Juno Hero's Journey

English Film Study

Activity One:
Protagonist’s Journey: Discuss the evolution of the protagonist in the film. The discussion should include an analysis of how the character has changed as a result of their experiences, the significant events and relationships that have prompted their changes and whether you believe these changes to be a positive or negative consequence for this character.

In the start fo the film, Juno appeared to be just a normal teenager living her own life. There are some little key parts and hints towards her behaviour and how she lives. Even though she is a 16 year old, she still acts like a child in some ways, for example she has a "hamburger phone" which is usally an item that a child would have and use. Another example is that she says things aloud, and shes very stright fowoard in a very childish matter. So during her pregnacy, she started to open up towards a more mature level for her age and started to really see the big world and how it can effect someone including someone such as

herself. She begins to relise more of things she never knew and began to ask questions about "how can someone love someone" or "can two people really stay in love forever?" Questions (since seeing her at the start of the film) she would as never asked nor understood the answer and why.

Activity Two:
Identify the key themes of the film and discuss their relationship to the unit theme of The Human Condition. The discussion should include the Identification of the range of emotions experienced by the main character(s) throughout their personal journey.

Love is a really important role/emotion within the movie, like when she runs out of the abortion centre. How she couldn't do it and even though she didn't want the baby, she just couldn't do it. Also, when she finds out that Bleaker was taking someone else to prom instead of her, she felt hurt even though she didn't really want to go and that he claimed that he didn't particuallt like this girl. She felt quite upset, but when she approched him after having a conversation with her dad (about how people can love each other etc) she fell in love with him and wanted to be with him. So seeing what she was like in the start of the film a little childish and straight forward 16 year old, and then turn into a more mature version of herself and discovering more feelings towards herself and Bleaker.

Activity Three/Activity Four:
Using the same scene identified above, discuss how the use of camera angles and techniques, and how the use of diegetic and non-diegetic sound, are effective in creating the intended emotional impact on audiences. Scene Analysis: Select one scene in the film that you think is particularly powerful and/or effective in conveying a theme (human emotion) to the audience. Briefly identify the scene and discuss the effectiveness of mise-en-scene in creating the intended emotional impact on audiences.

One of the themes in the film that was quite strong and efftective was when she was in school and walking down the hallway, everyone just didn't notice her and didn't move out of the way to let her though as if she didn't exist to them.

Also, Juno was the only one that was walking in that dierection down the hall with everyone going against her. It's a sign that shows that everyone else is differnt from her and how she is quite different from them. And by looking closely, the faces are quite blurred out to allow the camare angle to be focused fully onto her, and this is included while the talking of everyone is quite faded to really engage the auidence onto Juno and understand how differnt everything is. But when she's pregnant, all that changes because then, everyone moves out of the way while she's still going the oppisite way. But the faces and talking of the students aren't blurred out anymore allow to see how their opinions on Juno's

appearence.