tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7677764791932253572024-03-04T20:24:02.420-08:00A Film LifeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05436146359546106113noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-767776479193225357.post-83273052344088008852013-04-23T16:23:00.000-07:002013-04-23T17:17:35.149-07:00The Room<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XrFeNBBOLtD7J4pZEUL2vH-g6J45AzbRmEhi7aeBfMZ9hqtwLjA_PCJZOCtsDkHySqdCA0eyY9UGBSVhyphenhyphenz82qz9X-aA9s06SOQd_R9ajtv8VmKAO1GX0IEi7w3BXC78z1NEDGIXr3CM/s1600/TheRoomPOSTER-L.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-XrFeNBBOLtD7J4pZEUL2vH-g6J45AzbRmEhi7aeBfMZ9hqtwLjA_PCJZOCtsDkHySqdCA0eyY9UGBSVhyphenhyphenz82qz9X-aA9s06SOQd_R9ajtv8VmKAO1GX0IEi7w3BXC78z1NEDGIXr3CM/s320/TheRoomPOSTER-L.jpg" width="248" /></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <strong>'The Room' </strong>(Wiseau, 2003) is a widely known film within the industry yet for the wrong reasons. It is named one of the worst films for it's narrative, acting, continuity and overall sub-plots. This could be down to the film being an independent with Tommy Wiseau producing, writing, directing and staring in the film.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This film made me realise that the films we watch and enjoy, are the ones we take for granted with us not concentrating on every shot and narrative involved because they are so fluent and natural with the continuity. When actually the film-makers have to plan out each shot and character's back story and characteristics, portraying relatable human reactions and situations. They also carry out the subplots and have a meaning to everything shown on screen. This is something that this film 'The Room' widely lacks.</span> <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGzyaAmj_PWinGSEwwWXZnNL3-xXGx4hkBFQ4hHJVvLb_DYv7nLYaxvug9kwsDwInz-OkiVlexOjcK44G4Y8KHrEXdP86xjLkwlKjprf7xi6PszjisG6xyhAhBS7-gsuLoj4Q5Nc7X9o/s1600/the_room_jan2010.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTGzyaAmj_PWinGSEwwWXZnNL3-xXGx4hkBFQ4hHJVvLb_DYv7nLYaxvug9kwsDwInz-OkiVlexOjcK44G4Y8KHrEXdP86xjLkwlKjprf7xi6PszjisG6xyhAhBS7-gsuLoj4Q5Nc7X9o/s200/the_room_jan2010.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>The Room</strong> has many subplots which enter and exit the film narrative within minutes, such as this scene where a gunman is attacking Denny, Johnny's adopted boy, for a drug related reason. The narrative never follows this situation up. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYqrSBME_TaTsh4zjHUs4j14iZjrpICovfT6Pqwy9yzmVzuQZOkMueng9NJhCdrMcAdtRfRNz1koJoLoG34FEuK1XdG6js1tKjEi8DMu2eoldzuLazhTULFmKzTR2QkYuTjP-c_Ju8Hc4/s1600/The_Room7-e1295458985925.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="137" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYqrSBME_TaTsh4zjHUs4j14iZjrpICovfT6Pqwy9yzmVzuQZOkMueng9NJhCdrMcAdtRfRNz1koJoLoG34FEuK1XdG6js1tKjEi8DMu2eoldzuLazhTULFmKzTR2QkYuTjP-c_Ju8Hc4/s200/The_Room7-e1295458985925.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The whole film is written to make Johnny seem like the most caring guy ever, with his daily romance to his 'future wife', taking in a innocent boy, all his friends and work colleagues admiring him, a successful banker and with everyone taking advantage of him to make us feel sorry for him. When Wiseau was writing this film, the subplots involved may have been more suitable for a serial or series for the Television, as Wiseau seemed to want to explore a range of ideas and story lines which can't be portrayed well with conclusions in a hour an a half long film. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other examples of unplanned subplots include why Johnny has taken on Denny and the mentality of Denny as he is sleeping with girls yet doesn't understand what Johnny and Lisa's intentions are when he joins them in a steamy pillow fight on their bed. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, when the Johnny's best friend and Lisa have been on the phone to one another, he suddenly pulls out a voice recorder tape which we as an audience never see until this moment, not really following Johnny's story as we are continuously disconnected from his actions and emotions and I felt more attached to the 'future wife' character. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05436146359546106113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-767776479193225357.post-45629559826060605532013-04-19T09:35:00.003-07:002013-04-23T17:13:02.484-07:00World cinema - dogtooth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This explains that world cinema tries to portray their country's realistic history and the change of the society today, which different audiences from different backgrounds and countries may interrupt in different ways. However, this still gives the countries to express their views and opinions on the country they live in, rather than leaving it to Hollywood to stereotype them.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHjnqREOc8um4KlaBu8Fu2TpYpocrn7G7gWhF2TANzM1MaejCIhEUT6ToUFWJzt2_82tZ-bkmOmV1WQ2AlJ3sJVLuTGLxpP6mzJ0ykyEGo9IiIsI5gDe5ZRbEsnUFE5dHP_1Fj02dCdxc/s1600/dogtooth.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHjnqREOc8um4KlaBu8Fu2TpYpocrn7G7gWhF2TANzM1MaejCIhEUT6ToUFWJzt2_82tZ-bkmOmV1WQ2AlJ3sJVLuTGLxpP6mzJ0ykyEGo9IiIsI5gDe5ZRbEsnUFE5dHP_1Fj02dCdxc/s200/dogtooth.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dogtooth</strong> is a Greek film, produced in 2009 and is also known as <strong>Kynodontas</strong> in Greek translation. I particular enjoyed this foreign language film as even to the Greek audience, the language is foreign, with the children being brainwashed and taught different meanings to different objects and situations within their world, by their mother and father. Therefore, the foreign film does not reflect Greek society yet allows a very different strange viewpoint to be expressed from Greek cinema, to the world. Yet this film still portrays very different messages to audiences across the world. For example, some audiences believe the film shows a metaphoric message of today's society with children believing and abiding by rules of the elder generation and their parents. This doesn't defeat that fact that this film is within it's own narrative genre, with nothing like it in the cinemas.</span> </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05436146359546106113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-767776479193225357.post-84216190253490731632013-04-11T16:24:00.000-07:002013-04-23T17:11:05.292-07:00Western - Django unchained<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyugOs9GijWrxJvUmUWwPnK1vOKJ5mUAe_5ZdSAaqUhvIviBTdQ1M_EtjoH3RDL3LGHXNqVI9ULB_wNgJOYeBszKm4beIWwaxkM9rjDMrZIcAuLNuHV5g516CQ1qJXNNq04qRe5PfVww/s1600/django-unchained-poster3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRyugOs9GijWrxJvUmUWwPnK1vOKJ5mUAe_5ZdSAaqUhvIviBTdQ1M_EtjoH3RDL3LGHXNqVI9ULB_wNgJOYeBszKm4beIWwaxkM9rjDMrZIcAuLNuHV5g516CQ1qJXNNq04qRe5PfVww/s320/django-unchained-poster3.jpg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="215" /></a><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Django unchained is properly the most modern form of the western genre yet has a lot of the traits of a classic Western taking elements such as the fast zoom in shots which particularly interest me as watching this 2012 film, these elements of the cinematography stand out as its something that we no longer see within films. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other features of the film that targets it as a western includes the use of sound, with the gun shots and non-diegetic stereotypical western soundtracks. Along with the symbolic sound representing a western, I also noticed that most westerns are set in a distant past period, with Django Unchained picking up on the cowboy hats and guns, along with the history of black slavery with the movie being set in 1858.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Leonardo Dicaprio plays the bad guy, Calvin Candie, in which in preparing for this role, Jamie Foxx quoted on <strong>The Ellen DeGeneres show</strong> that Dicaprio would ignore Foxx when on set to get into his nasty racist character. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2VUOVtOJtSb-qYO9Y1v-6uf47wc52dhlgpxNq8kBcZtzgPLfG0zJ6zq-O_nwAIaLd0Eiwp5W9dci90i2PdklmLbmsCsimfpFzSHStUsQ-R3WTATYgmzoGD0VoKXdlkUGbrWeBiIsyuOQ/s1600/DJANGO-UNCHAINED-09_510.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2VUOVtOJtSb-qYO9Y1v-6uf47wc52dhlgpxNq8kBcZtzgPLfG0zJ6zq-O_nwAIaLd0Eiwp5W9dci90i2PdklmLbmsCsimfpFzSHStUsQ-R3WTATYgmzoGD0VoKXdlkUGbrWeBiIsyuOQ/s320/DJANGO-UNCHAINED-09_510.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think that Quentin Tarantino was the perfect director to bring back the Westerns into modern day cinema, as he thinks through every shot with clarity and metaphoric meanings. For example, he makes blood look beautiful in his cinematography such as <span style="color: purple;">when the man in the fields is shot and the white roses get splattered in bring red blood, portraying a clean setting turning bad within a few seconds. He has also done this in Kill Bill with the blood spraying from the chopped off head like a water fountain. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Quality TV is interpreted in different ways. It can be to do with the high quality of cinematography or defined on the story lines. HBO productions are often seen as quality TV with programmes such as <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Mad Men', 'Games of Thrones' and 'Six Feet Under'.</strong></span> These programmes show off cinematic level cinematography, with the colour, camera quality and budgets spent on them. They all run for many seasons.</span> <br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>'Breaking Bad'</strong> is a programme I would class as Quality TV, with the cinematography well thought through including the time-lapse sequences used. Also the show has run for many seasons without 'jumping the shark', with the narrative based on a taboo breaking subject matter, the Meth industry. This is something people rarely ever know off, who makes and deals the drugs. The fact that our main character Walt lives a double life as a family man and science teacher, then becoming a drug producer on the side, while suffering from cancer. Just by me explaining one character of the show, you see how complex and well thought through scenario based the show is. The writer allows us to see the situation from a different view that we would usually jump on, which is another factor of a quality TV show. We find ourselves rooting for Walt and Jesse more than Hank, Walt's brother in-law, a DCA officer who is trying to catch the drug dealers.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, sometimes series can 'over jump the shark', meaning that they may have gone past their 'quality' time zone which then brigs me on to the quality of narratives. This shows that the story lines may be more important to the quality TV definition than the look and style, with the the audience tuning in every week to see what happens with the characters and plot.</span> <br />
