Olivia's Online Journal

Diegetic (in the scene) at the beginning applause, bang, shooting, talking

Non-diegetic- music, music sounds added, Over the shoulder, level angle, Mid shot, low angle, long shot level angle, behind shot, zoom into mid shot, close up mid shot, High angle, low-level angle, low angle zoom, over the shoulder, establishing shot, level angle

CAMERA ANGLES USED

Close up, Over the shoulder, level angle, Mid shot, Long sustained shot, low angle, long shot level angle, behind shot, zoom into mid shot, close up mid shot, High angle, low level angle, low angle zoom, over the shoulder, establishing shot, level angle mid shot from the left side, level zoom angle, level zoom, tracking shot, level angle mid shot from the right side, level angle, zoom low angle from the left side, tilt, crane, over the shoulder, low angle, close up, flash back sequence, tracking shot, low angle, mid shot, cutting between scene twice, mid shot, over the shoulder close up, close up, zoom, zoom, close up, close up, mid shot, mid shot, cross cut x8, cross cut over the shoulder, mid shot, low to mid shot angle, pan follow shot, zoom, the camera is on tripod as scene progresses, over the shoulder, level over the shoulder, low to level mid shot

Most shots in time with music

If you’ve picked up this story, don’t bother reading it. Just put it down and go about your day, reading books, or playing games. Go and do something while you still can, when someone won’t control you and watch you do it.

The worn down clock in the middle of the town struck 4 as the small girl walked down the middle of the deserted road. Above her, the air wore a blanket of black fog and she wrapped her ragged coat around her legs as the breeze whipped her tiny figure. She recited the alphabet as she walked around streets toward her apartment, careful not to stand on the glass and rubbish that painted the streets.
“Lucy?” Her mother called to her.
“Yes, Mum?” She said.
“How was school?” She replied as she ran out to meet her.
In response, Lucy told her mother about her day at school.

Rats, Flea’s and other six-legged insects made themselves at home along with Lucy and her mother in their small apartment. Its ceilings were stripped of paint and the ugly khaki wallpaper was peeling. The only room that Lucy could feel comfortable in was the cupboard with the light on doing her homework, but every now and then, she felt as if the walls were getting smaller and smaller, trapping her inside with nowhere else to go.
“It isn’t easy, but it will have to do for the time being Luc, just till everything’s okay again and it fits the pair of us nicely, it is more than most have.” Lucy’s mother always said.

Lucy crept down the dimly lit hallway and sat in her mother’s room and switched the light on. A rat scuttered away as she propped herself up against the wall, with her knees up against her chest and began to read. After a few hours of reading, Lucy heard faint sounds of steps coming down the hallway and the voices of men. She immediately switched the light off and made herself hidden in the cupboard so she couldn’t be seen through the crack in the door. Voices and steps came closer and closer and she held her breath. She stayed as still as a statue until they walked out of the apartment. Lucy walked out of the cupboard and heard beeping. She realized she had been under surveillance from the moment she switched the light on. She checked her watch, it had been 4 hours and her mother should have been home. The men…They must have looked for her to take her away too. Lucy’s knees gave way to the floor and she sunk into a pool of misery.

Lucy had hidden in their apartment for days on end without going to school. Her mother hadn’t come home, and she didn’t know how to survive without her- it was like learning to breathe without air. There was still hope that she would come home and her arms would bring her to a tight embrace and give her the hug she gave Lucy every night but every day that hope faded away and she hoped her mother wouldn’t be at the camps.

You might be confused, so let me explain. Last year in May 2099 the Government said the population was too large so they said there was only one option. The camps were for the ‘less fortunate” and the others were ‘educated and gifted well enough to stay, ‘Nihil nisi optimum’ – Nothing but the best’ The government said. So that is why Lucy and her mother stayed in the half-hearted city hoping each and every day something better would happen and the city would become alive again like it did 5 years ago.

(To be continued)

 

 

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Outside the bleak notorious walls stood a bridge- the only way to get into the gates and once through that, the building. On top of the bridge, impassive soldiers stood carelessly of what or who wanted to pass through. Underneath the bridge, the drop would kill you before you hit the frigid water.

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Outside the bleak notorious walls stood a bridge which was the only way to get into the gates and once through that, lay the remains of the deserted factory. Inside the building was no ordinary factory, but where peoples dreams were made. Besides the fact that it was deserted now since the new technology came in, and ruined not to be touched again. Up above in the gray sky was a strange pig shaped cloud, and I knew something was going to happen. Besides the police on the bridge, a car cluttered along the pavement, but the faces inside of it were hidden. Still, it kept driving and through the rickety old gates and into the factory that hadn’t been touched for years.

