My Featured Movie

Plastic

I. About the Film

~ Detail ~

Creating Country is Australia.

In this movie Language is English

Release Date is 22 August 2008(Australia).

Filming Locations is Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Lead actress is Romy Bartz. (Anna)

And actor is Don Hany. (Henry)

~ Synopsis ~

Whilst Anna is preparing for a first date with Henry, a man she has secretly loved for years, everything goes wrong until she discovers the impossible - to sculpt her appearance like clay to any shape she desires.

The short film is almost all shot from one scene, it takes place in the female protagonists apartment, as she goes through the turmoil of looking for clothes to wear for her date tonight. However she perceives herself as unattractive and too big for her clothes. Furthermore as her mode changes to one of despair and annoyance the lighting changes, the lamp flickers in the bathroom, thus mirroring her mood. As well as the change in lighting at the start of the piece the girl comes across as bubbly and fun, therefore mirrored in the light and warm colours in the room. A far cry from the dark and grey bathroom.

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Plastic - Short Film by Sandy Widyanata
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Works Cited （参考文献）

"Film of the Week! – ‘Plastic’ – Sandy Widyanata – Australian Film Festival."James OBrien A Level Media. N.p., 03 Sept. 2014. Web. 21 June 2016.

Plastic - Short Film by Sandy Widyanata. N.p., 4 Oct. 2013. Web. 21 June 2016.

TheFreakyriot. "Plastic - Short Film by Sandy Widyanata." YouTube. YouTube, 04 Oct. 2013. Web. 21 June 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJFE8UcFcU>.

II. Versions of the Film

・Plastic (2008)

Works Cited （参考文献）

IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 21 June 2016.

III. About the Director

Born and raised in Germany with Indonesian heritage, Sandy Widyanata obtained a BA in Film Studies and Journalism at the University of Bochum. She trained in editing and visual effects at the European Institute for Further Training in Film & TV. She has worked as a set assistant and graphic artist at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, one of Germany’s major public television and radio broadcasting stations.

In 2000, Sandy was invited to Sydney to screen a clay animated short film she made during university. She decided to make Australia her new home and continued working as a multimedia designer and animator for major corporate clients.

Sandy has just completed a Masters at the Australian Film Television and Radio School where she wrote and directed her graduating film, Plastic. Plastic is a film about the obsession for the perfect body image. It is a live action film supported by the art of animation and visual effects.

Sandy is currently developing feature film ideas and aspires to continue making and working on films that she believes can make a difference.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Inspiring Filmmaker: 2010." Lunafest.org. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 June 2016.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - mood

• 定義 Mood is specific location surrounding a person, sound, light and sign. The place and the feeling the people who are producing naturally.
• 例 A lady's body is stretch. So, this short film mood is strange and characteristic.
• 略 I think this short film doesn't look real. So, I think that this short film drifting strange mood.

B. Reaction Point - set design

• 定義　Set design is scenic art. The mood and worldview of the movie is decided by set design.
• 例 In this short film use primary color items. And main charactor's clothes and furniture are putting the color tone together.
• 略 In this short film set design is characteristic. And it was felt like the cut taken with a film camera. In this short film use the primary color items. I think a worldview is broughtout. This short film look like 「Ameri」.

C. Reaction Point - soundtrack

• 定義　Soundtrack is voice, music and sound effects. 

• 例 In this short film soundtrack is turns good. Forexample, when she broke pants sean's soundtrack use good tempo music. And when her body stretch sene's soundtrack use strange music and mysterious music.
• 略 I think the atmosphere depends on soundtrack. View is determined depending on the soundtrack.

D. My General Opinion

First, I thought very interesting and funny when I was watched this short film. And, I think this short film want to tell just the way you are its the most important. It is important to stay just the way you are. This short film is good view of the world and use of color.

My Featured Novel

Jane Eyre

I. About the Novel

    Jane Eyre is a novel by English writer Charlotte Bronte. It was published on 16 October 1847, by Smith Elder and Co. of London, England, under the pen name "Currer Bell." The first American edition was published the following year by Harper & Brothers of New York.

   Primarily of the Bildungsroman genre, Jane Eyre follows the emotions and experiences of its eponymous heroine, including her growth to adulthood and her love for Mr. Rochester, the Byronic master of fictitious Thornfield Hall. In its internalisation of the action—the focus is on the gradual unfolding of Jane's moral and spiritual sensibility, and all the events are coloured by a heightened intensity that was previously the domain of poetry—Jane Eyre revolutionised the art of fiction. Charlotte Brontë has been called the 'first historian of the private consciousness' and the literary ancestor of writers like Joyce and Proust. The novel contains elements of social criticism, with a strong sense of morality at its core, but is nonetheless a novel many consider ahead of its time given the individualistic character of Jane and the novel's exploration of classism, sexuality, religion, and proto-feminism.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Jane Eyre." Jane Eyre. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Eyre>.