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<span id="goog_623444306"></span><span id="goog_623444307"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week we watched <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Birth'</strong> which had Nicole Kidman in, playing the main character.</span> We watched this to look into 'stars' within the film industry and how they effect the film's success and audience as well as the interpretation of the characters they are playing. For example, in this weeks reading, 'Nicole Kidman' (2008), Thompson quotes;</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here he describes how Julia Roberts personal insecurities, exposed to the public eye through the media, has made her acting in <strong><span style="color: purple;">'closer' </span></strong>more real and emotionally connecting to the audience than what Nicole Kidman's acting in <strong><span style="color: purple;">'birth'</span></strong> has done, because of what we the audience know about Julia's life. However, from Nicole's stardom, the audience know she has long hair and in the film she has a very short shabby haircut, possibly showing us her character may of lost her way because we know that this haircut has therefore been done intentionally because of what we know of her background as a real person.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another example of stardom is Will Smith, with the fans he has built up from his celebrity status also now watching his films and films of those his wife and kids star in. An audience could go to watch a film such as <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'The pursuit of Happyness'</strong> just to see the connection that Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith have together and this could therefore boost ratings and range of audience. This film allows Will Smith to do some of his best acting, with his onscreen relationship with his son being emotionally real as it was his off-screen son also. This therefore makes the audience more emotionally attached.</span> Will Smith plays 'the good,friendly guy' in all of his films which we as an audience believe in his acting as we know he is a nice guy in reality as well, with presenters such as Lorraine Kelly, has spoke on him being one of the nicest stars she has interviewed. Many other people within the industry have also expressed this. A star will create a bigger audience and great believable characters in his films, by portraying a character that is close to who they portray themselves as in the public eye. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Orson Welles' <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Touch of Evil'</strong> puts this quote into practise, putting his authorship within it, such as the black and white film, that he used on most his films and the artistic shots he experimented with.</span> He uses many mirrors in a shot to put his mark on the shots and also creates a deceiving/ unsure atmosphere within the scene and towards the audience. Such as in <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Lady from Shanghai',</strong> this shot shows a couple in a mirror maze, when another man approaches and a gun is shot, yet the mirrors create an illusion to who has been shot and the argument is more tense and intriguing to watch as it confuses the audience</span>. Whereas in <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Citizen Kane'</strong>, the mirror use in this next shot is used metaphorically, portraying the mans power, giving us an overwhelming amount of the man's reflections.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nick Broomfield asks 'stupid questions' to his interviewees to open up a bigger story and how and why they have/had a relationship with Aileen. In the second follow-up film of Aileen <strong>'The life and death of a serial killer' (2003),</strong> we even see Nick being interviewed in court as part of her case. What i find fascinating about the first documentary on Aileen is how the documentary gives the viewer an argument on weather to agree and believe Aileen or not to. we are not told what to think and can change our views on what we've heard about her from the media. Once i watched this, part of me felt sorry for her as we followed her and her self defence stories were believable. Also i felt this sorrow as people were knowing her just for media attention and money. For example, she went on to Nick about the police making deals with movie companies and the media making accusations about her. Worse however, was the couple that adopted her as their daughter after she went into prison and who were making money from media, asking Nick for quite a large sum for an interview.</span></div>
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<span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">By the end of the second documentary, we see Nick shouting his apologies at Aileen after she walks off unhappy with Nicks questions. You can see how generally upset he is at thinking he has hurt her feelings, showing just how much of himself he has put into Aileen and her story.</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Poetic</strong> - I find the poetic mode to portray a message more visually and metaphorically. For example, show London as a busy place i might show a time lapse of traffic, quick cuts, tubes racing by, a clock ticking away ect. It's a challenging and creative mode. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Expository</strong> - This mode is to educate and inform which we see a lot of on our TV's. Such as BBC2's <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'The battle of Malta'</strong>, which simply gives the audience an insight into the history of Malta and their help within the war, along with interviews of those who were there in this time period.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Observational</strong> - This mode usually is a fly on the wall type of documentary, where we simply follow a person or subject around. This is my favourite mode of documentary with examples such as <strong><span style="color: purple;">'The Family'</span></strong> and all David Attenborough programmes such as <strong><span style="color: purple;">'Africa' </span></strong>and <strong><span style="color: purple;">'Life'</span></strong>. I enjoy the insight into other lives and situations we may never experience or even know of without television. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Reflexive</strong> - showing the full development process of the film and establishing the crew and cameras such as in <span style="color: purple;">'<strong>Catfish'</strong> where we begin with a different narrative following the man about and seeing what paintings he is being sent and his love life developing until the crew along with him discover somethings not right and take it up on themselves to go find this family. Another example is at the end of <strong>David Attenborough's nature programmes</strong> as we see how the crew have managed to film this and what issues they come across ect. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, horror has changed over the years due to the audiences having to be scared more and more as what scared the audience back in the 40's is no longer as scary in the 21st century. When horror movies used to be set in the haunted houses with the corpses and graveyards, we now are more likely to see the setting in a public place, high schools and middle-class American neighbourhoods. this brings the audience closer to the fear in the storyline making it seem a possible scenario to occur within their own lives. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAiKcpepJvYDnat2tw1DffVGOIPn_9KaKCcXsjX542MuBDVl3o9PoVm4_P83sgfkPLFHH6INJa3mfRNXgLIZqfVrtAirbt2CsbI5itbPV68WNX4Cp8dQzAuydeOXDT2DG72kBmo-k6fgI/s1600/the_sixth_sense.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAiKcpepJvYDnat2tw1DffVGOIPn_9KaKCcXsjX542MuBDVl3o9PoVm4_P83sgfkPLFHH6INJa3mfRNXgLIZqfVrtAirbt2CsbI5itbPV68WNX4Cp8dQzAuydeOXDT2DG72kBmo-k6fgI/s200/the_sixth_sense.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In<span style="background-color: white;"> <strong>Ghost</strong> horror</span>, we usually see hidden secrets or a fear of the past within the context. Yet I find this subtext to relate more to a thriller genre as the Ghost subtext don't often contain much blood or gore, which i think plays a big part in horror. Such as in the film <span style="color: purple;"><em><strong>'The sixth sense'</strong></em></span><span style="color: purple;">, we see the little boy, who sees dead people who don't always know they are dead. Most of the dead people need this little boys help, such as one example of the little girl who gets him to uncover the real cause of her death to her dad, as her step-mum poisoned her. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>The Thing horrors</strong>, involve the characters and audiences fear of the unknown. My best example for a thing horror is <span style="color: purple;"><em>'<strong>Creep'</strong></em>, where a woman finds herself trapped in the London underground at night and comes across a strange looking 'thing', holding people hostage. this gives us as <span style="background-color: white;">an</span> audience a fear of the unknown, as it's set in a public place that many of us in London, travel through maybe everyday and we don't know what may go on through the night or behind the walls.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This quote relates to 'the thing' horror, as we are allowed to see what someones imagination has created when they have thought about what may be behind the 'off-limits' area which scares yet excites us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Ware wolf</strong> horror is something i don't see around much in the cinema yet creates a sense of the fear of yourself as the protagonist is usually the ware wolf. Metaphorically, this ware wolf horror then does still pop up, such as<em> <strong><span style="color: purple;">'Edward Scissorhands'</span></strong></em><span style="color: purple;"> which is more related to 'the thing' subtext, yet could go into this subtext with the main character being the character that many are still scared off and sometimes accidentally hurts others with his hands that he cannot control.