The document analyzes and summarizes key elements of the opening scenes in the 2001 film "Legally Blonde". It discusses how the pink and white title font introduces the lighthearted tone of the film. Scenes then establish the main character Elle through clues about her appearance and interests. The setting as a California college is shown through shots of students on campus and at Elle's sorority house. A letter delivered to Elle hints at the plot without giving too much away, intriguing viewers to learn more.
16 things that Panhandlers can teach us about Content MarketingBrad Farris
Successful panhandling is a lot like content marketing; it's reaching a jaded audience in a saturated market by finding a message that jumps out and moves you to action. This presentation looks at tactics and quotes taken from interviews with panhandlers and street performers and see what we can learn to make our content as effective as their cardboard signs.
This presentation was given at Content Jam 2013 http://www.http://contentjam.com/
Hashtag 101 - All You Need to Know About HashtagsModicum
Social media today moves at a mind-blowing pace. As soon as we feel like we’ve gotten the hang of one thing, something new flies onto the radar. It’s tough to keep up with it all. For example, it’s likely you’ve heard of hashtags. Suddenly, they’ve become part of our everyday lives, but many of us don’t truly understand how to use them. Never fear! In this #Hashtag 101 infographic, our adorable friend the hashbot has fun teaching exactly what you need to know about optimizing the usage of hashtags for business.
Consider your data when choosing a color palette for your charts and graphs. This presentation explains the 3 main types of color palettes, shows examples of how they are using in charts, and explains how to use color when you make your charts interactive.
How would you like to come across during a presentation? Check all that apply — Lazy? Safe? Unimaginative? A rule-follower? If you use a bullet slide, you are checking all those boxes. That's what bullets on a slide sub-consciously say about you. "But," I hear you say, "That's what the template made me do…" or "I had to get these points across, bullets are the best way."
See more at http://makeapowerfulpoint.com/2012/03/18/the-non-bullet-bullet-slide/
Need a little help to inspire your team? Whether it's your office, your youth group, your classroom, your executive staff or just for yourself - Fun Team Building is here to help. We're providing you with 52 inspirational, and motivational quotes to help you get through the year.
Everyday can be a challenge, but you can get through it. When you're looking for a few words to help inspire you, check back to see what we're featuring for this week. And feel free to share with us, your favorite motivational quote - we'll share it with the rest of our audience and team!
Using icons is a great way to add visuals to your presentation. There are many ways to get icons online, some are even free. But if you need a specific icon that you can’t find or if you want a special spin to your icon (color, shadow etc) – you can use PowerPoint’s great (and somewhat hidden) “Merge Shapes” commands to create your own icons.
Using these commands you can combine basic shapes into other shapes. You can union and subtract shapes. You can intersect and combine. All while still working natively inside PowerPoint. Once you have created an icon you can change the color, filling and add shadows as needed.
It is just as fun as building with Lego blocks! Well, almost..
This is a guide in 15 steps showing you how you can use these commands to create your own icon - the example we are using is a calendar icon.
An impactful approach to the Seven Deadly Sins you and your Brand should avoid on Social Media! From a humoristic approach to a modern-life analogy for Social Media and including everything in between, this deck is a compelling resource that will provide you with more than a few take-aways for your Brand!
How People Really Hold and Touch (their Phones)Steven Hoober
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Presented at ConveyUX in Seattle, 7 Feb 2014
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We are finally starting to think about how touchscreen devices really work, and design proper sized targets, think about touch as different from mouse selection, and to create common gesture libraries.
But despite this we still forget the user. Fingers and thumbs take up space, and cover the screen. Corners of screens have different accuracy than the center. It's time to re-evaluate what we think we know.
Steven reviews his ongoing research into how people actually interact with mobile devices, presents some new ideas on how we can design to avoid errors and take advantage of this new knowledge, and leaves you with 10 (relatively) simple steps to improve your touchscreen designs tomorrow.
1. Analysing a professional film opening Legally Blonde Release date: Oct 2001 Directed by: Robert Luketic Stars: Reese Witherspoon, Luke Wilson, Selma Blair, Matthew Davis and more.
2. Title The main title in Legally Blonde is placed in the middle of the picture in pink and white font to make it stand out against the background and to give us an idea of what the film is going to be like. The title is written in a font that looks as though it has been written by hand which suggests that the film isn’t going to be very serious and is going to be an easy watch. I would consider using this sort of font in our film opening as both this film, and our film is a chick flick/teen. When the title first appears on the screen it looks as though it is being written as the letters appear one by one, this is the only time they use this, all the other titles fade on as the whole thing. When the title begins to be ‘written’ the image behind becomes more in focus so by the time the title is fully ‘written’ the image behind it is also clear so everything becomes clearer now we know the title and what the film is going to be about.
3. Introduction of key character Before we actually meet the main character we are given lots of clues about what she looks like, what type of person she is and what she likes. We see a letter being delivered to ‘Elle’ early on and from the constant switching between following the letter and these images of her we automatically assume that this girl is Elle. This pictures show some of the examples of the things we can put together to create a whole image of the key character. We can tell from the clues that she is a girly girl who cares a lot about what she looks like, we can also see that she is popular, from the homecoming queen banner, likes designers, from her Tiffany necklace and Prada shopping bag, and also is caring and thoughtful as she has a dog which looks well kept and is dressed up in matching clothes to her. We only see her face when the music is finished and when the letter is finally passed to her and we find out that she is Elle.
4. Introduction of the setting The first time we see an idea of the setting is an establishing shot of a girl riding over a bridge by a water fountain and some buildings, there are lots of people about chatting and laughing. We then see her riding by houses and with lots of young people about again, she then rides past a sign with Delta Nu on it, it is then clear that it is set in a college in America. We are then taken into the girls Sorority house, and see some of the rooms, for example the gym and the hallway. We also see glimpses of the main characters room and how girly it is. We can easily tell from the opening scene where the film is set, and what genre the film is, mainly from the use of lots of young people, the type of activities they are doing, for example, lots of girls getting ready in a pink bathroom, and the type of things the main character is going to be involved in.
5. Clues about the plot Not many things are given away in the opening scene, obviously to keep the audience wanting to know what's going to happen but the biggest clue about the plot is from the card we follow through the scene. This is an example of an enigma code in the opening scene, as we are wondering what the card is for and why Elle is getting it. This keeps the audience hooked as they want to know what the card is for and whether it is going to be a large part of the film. It is good to give away clues in the film opening as it makes the audience want to carry on watching the film, but it is also bad to give away too much in the opening minutes as it wont keep the audience interested in watching the rest of the film.