Portfolio 7: Final Project

The Inbetweeners The Inbetweeners tells the story of four teenage boys who are very unpopular and misguided within their social ladder. Our four main characters; Will (Simon Bird), Simon (Joe Thomas), Jay (James Buckley) and Neil (Blake Harrison) are a bunch of six form students currently living in suburban London, their antics and situations are reflected upon growing up and the issues that young people face with the transition of being students to becoming adults, this mainly leads to awkward and hilarious comedic moments. This series uses a wide variation of shots, sounds and writing to make unique comedic moments which have never been seen in British comedy before. Performances: The performances of the actors in this series, brings the comedic value into the series the most in my opinion, even though many of these actors went on to do other projects and endeavours, the Inbetweeners was the high point of all their careers. All four of the main actors in this series play their c...

Main character  Name: Kain Smith Stage Name: Lil Crump A.K.A Lil crumpet Occupation: Musician Nationality: United Kingdom Race: Caucasian Sexuality: Hetrosexual Age: 19 Three words which describe this character: Idiotic, Obnoxious and Ambitious. Family: Mother (Charlotte smith) Brother (Joel Smith)  Character Outline: Lil Crump is a 19 year old college drop out without any ambitions to be anything but the UK's first 'Mumble rapper'. At home Lil crump is known as 'Kain' where he lives with his mother 'Charlotte' and his younger 16 year old brother 'Joel'. At home Kain tries not to let his rapper personality get involved with his family life, finding himself acting very different to how Lil Crump acts. In his spare time 'Kain' is Lil Crump an energetic, Bombastic, stupid hip hop artist willing to introduce his style of music 'Mumble rap' into the UK music scene. Lil crump is not in any way the most talented rapper, but his lac...

Method acting:   is a training and rehearsal technique which are designed to bring out expressive and emotional performances, Method acting was created by various theatre practitioners primarily in USA This form of acting is considered to be one of the controversial and elite approaches acting, This method of acting came from the  Stanislavski's  system , which was developed by Russian  actor and director  Konstantin  Stanislavski which he explained in his book 'Creating a role'  three other actors who contributed highly to the development of method acting by highliting certain aspects into what elements needed to be explored through method acting was;    Stella Adler   (for sociological aspects),   Lee Strasberg  (for psychological aspects) and  Sanford Meisne r   (for behavioral aspects) they developed this theory when they had all worked together in group theatre  in New York City. I have chosen to l...

God is a gangsta is a short film/Music video created by Jack Bergert and Kendrick lamar. The film depicts two key songs out of Kendrick Lamar's Grammy winning album, 'To Pimp A Butterfly' these songs are 'U' and 'For Free? (Interlude)' To understand this video I have to look back into an underlying theme in 'To Pimp A Butterfly' Kendrick on this album has a poem which Is read throughout the entirety of the album, The poem talks about Kendrick's struggle with rising to fame and being able to maintain his connection to his home of Compton. This poem appears in small verses after every song on the album, this short film relates to that particular poem and narrative that the album creates because the video recreates narrative moments in the album. The first half of the video is dedicated to the song 'U' which shows Kendrick verbally addressing himself and his self hatred, this relates to the narrative because in the poem it reads "Resent...

I took these mind mapping exercises because I'm trying to find ways which I can create comedic moments with things which are related to hip-hop culture and to also figure out how I'm going to create my characters and what songs they will be performing. I made a mind map for mumble rap trying to detect the key features of what mumble rap is and the quirks and traits it peruses, by doing this it's allowed me to understand all different aspects of the genre I can explore in order to make interesting comedic moments, certain scenes and situations I can place my characters into and also to help with some narrative aspects also. The other mind map was strictly to be able to come up with names for the main and the side characters of the film, this genre of hip-hop has a very generic formula of making names, so I took the key first names of rappers which are Young (bans, leans, jeezy), Rich (Brian, The kid) and Lil (Peep, Uzi, Pump) and added funnier second names to them to creat...

People just do nothing is a British comedy Documentary series which tells the story of 'Kurupt FM' a pirate radio station ran by a group of useless Mc's and Dj's and their quest to become Megastars. This series concentrates mostly on four members of the the station; MC Grinda who is the so called 'Leader' of the group, who is a very obnoxious, hot headed guy who claims to be "the best MC in the galaxy", DJ Beats who is an idiotic simpleton who is Grinda's right hand man, Chabbudy G who is the manager of the group and a wannabe entrepreneur having one business failure to the next, and DJ Steves a Moronic waster who owns the location of the radio station. People just do nothing is a great take on the music industry and the struggle of achieving fame and fortune in the music industry. This type of story has been told before in many occasions but what this series more original is the way that it's dialogue and characters are written, the characters...