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, we have the <strong>Vampire </strong>horror, which is widely popular in the 21st century with the teenage <em><strong><span style="color: purple;">'Twilight'</span></strong></em> films. The main characteristic in vampire films and what they gain their viewings from is the amount of sexuality used. <em><strong><span style="color: purple;">'</span><span style="color: purple;">Buffy the vampire slayer'</span></strong></em><span style="color: purple;"> takes on this sex role widely also. this is what makes this subtext the most pleasurable and scary together. I think this is therefore what has made Buffy such a success to have run 7 series over 6 years. Buffy is based on a vampire slayer who is a teenage girl who goes to high-school, which is something horror likes to pick up on with the setting in an everyday place, giving the audience the 'what if?' question. we see Buffy as a strong female lead, killing off the vampires and saving the day, which attracts us to her more so. Buffy is praised by critics for it's brilliant writing, being able to come up with the story lines and create a television series for a horror genre is something we see little of now. I think it's the normal teenage high school narrative and situations that occur such as romance and friendships yet then giving this horror vampire twist into the mix that then creates this artwork.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>'Platoon'</strong> is known as one of the best Vitenam war films with it's portrayal on the events yet has been criticised for its bad representation and acknowledgement of the Vietnamese roles within this war. Oliver Stone was the director for Platoon and is a well established director and producer for history films such as <strong>'JFK'</strong> and <strong>'Savior'</strong>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Platoon'</strong> gave me a window into the world at this time and that's the great element of films with a history event as the setting.</span> However, as filmmakers have a structure to follow and an audience to entertain, we nearly always end up following one main character and therefore a bias view on subjects, such as war, normally following the Americans. Other war films like <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Saving Private Ryan'</strong> and </span><strong><span style="color: purple;">'Pearl Harbor'</span></strong> <span style="color: purple;">are also prime examples of this, following an American group of soldiers to save this American Private and we hear the Americans speaking of 'Dirty Germans' in <strong>Pearl Harbor</strong>.</span> <span style="color: purple;">However,</span> <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Platoon </strong>showed an honest view of the soldiers in that they didn't want to be there. They were scared. As an audience Stone educates us on the society differences and rights, with the poor characters were forced to go to war yet Charlie Sheen's character, Chris Taylor, chose to be there, who had a wealthy background. He later realises it's not somewhere anyone wants to be.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With war films, there is the brutality of the scenes with gun-fires and explosions, along with many deaths. <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Saving Private Ryan</strong> has it's most realistic scene right at the beginning with the portrayal of the Normandy landing, going straight into peoples guts exploding everywhere and non-stop shooting. This shows just how suddenly war was and the In-humane of it. <strong>Platoon</strong>, I noticed also serves this effect with extremely quick cuts in the war battle scenes, with hand-held cameras following the characters as if we were another soldier behind them. With this shaky style, it creates a tension and relates us to the characters emotions as neither of us are that aware of where the bullets are flying or hitting.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05436146359546106113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-767776479193225357.post-20862612294741551602013-02-07T11:15:00.000-08:002013-04-23T16:44:14.764-07:00fantasy and the fantastic <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week we explored the fantasy and the fantastic genre within film and TV. Yet what i got out of the seminar and lectures was that instead of fantasy being of it's own single genre to a film piece, it is in-fact a genre that occurs within all other genres of films, just approached in different ways. <span style="color: purple;">For example, we watched an episode of '<strong>Awake</strong>' (NBC, 2012), which is based on a man living in two different worlds, not sure which one is false. This programme has a drama genre within it, working out his relationships with his wife and son, yet as he is living two different lives. The show picks up the fantasy genre with the classic alternate realities element of the genre.</span> </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaOWWy5-T8f5iuXz5ZR7zv5817CEIafmcJOaYeK0yUygP9JJi4IM2BWACpf0rYHh2fuEsf2NOF6NZfk5E9M9mvGFCTSgdE_CkeKXJ3vQaBAxN5KoeouZ8ouenFAdlpxwXAcMblRfmlpY/s1600/lost_plane_crash-5202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="111" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoaOWWy5-T8f5iuXz5ZR7zv5817CEIafmcJOaYeK0yUygP9JJi4IM2BWACpf0rYHh2fuEsf2NOF6NZfk5E9M9mvGFCTSgdE_CkeKXJ3vQaBAxN5KoeouZ8ouenFAdlpxwXAcMblRfmlpY/s200/lost_plane_crash-5202.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Horror is often a genre which involves a fantasy genre, using monsters, supernaturals and witch craft, such as <span style="color: purple;"><strong>creep</strong>, with much reality from the scenario in the tube station yet the 'mad man' is somewhat of a monster and very fantasy. </span>There is also normally a confusion between sci-fi and fantasy yet i have learnt that they often combined in genres, such as <span style="color: purple;"><strong>LOST</strong>, with the sci-fi being that they back up the concept with science. Such as the island not being seen from satellite with the planes signals disappearing along with the islands magnetism's is all very science fiction along with the history of the real-life Bermuda triangle in North-Atlantic. This gives the audience a 'what if?' feel, a common factor of sci-fi, along with technology</span>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6iEbhPW3HbOjMTpNXfkeUlIxC1s5O3hLUleIZdu2CNfzaqcPuV6U1H2jHLN4giBQTBIPBRYE2x1nvALL9kHHeKsSImbfFFoPZJR3D333_GTGrSAr1QvwhcMYutJz7nT-5l5PjB8sKmd0/s1600/games.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6iEbhPW3HbOjMTpNXfkeUlIxC1s5O3hLUleIZdu2CNfzaqcPuV6U1H2jHLN4giBQTBIPBRYE2x1nvALL9kHHeKsSImbfFFoPZJR3D333_GTGrSAr1QvwhcMYutJz7nT-5l5PjB8sKmd0/s200/games.png" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fantasy includes elements of magic, alternate realities, special effects and a wide use of CGI. We also see in fantasy films, some having their own worlds and even languages such as <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Harry Potter</strong> and <strong>Avatar</strong></span>. This last factor of their own worlds, widely applies to the second screening we had within the lecture, <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Games of Thrones</strong> (HBO, 2011). This episode, spoke widely of monsters and creatures within the world which do not exist in our reality, making it fictional and fantasy.</span> Fantasy allows the audience to be fascinated and has grown over the years, beginning in 1906 with the audience simply beginning fascinated with moving images on screen yet as we have grown with the norm of this, content has become important to fascinate. Such as from<span style="color: purple;"> <strong>'A Trip to the Moon'</strong> (George Melies, 1902) to Avatar (James Cameron, 2010).</span> </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCX7yERpQ9C3qowQ_4wc_0lmB6oeF6l0tkZ1NlvcaPyHiB4st-2cNjClZFyHVv0_7qEazAsfJQnR2gckVhrDpMufkhO5mxMBpI_EYKwVm_-fGcZBdEyUtf3KBsnNmNUyy1O9XcjqFyGw/s1600/awake.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCX7yERpQ9C3qowQ_4wc_0lmB6oeF6l0tkZ1NlvcaPyHiB4st-2cNjClZFyHVv0_7qEazAsfJQnR2gckVhrDpMufkhO5mxMBpI_EYKwVm_-fGcZBdEyUtf3KBsnNmNUyy1O9XcjqFyGw/s200/awake.png" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is also a big debate on where fantasy begins and where reality ends in a film, such as do we class the cinematography as fantasy if it's CGI or green screened and the manipulation of space and time, such as flashbacks? <span style="color: purple;">Normally these two genres co-exist with <strong>'Awake'</strong> being a prime example, which i mentioned earlier on, with the audience not sure on the mortality of the characters, which is also the case in<strong> LOST</strong>, with a number of flashbacks, flash-forwards and flash-sideways. <strong>Inception</strong> is also a confusion to time space and mortality to the audience and the characters.</span> </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-OY9QrNlrF5V8xBcSLFMaYLjTQunFUeP_SYJGry0bZFMsKB3wuIMHbt6qmE2_iaRSWG_o2TAPLdxHDbd-LBipNlVC0AicTwBQJryRI7mygNGNZrI8c2rc25i8PR2SXlCJrmfofFngk1k/s1600/cloudy_with_a_chance_of_meatballs02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-OY9QrNlrF5V8xBcSLFMaYLjTQunFUeP_SYJGry0bZFMsKB3wuIMHbt6qmE2_iaRSWG_o2TAPLdxHDbd-LBipNlVC0AicTwBQJryRI7mygNGNZrI8c2rc25i8PR2SXlCJrmfofFngk1k/s200/cloudy_with_a_chance_of_meatballs02.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think my favourite part of the fantasy genre is the fact that it can be put into so many genres and how anything within the imagination can be shown through fantasy films, especially through animation, where the viewer really can escape reality, such as in <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Cloudy with a chance of meatballs'</strong>, with the character making his world rain food. However, fantasy can also include valuable messages and look into the future, such as <strong>'The Lorex'</strong>, a completely fantasy world, yet carrying a valuable message to children about the damage to nature and the big decrease in trees.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Entertainmentwallpaper, 2004 -2013. 