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Tuesday, August 2, 2011

Film Appreciation - Assumptions and Contributions of Semiotics






We have chosen the scenes from the film X-Men First Class directed by Matthew Vaughn this film is the "prequel" to any movies and stories X-Men has before.

1- What is the story about :-
The story is about the starting of X-Men a.k.a Xavier Men, a group of superheroes that have mutated genes that have been recruited by professor Charles Xavier. This is the beginning of X-Men saga/story told from years by their comics or movie.

2- What do you think will happen next :-
Eric (Magneto) after seeing their new suits for fighting told to Xavier that Hank has been busy creating this suit for them and Xavier ask all of them to suit up for battle.

3- Who are these characters
From left is Eric (Magneto), Banshee, Xavier, Moira, Mystique and Havok. They are the original X-Men and Moira is a CIA agent in-charge of X-Men.

4- What are they doing?
They are preparing for a battle.

5- What sort of people are they?
They are X-Men, a human with mutated gene that have extra-ordinary abilities.

6- What can you tell about the relationships between the characters in the scene?
A group of superhero led by the man in the middle which is Charles Xavier. They have a good bond between them.

7-Where is it set?
In Charles Xavier mansion.

8-Why has the film/program maker chosen this particular background or location?
To let us see the influence of Xavier which is a wealthy man to group all of the mutated human in his house to trained and prepare them for battle.

9-What does it mean for the story?
Hank laboratory that show us Hank is a hardworking man helping Xavier with his group of superhuman.
 
10-How does it relate to the story?
The location told us that the Xavier's mansion is used for the X-Men activity which is to trained and prepared them for battle. this location  is the most relevant place as Shaw the bad man didn't know the location of this place.

11- Look at the props - how are they relevant to the story?
They are wearing their casual attire but they are preparing for the final battle with Shaw. See Mystique, she has accepted her fate of becoming mutant so she just use her original form in every activity from there on.

12- Are any props of particular significance?
Yes

13- List all the features used by students to find out this information - such as sound, acting, props, camera work, colour, location music etc.

*acting - Eric acting like usual sometime serious sometimes sarcastic, in this scene Xavier as usual being serious when he have jobs to done in this case which is the battle with Shaw and to save the world from world war 3.

*camerawork - Medium close up is used in this scene where they are staring the camera which is in this case the suit that have been put in Hank's box.

*color - the color is a light like a normal scene. They wear their casual attire before they found out that Hanks has create the suit for X-Men where he asked them to bring to hangar and suit up.

*props - not much prop in this scene. Just a casual attire and a box where the suits contain.

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