Today's lesson was based on our group choices. I formed a group with Mabinti and Martina and we dhared with eachother our ideas. My idea was based on a girl that starts the next set of her education and strage things seem to cross her pathway only to discover something about herself.
What I have to offer my group is my high level of confidence of willingness to get in front of the camera. I am also imaginative with my creativity and sufficient in my analysis. I'm an artist so this will be very helpful when it comes to sketching out our story board. I also currently to performing arts so i have the understanding and experience with the setting, costume, make-up, lighting and sond.
The other two girls in my group have the strength of being in contact with one another, not only because they're related but they live closely to one another. Tina has the skill of pitching and developing ideas. While Binti has the skill to navigate a camera with her digital photography skills, alongside with her interest for horror movies.
Halloween
Bomb-fire Night
Christmas
New Years
Above are a list of upcoming key events that I thought might be intellectual to film clips in the environment during these special time periods. And hopefully we get footages of superior conditions and effects.
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Mulvey's Male Gaze - Audience Theory
The Male Gaze theory is suggested by Laure Mulvey (1975) where she hows how the male point of view is adopted by the camera for the benefit of an assumed male audience. This is through the practice of a camera 'lingering' a females body, and therefore customises females to be viewed as 'sexual objects' to gratify men.
She argued that male figures are the central active characters and the male audience identifies their viewing of women as passive figures. Female audience are also positioned to identify with the male gaze and functional through the 'males' eyes'.
From this exercise I understand the key representation theory 'The Male Gaze' and have identified the strengths of effect of this particular theory. Alongside, applied it to another trailer production, Byzantium.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/byzantium/#videos-large
In the film Byzantium, women are shown to seductive through the use of camera shots(angles&movement), Editing, Sound and all other minor aspects included in the trailer.
At the beginning of the trailer the close-up of the girls eye's as if she's luring him into her. And has one long thumb nails that gives the suspense of purpose of activity of what the nail for.
The same girl is shown to be wearing a red colour and has red wavy hair, with red lipstick applied onto her lips. This colour red represents passion and love.
In various scenes, men are shown to be dominate due to the ration of what men are to women. Men are also shown to overshadow of a female figure. We see this through the positioning of a when the women is seated and is surrounded by three men stood behind her. Both of these point emphasises through the camera shot and minse-en-scene. This overall view presents women as second best and always followed behind a man.
A scene is shown where a girl looks at her reflection but her reflection is faded through steam, which gives the sense of unclarity and shows unimportance to this female figure.
Dialogue - 'secrets haven't you', this could be encoded as a theme of secrets that can be found, portrayed or represented in any genre of film.
Towards the end of the trailer, shows a lady assisted with sound and lighting indicating a night club.
Through the use of hard base beats and colourful flashing lights.
With this, the camera focuses directly on the side of a female emphasising her curves and figure on her body.
The technique of double gander is presented when we see a reflection that ensures the distinct binary opposition of good vs bad.
Overall, the male gaze theory shows me what exactly the representation of women are in films. However this theory can be challenged as not every movie will consist of a male being heroic and female being seductive or set to be second fiddle to a male figure.
She argued that male figures are the central active characters and the male audience identifies their viewing of women as passive figures. Female audience are also positioned to identify with the male gaze and functional through the 'males' eyes'.
From this exercise I understand the key representation theory 'The Male Gaze' and have identified the strengths of effect of this particular theory. Alongside, applied it to another trailer production, Byzantium.
http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/byzantium/#videos-large
In the film Byzantium, women are shown to seductive through the use of camera shots(angles&movement), Editing, Sound and all other minor aspects included in the trailer.
At the beginning of the trailer the close-up of the girls eye's as if she's luring him into her. And has one long thumb nails that gives the suspense of purpose of activity of what the nail for.
The same girl is shown to be wearing a red colour and has red wavy hair, with red lipstick applied onto her lips. This colour red represents passion and love.In various scenes, men are shown to be dominate due to the ration of what men are to women. Men are also shown to overshadow of a female figure. We see this through the positioning of a when the women is seated and is surrounded by three men stood behind her. Both of these point emphasises through the camera shot and minse-en-scene. This overall view presents women as second best and always followed behind a man.
A scene is shown where a girl looks at her reflection but her reflection is faded through steam, which gives the sense of unclarity and shows unimportance to this female figure.
Dialogue - 'secrets haven't you', this could be encoded as a theme of secrets that can be found, portrayed or represented in any genre of film.
Towards the end of the trailer, shows a lady assisted with sound and lighting indicating a night club.
Through the use of hard base beats and colourful flashing lights.
With this, the camera focuses directly on the side of a female emphasising her curves and figure on her body.
The technique of double gander is presented when we see a reflection that ensures the distinct binary opposition of good vs bad.
Overall, the male gaze theory shows me what exactly the representation of women are in films. However this theory can be challenged as not every movie will consist of a male being heroic and female being seductive or set to be second fiddle to a male figure.
Evaluation of existing weblogs
http://alomgira2media.blogspot.co.uk
http://kimberleysmarta2media.blogspot.co.uk
http://poppymiles.blogspot.co.uk
http://kimberleysmarta2media.blogspot.co.uk
http://poppymiles.blogspot.co.uk
- All three of them have posted all their evaluation questions onto their blog.
- They have collected feedback from peers and have reflected on them.
- They have produced pie charts on excel as a record of data.
- They have reported sessions from 'film's cool' regularly as an account of meeting professionals.
- Linked theories to synopsis.
- Have analysis of the groups production logo, poster and magazine.
- Mentions the absences of a group member.
- Codes they employed.
- The effects of an unsuccessful filming session.
- Inclusion of digital strategies eg. Facebook
- Knowledge of the theoretical side of the ratings of films.
- And risk assessment.
I can evaluate and peer assess existing A2 media blogs and supply smart tagets on how I can replicate or improve upon this practice.
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Film's Cool - Session One
The first session of 'Film's Cool' took place in the common room, where three different media classes were reunited together in one space. On the first session we had the opportunity to have Kate Hardie come in and talk to us. The director and writer gave us the fundamental aspects of what there is to make a film. And she explained this by taking us on a journey of how she got to where she is today. After been shared her transformation from being an actress and to what she has now become, she then went on to talk about what aspects we should take into consideration when planning our story lines. Such as; 'What kind of story is it? What will make your story different if you wanted to follow the path of a traditional convention?' This made me have to decide whether I wanted to use a recognizable genre or if I wanted to bring a fresh perspective. This then led me onto what theme I'm trying to explore and what will I be hoping communicate. So then I had to think about the significant things that have happened in my life and what are my interests.
After our 90minute session, I went home with the understanding of genre being assessable. And that pretty much anything can be made into what you want, as genre is a framework so what matters is your story.
After our 90minute session, I went home with the understanding of genre being assessable. And that pretty much anything can be made into what you want, as genre is a framework so what matters is your story.
Killers in Horror Films
I am able to explore key characters in horror films, investigate conventional characteristics of the protagonist, and this could possibly enable me to apply my findings to my own horror production.
Testing Burton's Formula
I can point out commonalities in terms of key elements found within specific genres.And through this guide, can pick out key features and colour code them in film plots. With this, I have made an observation of what all three plots have in common.
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
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