and registers possesses a narrator or narrator-like voice, which by definition “addresses” and “interacts with” reading audiences (see Reader Response theory); communicates with a Wayne Booth-esque rhetorical thrust, a dialectic process of interpretation, which is at times beneath the surface, conditioning a plotted narrative, and other at other times much more visible, “arguing” for and against various positions; relies substantially on now-standard aesthetic figuration, particularly including the use of metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony (see Hayden White, Metahistory for expansion of this idea); is often enmeshed in intertextuality, with copious connections, references, allusions, similarities, parallels, etc. to other literatures; and commonly demonstrates an effort toward bildungsroman, a description of identity development with an effort to evince becoming in character and community.

Finding your story-weird and wacky stories

LA LLORONA (really creepy story)from Mexico



Sesame Street - African Story about the Sun and the Moon



Vampires Suck Trailer- REALLY FUNNY!



Crazy Simpson-Scary Stories

Laura Simms (USA)

Laura Simms is an internationally renowned storyteller and performance artist. Born in Brooklyn, she has been a major force in the renaissance of storytelling as an art in America since 1968. Her stories range from traditional fairytale, myth epic and folklore from Egypt, Persia, South Africa and Tibet, to contemporary true-life tales. Laura’s major performance works have included, ‘The Seven Princesses’, a retelling of Nizami’s stories within story; ‘Women and Wild Animals’ a collage of ancient myth, poetry and fairytale in honour of the earth and the feminine principle; and ‘Persephone Ascending’ a retelling of the myth of Demeter and Persephone with true life stories. Her work is spontaneous poetry and narrative, often accompanied by uncanny vocalisations, gesture and characterisation.

Riveting child and adult audiences alike, Laura has performed extensively in theatres, colleges, festivals and schools throughout the USA, Europe, Taiwan and New Zealand. She is currently involved with long-term projects supporting Romany culture in Romania. Laura is much respected as a scholar of oral traditions and teacher of storytelling. Her audio and audio-visual recordings have gained many awards.

Punaram Nishad (India)

Pandvani is perhaps the most powerful and highly developed form of contemporary Performance Storytelling in the world. It has evolved over centuries in Madhya Pradesh and Punaram Nishad is considered one of the greatest exponents of this art. He was the first pupil of the late Jhadu Ram Dewangan – father of the modern school of Pandvani singing.

Backed by four musicians he sings, tells, dances, mimes, chants and acts stories from the great Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. The full cycle is usually told over eighteen evenings in three hour-long sessions. The musicians and Pandvani singers work in a tight, fast moving, call and response relationship. Punaram accompanies himself with a single stringed Tambura and the musicians play Tabla and Kanguri (drums), Kartals (tiny cymbals) and a portable harmonium. (See also Ritu Verna, below). Punaram does not speak English and his performance in a regional dialect of Hindi would need mediating by a UK resident storyteller.

Gcina Mhlophe (South Africa)

Gcina Mhlophe is South Africa’s most celebrated oral storyteller. She has worked since the early 1980s, as an actress and director for theatre, film and television, as a writer of plays, poetry and story (which are published extensively) and as a performance poet and storyteller. She is also involved in training and directing storytellers and other narrative based artists.

Gcina passionately combines ancient and contemporary stories, poetry and songs into programmes of great emotional depth. Her performances reflect a profound cultural re-awakening within South Africa and it is thanks largely to her efforts that African Storytelling is now experiencing a huge resurgence in the country.

Gcina tours both within South Africa and internationally. In 2004 alone she was visiting lecturer at University of Cape Town, conducting Storytelling workshops with second year drama students; she visited schools and universities in Brazil on the invitation of the RSA High Commissioner; participated in the hosting of iBbY Congress in South Africa; undertook an Italian tour to promote the 'Story of Mazanendaba' and toured the UK for the promotion of South African literature, as part of the celebration of 'Ten Years of Democracy'.

In 2005 Gcina performed her show 'Touch the Past, Feel the Future' as part of the 'Thrones of Freedom' series of storytelling for adults, at the Barbican Centre in London.

Gcina has won numerous literature, storytelling and heritage awards, including a 'Lifetime Achievement Award' for her 'Contributions to Traditional Arts' in 2004, and she sports two honorary doctorates for literature, from the London Open University, and the University of Natal, RSA. Gcina Speaks Zulu, Xhosa, English, Sotho

Robert Greygrass (USA First Nation)

Robert grew up in Hayward, California - far from his mother's Lakota and Cherokee roots. He experienced many of the problems facing urban Indians. As a young adult seeking a better way of life, he started to explore his Lakota heritage and began to turn his life around. What followed were years of traditional spiritual practices; sweats, vision quests, Sundance, listening to the Elders, learning the language, history, stories, and years of activism with the American Indian Cultural Centre. Along the way he rediscovered his love for acting and storytelling. Robert has worked with at-risk youth on reservations, in schools, summer camps and shelters, for over fifteen years. He has lectured and performed in festivals, theatres, universities, community colleges throughout the U.S.A. Robert performs in English.