'Cloudy with a chance of meatballs wallpaper'. Available at: </em></span><a href="http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/download/10018254/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www.entertainmentwallpaper.com/download/10018254/</em></span></a><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>consumtionblog, 2012. 'consumptive judgement'. Available at: </em></span><a href="http://consumptionblog.com/2012/01/17/consumptive-judgement-homeland-vs-game-of-thrones/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://consumptionblog.com/2012/01/17/consumptive-judgement-homeland-vs-game-of-thrones/</em></span></a><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>fanpop,2012. 'Awake'. Available at: </em></span><a href="http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/awake-nbc/images/24364390/title/awake-fanart"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www.fanpop.com/clubs/awake-nbc/images/24364390/title/awake-fanart</em></span></a><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>funscrape.com,2007-2012.'LOST plane crash' Available at: </em></span><a href="http://www.funscrape.com/Picture/61070/Lost"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www.funscrape.com/Picture/61070/Lost</em></span></a><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P, 2012. 'The Lorex printables'. Available at: </em></span><a href="https://h30495.www3.hp.com/detail/10000002.1"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>https://h30495.www3.hp.com/detail/10000002.1</em></span></a><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05436146359546106113noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-767776479193225357.post-31816670485673407492013-01-06T17:24:00.001-08:002013-04-23T16:46:27.698-07:00Representation part 1 and 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the lectures and seminars on representation, we firstly looked at the typical representation and stereotypes that films often app<span style="background-color: white;">ly to the locations and </span>characters and then looked into the way film makers have begun to challenge representation, including locations and sexuality. Because films have to convey a lot of information to the viewer in a small amount of time, the film makers have to create stereotypes for us to catch on right away what type of character we are being introduced to and how the fit into the story. However, this can become dangerous due to the viewers then assuming everyone in the real world who is female, gay, black <span style="background-color: white;">ect</span> has the same characteristics as they see in all these films.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Films portray representation of people, places, objects, events and cultures. I learnt that when these factors are represented in a certain way, not everyone will absorb that representation in the same manner. Such as if England was represented as a posh, polite and elegance place within a movie, Americans may think this is a great representation of England. However, if English people were to watch this who lived around the country, may have to completely different view on the real England. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first film we watched, with a reference to representation, was <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Enchanted</strong>, about a fairytale group who find themselves stuck in the real world of New York City. This film is a great example of typical Hollywood representation and stereotypes, beginning with post feminist text with the typical classic fairytale and outdated feminism. Such as the main character, Giselle, is dependant on the two men to save her and help her out. She is vulnerable and a pretty, delicate woman. Giselle is also portrayed as immature. which is even compared visually when she is with the mature 6 year old girl. Then we have the hero prince and the man who takes her in. These two characters combined represent the typical man stereotype with the prince being strong with his sword and the man with his high-end job as a lawyer. However, this film was openly aware of their stereotypes and sexism with the characters,, with the fairytale theme, taking it to an extreme. This includes The angry black pump woman, storming off the bus. A very big stereotype we see in Hollywood productions, especially children's programmes, such as Hannah Montana and Drake and Josh, portraying large black woman as scary.Enchanted also contains the Jamaican men singing with their maracas, very happily, another stereotype with happy Jamaicans. The tramp and ugly old woman, who are both old, shown as evil and the young shown as good.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the second lecture on representation, we watched </span><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="font-family: ArialMT;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>La Haine</strong> (Kassovitz,1995), about 3 young boys living in France, showing the barrier between the middle-class and working class. This film did not show the typical representation of France however, showing the outskirts of Paris and the rough gritty realist areas of where they are living, rather than what the rest of the world would imagine Paris to be. When I think of Paris, I think 'beautiful romantic city' like many others, as that's how it's been portrayed in most other films that is our window to the world. However, this film shows you a different angle and even bases the narrative on Hate which La Haine is translated to. This therefore begins to challenge the stereotypical representation of films. Although I couldn't quite follow the storyline, i did however find the different angle of representation very interesting and a breath of fresh air.</span> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have previously spoke about the representation of black people in the film Enchanted and it's extremely stereotyped. However, <span style="color: purple;">A big TV series in 1977 was to change the typical representation and show a black history from their eyes with the ABC series<strong> Roots</strong> (ABC,1977). This shined a light onto black slavery and the struggles and torture they went through around this period. Having watched this series myself, it's enjoyable to watch the realism of the black slavery period from their bias view. For this programme to become a success in 1977, this must have been a large move for black representation on TV, with white people not having much of a honest knowledge on black people at this time, just the white history stories of them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Realism in film and TV is largely debated on how Realism is shown in a film or Programme. some could argue that almost nearly all films have realism within them. Such as, <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Harry Potter</strong> is not set in a completely real world yet the characters come from a realism world which is as viewers can relate to.</span> Therefore, many elements of film can make realism, such as the subject. Many <span style="color: purple;">British realism films show the working class and gritty side of Britain and the characters we would walk past daily within particular regions</span>. Examples of these films are, <strong><span style="color: purple;">This is England and Wasp</span></strong>. Another element that can contribute to realism is the <strong>form and style</strong> of the film, in which some argue that if there is any type of <strong>non-diegetic music, special effects or even non-continuity edits</strong>, then the film is not a portrayal of realism. Many contemporary films would not portray realism if we were to base it on the style and form, as many films, even with a realism approach in the Subject, have a lot of <strong>green screens and special effects to save money</strong>. <span style="color: purple;"><strong>A British realism </strong></span><span style="color: purple;">programme that is realistic in both style and form and subjects, is <strong>'Dinnerladies'</strong>, about a staff group who work in a canteen. Each episode concentrates on a few days continuity edited together and we are in one room throughout the whole series, with realistic characters. Another programme with the same approach is 'The <strong>Royle Family'</strong>, as we feel like we are sitting on the sofas with them, with long scenes and quite natural lighting.</span> </span><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Available at: </span></em><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/"><em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112130/</span></em></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Downton Abbey</strong> and <strong>Pride and Prejudice</strong> are examples of film that don't have a Realism in the style and form, with set-up cameras and lighting ect, <span style="background-color: white;">yet </span>the subjects and costumes are realistic to that time period, such as the old-fashioned English costumes and narrative events such as the titanic and the war.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.movieberry.com/festen/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www.movieberry.com/festen/</em></span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With Festen being the first film with the Dogma 95 rules attached, when watching it, I understood how the rules make the film be portrayed to a high extent as Realistic. The hand-held camera technique made the audience feel as if we were in the room and the edit was extremely continuity edited, with no extreme cuts in time, when the scenes were cut. For example, When the main character is beating his father up, there is no quick cuts from different angles. In fact, as most contemporary films edit fight scene very different to this, I found it un-comforting seeing the scene in such a different approach. However, I think short British film, 'Wasp', has a very similar realism approach with the hand-held camera and same approach to the fight scene. Also they both have a very documentary technique approach about them, with the plot showing parts of the narrative that aren't most important, such as making their way from the house to the pub in Wasp and the bath scene in Festen with the sister laying in the bath and then talking to the man with her, telling him to try it out. Unnecessary to the main storyline but allows the audience to make a relationship with the characters and portrays the realism.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Dispino,2011.'''Wasp'' stings the heart',March 1st. </em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Available at:</em></span><a href="http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/writingculture/page/23/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://blsciblogs.baruch.cuny.edu/writingculture/page/23/</em></span></a></td></tr>
