Desperate housewives 

The earth Mother - 

Lynette Scavo is represented as the earth mother in this clip.  From how she is always with her children and is the symbol of fruition, abundance and fertility. The expression on her face indicates she is overwhelmed with stuff to do.  

The Temptress - 

Gabrielle Solis is represented as the sensuous beauty and very seductive.  This is demonstrated by the body language in this scene.  She is licking the finger of her lover and cheating on her husband.   

 

The unfaithful Wife -  

Bree van De Kamp is seen to be the Unfaithful wife in this scene because she isn't looking into her husbands eyes. You can tell this because of the facial expression and that she has kept a straight face without looking at him. 

The Damsel in Distress - 

Susan Mayer is represented to be the vulnerable women who needs a hero to save her. In this clip you can see that she needs help because she is looking up for help. This also shows that she is clumsy because she has dropped boxes every where.

Gender description of Females 

Gender description of Males

Sexuality - Need to POST

Nick King, Professional Editor  Feedback 

On friday the 5th Nick King came into our  media lesson and helped us by giving us ideas to improve our film. 

We first started by talking to Nick and telling  him our ideas and how we wanted our film to look like and then he gave us some feedback into how would can improve it and make it more realistic. 

He first started of by saying how the sound and how less is more and instead of having nation and waves and background music to just have something like the waves that can have a stronger effect. 

When then also told him that the beginning of our film will have someone looking like they are going to commit suicide. He talked about how it can be very hard to make it look like someone is going to kill them self, but we can do so with having different shot types like a close up on the eyes which can confuse the audience. 

When we start to actually film we need to start with close ups to make the audience to make them feel  uncomfortable. When filming he told us to always reshoot, reshoot and reshoot so when it comes to edit it makes it easier to intercut when editing. 

The last piece of advice he gave us was to always keep shooting and that we would never have too many shots, and to just keep shooting.  

Pre-production | Day 3

 Pre-production | Day 3

Today we watched the beginnings of some coming of age indie films, like "The Way Way Back and "500 Days of Summer". We only watched the first 2 minutes so we could see what our film will need to consist of. One thing that we all liked in the beginning of "The Way Way Back" was the opening title scene sequence which we found interesting and something that would like to replicate for out own opening sequence.


This is a shot of what the opening title sequence looks like, with a lack background and then having the  letting see through with a clip  playing in the background. We messed around on Final Cut Pro and there was a template for a title sequence which we will use because it looked very similar and it was what we wanted.
                                                                                              

We will also need to see if we can lower the capacity of the black background, to make the opening sequence more interesting instead of just having a plain black background. We will need to see if we can do this in Final Cut and to see if we are able to place a clip behind it so we don't go over our 2 minute time limit.

We all liked this title sequence because we thought it was simple and affective for our type of genre that we are going to base our film on.  In the background we are going to have the sea instead which we will need to try out in Final Cut pro. 

  

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Film Distribution

• - What is film distribution?

-  Film distribution is the process of when a movie is available to watch by anyone.

• Who distributes films normally in the UK?

- The UK has 6 main distributors

 

• - Is this different from the vertical integration model followed by the major film studios? 

- It is when the three stages are seen as part of the same larger process, under the control of one company.

 

• - What steps are the three steps of distribution?

-Once the film has been  made, this is when they can start to work on the films release strategy. Then the distributers can then secure the screening of the film within the cinemas. 

 

 

• - What are the major decisions made during the marketing of a film?

- The two main decisions when marketing a film are when they need to set a release date in a light week so they have more screen space. Then they need to invest in the materials and the marketing campaign to support it.

 

• What is P&A? And why is it important?

- P and A stands for Print and advertising. It is important

 How is digital technology revolutionising the process of film distribution & marketing? 

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Storyboard 

Here is the storyboard that we have drawn as a group. We all sat around a table and discussed what we needed to go into each box of our story. We knew we wanted to start with a shot of the waves 

which we thought will be a good way to start the begging of the film. From the help of Nick King who came in and talked to us and help us and give us ideas for out film, said that using loads of close ups of the actors face to make the audience feel awkward. 

Nick also said that we need to cut to black at a certain point in order to crate a flash back. At this point the music if we are going to add music will need to end as soon as the cut to black starts.

Then after the beach scene we are going to shoot at the grandparents house. At this point Chester is going to be unpacking his stuff out of the car and into the house. We are going to have different shot types from this point from Chester taking his stuff out of the car and then walking into thee house. In this scene this is when Chester finds the rugby ball which is when he has another flashback which reminds him  of his parents before they died in the car crash which is why he is now going to live with his parents.

