Alien (1979)

Alien (1979)
What is the Plot Type of the film you are analysing? 3. Using the stages of the plot structure that Booker provides, map the film against Booker’s analysis of the plot type that best matches your film. Pay attention to the details of each stage. 4. Who is the protagonist in the film and what special skills and attributes do they have? 5. At the end of the film, what has changed in the protagonist’s external world? How was this change established in Act One and Act Three 6. What needed to change in the protagonist’s internal world at the start of the film and how was this established in Act One. At the end of the film, what has changed in the protagonist’s internal world and how was this established? 7. How has the protagonist contributed to this change? 8. What were the obstacles and hurdles that the protagonist needed to overcome to achieve their external goal? 9. Who was the film’s antagonist, and in what way did they create hurdles and obstacles or represent the resistance that the protagonist needed to overcome to achieve their external goal. PART 2. From this film, chose a sequence. A sequence will be defined in the week 4 lecture and in the document Defining and Selecting a Sequence and tested in seminars from week 4. Bring candidate sequences to your seminars, from week 4. 1. One paragraph discussion on why your excerpt is a sequence. 2. In what stage of the plot does the sequence occur and what does it contribute o that plot stage. 3. A shot list of each shot in the sequence. Capture the first frame of each shot and for shots with movement, the first and last frames. Number each shot and provide the basic shot size des?r?ptor