Theme: regret

Whats done is done, and i can’t go back. My thoughts transported back to the day that everything would elapse. It was a monday morning on August the 28th, the day i would finally leave my mistakes behind. We walked down to the gate, with her trailing behind me. Beyond it stood my gateway to freedom; the plane that would lead me to a new life. I was stupidly heedless of what i was doing- time is a theif, but then so was i. I was leaving all i had behind, i was leaving her, leaving everything just for one mistake that i was running away from.

 

English senses task 

Instructions: Write down five things that happened on the way to school.

1. Got in the car
2. Ignored the sibling arguments
3. The car started
4. School grounds
5. Whanau

 

As i opened the door i instantly felt goosebumps from the cold air, wishing i was back inside in my bed. I truged along the gravel driveway and hear my siblings behind me, ignoring their debate about who was in the front seat. I opened the door and slumped into backseat of the car. As they finally climbed in with my eldest sister haley in the front seat and my irritating seven year old brother, William and the dog beside me. The car started with a rumble and we set off for another day of school. I looked out the window to see students walking into school, me too just about to meet the same fate, and walked to whanau.

 

 

In the famous play, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare wrote, “These violent delights have violent ends.” Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story using the idea of the hand of fate by William Shakespeare. The story is about two families; the Montague’s and the Capulet’s who have an ancient grudge between them and the only way to fix it is the inevitable death of one of their children. This essay will go into more detail about how Shakespeare portrayed fate in multiple ways such as the use of coincidence, premonition, prologue, and metaphor to help the reader or viewer get a better understanding of the play.

One way Shakespeare displays the idea of fate is by using coincidence’s throughout the play to show that the characters believed that God made things happen for a reason. One of the most common coincidence scenes is in Act one scene two when Capulets servant, Peter goes out into the streets of Verona and coincidently comes across Romeo and Benvolio. He asks them if they can read and Romeo reads out the list of names to go to the party. Peter says “My master is the great rich Capulet, and if you be not of the house of Montague, I pray come and crush a cup of wine. Rest you merry!” Romeo see’s Rosaline’s name and Benvolio convinces him to go because there are other girls better than Rosaline. At the party, this is where Romeo met Juliet so if Romeo and Benvolio weren’t in the street they wouldn’t have gone to the party and Tybalt hadn’t have seen Romeo, so the feud wouldn’t have begun. Ultimately, this was the start of the end for Romeo and Juliet.

In Act one, scene four, Romeo, Benvolio, and Mercutio are walking towards the masquerade at the Capulets mansion. Romeo tells them he had a premonition the night before and suggests not to go. Romeo says ‘for my mind misgives some consequence yet hanging in the stars…” Romeo means that God is steering him in the wrong direction and his consequence is death. Mercutio dismisses Romeo’s caution and calls it a “vain fantasy” This ending up happening. How did Romeo know? We leave answer that to fate. The prologue of the play also displays fate.

The prologue of the play tells the audience or reader what is going to happen to the characters. The idea of the hand of fate comes in at the very beginning in the prologue when Shakespeare says “A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life;” This line suggests that Romeo and Juliet were going to die, and the events that occurred was their fate set out by God. The events that happened was already set out for them before it even happened and the audience or reader knows it is going to happen, they just don’t know when; this is called dramatic irony.

Another way Shakespeare portrayed fate in Romeo and Juliet is by using metaphors. In Act two, scene three, Friar Lawrence says “Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied, and vice sometime’s by action dignified”. The Friar is referring to a flower, suggesting that within a flower lies both poison and medicine; similarly to the deaths of Romeo and Juliet. Something has the potential to make a situation for better or for worse and in this case, the two lovers deaths were tragic but at the same time brought relief and peace to Verona by bringing their two families together.

Romeo and Juliet is a tragic love story using the hand of fate. Shakespeare demonstrates fate by using multiple methods such as coincidence, premonition, metaphor, and prologue. These show that Romeo and Juliet’s fate was controlled by God and that small actions can have a big outcome.

Summary- act 5, scene 2

Frair Lawrence discovers that frair john who was the messenger he sent to mantua with a letter to romeo that said juliet is actually alive, hasn’t been delivered because of a plaque outbreak.

Scene summary

The nurse finds Juliet who’s “dead”, then her parents see her and they’re sad. Then friar Lawrence and Paris enter, the Friar Lawrence tells Juliet’s parents what to do for the funeral.

Summary, act three, scene five.

Juliet is confronted by her parents who are telling her to marry Paris. She doesn’t want to, so this makes her dad angry and he threatens to throw her out and never see her again. Juliet tells her mother that if she doesn’t delay the marriage then she will kill herself but her mum doesn’t really care. Her parents leave the scene and she asks the nurse to comfort her and give her advice, but the nurse says that she should marry Paris. Juliet says; ” Thou and my bosom henceforth shall be twain. I’ll to the friar to know his remedy; If all else fail, myself have power to die.”