The Lego Movie: Narrative

Todorov's Narrative Theory:

Equilibrium:

Emmet is a normal guy, following the instructions, buying expensive coffee, listening to the same music, working with the people who he thinks he's friends with and 'Everything is Awesome!' Although, he doesn't really have any friends...

The 'Master Builders' had their own secret hiding place... Cloud Cuckoo Land, where they can build whatever they desire.

Disruption:
President Business is planning to Freeze the whole city with the Kragle, because he wants everything in its place.

Emmet comes across Wyldestyle (Lucy) at the construction site, he follows her, and falls down into a pit. He finds 'The Piece of resistance' and touches it. It gets stuck to his back and Wyldestyle thinks that he is 'The Special'... He is not...

Bad cop and President Business find Cloud Cuckoo land, because they put a tracking device on Emmet, and they destroy the whole place, and Capture all of the master builders, apart from emmet and a small group of others, including Wyldestyle and Batman.

Resolutions:

Emmet helps the 'Master Builders' save the world, from the Kragle (Super Glue) because President Business wanted to freeze everything.

New Equilibrium:

Emmet tells President business that he doesn't have to be 'The Bad guy' President Business realises that he was wrong, then everyone is free to build whatever they want! Emmet finally has some friends!

The Lego Movie: Facts

What are the 'Big Six' Hollywood film Studios?

What is a Conglomerate?

A media conglomerate, media group, or media institution is a company that owns numerous companies involved in mass media enterprises, such as television, radio, publishing, motion pictures, theme parks, or the Internet.

Who Regulates films in the UK?

The British Board of Film Classification (BBFC), previously the British Board of Film Censors, is a non-governmental organization, founded by the film industry in 1912 and responsible for the national classification and censorship of films exhibited at cinemas and video works (such as television programmes, trailers, adverts, public Information/campaigning films, menus, bonus content etc.) released on physical media within the United Kingdom

Which Main companies Produced The Lego Movie(2014)?

Warner Bros. Pictures.

Who was the Producer of The Lego Movie(2014)?

• Dan Lin and Roy Lee.
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Who Directed The Lego Movie(2014)?

• Phil Lord and Christopher Miller.
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How was The Lego Movie funded?

The Production Companies funded the film.They are...

• Village Roadshow Pictures
• RatPac-Dune Entertainment
• Lego System A/S
• Vertigo Entertainment
• Lin Pictures
• Warner Animation Group
• Animal Logic
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Who Distributed The Lego Movie?

Warner Bros. Pictures and Roadshow Films (Australia)

Mojo Contents Page Analysis

October 2017 Contents Page:
The colours used on this contents page are red and white, with a main image as the background. These colours will attract the target audience, because they contrast with some of the main image, which is the background. Also, they are the same sort of colours that are on the cover of the magazine.
The main image is used in the background and it is a medium close up. On the left side of the page, the contents of the magazine are shown in a white box. There is also some information about the cover story and a quote, to attract the audience. The writing is quite simple, because it only need to be short, because it would bore the audience, so it isn't too sofisticated and boring.

BBC Radio One Live Lounge Case Study

James Arthur Covering "How To Save A Life" by The Fray

How does non-diegetic sound in the live lounge case study represent the target audience?

Non-diegetic sound is used in James Arthurs Live Lounge cover of The Frays "How to save a life" represents the target audience, because it is new, popular artists covering another artists song, so the target audience are young people, who would like the new artists, but an older audience may like some older songs that are being covered. Also, the audience will be attracted to it, because the artists performing change the way the song sounds, to make it seem more like their own style.

Key:

Laura Mulveys Theory (Women used as erotic objects)
Gauntlets Theory (Men are alpha males)

Mackillons Theory (Men used  as sexual objects)

Stanley Halls Theory (Teenagers are depressed/criminals)
Dick Hebdiges Theory (Teenagers are fun and happy)
Richard Putschs Theory (men are incompetent, dumb buffoons)

How To Save A Life:

Step one, you say we need to talk
He walks, you say sit down, it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left, and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all, you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And I pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

How to save a life
How to save a life

Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Where did I go wrong?
I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

How to save a life
How to save a life                                                                                                                                                                               

Regional/National Identity Representation

Theorist Andrew Higson (1998) writes; "Identity is generally understood to be the shared identity of naturalised inhabitants of particular political-geographic space- this can be a particular nation or region."

One classic example in British Music Magazines of connoting it is a magazine for British readers is using the Union Jack Flag and colours.

Social Grade Representation

Richard Putsch (1992) says working class males in the media are presented as ; "Incompetent and ineffectual, often a buffoon, well-intentioned but dumb. In almost all working-class series, the male is flawed, some more than others.

Keith Gandal's, in 2002 he said that target audiences are drawn in by the; "Sentimental rags-to-riches story,"

Old Age/Disability Representation

Evans (1998),drawing on the works of Freud and other psychoanalysis, states: "Disable people are seen as childish, dependant and underdeveloped and are reading as 'other' and are punished by being excluded from ordinary life. Thus popular images and rhetoric of disabled people abound which comfort us with people who are imperfect,helpless, disgusting, dribbling- a threat to rigid ego boundaries."