Symbolism in kill bill volume 2:
Scene 11

The scene starts of in a desert and we see a blurry vision of Uma Thurman walking towards the camera/us, this is done to symbolise how hot the dessert is as she is walking really slowly. They use a number of dissolves as it is a slow edit so it helps emphasis how long it taking her to get to her destination. Parallel music is used to symbolise how slow the time is passing. The medium shot used is to show how tired, hot and dirty she is.

It then shows a long shot of mountains and her walking a lot that could portray how strong she is, as she has still not stopped. When she is standing at the top of the mountain the camera is positioned behind her and a high angle shot of her looking down it makes us think she is superior as she is looking down on the villain. It then cuts to a close up of which looks very serious and the camera carries on zooming in on her face and the music turns more dramatic to create more enigma.

The women villain is then shown, the audience could interpret that she is the villain as she is wearing a black patch that could connote that she is like a pirate as pirates are evil and are only after treasure similar to her she is evil as she wants to kill Uma Thurman and is only after the Hanzo sword and the money. So the Hanzo sword can stand for a symbol of treasure, as they are both very precious in each case.

After the black mamba attacks Bill’s brother we see a point of view shot of Bill’s brother looking up at the women villain symbolising how he is weak and that she is in power.

Francis Ford Coppola

The level of contribution into the work he does is a lot as has produced, acted, written and directed many films. Some of the well-known films he has produced are Jeepers Creepers II (2003), Jeepers Creepers (2001) and Sleepy Hollow (1999).
The films he has directed are Jack (1996), The Godfather Trilogy (1992) and The Godfather: Part III (1990) some of the films he has written are The Godfather Trilogy (1992), The Godfather: Part III (1990) and The Godfather: Part II (1974).
Coppola often worked with family members on his films. He put his two sons into The Godfather as extras during the street fight scene and Don Corleone's funeral. His sister,Talia Shire, played Connie Corleone in all three Godfather films, the last of which his daughter Sofia also appeared in. His father Carmine co-wrote much of the music in The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II and Apocalypse Now.
He operated several movie theatres in the New York area, and he was responsible for bringing a number of silent Italian films to the United States. As an adult, Francis would remember hearing all kinds of stories about his Italian ancestors--tales of robberies and "honour" slayings and the kind of mayhem that might have fit perfectly into one of his Godfather movies.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music/news/20060517_ipods.shtml

the article i chosen to write about is "iPod under threat"
its about how Apple's iPod could soon become banned from the shelves if rival a company gets its way. music channel MTV are launching a digital download service today to compete with the techo giant's own iTunes.It's called Urge and is aimed at the growing number of people who use MP3 players other than the iPod.But MTV's got a huge challenge ahead: last month iTunes sold more than one billion tunes since launching three years ago.

my view on the article is ipod should not be banned as you could look at vidoes and pictures on the actaully ipod plus it could be used as a portable hardrive which is a bit simular to a mp3 player. however, i think mp3 players can be appealing as they are smaller then ipods.

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