Module 1 Score Card: The theme of Across the Universe is love and hate. We watch Max and Jude create a loving relationship as friends and also Jude and Lucy create a loving relationship as romantic partners. The plot of this movie is a kid named Jude moves to the United States and ends up making friends with this kid named Max. Max decides to quit school so they end up moving to New York. This Film follows there journey in New York, which include living with a girl named Sadie who wants to become a singer, Jude becoming an artist, and Lucy becoming an advocate in stopping the war. The emotional effect is this movie is love, because you see these people falling in love and that makes you want to fall in love, but you also see the war going on and that makes you sad. This movie has a lot of truth in human nature. It shows that war is really going to happen no matter how hard you try and stop it, and that can be sad, but it also shows that you should not give up. This movie shows an amazing example of complexity in human relationships. No matter how much Jude and Lucy love each other they cannot get their relationship to work out even if they want to, it is a complex situation. It shows the social problems that were happening back during that time. The war was happening and people were dying to save their country. Max was a prime example of loss of innocence. Since he dropped out of college so he was picked to go to war, so he went from being a carefree kid to and an adult in possible danger. The film Across the Universe has a unified plot making it a good story. The story has a cause and effect relationship, meaning it goes from one scene to another and the all have meaning. This film has the externally observable truth that not everyone is going to be nice to people around them. There is a war going on in this film where both sides are killing people who are trying to stand up for their country. It also shows that not all relationships are going to be easy, no matter what the other movie and TV shows say. This movie also shows the internal truth of human nature in showing that people should come together to fight for thing they want. In the movie Lucy joins a group in order to show her support of stopping the war. This movie suprisingly had a little bit of action, and that is when Max is in war. It is also shows some action when Lucy first boyfriend is in war and everyone is shooting and he ends up dying. It was also a little suspenseful at the end, waiting to see if Lucy and Jude end up getting back together. This movie was both simple and complex. It was simple in the fact that it was so easy for Jude to make relationships when coming to the United States. The war and the radical group trying to stop the war is what made the movie complex. This movie handled emotional material with restraint when Lucy found out her first boyfriend had died. They showed his mom fall down in sadness and Lucy crying and his funeral and then they were done with it. This movie’s structure was non linear because it had an In Medias Res. The very beginning Jude is singing on the beach already sitting on the beach singing about Lucy. Then it goes into this cool scene where it is flipping through newspaper and showing what the climax of the movie is going to be. After that we see Jude in England before even meeting Lucy or anyone. The internal conflict of this movie was when Lucy wanting to be with Jude but also wanting to work on stopping the war. She did not know what one to pick until Jude went off on her at her work and then she left him. The external conflict is the Vietnam War. All these young kids going off, fighting and killing people for their country. The characterization was really well done in this movie. The appearance of the character looked like they came straight out of the 1960’s. Whoever did there costume did and amazing job because they even wore the same type of clothes of the real people they were portraying. It also had nice dialogue because they had British slang since one of the character were British and they was the American slang from the 1960’s. One of the biggest reactions of other character happened in this movie. From the beginning Jude did not like the guy Lucy was working for, he thought the work he was doing was to violent. The guy she worked for ended up building bombs which intended to be used in protest, but he ended up blowing himself up. The foils would have to be Lucy’s boss and Lucy. Lucy wanted to protest the war, but she wanted to do it peacefully. Her boss was willing to kill people in order to get his word across. Choice of name is absolutely huge in this movie. Two of the characters were named after two of The Beatles songs, Hey Jude and Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, which is where they got the names Lucy and Jude. The stock character would have to be the extra hippies and soldiers. They were just there to help protest and march and help fight in the war. Hippies were also the stereotyped character to, they were all dressed how people who were not born in the thought they dressed. A developing character would he Jude, he went from living in England to living in New York being an Artist. Another great stock character is Max he went from being a kid in college, to a soldier in the army. A round character would be have to be Prudence. Her unique quality was being a lesbian stuck in the closet, and back then it was not okay to be a lesbian. Irony of situation would have to be when Max tried to do everything in his power to not get enrolled into the army, like swallowing cotton balls, and he still got enrolled. Irony of character would be how Jude was portraying John Lennon and he was named after one of his songs. Symbols would have to be the peace signs everywhere. It was a time when peace was need. The peace sign is a universal symbol. At first I thought the whole movie was just these character portraying big artist back in the 1960’s, but it was also about friendship, love, peace, and heartbreak. I had a horrible expectations going into this movie, I am not a fan of musicals, but I ended up really enjoying it. It showed me you should always giving movies a chance. I went into this movie blind without read any opinions, or really knowing what it is about and I think that is the best way I could have done it.

