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The Breakfast Club The Breakfast Club is a 1985 US movie produced and distributed by Universal Pictures. It was directed by John Hughes, famous for other films such as Ferris Bueller’s day off and Home Alone. Thomas Del Ruth was Hughes’s cinematographer who had a long career before The Breakfast Club famous for movies such as Sundance kid and Butch Cassidy. The soundtrack was composed by Keith Forsey, the composer of 'Love Theme' and 'I'm the Dude' in the Breakfast Club and Gary Chang, the composer of 'The Dream Montage' when all of the students fall asleep in their detention.  The Breakfast Club was edited by Dede Allen, an editor who achieved a reputation as one of the most stylish and creative editors in the American Film Industry. The cast of the high school kids consisted of:  Molly Ringwald - Claire Standish  Paul Gleason - Richard Vernon Anthony Michael Hall - Brian Johnson  Judd Nelson - John Bender Ally Sheedy- Allis...

White House Down Macro Elements Representation  On screen, there are a variety of social groups represented, the first one being the terrorist group who take over the White House, they are divided from the other social groups as they have dangerous views, and want to harm people. The representation of the terrorist group is effective as they scare the other characters however they are the wrong ones in this film and so their representation was only ever going to be bad. Furthermore, another social group that is represented in this film is the government, the government are shown as people who think they are able to save people however it turns out that a member of the tour is the one who actually saves the White House. There are two members of the US government who plans the attack and so you can see how easily people can change. The representation of the US government is effective as they are doing good with their power, however its only two other members who goes again...

 Throughout the filming days, we had Emily filming the short film, something which she succeeded in as the final outcome was something that we couldn't have imagined it to be and half of that was due to Emily's high quality filming. When watching the film back it is obvious that we used a wide variety of camera angles, as well as a lot of camera shots. For most of the lines delivered, we filmed the actor for that line alone, from an actors perspective this was extremely strange, and it sometimes made it hard to fully get into character although when the final film was completed, it looked very good and the singular camera shots worked well as it allowed the spectators to fully engage on the character speaking to get an understanding of each of the Pevensie children's characteristics. There was one particular camera shot and angle which stands out to me, is when Mrs Beaver is telling the Pevensie children about the prophecy, when the actor is delivering the line the camera p...