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Thursday, 16 January 2014

Napoleon Dynamite timeline

00.00 - 00.01 = red carpet
00.01 - 00.06 = plate with food and 'fox searchlight pictures' written in sauce
00.07 - 00.07 = plate taken away
00.08 - 00.09 = white carpet
00.10 - 00.14 = plate with food and 'paramount pictures presents' written in sauce
00.14 - 00.15 = plate taken away
00.15 - 00.16 = blue carpet
00.16 - 00.21 = plate with food and 'in association with mtn films' written in sauce
00.21 - 00.22 = plate taken away
00.23 - 00.24 = shot of wallet
00.25 - 00.29 = shot of UFO abduction card, with 'starring Jon Heder' on it
00.30 - 00.36 = preston high school card
00.37 - 00.38 = green carpet
00.39 - 00.44 = plate of food with 'Jon Gries' written in sauce
00.44 - 00.45 = plate taken away
00.45 -00.46 = green carpet
00.47 - 00.48 = mustardy carpet
00.48 - 00.53 = plate of food with 'Aaron Ruell' written in sauce
00.54 - 00.55 = mustardy carpet
00.56 - 00.56 = green flooring
00.57 - 01.01 = tin of food with 'Efren Ramirez' written in sauce
01.01 - 01.02 = tin taken away
01.02 - 01.03 = green flooring
01.03 - 01.04 = mustardy flooring
01.04 - 01.08 = food with Tina Majorino
01.09 - 01.10 = mustardy flooring
01.10 - 01.11 = wooden flooring
01.12 - 01.15 = ninja star with 'with diedrich bader' written on it
01.16 - 01.16 = wooden flooring
01.17 - 01.17 = blue patterned carpet
01.18 - 01.19 = books placed on carpet
01.19 - 01.20 = book opened
01.20 - 01.26 = takes out library book return card, the card says 'casting by Jory Weitz'
01.26 - 01.27 = put card back
01.27 - 01.28 = open new book
01.29 - 01.34 = takes out library book return card, the card says 'music by John Swihart'
01.35 - 01.36 = put card back
01.36 - 01.37 = pushes books away
01.37 - 01.38 = carpet
01.38 - 01.42 = box of sweets placed on carpet, the box says 'Edited by Jeremy coon'
01.42 - 01.43 = box flicked away
01.43 - 01.45 = beige carpet
01.46 - 01.53 = lip balm with 'Production design by Cory Lorenzen'
01.53 - 01.54 = blue carpet
01.55 - 02.01 = drawing placed onto screen with 'Director of photography Munn Powell'
02.01 - 02.02 = blue carpet
02.02 - 02.03 = beige carpet
02.04 - 02.09 = drawing placed onto screen with 'Executive producer Jory Weitz'
02.10 - 02.11 = mustardy carpet
02.11 - 02.12 = stripey carpet
02.13 - 02.17 = 'produced by Jeremy Coon, Chris Wyatt, Sean Covel' appears on the screen
02.17 - 02.18 = stripey carpet
02.19 - 02.19 = laminate flooring
02.20 - 02.30 = pencils, rubber and protractor placed onto floor with 'Written by Jared Hess and Jekusha Hess' written on it
02.30 - 02.31 = pencils, rubber and protractor wiped away
02.32 - 02.33 = blue carpet 02.33 - 02.37 = plate of food placed down with 'Directed by Jared Hess' written with sauce on it
02.37 - 02.38 = burger bun out on top of burger
02.38 - 04.01 = black screen

Personal analysis: Napoleon Dynamite.

Napoleon Dynamite is a 2004 comedy about a high school student, called Napoleon Dynamite, who lives with his grandmother and his older brother Kip.
 We can tell right from the start of the sequence that Napoleon may live with an elderly person or someone who likes a particular style. We can tell this because the carpets are fairly old fashioned and the colours are very bright and do not stick to one particular colour like what we would expect to see in a modern day household. Also at the start of the clip there is birds chirping in the background which suggests that this film is set somewhere in the suburbs. We can tell this because if it was set in a city there would be the noise of traffic in the background. The fact that it is set in the suburbs could also suggest that nothing exciting ever usually happens there and it's not particularly interesting.

 From this clip we can also tell that the main character is a fairly unhealthy, teenage boy. We can tell this because there is alot of unhealthy foods, and alot of sauce on the plates used at the start, and the foods used throughout the clip are fairly unhealthy. However there is one shot (00.58) where there are some healthier foods, this suggests that Napoleon is trying to be healthy but does not want to give up his fatty, unhealthy foods. There is also a shot (01.39) of a box of sweets, that say 'a fat free food' this also suggests that he is trying to be more healthy but again, does not want to give up on unhealthy foods. The sweets also suggest that he may have fairly bad teeth.
 The shot of the cards in Napoleons wallet (00.25) suggest that he is a bit of a geeky, unpopular character. We can tell this because he has 'UFO abduction insurance'. Not many people are willing to admit that they believe in aliens, so Napoleon can't have many friends as not many people will have that in common with him. Later on in the clip we also see that he has a book about Bigfoot and a book about science, this also suggests that he is geeky and is a skeptic.
 We also learn that Napoleon is fairly organised and doesn't like to be in trouble as he is checking when his borrowed library books are due back, this also suggest he is a bit geeky and likes to read. We can also see that he is organised because later in the clip (02.21) he has school equipment out and is prepared. This again, could make him be seen as geeky. The fact that his pencils are sharp suggests that he like to draw and is always doodling whenever he can.