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Choose a movie and view it for 30 minutes. Identify the key features of 1 of the 3 acts.
-Movie: National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007)
-Director: Jon Turteltaub
-Duration: 2 hours 35 minutes

Key features:
Act 1
-Hook: history – civil war (Thomas gates – break the code)
-complication – who is this guy that killed president Lincoln? Why? “war has just begun”?
-we know why Nicholas gates wants the treasure; to clear Thomas gates name (innocence that he didn’t lie about why he bur… Continue

The four choices that the director made on the movie “The Parent Trap” were the characters chosen in the movie, the different setting of areas in the movie, the sound effects used in the movie when appropriated and the transitioning of one scene to the other.

The main characters of this movie are the twins. The story itself also describes much of the twins’ life like how they met each other in the beginning and then ended up with how they got together and found their family. Hence, the director… Continue

The usage of the first 25 shots depicts the setting and plot of the movie, "The Parent Trap", directed by Nancy Meyers in 1998. These shots enable the audience to have in mind what the story is about and perhaps trigger the interest of them into continue watching the movie. The first few shots shown in the movie are close ups. This gives us the place setting to where the story is taking place – on a ship at the sea. Next, the movie displays more close up shots to portray the characters in the mo… Continue