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Available at: </span><a href="http://obscuracinema.wordpress.com/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://obscuracinema.wordpress.com</span></a></span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Another form of realism is psychological realism which shows an honest narration of the narrative, with a complex opinion on the characters. They are not just good or bad. In Festen, we know that the actions of the father were most certainly wrong yet we do have a slight sympathy for him towards the end, as he is genuinely upset about his actions and we witness this as well as the main characters views. Also with the honest side of the story, we have to see the sex scenes as without it, it's not portraying the honesty of the storyline.</span><span style="color: purple;"> Even the lighting of the film is all natural or simply just the room's natural lighting, going back to the documentary techniques and honesty of the films approach.</span></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Available at: </span></em><a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-"><em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-</span></em></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In TV, Realism has lead to<strong> reality TV</strong>. However, reality TV doesn't necessary follow realism rules as almost all reality programmes can manipulate the reality and honesty of the actions through edits. <span style="color: purple;">One of my favourite reality programmes was Channel 4's, <strong>'The Family'</strong>, with set up cameras around one family's house, giving the viewer a window into the regular family household which we could easily relate to. However, this still manipulated time and narrative as we didn't have the time to see all the footage captured, just the highlights which the director would then follow up on, making the event a step-by-step story, including interviews with the family to drive the story on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reality TV also has many different <strong>Genres</strong>, such as <span style="color: purple;">game shows and <strong>entertainment</strong>, as well as reality soaps, such as <strong>'The only way is Essex'</strong>, in which they state that some of what the characters do are set up purely for our entertainment. Whereas <strong>Game shows</strong>, such as<strong> 'Big Brother'</strong> are manipulated by the tasks set up for them to do, causing them to react in particular ways.</span></span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Genre is French for Kind/type and all films fall into one or more of the many genres that have developed over time in film. This helps the viewer and producers define the type of film they are creating or watching. Genre can categorise, films, literature, music all of an artistic form.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This week we watched <b>Man on a Wire</b>, a 2008 documentary about a man, Philippe Petit, who was a rope walker and it was his dream to walk across the length from one twin tower to the other, which he achieved in 1974. Here, he talks us though it with achieve footage and re-enactments. </span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The reason for the showing of this film choice i believe, is due to the genre debate on it, as although classed as a documentary, the film can also be seen as many other genres, such as drama, with a lot of it's content fitting into other genres key elements. </span><br />
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The key features of a film that genre contribute to include; <b>Narrative - adaptation, Iconography, Hybridity, Dialogue. </b></div>
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<b>Setting </b>- A desert is likely is be featured in a <b>western film</b>, whereas a <b>Horror</b> is likely is be filmed in a small spaced room. <span style="color: purple;"><b>Man on a wire </b>is set on real locations following him.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple;"><b style="color: black;">Costume/props</b><span style="color: black;"> - </span><b style="color: black;">Period dramas</b><span style="color: black;"> such as </span><b>Downton Abbey</b>, use clothing from the historic era they are in and have to be sure that no props that did not exist back then is shown in the shots, such as mobile phones. Then in <b>Gangsta</b> films such as <b>'The Godfather'</b> we see plenty of black suits, Guns and Money. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Tone/Style</b> - <b>The edit </b>also comes under the tone and style of the film, as we see </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">in <b>Man on a Wire</b>, which in ways is mapped out as a documentary, seeing his interviews then going to the related clips. However, this is where the date of genre comes in as the film's edit is much like a fictional drama/ romance film. This includes how we establish the mapping out of the plan with scaled out towers that to portray and plan what he is going to do. Then we see him training for the rope walk and interviews from his girlfriend upset she couldn't go to America with him. Then there is the issue section of the film, where the men fall out and the goal is destroyed but obviously get another chance and eventually the climax, with the goal of him walking the rope is achieved and closure is shown. The film is very much story told, dramatically by Phillipe, and each character has a flaw such as Phillipe who doesn't think about the strategy and his girlfriend who is weak when he's not there. </span><br />
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Genre's have changed over time however, originally with the film companies and TV channels sticking with one genre and applying it to all there productions. <b>MGM focused on musicals</b> whereas <b>Warner Brothers stuck to western</b>. Film companies now distribute a range of genres yet some TV channels still apply this rule such as <b>Cartoon Network</b> simply broadcasting <b>cartoons</b>. <b>MTV </b>still sees <b>music videos </b>as it's main genre to broadcast yet now allows other programs on air that appeals to their young audience, such as <b>Teen Mom, Cribs and Geordie Shore</b>. </div>
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We see the growth of Genre over the years with producers now applying <b>mixed Genres</b> to their films, such as the very popular <b>ROM/COM</b>, which is putting together two different genres possibly allowing a wider audience and greater content. Another example of mixed genre is<span style="color: purple;"> </span><b style="color: purple;">Sci-Fi/Teen Drama</b><span style="color: purple;">, which is applied in the popular </span><b style="color: purple;">Misfits </b><span style="color: purple;">series.</span> Even some actors stay within one genre, such as <b style="color: purple;">Danny Dyer</b><span style="color: purple;"> who portrays characters of British realism drama films and </span><b style="color: purple;">Will Ferrell</b><span style="color: purple;">, who plays comedic characters in films such as;</span><b><span style="color: purple;"> Elf and Step Brothers.</span> </b>Another growth is the meaning of a genre changing with <b>Mystery</b>'s original portrayal being about <b>detectives</b>, such as <b>'An inspector Calls',</b> to now the Mystery Genre shown in <b>horrors</b>. <br />
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As mentioned, the genre applied can decide on the audience the film will target to, such as woman may prefer a romance and men may prefer an action film. Television genres can have an impact on the schedule slot it may have, due to the watershed timing if the genre is horror, for example <b>Dead Set</b>. The promotion of the films can portray the genre yet also could show different angles of genres in the film to appeal to different audiences, such as<span style="color: purple;"> 2000's, <b>The Gladiator</b>, where there was over 4 different genres within the film advertised for marketing. These genres shown includes <b>action</b> for the men, <b>adventure</b> for the family and <b>Romance</b> for the woman/couples.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>6. Bio'Will Ferrel'. Available at: </em></span><a href="http://www.biography.com/people/will-ferrell-9542601"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www<span style="color: blue;">.biography.com/people/will-ferrell-9542601</span></em></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">lesliewand. ' Framing and composition'. Available at: </span><a href="http://www.lesliewand.com.au/video_course/video_course_notes_2.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">http://www.lesliewand.com.au/video_course/video_course_notes_2.htm</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">makinguseofmydegree,2012.'halloween special' Oct, 6th. available at: </span><a href="http://makinguseofmydegree.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/halloween-special-demon-children/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">http://makinguseofmydegree.wordpress.com/2012/10/06/halloween-special-demon-children/</span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Ursi's media blog,2012.'Evaulation',Feb,29th. Available at: </span><a href="http://tollidaybollandu.wordpress.com/tag/social-groups/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">http://tollidaybollandu.wordpress.com/tag/social-groups/</span></a></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All of the elements of mise-en-scene and cinematography contribute to how the scene is portrayed to the viewer and can change emotion and importance of the features within the shot. We watched the short film, 'Wasp', to analyse the mise-en-cine and cinematography. I have seen this short before and thoroughly enjoy it due to it's gritty reality which is a genre that may not be portrayed well if it wasn't for the cinematography and Mise-en-scene. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">The short film is set in a realistic run down area which we see through the shots of the block council flats and rough-looking dogs, along with the graffiti street signs, which we see visually through establishing shots of the flats and close ups on the street signs, making the audience concentrate on the shot as a relevant shot to the scene setting. We can see that this single mum is struggling with money from firstly the location and then the props in which we see the cupboards with little food and the nearly empty sugar bag which the kids are mesmerised by. This brings us to the performance of the actresses, with the children looking so closely at this sugar bag, it strikes the audience emotionally showing how bad their situation is. this emotion is also portrayed through the shot sizes with CU's cutting from the sugar to the little girls eyes. The costume portrays that the family are slightly rough with the opening scene showing them in nighties, running into the streets and the baby half dressed with no nappy on. Also the hair is un-washed and scruffy and the woman has no make-up on or shoes. The Lighting throughout is quite bland with no over-exposure. The cinematography within the film really emphasises on the realism genre with a constant hand-held camera following the family, which also makes the viewer feel part of the action and emotionally involved. All the takes are quite long and fit well rhythmically together. Also the depth of field mainly consists of full focus, showing everything within the scene, however, some CU shots involve only the foreground element in focus, such as the young girl, to portray the importance of the girls emotional reaction to the action.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Ketuna1001,2012.'Andrea Arnold-wasp(part 1)'.'Youtube', Feb, 19th. Available at: </em></span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJjj8v3xVs"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJjj8v3xVs</em></span></a></div>
