Today in film, we spent most of the class finishing off a task from the previous lesson focussed on overhead diagrams. I used a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail to begin, before creating a shotlist and then creating an overhead diagram. I feel that this task has given me a great idea of overhead diagrams, which will be very useful for the upcoming assignment.
For homework, we were supposed to analyse an episode of the twilight zone for metaphoric value. The episode I chose was the episode "I Shot an Arrow in the Air", in which the launch of an experimental spacecraft goes wrong, leaving the survivors of the crash stranded on an asteroid. The survivors argue amongst themselves, before they seperate to scout out the area. After one of the three survivors does not return, the leader of the mission is suspicious when the final member returns with more water than he had left with. They go out looking for the missing member, only for the final member to turn on the leader, killing him so that hey may survive for longer. However, in a major plot-twist, it is revealed that they merely crashed in a desert on earth.
I believe that it conveyed its message well, that humans turn on each other easily. It also conveyed the futility of this, through the final plot twist. Another note of interest was that it managed to contain a somewhat meta attitude, having the "alien" landscape (clearly filmed on earth) eventually revealed to actually be earth.
