This is my final draft movie poster. It is in some ways different to my first draft as I decided the image of the silhouette should take up more of the space.
Wednesday, 31 March 2010
Final Poster
This is my final draft movie poster. It is in some ways different to my first draft as I decided the image of the silhouette should take up more of the space.
Monday, 8 March 2010
Audience research for our film
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Monday, 1 March 2010
In what ways have you use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media
Our film can be placed in the genre of drama. This genre has common characters which appear in dramas like ours. For example most dramas have a person to whom something bad has happen e.g. death or life altering event. In many cases it also focuses on how this affects loved ones and how they are dealing with it e.g. in the film Dear John a soldier has to go off to war which is the life altering event, his girlfriend is left behind and she has to deal and adjust to this. Our film sticks to this conventions by having a character that has a bad event happening to him, in this case being beaten up badly, and focusing how his daughter is coping with it. Therefore we can say the conventions of drama to apply and the theory is validated.
Mary Winn states there is an unbalanced in gender status in society and that this is represented in media like films. Feminism points out the fact that in most movies, females are represented as the weaker sex and men as more powerful and dominating e.g. in the film C.R.A.Z.Y. being feminine was attributed to being weak and less important and the father was always more dominating then the mother. I realized that our movie sadly has the same representation of females in that the female character is portrayed as weak and down without her Dad and it’s the men like her Dad and the trouble makers that get into fights and try to defend themselves. This means that feminism is right and films to portray an unbalance of genders in films.
Dramas are known to portray certain values and ideals, for example they give viewers the impression that everyone will act the same to a certain situation e.g. children will always be sad when they grandma died. The viewers that our main character will be very distressed and have to go to a process of dealing with it and achieve a sort of closure. In movies were something bad happen like Titanic the viewers expected the female protagonist to be very upset after her lover died and to spent years trying to recover from it. Dramas can thus be said to be all pieces of society’s ideologies and have to conform to them however disguised in creative and original pieces of art. Incidentally creative drama is destroyed to conform to the wishes of viewers and become constructions of the ideologies of society.
Traditional narrative is the delivered in a linear with beginning, middle and end as proposed by Aristotle. However we felt our narrative would be best delivered with narrative with flashbacks to a second, previous narrative which for the duration of the film switches forth and back. The pace is slow to enable the viewer to engage with it thoroughly. It starts with the main character performing a monologue and the mood of the scenes with her in it are very low and melancholy staying the same all the way. This shows how slow the process is she has to go to gain closure and that it is complicated and difficult.
The club scenes built up to the expected point where the viewer finds out the fate of the Dad of the woman. This was added to create a greater emotional impact.
Freytag’s theory of narrative defines it as a list of events happening like a triangle starting at a quiet, peaceful point, climbing up to a climax and dropping down to achieve a denouement. Our narrative follows a similar structure. In the plot with the men at the club, we start with him standing by the door which is the peaceful point, that they start fighting and climbing up to the climax where the man gets beaten up, and finally the it drops down to the denouement after they run away and leave the man there beaten up. This stays in tune with the triangle proposed by Freytag and therefore we can say we stick to the conventions of the Freytag narrative and reject the conventions proposed by Aristotle.
We kept to the conventions of cinematography by keeping basic rules like match-on-action, using shot-counter shot and not breaking the 180 degree rule. We shot it out of chronological order to make it easier to film by having all the shots of one scene done at the same time on the same day and all the shots of a different scene done on a different day. Also after we filmed it we can edit the sequence using an editing software and cut it in different parts to make them look like the flash backs by dropping them in to the main plot.
For the club scenes we used bird eye views and static long shots to make them look like CCTV footage and add to the realism of the piece and make it more realistic for the viewer. The use of CU during the scene’s with the woman to emphasise her emotional involvement in the film and make the audience focus on her.
The editing software allowed us to do non-linear editing and make the club scenes look more like CCTV footage look more like by changing the brightness and saturation of the footage and adding titles. With final cut we could create split screens so the audience can see the club scenes from different perspectives and engage with every moment of the fight which in turn creates a bigger impact for them.
Mary Winn states there is an unbalanced in gender status in society and that this is represented in media like films. Feminism points out the fact that in most movies, females are represented as the weaker sex and men as more powerful and dominating e.g. in the film C.R.A.Z.Y. being feminine was attributed to being weak and less important and the father was always more dominating then the mother. I realized that our movie sadly has the same representation of females in that the female character is portrayed as weak and down without her Dad and it’s the men like her Dad and the trouble makers that get into fights and try to defend themselves. This means that feminism is right and films to portray an unbalance of genders in films.
Dramas are known to portray certain values and ideals, for example they give viewers the impression that everyone will act the same to a certain situation e.g. children will always be sad when they grandma died. The viewers that our main character will be very distressed and have to go to a process of dealing with it and achieve a sort of closure. In movies were something bad happen like Titanic the viewers expected the female protagonist to be very upset after her lover died and to spent years trying to recover from it. Dramas can thus be said to be all pieces of society’s ideologies and have to conform to them however disguised in creative and original pieces of art. Incidentally creative drama is destroyed to conform to the wishes of viewers and become constructions of the ideologies of society.
Traditional narrative is the delivered in a linear with beginning, middle and end as proposed by Aristotle. However we felt our narrative would be best delivered with narrative with flashbacks to a second, previous narrative which for the duration of the film switches forth and back. The pace is slow to enable the viewer to engage with it thoroughly. It starts with the main character performing a monologue and the mood of the scenes with her in it are very low and melancholy staying the same all the way. This shows how slow the process is she has to go to gain closure and that it is complicated and difficult.
The club scenes built up to the expected point where the viewer finds out the fate of the Dad of the woman. This was added to create a greater emotional impact.
Freytag’s theory of narrative defines it as a list of events happening like a triangle starting at a quiet, peaceful point, climbing up to a climax and dropping down to achieve a denouement. Our narrative follows a similar structure. In the plot with the men at the club, we start with him standing by the door which is the peaceful point, that they start fighting and climbing up to the climax where the man gets beaten up, and finally the it drops down to the denouement after they run away and leave the man there beaten up. This stays in tune with the triangle proposed by Freytag and therefore we can say we stick to the conventions of the Freytag narrative and reject the conventions proposed by Aristotle.
We kept to the conventions of cinematography by keeping basic rules like match-on-action, using shot-counter shot and not breaking the 180 degree rule. We shot it out of chronological order to make it easier to film by having all the shots of one scene done at the same time on the same day and all the shots of a different scene done on a different day. Also after we filmed it we can edit the sequence using an editing software and cut it in different parts to make them look like the flash backs by dropping them in to the main plot.
For the club scenes we used bird eye views and static long shots to make them look like CCTV footage and add to the realism of the piece and make it more realistic for the viewer. The use of CU during the scene’s with the woman to emphasise her emotional involvement in the film and make the audience focus on her.
The editing software allowed us to do non-linear editing and make the club scenes look more like CCTV footage look more like by changing the brightness and saturation of the footage and adding titles. With final cut we could create split screens so the audience can see the club scenes from different perspectives and engage with every moment of the fight which in turn creates a bigger impact for them.
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