This document compares and contrasts the plots of the musical films High School Musical and Camp Rock. It discusses three key differences: 1) How the main characters first meet - Troy and Gabriella meet singing karaoke while Shane overhears Mitchie singing alone. 2) Their rivals - Sharpay and Ryan in HSM, Theresa in Camp Rock. 3) How they win the competition - Troy and Gabriella perform together late, while Mitchie and Shane perform a combined song at the Final Jam. Both films are praised for their values despite their plot differences.
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
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1. SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND DESIGN
THE DESIGN SCHOOL
FOUNDATION IN NATURAL BUILD ENVIRONMENT
NAME: Simpson Chin Jiunn Yih
STUDENT ID NO: 0318154
FILMS SELECTED: High School Musical & Camp Rock
WORD COUNT: 824
ENGLISH 2 (ELG 30605)
WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 1: COMPARE – CONTRAST ESSAY
LECTURER: CASSANDRA WIJESURIA
SUBMISSION DATE: 19TH SEPTEMBER 2014
2. What is a musical film? Musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing. The two greatly known musical films in the 21st century are probably High School Musical and also Camp Rock. High School Musical was released back in 2006 and Camp Rock was released back in 2008. Both movies received great results in terms of views and likes. The purpose of this essay is to contrast the storyline or plot between these two movies. Firstly, the encounter between the male and the female lead. In High School Musical, the male lead, Troy Bolton, met the female lead, Gabriella Montez in a New Year’s Eve party while singing karaoke together. They were attracted to each other after singing together. Troy and Gabriella both exchanged numbers before going their separate ways. One week later Troy goes back to his high school, East High, in New Mexico to find that Gabriella is a new student there. They quickly become close friends. On the other hand, in Camp Rock, the encounter between the male lead Shane and female lead Mitchie was not that smooth. Mitchie, an aspiring young musician who hopes to become a professional singer pleaded to go the camp “Camp Rock”. However her parents are unable to afford the tuition. Then, Mitchie’s mother decided to cater food for the camp thus allowing Mitchie to join. However she has to help her out in the kitchen. In the evening, Mitchie played the piano and was singing her own song in an empty cabin and it was overheard by Shane. Before Shane realise who the singer was, Mitchie left swiftly because she has to help out in the kitchen. Shane fell in love with the voice without knowing who the singer was. He then spread the words of searching for the girl with “the voice”.
3. Secondly, the differences between their rivalries. In High School Musical, the main rivals of Troy and Gabriella are Sharpay and her twin brother Ryan. The twins are very talented in singing and also they are awfully rich. When Sharpay and Ryan overheard Troy and Gabriella’s practice, they thought that they are really great and they started to worry. So they decided to change the competition time to coincide with both the basketball championship and the science tournament so that Troy and Gabriella were unable to participate. Then, in Camp Rock, after knowing that Mitchie was the girl that Shane was looking for, Theresa, the daughter of the famous T.J Tyler and also a fan girl of Shane who wishes to impress him, used different methods of having her eliminated from the competition, the Final Jam. She hid her expensive bracelet inside Mitchie’s bag and accused her for stealing it. When the instructor confronted Mitchie, she denied it. Then after they found out that the bracelet was really with Mitchie, she was disqualified from the Final Jam.
Thirdly, the differences between how they win their competition. In High School Musical, Troy and Gabriella managed to overcome the issue of the time callback with the help of their friends. They were actually a little late for their performance and Ms.Darbus did not allow them to sing, at first. Then their big friends started to swarm in and occupy the theatre for their performance. Nothing much that Ms.Darbus can do, she allowed them to sing. Troy and Gabriella both performed very well and they got a huge response from the crowd as well as Ms.Darbus. Sharpay and Ryan did well in their performance but Troy and Gabriella did better. And this is how they won the competition. However in Camp Rock, Theresa always wanted to impress her mother. Her mother always seem too busy and all Theresa wanted was a little attention from her. During her performance, she noticed a familiar face in the crowd. It was her mother. She was so happy and it boosted her performance. However
4. during the peak of her performance, her mother received a phone call and was not unable to focus on her performance. Instantly, Theresa lost focus and fell down during her performance. She was humiliated. She stopped her performance halfway and ran back into the curtains to cry. This gave a bad impression to the judges and her score fell sharply. Then it was the end of Final Jam and finally Mitchie can perform. When she performed, Shane finally found the girl that she has been searching for the whole time. With both songs having the same key, they combined their songs and her performance became a double sing. The response from the crowd was great and they ruled the Final Jam.
Although there are differences between these two musical films, they are great movies with a lot of values to learn from. We should continue to support the production of musical films so that they will produce better films in the future.
