Home alone

The main character from 'Home alone', 'Kevin', is very similar to our main character 'Rodney'. After looking at various clips of the film as well as the trailer i have found a number of useful ideas i can take note of for my own film and the portrayal of 'Rodney'. In one of the scenes of the film Kevin says 'This is my house, i have to defend it'. After this we are shown a series of shots of him setting up traps and making a plan to outsmart the adults. As there is a scene quite similar to this in my film when Rodney vows to 'defeat' his 'vampire' teachers and comes in the next day prepared and with a plan i looked carefully at tips i could use to make our own film more effective. Heroic music is used throughout the scene giving a mysterious illusion of fantasy and adventure showing a little boys world where he can outsmart adults with his own courage and outrageous ideas. This is exactly what we were going for in our own film. We wanted to create a simple film of a lovable boy which is imaginative and in some parts unrealistic, however, is able to get the audience lost in this boys world with him. I deicded to also include music to show this, however, as a huge theme is comedy i chose to use heroic music to also create humour as Rodney is shown as quite a comic figure. We would like the audience to laugh at his 'dopeyness' but at the same time admire his lovable nature. There is also another scene in which Kevin is sad and lonely. He feels forgotten and down. Rodney feels rejected and upset that noone will believe his claims and he walks around the school alone. In 'Home alone' sad music is used to reflect Kevins mood and i think depressing music should be used to create empathy for Rodney in our film too. Not only does this create empathy for Rodney, but alos creates sympathy towards him as he has no friends and no one believes him. This makes him lovable and the audience will warm to him.