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

There have been many versions of Jane Eyre in the mass media, including the following.

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1943 Jane Eyre (movie)

1983 Jane Eyre (TV mini-series)

1996 Jane Eyre (movie)

1997 Jane Eyre (TV movie)

2006 Jane Eyre (movie)

2011 Jane Eyre (movie)

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Works Cited （参考文献）

"Jane Eyre." IMDb. IMDb, n.d. Web. 1 June 2016. <http://www.imdb.com/list/ls003653027/>.

Jane Eyre Movie 2006. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2016. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biMmZ_7ZX4I>.

III. About the Author

   Born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England, Charlotte Bronte worked as a teacher and governess before collaborating on a book of poetry with her two sisters, Emily and Anne, who were writers as well. In 1847, Bronte published the semi-autobiographical novel Jane Eyre, which was a hit and would become a literary classic. Her other novels included Shirley and Villette. She died on March 31, 1855, in Haworth, Yorkshire, England.

Early Life

   Writer Charlotte Bronte was born on April 21, 1816, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. Said to be the most dominant and ambitious of the Brontes, Charlotte was raised in a strict Anglican home by her clergyman father and a religious aunt after her mother and two eldest siblings died. She and her sister Emily attended the Clergy Daughter's School at Cowan Bridge, but were largely educated at home. Though she tried to earn a living as both a governess and a teacher, Bronte missed her sisters and eventually returned home.

'Jane Eyre'

   A writer all her life, Bronte published her first novel, Jane Eyre, in 1847 under the manly pseudonym Currer Bell. Though controversial in its criticism of society's treatment of impoverished women, the book was an immediate hit. She followed the success with Shirley in 1848 and Villette in 1853.

Death and Legacy

   The deaths of the Bronte siblings are almost as notable as their literary legacy. Her brother, Branwell, and Emily died in 1848, and Anne died the following year.

In 1854, Charlotte married Arthur Bell Nicholls, but died the following year during her pregnancy, on March 31, 1855, in Haworth, Yorkshire, England. The first novel she ever wrote, The Professor, was published posthumously in 1857.

Works Cited （参考文献）

"Charlotte Bronte." Charlotte Bronte. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2016. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Bront%C3%AB>.

Charlotte Bronte. N.p., n.d. Web. 1 June 2016. 

<http://www.biography.com/people/charlotte-bront-11919959>.

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - setting 設定　背景　場所

• 定義   In writing novel must indicate "Where is this place?", "When is this era?", "What is this historical background?" and "What is environment?". And novel will need era's atmosphere. Therefore, setting is important and necessary when reader imagine and read a novel. 

• 例    This novel setting is boarding school. Jane was orphan. This school's environment was dirty and used unhygienic food. So, typhus was prevalent in this school. Jane became tutor of Sorn Field maison. Jane and Mr.Rochester fell in love. But Rochester had wife.This historical background was Cristian doctrine. Bigamy was felony.　

• 略   I think this novel is well appear the situation and historical background at that time. 

B. Reaction Point - appeal 魅力、引き付ける

• 定義   What is appeal? Answer is reader attract by story, heroine or hero, and deployment of novel.

• 例 This novel is a first person narrative in write. First person narrative can feel with the heroine of a story. So, reader will feeling appeal.

• 略 I felt at the beginning, Jane childhood was unreasonable. And the story development that can draw you in. Because of I think this novel is first person narrative in write.

C. Reaction Point - cartharsis 感情の開放

• 定義 　Cartharsis is something that describes the psychology of human behavior. And cartharsis similar to appeal. Is the first person or the second person or the third person...？ And, in writing the novel must indicate a character "What was feeling?", "What a character want do?", and "What was thinking?" Accordingly,　the sentence can full of flavor.
  

• 例 This sentence is Jane's feeling.

"I felt cold and sad. I remembered my love for

Mr Rochester and the way he always spoke to me. 

St John was different. 

He wanted me to marry him, but not to marry him. He was a 

good man, but I did not love him."

• 略 I think this sentence is appeared Jane feeling.

D. My General Opinion

   I think this novel is classical and good love story. Jane Eyre isn't capture from property and social standing. So, I think she did freedom love. I like last scene. Mr.Rochester have lost his one hand and blindness. But Jane was married him. She indicated not even in failure in love. I think Jane is upright at heart and this novel is terrific love story...