Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin

Today Dom, Jess, Emma, Oyinda and I (see picture below) went to see Charlie Chaplin at the cinema.



Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (see picture below), was an English comic actor and film director of silent films. He became one of the best-known film stars in the world and used mine, slapstick and other visual comedy routines. Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era.



When we first got to the cinema we didn't know what to expect, although we did get free popcorn and a drink :) We went to see Modern times made in 1936. Although silent films were no longer made in Hollywood after 1929 Chaplin still made Modern times as a silent movie. Silent movies enable you to make up our own story line and we entertain ourselves through the actions.

The film lasted approximately 96 minutes and was very exciting and funny! It represented working class people as treat bad and opposed upon by authority. Middle class people were seen as nice, big house and very happy. In modern times Charlie is trying to achieve the American dream in the department store and bring the message across that if you keep trying you get happiness.

Watching the silent movie really made me realise how much media and television has progressed through the year. From black and white silent movies to now HD, 3D full colour TV with blaring speakers! I would definitely recommend going to see one of his films!

Here is a short clip from some of his work:








Above is a picture of the cinema!

The corraliens

We decided our group needed a catchy, edgy and bold band name. After much consolation we thought of many different names such as Leopards, Tigers, the weather girls... however these just sounded cheesy and didn't fit the representation we wanted to give of. We finally came up with 'The Coralliens' We decided a colour which represented us as group. We thought of coral as it is a classy and sophisticated yet girly word! However being called the 'Corals' is a bit dull and unoriginal therefore we decided to translate this into a common language and French had the best sound!

Audience feedback

After presenting our treatment to the class based on our music video ideas we gained feedback from fellow peers. We received mostly positive and constructive feedback. Here I created a wordle based on the audience feedback received. Audience feedback is an important process which must be regularly collected, after all they will be the ones watching it, and if it was on the market they would be the ones buying the product, therefore we need to take every feedback account on board.

• Good use of tia maria advert
  
• Practical idea
  
• Like the changing costume idea
• Girly costumes and make up fit in well with the song
  
• Good
• Current
• Bright
• Fun
• Girl
• Quirky
• Exciting
• Like the bright colours
• Quirky
• Fun
• Bright
• Good idea
• Conforms to pop
• pop
• pink
• colourful

As you can see from this wordle Good, Quirky, fun and bright mostly represents our video which is exactly the image we want to create!

Tia maria advert

Our idea is to have the group featuring int he video in one point of view with the clothes changes and the person changing as she walks down the path lip syncing. We'll edit the outfit changes to the quick beats of the song. The Tia maria advert below is similar to the effect we want to create.

Treatment Presentation

After finishing our treatment we had to present it to the class and show them our ideas! We recieved audience feedback which is presented on the above post. We included ideas about our location, the make up, mise-en-sene, costume and other bits of information! Take a look!

Copy wright issues

So here is an email asking regal production who signs Lilly Allen to give us permission to produce a video. This is so we wont have any implications or offend the artist in anyway. I will be waiting for a reply.Post Options

Treatment

Here is a copy of my treatment my group and I presented to the class. Here we had to relate ideas to our chosen song 'Knock em out' by Lilly Allen. We thought of aspects such a mise-en-sene, relating ideas to lyrics, locations, background behind the song and whether it's conforming to similar pop videos, or not. Shortly I will be uploading a clip of out treatment which was presented to the class with audience feed back.