Murat Cobanoglu (Turkey)

Murat Cobanoglu is an Ashik – or minstrel – he works in tandem with Seref Tasliova (see Below). Murat was born in Kars, on the Russian-Turkish border in 1940. His grandfather and father were both famous Ashiks. Murat’s mother died when he was just three years old, and with his father often away performing, his childhood was not a happy one. When he was fourteen he was taking a herd of cattle up to the high grazing grounds and stopped for a rest by a spring. He drank water from the spring and fell into a deep sleep. In his dreams, a beautiful girl offered him a cup of sweet drink. When Murat awoke, it was the following morning and his head was full of strange rhythms and ringing words.

Many Ashiks have this dream, in which they are given the potion of divine love by a muse: they receive the gift of making spontaneous poetry which is till believed to be a supernatural power. Ashiks having had this experience are known as ‘Badeli Ashiks’: ‘they who have drunk from the cup’.

Murat took up his father’s saz and soon excelled himself. He became a champion performer, winning all the major contests, particularly in the bouts of ‘atishma’: improvised verbal verse combat.

He holds twenty gold medals and has performed at the Presidential residence. He is the founder of the Ashik’s society in Kars and works to revive and sustain, through teaching others, the bardic traditions of his home town. Murat does not speak English and his performance in Turkish would need mediating by a UK resident storyteller.

Jo Bruchac (USA First Nation)

Jo Bruchac was born in the foothills of the Adirondacks near Saratoga Springs, in northern New York State. He is part Slovak and half Abnaki. He tells stories from the Native American heritage. As well as being a powerful storyteller, Jo is deeply involved with encouraging new writing by diverse ethnic groups in the States. He pioneered poetry writing in prisons and, with his wife, edits and publishes literary reviews. Hs own poetry has an international reputation, and many collections of his stories have appeared, illustrated by the Mohawk artist, Kahionhes. He is also an award-winning novelist. Joe performs in English and his native tongue.

Mike Burns (Eire domiciled Canada)

Currently residing in French speaking Montreal, Mike Burns grew up in a family of storytellers in the south west of Ireland and has been a teller himself since the age of nine. He is equally in demand at Hurleys Irish pub or Montreal’s Maison de la Culture. In 1997 Mike was published in an anthology of Canadian storytellers, Ghostwise, and in May 2003 published a book with audio accompaniment in French, Raconte Moi Que Tu As Vu L’Irlande. He is equally at home telling in Gaelic, English or French.

Mimi Barthelmy (Haiti domiciled France)

Mimi was born in Haiti and after studying in France, lived for many years in Latin America, Sri Lanka and North Africa. Firstly becoming involved in theatre, Mimi soon began to tell stories using the Haitian oral tradition, which is in Creole. In her fables she intertwines the two languages, French and Creole, to transmit her experiences and feelings. Since the end of the 1980s Mimi has been composing her own stories and telling them alongside traditional narratives, either on her own, or with musicians, in cultural centres, libraries, prisons and hospitals, She has also performed in numerous festivals in France, Haiti and elsewhere in the ‘francophonic’ world. Mimi presides over many judging panels for storytelling. In 2000 she herself received the prestigious ‘Chevalier de L’Ordre National du Merite’ and in 2001 received the ‘Officier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’. Mimi does not speak English and her performance in French and Creole would need mediating by a UK resident storyteller.

Big Bang Fall of Man

Big Bang Fall of Man

The Fall of Man by Lindsey Jones

Traffic

As i sat and watch the sun go down, i gazed through the window to see a stream of red lights which were car break lights. I imagined my eyes were the lense of a camera this way i used depth of field and my surroundings suddenly erased, i only focused on the red lights, This involved a lot of concerntration as this is not something you'll usually see. Beautiful.

A2 Summer Homework

Within A2 Media we are focusing on Creative, Inspirational and Innovative content.

What is The Fall?
Personally my intial understanding of The Fall was from the christian view to the transition of the first humans from a state of innocent obedience to God, to a state of guilty disobedience to God. Adam and Eve live at first with God in a paradise, but are then deceived or tempted by the serpent to eat fruit from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, which had been forbidden them by God. After doing so they become ashamed of their nakedness, and God consequently expelled them from paradise. The sinfullness to that estate wherein man fell consists in the guilt of Adam and Eve's (first man and woman) first sin: the want of original righteousness which is iniquity and the corruption of their whole nature which is commonly called original sin or iniquity together with all actual transgressions which proceed from it. The Fall is not mentioned by name in the Bible, but the story of disobedience and expulsion is recounted in both Testaments in different ways.