Sight and Sound article

Here is an important article I found from September's 07 Sight and Sight issue.

How to make a good fantasy film

Interesting article about someone's opion on how to make a Fantasy film:
http://hubpages.com/hub/How-to-Make-a-Fantasy-Film

Even though its not educated, I stil value this person's pov.

Brand Hollywood: selling entertainment in a global media age By Paul Grainge

I have been extremely lucky whilst searching on the internet today.
I have found an excellent book called "Brand Hollywood: selling entertainment in a global media age By Paul Grainge." I have been able to access this book through Google books and will give me some quotes for my presentation as it focuses on the franchise and why they're a success globally.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WBq3ivgBwDIC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=The+success+of+the+Harry+Potter+industry+and+its+transnational+marketing+strategies&source=bl&ots=chb47b_p9q&sig=Guf94oWFi3jNAEhdwDhCfq66I94&hl=en&ei=B7GwSq7iM6Oh4gaSjZDcBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6#v=onepage&q=The%20success%20of%20the%20Harry%20Potter%20industry%20and%20its%20transnational%20marketing%20strategies&f=false

Websites

Here are websites, which I find useful towards my project:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fantasy_film

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7168554.stm


And the not so useful:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/can-fantasy-epics-survive-the-credit-crunch-chronicles-1213848.html

http://www.filmsite.org/fantasyfilms2.html

http://www.thebookseller.com/in-depth/feature/71682-from-fantasy-to-reality.html

HP film notes scene 9

The final battle scene finally builds the climax of the plot. The sound effect of blasting and destroying allows adrenaline to rush through the audience’s veins. The CGI comes to its strength as the fast movement and extreme detail of shapes between the antagonists and protagonists allows the audience to witness who is who. The unsteady camera travelling around the location allows the audience to have eyes everywhere. Also, there is a frame, where colour has a key importance as the protagonist is in white and antagonist is in black. When Sirius dies, there is a sudden silence, which makes his death painful and sad to watch as Harry mourns.
The reason why I believe this film appeals to the teenaged audience is that there a lot of violence towards the end as Voldermort, Dumbledore and Harry battle it out. The heavy CGI continues as glass shards and water flies through the air, which creates the wow factor and causes the plot near to a closure.
There are also many flashback scenes as Harry battles Voldermort mentally and creates a sudden victory towards his battle against the antagonist.

HP film notes scene 8

The firework scene is another big CGI moment as it is entertaining to watch. There are many low angles to create a sense on how explosive this scene is. It also creates awe as the audience can see all the amazing colours and it looks realistic and sounds it too. It makes the impossible possible with CGI.

HP film notes scene 7

CGI plays an important part in this sequence as it introduces its character Grawpy (Hagrid’s half brother). Like in Lord of the rings, Harry Potter uses a troll, but this time it’s a protagonist, who looks a lot friendlier. Grawpy looks like a little boy from his facial features button nose, short hair and he is rather dirty. This scene is fascinating to watch and can be quite comical to watch. Many low angles intensifies his height and show how realistic he is and his surroundings.
The medium eye level shots of Harry, Ron and Hermione indicate his height as they are looking up towards him and their realistic acting towards his characters makes the scene seem believable.




Another creature, which has made an appearance in the Narnia film are the half horse/man creatures. This isn’t a scene I believe is important, but I’m starting to seen the similarities between all three films.