Little miss sunshine

The man with the black hair is seen constantly rolling his eyes and all the older characters seem to resent him e.g. when the little girl says the man is weird for being gay the grandpa say “well that’s one word for it”. The music is quite sad and it gets louder as we go deeper in the trailer, which suggests that the tension is rising within the family. Along with the music there’s a lot of arguing that goes on and some characters are interrupting other characters dialogue. This suggests that their family is a broken family. They could possibly all be going through their own rights of passage.

When the dad says “there was a message in the machine, something about little miss sunshine” the music becomes happy and it builds up all the way up until the little girl screams. After the scream the music that is played seems more fitting for a battle. During the new soundtrack there is a mid-shot of the grandpa and little girl growling. All of these suggest that the family are going to go on an adventure that is going to challenge them, which would be their rite of passage. The mid-shot of the girl jumping up and down and screaming suggest that her being in the beauty pageant is her own happy right of passage because to her it’s a life changing experience. It is only after the happy music starts that we start to see the family outside instead of being cooped up in their house and we start to see happy facial expressions. This suggests that the family’s rite of passage is going to help improve the family and make them happier.

Juno

How does this film deal with this particular 'rite of passage'? Does anything surprise you about the way the film deals with teenage pregnancy? Why?

This film deals with it’s rite of passage in a comical light. This idea is supported by the fat that the soundtrack that plays is quite comical instead of dramatic and serious. This surprises me because I would generally expect this issue to be tackled with a more serious approach. Eve when Juno was telling her parents she was pregnant they seemed relaxed abut it and they were even having a conversation about how they expected her to tell them something other than she’s pregnant. I would have expected her parents to be furious because having a baby especially at a young age is a big deal. The character Juno seems like an average girl while the father of the baby Paul seems like a geek and an unlikely couple. People generally stereotype young girls who get pregnant to be w/c and sluttish, which is the type of character that is displayed in other films that have covered the same issue e.g. riding in cars with boys. Although the film has a comical approach to it; it’s evident that it does deal with teenage pregnancy in a serious manner sometimes e.g. we see a mid-shot of Juno crying in a car. I think a comical approach is used in this film in order for the audience to see pregnancy from Juno’s perspective. This makes the audience connect with Juno and her hardships more.

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Extraordinary blender

I took these pictures in order to tell the story of how m cousin is afraid of the blender in my kitchen. I decided to give the blender human characteristics enabling it to be able to move. The blender moves across the kitchen in order to get to the tangerine to devour it. I made the blender look extraordinary because it looks unusual due to the fact that it's taken on human characteristics.

Extraordinary photo's

I took these pictures with my digitally still camera. I took pictures of ordinary things in extraordinary ways or from perspectives that people wouldn't normally look at it from. This task helped me to think outside the box and approach one idea from different angles. This concept helped me make original stories for my film.

This is an image of some tools from a tool box

This is an image of an electric juicer

This is an image of some more tools

This is an image of a path in a park that seems to go on forver

This is an image of a boy staring out a window

This is an image of a boy moving a light

This is an image of a boy holding a light

The inside of a blender

inside of a washing machine 

The inside of a washing machine

Someone holding a light

Someone opening an oven

An image of someone reading The Bible

Lyrics/songs

These are real music video's that are related to the themes of our play e.g. grief. Underneath each music video's heirs a description of how it links to our film. This helped us look at how the themes of our film could be presented through different media forms.

Pink family portrait

I think this song links to my subject matter because it’s showing us the effects of a divorce from a child’s perspective. The child’s parents don’t even seem to realise how it’s affecting her. The song is about the younger version of a women teaching her older self to attempt being in a normal family instead of standing by and letting her family be destroyed. This video kind of teaches the audience that sometimes a child can make more sense than a parent due to the fact that the women’s older self didn’t want to listen to the child in the beginning. This music video also shows us how sometimes a child’s view of society can be simple and impractical e.g. not everyone who wants to get a divorce get back together again. A child can see the beauty of life, but they can’t always have it.