Harry Potter Characters

Rubeus Hagrid is an enthusiastic and cheerful character who is always thoughtful towards others and relatively fatherly towards Harry. He is constantly giving advice to the students and he is always positive during the hardest of times. Many of the students go to him for help since he is a caring and helpful person and always making them feel welcome. His appearance can seem scruffy and dirty but deep down he is soft and gentle person.

1. Happy
2. Enthusiastic
3. Cheerful
4. Positive
5. Caring
6. Thoughtful
7. Fatherly
8. Scruffy
9. Welcoming
10. Smiley
11. Advisable
12. Fun
13. Helpful

 Prof Dumbledore is a major character in series of films. He is a loving and wise man that helps Harry grow up. He is mysterious closed and secretive and you don’t find out about his life until the last few films after he dies. His style dress is quirky and interesting and suggests academic gowns.

Has a very big role in the Harry Potter films. His appearance is very magical and this is demonstrated by the style of his robes which includes stars and necklaces. He has a very mysterious and secretive character and you only really get a sense of what he is like in the last couple of films before he dies. He only confides in a few characters. The mysteriousness of this character has the effect of extending audience interest.  

Is one of the main characters in the Harry Potter series. He is closed off secretive character but he enjoys teaching harry about the magical enters from book one and seems to think particularly fondly of him. Although he the loudest character in the films he is a very brave intelligent one who seems to put others before himself. He is a very magical character clothes and character wise. The robes that he wears especially suggest that he is a smart man and his wizard hat emphasises that he is a magical character. The beard also implies a certain level wisdom about his character and the colour contrast between his dark grey clothes and his lighter grey beard suggests that he is quite a neutral man- this could also reflect back on his fairly consistent personality.

1. Intelligent
2. Quirky
3. Kind
4. Wise
5. Clever
6. Interesting
7. Friendly
8. Old
9. Noble
10. Caring
11. Mysterious
12. Magical
13. Wonderful

Severus Snape is quite a major character with a dark and sinister appearance. He is shifty and deceptive, with an unsettling look. He is a mysterious character that keeps the audience guessing whether he is good or bad. His first appearance makes him look particularly evil with his dark looks. These being his robes, hair and physical looks (pallid and sallow).He is a dark and complicated character to understand. The way he acts suggests that he is shifty and evil person but nearer the end of the movies he turns out to be good. He seems bitter and cold towards the students he teaches as if not wanting to show his true colours.

1. Long black hair
2. Dark
3. Shifty
4. Tall deceptive
5. Unsettling stare
6. Sarcastic
7. Droning voice
8. Difficult
9. Snape = Snake serpent like
10. Cold
11. Black hearted
12. Mean
13. Stubborn
14. Complicated
15. Pallid 
16. Sallow skin
17. Bitter
18. Insecure
19. Short temper
20. Calm 

Draco Malfoy and Snape analysis

Draco Malfoy 

Draco is Latin for dragon, ultimately the ancient Greek drakōn, meaning serpent. The first part, mal, should be easily recognised as meaning evil or bad. It shows up in English in such words as malevolent, malicious or malign, and comes from the Latin adjective “malus” meaning evil or bad.

Blond hair is usually associated with sometimes a character being innocent in a film but usually the character is generally a dehumanized antagonist or a villain, I think this could almost be to do with the Nazi's. In Malfoy’s case it makes him look Sly, Strange, Aryan, Formal, Cunning, Deceitful, Clever, Noble, Villian and Smart. His slicked back hair signifies to the audience that he is Slippery like a snake/dragon so on the bad side in the case of Harry Potter. As his house is Slytherin this would make sense.I think the audience subconsciously pick this up and it seems to make sense to them.He look's like this because the director wants the audience to know that he is the villain as soon as he gets in shot.

Snape is a mysterious character that keep's the audience guessing if he's Good or Bad. His first appearance makes him look particularly evil with his dark looks his Robes,Hair and physical looks (Pallid and sallow) . He is a very talented man who specializes in potions and is extremely capable in duelling. His on Screen character is calm and silent but really he is insecure and unhappy. 

Sorting Hat Scene

Setting
The Setting of this scene is in the Grand hall/ Dining hall, we are shown this by all the students eating and drinking the atmosphere is warm and welcoming with the torches and candles which help liven up the scene the scene is light and friendly.
The Floating candles show us that the castle is magical and the costume that the actors wear e.g Robes and wizard hats tell us that it is a film about magic. The big chair in the middle that Dumbledore sits at suggests he is in charge and powerful this is also shown through.The Props used look old and mystic to create interest in the surroundings also the sorting hat is obviously magical. In this Scene you can get only vague Idea of to what genre the Film is.

Costume
The Costumes are consist of Robes and funny hats characters also have long beards and funny hair styles.Students costumes are like ordinary uniforms but with wizard robes as well this tells us that this is no ordinary school it's a wizard school. The Genre is indicated by the characters clothing ( Wizards and Magic). When we first see Draco his hair is smartly combed back and looks shiny by doing this he looks very slick and evil so the audience can guess he's in slytherin because he looks like a snake his expression is also slightly evil. Snape is also looking evil, this is shown by his hair and black robes and expression.

Lighting
The Lighting in this scene is warm and bright with and the fire this gives a feeling of an excitement and a welcoming atmosphere. The way the lighting is used is really effective in this scene we are in a nice warm and friendly atmosphere by giving it a orange glow/tint however in other scenes it can seem cold, dark and creepy to get the audience involved this would usually have a slight green or blue look.

Characters
The new arrivals are clearly scared, they are in the center of attention and in the middle of the room while all the other students surround them this makes them look small. The Headmaster is placed in the Center of the staff table in a huge chair to show his power. You learn that the characters each want to be put in certain houses you can this from their expressions and actions.

Evaluation of Pen Chase

My Chase Sequence Evaluation

The Brief
We were tasked to create a chase sequence with three portals. We had to use three entrances and three exits one of these had to be eccentric portal such as a actor walking into the camera and then walking away in another location. We had to include a basic storyline for the sequence to make sense.

Planning
Due to creative differences with other teammates the planning went not as well as it could of however we got over this problem by splitting into two's and creating different plans then using idea's from each others storyboard to merge into a single story, I found that this method worked effectively, although I think our time management wasn't as effective as explained later.

Filming
Once again due to creative differences and Ideas the camera work was some moments a struggle until we came up with the system of taking turns and doing multiple shots for each others work and eventually learning to work together we pulled through and got our final result. Our ending result was defiantly different from our original plan, however we used the major aspects from the planning work and incorporated it in to our Chase sequence. Using a variety of camera angles and shots I think this made each shot is very unique.

Editing
The editing process was by far the easiest for me and Aaron since I took over almost completely (habit) and used simple but effective tools to bring out the best of these clips. I used the razor tool, colour correction (contrast) and key-framing for the audio. Although I did most of the hands on Aaron did help with certain decisions and what looked good.

Conclusion
If I was going to create a sequence like this a again then I would try more to co-operate with certain team members more and explained why I thought we should of used certain shots instead of saying we should do this and no explanation. I would of tried to get more film in to be able to give it a improved ending. I thought the way in which we planned our time wasn't effective enough I thought that we could of been out there filming when we were stuck inside planning, I think this happened due to the way we actually planned out sequence out.