Chronological Wizard

In the film the Wizard of Oz of 1939 the three act system is used in a way that the audience dose not get lost in the story for it follows chronology very well.

INTRODUCTION

The introduction of the characters is mostly done in the first 15 minutes of the when Dorthy goes around her farm and also decides to run away but then she regrets it and goes back home. The transition that take us away from the introduction and peaks when the cyclone pulls her house up from the ground. The questions that these rises is that of, When is the house the fall? Whats going to happen to Dorthy? and when it falls were is is going to fall? The scene with the cyclone implies a complication in the plot.

COMPLICATION

The complication is introduced when Dorthy's house finally lands and she falls on a witch and finds herself in the land of OZ. This answers the questions that the introduction brings up when t cyclone happens. Dorthy then realizes that going back home won't be very easy and also that the Wicked Witch of the west will make her life complicated on her way to the the Wizard in Emerald City. As she skips done the yellow brick road we are introduced to other characters who also have problem the scarecrow wants a brain the tin man a heart and the lion bravery. When they are about to get to Emerald City and the Wizard he asks them to bring him the witches broom once the set off to the witches castle, they get attacked by her minions which abduct Dorthy. The peak of the complication is when her three friends forget about their problems and focus on getting Dorthy back. When they are inside the castle they manage to help Dorthy escape and get the witches broom which they then take to the wizard. Once the task is finished questions are raised weather this will help Dorthy go back home.  

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RESOLUTION 

The resolution of this is when Dorthy and her friends get what what they want. The scarecrow gets a diploma, the tin man a ticking heart, and the Lion get a medal for helping Dorthy. Dorthy then sees her chances of getting back home by traveling via air balloon with the wizard. this answers the question of weather the Wizard would hep them or not when the task was completed.  

CLIMAX

The climax of this film is when Dorthy realizes that by clicking her heels three times and saying " There's no place like home" will take her back home. This then solves the original dilemma which is that of Dorthy going back home to Kansas. 

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In conclusion Dorthy returns home form OZ or really just wakes up form her dream which teaches her that her home is where she really wants to be and she is happy once more which culminates in the happy ending of this structure. 

ALL RESOLVED IN JUST 30 MINUTES

The sitcom has always been a kind of show that entertains us for about half an hour with the outrageous plot lines and problems that the characters tend to get into but at the end of the show after many laughs and sometimes imposible actions the problems are solved and everything returns to the happy settings of before.The problems faced are mostly happening to the main character of the sitcom, who has done something wrong or has gotten themselves in a situation that deals with some kind of moral value. Most of the time the plot involves the person going to extrem lengths so that the victim of the wrong doing does not find out about it. This of course paves way for the story line to become very funny for the writers have more to grab in order to make the story line more interesting instead off just having a mono tone plot line. Never the less after all the twists and turns the protagonist manages to save the day.

In the show "Thats's So Raven", Raven the protagonist which is a psychic;  finds herself in situations that her visions put her in. Her visions are misleading which make her think that they are going to happen a certain way and when it does it is totally different then what she thought. This makes her do something right which seems wrong or makes her do something wrong that she has to fix. In an episode Raven finds herself turning in a hate letter instead of a composition for one of her classes. Raven then has a vison of her teacher reading the letter. In order for her teacher not to see the hate letter Raven along with her friends decide to steal the letter back. Since the classroom door is locked she has to enter the classroom thru a cracked window on top of the door once in there she finds out that the drawer which contains the letter is locked also. Raven decides to steal the desk and take it somewhere to be unlocked this causes her to go on a wild ride literally when she rides on the desk down a hill so that her teacher does't find out that the desk is missing. In the end the teacher opens the drawer for her and she manages to take the letter out. Raven's vision does not come true she then realizes that hate mail is something wrong and it could have gotten her in a major problem. As an any sitcom the protagonists gets into the problem does the impossible to get out of it and manges to do so under 30 minutes. 

SHOT BY SHOT BY SHOT

The shots used in a film have a lot to do with the emotions, speculations, and environment the director wants the audience to feel. The shots are very important because they create the way the movie is perceived and seen by the audience since they get to see what has to be seen in order for the story to move along.

THE LONG SHOT

the long shot in this films sets up the scene by letting the audience know the setting and the environment and shows how there are many people around her because of the news she is about to receive by the gloomy  lighting it shows that the news is not very good

THE MEDIUM SHOT

in this medium shot we see the camera get closer to both actors to capture more of the emotion of the news that the female character is about to receive. it makes the audience observe both of the characters faces to see whats going on more closely

THE CLOSE UP SHOT

in this close up it is seen the pain that the character is experiencing once she finds out that her lover is dead. It makes the audience see the pain that the actress is portraying. 

In all of these shots it is seen how the close up medium and long shots help the audience understand the intensity of the scene and also the meaning of such tragedy in the characters life. By doing this the audience feels more into the scene since every aspect of it is shown.

Let's go see a John Wayne

        The studio system in a way was a technique that assured, or at least made it more probable for a movie to be a blockbuster with just the actors that the film contained. Although some of the greatest films were made at this time people didn't look much at the film but more at the people that were in it in order to figure out or predict what the film would be about.  The most important aspect was putting the actor in the same role so that when people heard that this actor was appearing in the film they knew what to expect which made them go to the right film and one that they would enjoy the most. 

       Since audiences showed what type of actors they liked and in what films they wanted to see by going to the movies every time they were in the starring role these people created a sense of mold films which were the ones that were very similar.  The studio would produce more of the same story lines with the same actor in a similar role so that they would be able to get more profit. This meant that many other stories could not really be taken into account since in such a time most people went to the movies to see their favorite actor playing what role best suited them in the audiences opinion.

              This very wells seen because when you see movies of this time you see the same people playing the same type of role. this is why when you speak of a western film with cowboys and saloons you cannot have this conversation without mentioning  john wayne, he was Mr. Cowboy in this period of time. This is the same when you talk about the innocent girl who always does what is told and is very venerable, Judy Garland comes to mind with movies like the Wizard of Oz in which she spends the whole film trying to return safely back home.         
 This can be a factor that could have helped the year 1939 be so great people showed what they wanted and who they wanted therefore the studio system tried their best to give them what they wanted.

"HE'S LIKE THAT"

  In all in the family the situation of homo-sexuality is like the huge elephant in the room that no one wants to talk about but exists. Carroll O'Connor's character is very against the whole gay thing and wants to avoid.In a modern sitcom this most of the time is taken as something normal there are shows like Ugly Betty, Glee and Modern Family that take a persons homo sexuality as a normal thing and don't make a huge deal about who's straight or gay. they might not like the homosexuality situation but they don't condemn people for being what they are. 

   There was one  similarity between this show and the shows today. They way writers portray the homosexual character or the person that is presumed to be a homosexual has not changed in a very drastic matter. The flamboyant clothes the language  and tone of voice that they use when speaking is still very stereotypical, when a homosexual is on screen. 

The situations in All in the family were very different to those which we deal with today, Jean Stapleton's character was so excited with the pictures the family friend brought back from his trip, to her this technology was very wonderful and she just kept thinking how a second later the people in and around the picture kept on with their lives. The way that they dealt with the friends possible homosexuality was also different, today homosexuality isn't really a very talked about topic on television it's just there, something that is happening and that sometimes appears and when it does the whole episode doesn't revolve around a person's sexual preferences. 

I think people have learned to take homosexuality as something still a bit abnormal, but the way that it is dealt with today is more of a people getting used to the face of homosexuals existing rather than right away judging a person just because of their sexual preferences.