Lecture No.5 Development of Ideas and structure in moving image.

So my first key principle I'm going to be looking at is the first; Identifying 3 act structure in a recent film. Thus I will be looking at a recent film that I've watched and very much enjoyed.

I think this film does have an interesting 3 act structure to it and I think it's what made the movie interesting to me also the humour to it.

Act 1: So the film starts with the introduction of two characters that get sent to earth. One was destined to be a super hero and one a super villain, the intro shows the characters as babies and progresses from there. The Villain (Megamind) doesn't start off being a bad guy but instead tries to be a good guy but always ends up having a nack of getting into trouble. Tho the super hero (Metro man) is always the show off and the perfect boy. As they grow up they find them selves being each others rivals, where Megamind will always kidnap a female reporter called Roxanne

to get Metro Mans attention. Megaminds recent plan ends up entrapping Metro Man and using the power of the sun to kill him.

Act 2: With Metro man gone, Megamind takes over the city and starts creating a mess of things.

He also finds out that with out Metro Man around to stop him things aren't the same, Megamind slowly starts getting depressed and mopes over the loss of his rival. Until he is forced to interact with Roxanne while being in disguise. Megamind starts developing feeling for the reporter while also balancing his idea to create a new super hero who he can fight with. He accidently gives super powers to the wrong person who ends up not being very good at being a super hero, Megamind then has to train him to become a better super hero. Megamind also get exposed to Roxanne who gets upset with Megamind and walks out on him.

Act 3: The new super hero begins to start going bad and starts stealing stuff and doing what he wants, and doesn't really want to stop Megamind. This angers Megamind and tells the new super hero (Tighten) that he and Roxanne kissed. Tighten get angry and attempts to kill Megamind instead of putting him into jail. Tighten then takes control of the city and kidnaps Roxanne forcing Megamind to take the hero's seat and rescue the girl and save the city from Tighten.

Thus the film ends with Megamind becoming the cities new hero.

My second principle is looking at character development. He is from one of my all time favourite Japanese animations 'Death Note'. His name is 'Yagami Light', who starts off as a normal school boy who excels at all his studies, but his fed up with all the crime in the world and wishes that he can change it. He stumbles onto a note book that fell from the Demon Realm, the note book being the Death Note, where whoevers name is written in the book they will die. So Light begins to ''purge'' the world of evil from the confines of his bedroom. Slowly he atracts the attention of a myterious detective named 'L'. Where the game of cat and mouse insumes.

I like Light as a character because he is so well refined, he can put on all sorts of acts and pull off all sorts of lies, its the overall progression of this character I love so much, from being a school boy to becoming part of a police force that is infact in pursuit of himself. I also like the downward spiral he takes after long use of power he becomes cocky and arrogant which leads him to his own demise.