Module 2 Scorecard: I feel the directors and editors used both smooth-grain film stock and rough-grain film stock. Times like when Jude was sitting on the beach signing they used more a rough grain stock, but regular times like at Max and Lucy’s family dinner they used smooth-grain film stocks. The setting was reflection of character. One setting was England where Jude, who was portraying John Lennon, lived, and that is where John Lennon was from. Then the setting was in New York where all these famous people got their start in singing. I feel like in this movie they used high-key lighting. There were never really any shadows unless it was night time. There was a lot of lighting in the movie, like the scene where they are first in their new apartment in New York.
This movie was a subjective point of view in scenes like when they are marching with all those people you feel like you are actually involved, or scenes with war make like you are helping fighting. The cinematographer creates illusion by zooming. In the beginning of the movie when Jude is on the beach singing the cinematograhpher slowly zooms up on his face. They also had a fixed frame moment when Jude got done pinning the strawberries on the white board and he just sat in the corner staring at the camera. Nothing at all moved in those few seconds. They also used movement of camera when everyone is dancing in the scene where they got stranded, the camera kind of moved around them. The newspaper in the beginning were also a cool illusion of depth made by editing.
The whole movie seemed to have this yellow tint during it, and it think they did that to make it look a little old. They also used low angle shot when Jo-Jo was at the funeral, you were kind of looking up at him. They used what looked like slow motion when everyone was in the water. They used a little bit of CGI in this movie, one of these also happened when they were in the water because they were not obviously in the water. Also they used CGI when they got stranded by the bus and ended up at this weird concert thing. They used CGI to create the little creatures that were dancing around. It did not look real at all. The scenes in this movie were the scenes that followed right into each other, which is a form cut, they all had a rhyme and a reason. I think they had to take a lot of shots during this movie because of the musical aspect. They had to line up the word perfectly with the studio recordings. An establishing shot is when we meet Jude for the time we get a feel for his surroundings. That he lives in a very poor part of England, where everyone seems to have the same job. They used outside/in editing in this movie because everything was in a sequence, and we never just randomly in a new setting. They used parallel cuts in the beginning because we went from seeing what Lucy was doing and we would jump to see what Jude was doing.
The film was a realistic movie, everything that happened in the movie could happen in real life, and I think that is why it attracts attention. I think like people sometimes get tired of watching movies that cannot happen in real life, because sometimes it gets sad. Color is used in making the film look old. Also when Jude nails up the strawberries, the color red that drips from them symbolizes his broken and bleeding heart. They also use color to get people attention, when someone sees colorful weird creatures dancing around they are going to have to watch.

Module Three Score Card: The visible sound would be them signing throughout the movie, or times when Sadie is performing online and the crowd is cheering. The invisible sound would be the background noise of the rallies and just the noise from them living in the city. The sounds of effects really help to tell the story. The sound effect from living in the city shows what it would be like living there. I think slow motioned sound happened when they were swimming, and it gave off this cool ambiance. They used the musical score to heighten the drama. One of those times is when Jude went to Lucy’s job and started singing. The song just made that scene for more angry and hurtful. They also use it to tell an inner story when Jude is singing on the beach and is singing the story of Lucy. Also the foreshadow that something bad is going to happen when Jude goes into her job and starts signing about destruction. I do not think there was any anachronistic music, I feel like every song belonged in the scene that it was in. I feel like other the actors in this movie were interpreters. They all had the same appearance, and pretty much the same personality, they just sang in this movie and they do not in real life. I think there was chemistry between Max and Jude, they seemed like the could be friends in real life. They instantly became friends in the movie and that seemed like a real friendship. Like they were not faking in for the camera. They all seemed to have chemistry together, like real friends. I really liked the actors in this movie, especially Jim Sturgess. I thought he fit the character to a tea. I also liked Dana Fuchs, she really portrayed a strong diva type. The person I liked the least was Lucy, and I think that is just because she was not portraying anyone, and if she was I have no idea who, and think she was kind of typecasted. They also had really great supporting cast. I would describe the directors style unique and amazing. The way she edited the movie to look like is made in a different era was really cool. The setting were amazing, like when they got stranded by the bus, that open field with the tent was cool to see. The subject matter of the film is also something you do not see often, it was life when these famous people were alive.