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Wilson.K,2011.'mediaknowitall' Available at: </span></em><a href="http://www.mediaknowall.com/camangles.html"><em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">http://www.mediaknowall.com/camangles.html</span></em></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Characters are key to creative progress.
The entire narrative revolves around the
characters, therefore, if the character has a well built background
and characteristic traits, then the show can create successful
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">“It’s all about character,
character, character…. Everything has to be in service of the people. That is
the secret ingredient of the show'' - Lost co-creator, Damon Lindelof<span style="color: red;">. (Mittell.J, 2012</span>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Nearly every episode of LOST,
especially for the first few seasons, concerntrates on a different
character and their backgrounds and traits. This is what makes the
show so successful with the audience knowing so much about the
characters yet still with little mysteries that keep the suspense
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Characters need to be defined into their groups such as; <span style="color: blue;">Main characters</span>, <span style="color: orange;">recurring characters</span>,<span style="color: purple;">supporting characters</span>, <span style="color: magenta;">extras </span>& <span style="color: blue;">guest characters</span>.</strong> The different roles mean different pay, contracts and credit placements. The main characters obviously get the highest pay and longer contracts, unless a special guest may be a high-list celebrity getting paid a large amount. Another case is <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Eastender's Tracy</strong>, who was an extra but has been a barmaid for years and has spoken, therefore, she is classed as a character.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>D.J. Haza,2011.'Last Night's TV',Aug,27th.available at: </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Characters and their traits are built up through the producers in pre-production, yet also within the actor/actress who is to play them. However, <span style="color: purple;">some actors can also be a producer on the show such as <strong>'Miranda'</strong>. You may find this in many sitcom's as the main character usually writes a lot of their own material.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes characters are affected by the actors that play them, such as the actor may die or decide to quit the show in TV case. Prime time dramas usually come up with a storyline to let the sudden absent make sense to the viewer yet more rarely some shows recast the characters. This is sometimes a big risk and uneasy to the viewer as the previous actor/actress for the character may have had a particular performance and look that added to the main characteristics of them. <span style="color: purple;">For example, you wouldn't see Eastenders recasting <strong>Phil Michell</strong> (i hope) as <strong>Steve McFadden</strong> puts so much into the character's iconic look and performance. Whereas, <strong>Eastenders </strong>and other soaps are known for replacing less developed young characters such as <strong>Lucy Beale</strong>. <strong>Doctor Who's</strong> narrative actually changed from when the first doctor, William Hartnell, left the programme, as then the producers used the sci-fi genre to their advantage and brought the doctor back as in a different body and now there has been over 11 doctors, changing over the years.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>sparkymat,2010.'madman with a box',July 1st. available at:</em></span><a href="http://www.sparkymat.net/tag/doctorwho/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www.sparkymat.net/tag/doctorwho/</em></span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The cast really can make a great impact not only on their characters, but also on the overall narrative. Being a huge fan of LOST, <span style="color: black;">reading Mittell's 'complex TV -character' chapter, </span><span style="color: black;">many of my queries i had about characters sudden deaths or cuts from the show, when the characters had either worked great in the show or/and been built up characteristically, have been answered. Such as the <span style="color: purple;"><strong>character Walt,</strong> who played a young boy survivor on the island with his dad. I felt that Walt gave the storyline the young innocent character that the viewers would nurture and his background story still had a potential present storyline to give. (His strange mind power shown in a flashback). Therefore, I felt the show had lost a great component through Walt's departure, yet i have learnt through <span style="color: blue; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Mittell.J's 'Character' article,</span> </span>that it was due to his sudden growth spurt that the character had to be cut, which we as viewers realise in the later seasons when Locke visits him off the island and he is practically a man with a very deep voice and at least 2 foot taller.</span> </span><span style="color: purple;">Going back to <strong>Eastenders</strong> as another example <strong>Jim Branning's actor</strong>, had a stroke, so the writers collided him and his character with them both having a stroke and now Jim appears every now and then on the soap speaking little words, yet the viewer is sympathetic to him as they are aware of the situation.</span></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Niki,2010.'what i want from lost',April,28th. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">Available at: </span></em><a href="http://muserantramble.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/what-i-want-from-lost.html"><em><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;">http://muserantramble.blogspot.co.uk/2010/04/what-i-want-from-lost.html</span></em></a></td></tr>
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Izikavazo,2010.'615 the end no walt''Not confused just lost',May. </em></span><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Available at </em></span><a href="http://ncjl.wordpress.com/2010/05/"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://ncjl.wordpress.com/2010/05/</em></span></a></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Actors and directors find ways such as facial expression, dialogue and body language to portray their thoughts and emotions that we as humans can relate to. If something happens to a character, for example we may see someone walk by and hand him a note. This is were we then will see a thought process of the character, usually though facial expressions with a CU, which leaves the viewer in suspense and with a built tension. then we get the reaction, such as him running after the messenger or breaking down in tears. <strong>THE THOUGHT PROCESS IS IMPORTANT! </strong>It allows us as a viewer to think for them and have the imagination to guess what's happened. A thought process is also great for a cliff-hanger at the end of an episode. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Serial characters <span style="color: red;"><strong>very rarely dramatically change</strong></span> in my opinion, yet in<span style="color: purple;"><strong> LOST</strong>, we have Ben Linus who goes from being a powerful character and leader for a few seasons, to then becoming a weak follower in the last season, once his daughter is killed. We see this through his performance of the character, as he follows others like Jack and Hugo more and becomes a friendlier guy that i begin to feel sorry for as soon as his daughter is shot.</span> However, a common characteristic in TV serials is <span style="color: red;"><strong>character growth</strong> <span style="color: black;">which we see in </span></span><span style="color: purple;">young characters becoming maturer with more adult relation <strong>'Outnumbered'</strong> is an example as the three children grow over the years with us seeing the most change in the oldest, Jake, who gets into girls and understands and feels emotion towards his family's problems, such as his granddad's Dementia.</span><span style="color: black;"> <span style="color: purple;">However, we also see growth in main characters like the characters in <strong>'Misfits' </strong>and how they adjust to life with their super powers and how they then go about using them, becoming extra advanced. Lastly, there is transformation, where characters may create another opinion and have different values as we see in <strong>'Desperate Housewives'</strong> with Gaby realising that all that matters is family and friends, after she goes to the full length to protect her husband from going to prison in the final season. whereas before this, money was mainly her top priority.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it comes to bad characters, we rarely look at them subjectively as the director doesn't want us to have an emotional connection with them.