Essay plan

Essay Plan

Thesis: Adults and authoritive figures opinions and perceptions of young adults influence how they behave when they’re given power.

blahblah: Supernatural finding

Point: Andrew and Moses act in opposite ways when given supernatural power

Example: Alien finding, Andrew and friends keep it a secret, Moses and friends carry alien round as a trophy

Analysis: Andrew and friends are innocent and don’t want to cause trouble, Moses and friends want to scare people away show how masculine they are. They are products of their own environment and act according to how they can survive but end up taking on the qualities of a hero or a villain, when given power.

Message: Each group of friends conform to society’s pervious expectations of them
MICRO: Mise en scene, colouring of 'radiation' and alien costume, ATB outfits, Andrew's outfit.

Themes: Conspiracy

Point: Both groups of friends blame the government for the supernatural findings

Example: Matt explains how the government must have created the radiation and moses’ friend says how the government sent the aliens to ‘get little black boys like how they sent drugs’. This may be how they feel but it's actually because their families have fallen apart, some feel let down by education and modern societies don't trust traditional ideas or systems. The response to this is conspiracy theories/paranola.

Analysis: Both groups believe that the government are out to get young adults and are constantly causing trouble. 

Message: No matter what expectations of the boys, they all blame the government

Themes: Juxtaposition

Point: Andrew is compared to Matt, his cousin and Moses is compared to hi-hatz

Example: Andrew’s home life and Matt’s homelife, Moses comes out of the elevator covered in blood in the same pose as hi-hatz was

Analysis: In both films to emphisise the character they compare them to the nearest family as matt is the American dream boy with a happy family and andrew’s a geek with a hard life and bad family life. ‘The block’ is seen as a family as they repeat a lot, Hi–hatz is the closest we meet of family to Moses as he acts like a big brother.

Message: The family aspect of both films show how they try to follow family footsteps but never manage to completely and turn into the opposite.
MICRO: Cinematography and Mise en scene, camera angles for Hi-Hatz and Moses, actions of Andrew and Matt, smaller scale larger scale.

blahblah: Opinions turning point

point: Both take the perceptions of them given to them by adults and fellow students turn them into the opposite by using the power they have

Example: Andrew’s come down from popularity after the talent show after embarrassing himself with a girl leaves him turning the complete oppoisite to a geek using his telekinesis to rip out the bully’s teeth (same as the beginning as ATB showing them as trophy) and Moses realises it’s his fault the aliens are attacking them, takes it into his hands and becomes a hero, opposite of how they are perceived by society and how Andrew was at the beginning of Chronicle.

Analysis: They turn to the opposite of their stereotypes.

Message: Power and society makes Andrew and Moses change to the opposite of society’s stereotype’s.

Blahblah: Tragic/heroic ending

Point: Andrew starts innocently and well so has a tragic ending and Moses starts as a criminal and is seen as bad and has a heroic ending

Example: In order to stop what Andrew was doing and becoming, Matt had to kill him and Moses from actually saving people after being arrested encounters being saved by the people in a heroic ending that changes Moses’ life forever

Analysis: You need to kill the beast or he will take over and you need to reward Moses for changing for the better.

Message: Killed or rewarded, opinions and perceptions change to the opposite of the beginning.

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