<span style="color: purple;"> In <strong>'Breaking Bad'</strong> we learn Walt's back story and spend subjective time following his view, so we route for him, even when he is creating the 'best weed' even though morally, we know is wrong. Also we see in this first episode that their are some bullies that Walt overhears talking bad about his disabled son, in which he decides to knock them all out. As viewers, we get a great feeling from watching him do this even though it's not exactly necessary. We have no sympathy for the bullies, yet another reason for this is because we have not been introduced to them and don't know their back story. Perhaps if we knew more about them as we do with Walt we may feel more sympathetic to them even though what they are doing we morally know is wrong.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">However, in soaps, the viewer spends quite a bit of time with them and the storyline runs on for quite a while, building our fury and hate for the character, giving us great satisfaction when the character is found out of their nasty ways. <span style="color: purple;"><strong>Archie Mitchell, Eastenders</strong>, is a prime example of this and like many of these big reveals, it is revealed on Christmas day his real bad side. Archie Mitchell also had the Charisma that many bad guys have which is to overlook their evil with them being seen as a lovely charming person to the characters within the story world.</span> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Q7Y7oppGdQTzxewFKtgORRxLkY-eO5ELoqn1NGrkL3AZMGviFMGoiaYEylAQicgOKC8Fj0LDgaSuqyjIjqZB4aiJmXq4lfDTYRjJKaYmEPBS-jaBPYG1f731AtG_mtAeCqXGcu9yRj8/s1600/imagesCAW8THOC.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2Q7Y7oppGdQTzxewFKtgORRxLkY-eO5ELoqn1NGrkL3AZMGviFMGoiaYEylAQicgOKC8Fj0LDgaSuqyjIjqZB4aiJmXq4lfDTYRjJKaYmEPBS-jaBPYG1f731AtG_mtAeCqXGcu9yRj8/s200/imagesCAW8THOC.jpg" width="147" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first sync sound film was 'The Jazz Singer' which was in 1927. Before this, films were completely silent with a pianist or orchestra playing to the films at the screenings. Once sound took off, it created issues within Hollywood, such as some big film stars had foreign accents that were not understandable or they has unattractive voices. A great example of sound introduction in films is in the film, 'Singin in the Rain', with the young attractive woman having a horrible voice and unable to sing. Audience's also had to stop talking to let the film star's speak. </span><br />
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<em><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'Talking audience's for silent pictures became silent audience for talking pictures.' - Robert Sklar, Moving made America</span></em></blockquote>
<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Dirks.T,2012.'Film History Milestones-1927'.'Filmsite' </em></span><a href="http://www.filmsite.org/1927-filmhistory.html"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><em><span style="color: blue;">http://www.filmsite.org/1927-filmhistory.html</span></em></span></a><br />
<span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>xroads.virginia.edu.'Talking Motion Pictures' </em></span><a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug00/3on1/movies/talkies.html"><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug00/3on1/movies/talkies.html</em></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">Sound is very powerful in film today. It can create suspense, such as in</span> <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Rear Window' </strong>where we hear the loud footsteps coming up the stairs yet do not see them or who the feet belong to. It can also create tension with it's music, such as in <strong>'The boy in the striped Pyjamas'</strong> where we hear the music getting louder and louder while the father is racing against time to save his little boy, within the climax.</span></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sound comes in four main categories; <span style="color: red;"><strong>Music</strong></span>, <strong><span style="color: red;">Sound effects</span></strong>, <strong><span style="color: red;">Dialogue</span></strong> and <span style="color: red;"><strong>Silence</strong></span>. With this comes Non-Diegetic and Diegetic sounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: red;">Non-Diegetic</span> - sounds that are not within the screen or character's world, such as soundtracks,music and narration. <span style="color: purple;">In <strong>'The Conversation'</strong> we think the opening soundtrack is non-diegetic, yet when the camera gets closer into the shot and different shots develop, we see that there is in fact a band playing the theme tune within the park, making it a diegetic sound.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: red;">Diegetic</span> - sounds that come straight from the stories world and within the screen, such as dialogue, sound effects that are within the world like light savers. although they are not realistic in our world, in the narrative's world they exist. Also if a character has a flashback moment or we hear their thoughts. This is still diegetic. Dialogue coming from the next scene, that we hear faded in towards the end of the current one is also diegetic and is known as a sound bridge, creating a smooth transition to further scenes. </span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Bordwell.D & Thompson.K (2013) Film Art. Sound in the cinema.</em></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Silence</strong></span> is just as powerful as sound as it puts the viewer in an uncomfortable position as silence is off-putting in reality. Very rarely do we come across complete silence. therefore it can increase the tension in a film such as a horror. while writing this blog i have witnessed an advert which i wouldn't have even acknowledged if it wasn't silent. This proves that silence makes the audience pay attention to the visuals.</span> <span style="color: purple;">The 1931 film 'M' is a good example of the power of silence as when the mother calls for her child, it is silent with no one around, showing that the child is gone.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Sound and Space. </strong><span style="color: black;">The louder the sound, the closer it is or if it is a loud sound, sometimes Pleonastic, it may be to gain to viewers attention to the sound source or for dramatic effect. <span style="color: purple;">A use of Pleonastic sound i have use myself in a short film i made <strong>'Breakfast'</strong>. I used this for dramatic effect and to portray the harsh relationship of the couple through the loud gritty sounds of breakfast cooking.</span> The sounds space also sets the scene, such as the viewer will know that the character is in a large building or far away if their voice is echoed or quiet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Music</span></strong> <span style="color: black;">usually goes with the films feel, genre or time period.<span style="color: purple;"> For example, in <strong>'Forest Gump'</strong> most of the music is rock and roll which matches the era of Forest Gumps life story's with the hippies ect. Also in <strong>'The conversation'</strong>, the music has a wide jazz theme about it, in which i think portrays the mans character and personality, as he loves jazz music, which we see through his saxophone playing along to the music.</span> Very often in film, a Kitmotif is used which is a small musical phrase used every time this character comes on screen or into a scene. Mostly action films use this with a few iconic beats used for a superhero in 'Kick-Ass' or the Joker in 'The Dark Knight', which only uses one beat, yet it is so effective. We also get this Kitmotif for reoccurring events, such as the famous sounds in 'Pyshco' with the stabbings and 'Jaws' with the sharks. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Rhythm</span></strong> - Just like shots, sound usually has a rhythm. Dialogue may have the same talking speed and emotion between two characters having a conversation. Also the music would normally go to the emotion of the visuals with an action scene synced with a fast upbeat soundtrack. Disney films usually have the characters moving around to the beat and rhythm of the background music, weather they are dancing or just moving in general. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong>Dialogue - </strong><span style="color: black;">Dialogue moves the narration on with the speech spoke from the characters. The beauty of dialogue is that it can be a great element to change a subject, with characters having a conversation between one another. For example, character a & b talking about dinner and then character a addressing character b asking if he had heard about the man next door. A simple example but it certainly drives a narrative forwards. </span><span style="color: purple;">Voice-over from the characters can drive the story forward as well, with Will Smith's voice-over in <strong>'Seven Pounds'</strong> it goes from the opening flashback to the beginning with his voice-over explaining that 'In seven days God created the world and in seven seconds, i shattered mine.' This drive the story on with him going straight into his back story.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Before now, I have always looked at Narrative as an overall subject with the meaning that the narrative is the story,content and structure in a film/TV show/book. Yet when looking into it, we see that it's much more complicated than that with a narrative's meaning being different to a story's meaning, plot's meaning and narration's meaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Synopsis for this 'Eastenders' episode -</span> ''Lola's left devastated as her hopes for Lexi's return evaporate. Will anyone step up to help? Syed is worried about Christian when he refuses to go to the police. Can Syed get through to his husband? Lauren makes a surprising move after one too many drinks in R&R.'' <span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><em>BBC,2012.'Eastenders'.'IPlayer',November,1st </em></span></span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01npf3y/EastEnders_01_11_2012/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01npf3y/EastEnders_01_11_2012/</em></span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The story is the whole series of events, chronology, that occur which the audience may not see. It's everything that happens step-by-step to the characters and within the events. As soon as a shot, sequence, scene is cut within the edit and the narrative doesn't include, say for example, what character A does after visually showing character A shopping in one shop, then the story is not being shown fully to the viewer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plot is how the story is shown visually to the audience, such as flashbacks. the plot can effect audiences in different ways. It controls the time, space and effect. It's up to the plot when to reveal character traits to us which many films do even within <span style="color: purple;">the opening titles in <strong>'Rear Window'</strong> it introduces us to the man and shows he's had an accident while doing his photography job and that he is a peeping tom, just through the camera shots.</span> <span style="color: purple;">Sometimes a plot may repeat story events, as I mentioned about<strong> 'Seven Pounds'</strong>, this is usually to reveal new information which also occurs in <strong>'The Conversation'</strong>, repeating the sound recording over and over till it's clear.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: purple;"><strong>The Development</strong> 'the character learns something on the course of action' & 'takes steps to achieve an object or condition' </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: purple;">-</span> Bordwell & Thompson, Film Art, p85. <span style="color: purple; font-size: small;">This occurs in 'Rear Window' with the man seeing the curious neighbours wife go missing and takes action to find out where she's gone as he believes he has killed her. This allows the viewer to have some sort of expectation of the climax. <strong>The climax</strong> however may have only a few different outcomes available, with in this case, if the neighbour is caught or if he kills the man and doesn't get found out. Another good example is 'The boy in the striped Pyjamas', with the options being if the boys survive or if the dad is just too late to save them. Films with a classic format often have a closure, closing the story which with 'Rear Window' being an old film, it has this closure with the man being arrested and everyone happy. Whereas <strong>'The boy in the striped pyjamas'</strong>, there is no closure, the audience just know the boys are dead and it's the end. I think this happens much more in modern day films as they either wants the viewer to use imagination or to portray a message such as there was no happy endings in the war so why would there be in the film.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <span style="color: red;"><strong>Kuleshov</strong> </span>theory is one of the most iconic moves in editing, however Kuleshov was a psychologist, not an editor. He tested audiences reactions to a film showing a man CU and then cutting to a shot of a little girl, then bowl of porridge and then a woman all dressed up. He portrayed the range of emotions of love, hunger and admire, through this mans reaction shot and the audiences had no idea it was the same shot. This created the today's <span style="color: purple;">'L-cut'</span> used widely in dramas and soaps such as Eastenders. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Eisenstein</span></strong> then came about and created the <span style="color: purple;">visible editing style, <span style="color: black;">using a <span style="color: purple;">collision of shots to create narrative meaning</span>, including <span style="color: purple;">Juxtaposition</span> shots, putting two different objects/characters in a shot or placing two scenes together to <span style="color: purple;">portray a comparison or relationship</span>.</span> </span><span style="color: black;">which was a risk at the time but is now widely used in Hollywood films, especially action films, creating suspense and more action through quick cuts. </span><span style="color: red;">We see this in his film 'The Godfather'. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was when the film world rules were broken with the French getting a chance in the film industry in 1958 just after WW2. They broke the rules by using <span style="color: purple;">jump cuts</span>, a new plot of telling the story within the films, sometimes leaving the audience to work out part of the narrative and sometimes to cover up mistakes if occurred.</span> <span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Phillips.c,2005.'French New Wave'.'GreenCine'.</em></span><a href="http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/fnwave1.jsp"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>http://www.greencine.com/static/primers/fnwave1.jsp</em></span></a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;">In the last screening of <span style="background-color: white;"><strong>'Rear Window'</strong></span>,almost all these techniques are seen in this film. Such as the film is widely <strong>based around the main character</strong> with us as audience only seeing the narration from his view. Also there is an on-going <strong>romance</strong> story line with himself and his girlfriend. The <strong><span style="background-color: white;">characters goal</span> </strong>is to prove his neighbour <strong>(the antagonist)</strong> is a murderer. Lastly, there is <strong>closure</strong> where the man is arrested and they live 'happilery ever after'. We also see a lot of <strong>shot/reverse shot</strong> going from the <strong>POV </strong>shots to an <strong>eyeline shot</strong> of the main character looking.</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: red;">D.W. Griffiths</span></strong> established -<span style="color: purple;">the CU shot</span>, <span style="color: purple;">flashback effect</span> and the <span style="color: purple;">Cross-cutting</span>, which is 2 scenes montaged montogether which can create tension and suspense and used in most of today's films. His films <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'A birth of a nation'</strong></span> and <span style="color: purple;"><strong>'Intolerance' </strong></span>show these techniques. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Editing</span></strong> is thought of throughout the entire production, even from the pre-production as the edit shapes the plot and narrative. The choice of shots used can effect the audience's reaction, therefore the editor can control the time and space, with the different shot sizes and cuts. <span style="color: purple;">For example, in Hitchcocks 'The Birds', rather than seeing a full scene from one wide shot, we see wide shots, then a CU of a character's reaction, then showing the audience the emotion and part of the narrative, of that there is something happening outside. If we saw this from one wide shot then we would not understand as clear that something is occurring as we wouldn't see the CU facial expression.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Graphic relations</span></strong> which can be smooth continuity editing, such as the Graphic match, which is something i enjoy looking out for as it shows the art and thought put into the film-making. It is also a great transition to use. A graphic match is when a shot is cut to the next which shall be a similar composition or movement and possibly colour. There is also discontinuity graphic editing where the next shot is a very large contrast, weather it be in colour, movement or feel. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These shots from 'Pyhsco' are great examples of graphic matches and inspired me on the edit for my first short film. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Rhythmic relations</strong> <span style="color: black;">is the rhythm of the shots length and the cut. For example, a chase scene in a film may have very quick cuts, whereas an emotional scene may have shots with many frames in. </span></span><span style="color: black;">Flash frames can be used for flashbacks or to portray violence, which is a technique I have practised in my first short film also, which i have posted below this.. </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>megannstreet,2012.'Breakfast'.'Youtube',June,23rd.</em></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><em>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1xulkUo-n8&list=UU1gOTmNXdE8oe2Y_8G-MxrA&index=3&feature=plcp</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><strong>Spatial Relation </strong></span><span style="color: black;">is a technique I've mentioned about the Juxtaposition scenes placing 2 different narratives within the same sequence space, suggesting a relationship between the two stories or a contrast. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span style="color: red;">Temporal relations</span></strong> is the plot's timing of the order, frequency and duration. In editing, you can control the chronology of the story, such as flashbacks and flash forwards, which can make a films story more powerful with a tense viewer. <span style="color: purple;">An example of this is 'Seven Pounds' where we see the ending at the beginning with snippets of flashbacks within the film, giving little information at a time to the audience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The portrayal of the narrative in chronological order 'Moment by Moment' and with similar lighting and balanced shots within the scenes. 'Rear Window' was a prime example of continuity editing with very long scenes also.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Montage sequences came in around 1920, where we saw a large process or space of time put into a short montage moment. Montages then developed re-occuring trates, especially from the American studios with shots such as Calender pages going by or different Newspaper headlines showing a change in time. Most Montages have a piece of music behind them setting the mood and we see suspense, suprises and emotion in these sequences. <span style="color: purple;">An upbeat example of this is in the 'Rocky' film, seeing him train up portraying his motivation. Aanother one, one of my favourites, is from the film 'UP' which we see early on to explain why the old man is where he is now and what his goals are. This is more of a revealing montage with comical, happy and sad moments taking us through his marriage</span></span><span style="color: purple;">.</span> </span><br />
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<em><span style="color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Bordwell&Thompson,(2013)'The relation of shot-to-shot.-Editing.''Film Art-Tenth Edition'</span></em></div>
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