 

 

In the next scene this is when Chester is going to get the phone call from the hospital saying that his parents have been in a fatal car crash.  At this point in time there will be a rugby ball some where which will cause him to think about his parents. After this the screen will cut to black to add suspense. We will also need to add some dialogue into this scene as well when Chester is responding to the other caller. Also Nick said that who ever is acting is going to need to be able to do good facial expressions especially when he has realised that his parents have just been in car crash.                                                      

Friday 21st November

Today we started to think of all the different aspects of the film like the location and the setting etc. So we started off by creating a spider diagram and with each branch has something different that we needed to think off. For example in one of the legs or branches we had the setting and the location in where we are going to shoot our film. 



Target Audience

A coming-of-age film is normally targeted at a teenage audience, as the characters are usually teenagers and the audience find it easy to relate to the characters. Themes of the genre include relationships, drugs, sex, stress, home life. The inclusion of explicit and controversial themes means the certificate of the film would be either a 12 or 15, depending on the vulgarity of the film.

Steve Neale’s

Steve Neale’s perception is that “genres exist within the context of a set of economic relations and practices”. He says that “genres are not the product of economic factors as such”, and “the conditions provided by the capitalist economy account neither for the existence of the particular genres that have until now been produced, nor for the existence of the conventions that constitute them”. For example in a new episode of a crime every episode has something different or story line like a death or someone goes missing. This happens so it can keep the audience into watching more and not getting bored because of the same story line.

Todorov

Todorov’s narrative theory states that most story’s or plot lines follow the same pattern or path

which has 5 steps. The first part of the story will display a happy part. Then the second part will

display a problem or something bad will happen. The third part is when every starts to realise

what has happened in which starts chaos. The fourth part is when the characters attempt to

solve the problem. The last part is when the problem is resolved and every can be normal

again.



Day 1 - 14/11/14

Pre Production

After I had gotten into my group the first thing we did was came up with a spider diagram which had all the different film, genres on  so we could come up with some ideas in what type of genre we wanted to work on.  As you can see we wrote down all the genre types on each branch and then came up with different ideas in what each genre would include. For example for a thriller we had the idea of having a chase scene or including a detective. After some time and writing down different ideas we drifted towards the Indie genre because we had the most ideas for it and we thought it would be the best for us. 

Then we starting to write think of some good Indie films like 'The kings of Summer' and 'The spectacular now' and 'The Way Way Back'. This meant we could get ideas from the beginning of other films which could give us more ideas for our own opening.  We also started to write down some ideas of our opening could be about. We had the idea of a boy on a beach standing in the water and then having a narrator saying how he got there etc. 

Institutions and Audiences

 

- List five media sectors and one leading profit making company for each sector.

• Tv - Channel 4  
• Film -  Paramount
• videogames - EA  
• music - Universal Music Group
• Internet - Google

- Name Two Independent music Labels.

• Matador Records
• Rough trade records

-  Why is some music downloading legal and some illegal.

• ITunes would be a legal way to download music because they have the right to sell the songs whereas  a pirated website would be illegal because they do not have the rights, whereas ITunes buy the rights to be able to sell the music on there website.

- Who owns the British board  of Film Classification.

• It was created in 1912 by members of the film industry. But today the President of the Company is Patrick Swaffer.

- Name three organisation that own British  Newspapers.

• The Daily Mail
• The Mail on Sunday
• The Sun

 - Why does the BBC have no adverts.

• It is because the BBC are funded by the TV licence fee which means that you are able to watch the TV and therefore they don't need to show adds.

 -  What is OFCOM

• OFCM is the communications regulator in the UK. They regulate the TV and radio sectors, fixed line telecoms, mobiles, postal services, plus the airwaves over which wireless devices operate.

 - What is a MP4

• An MP4 is a digital multimedia format mostly used to store video and audio but can be used for other things like photos and images.

- Why does the sound regulars disappear on Live Big Brother feed

•  Because swearing isn't allowed on Live television.

- Who owns Channel 5

• Richard Desmond

- What happened as a result of the Hutton Report

• BBC reports which looked at the government's reasons for going to war.

- From what do magazine publishers make most of their money

• They are able to earn money from advertisements, subscriptions and the sales generated from newsstands.

- Who owns the regional ITV channel

• At present, the companies are able to broadcast additional channels and all choose to broadcast the ITV plc owned ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 and CITV in their region.

- How do websites that offer content for free make money

• By Advertisements 

- Who responds to viewers complaints about adverts

• The ASA - advertising standards authority

- Which is the biggest film industry in the world

• Bollywood

- Who decides the age classifications for Videogames

• PEGI - Pan. European. Game. Information

- Which media company do you pay the most money to

• The Internet

- What is an RSS feed

• The RSS is the Rich Site Summary

- Who are BARB and what do they do

• The BARB are the Broadcasters Audience Research Board which provide official viewing figures for the UK television audiences.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

Watching Love Thy Neighbor

Love Thy Neighbor is a TV show based around a suburban white working class couple that live in Twickenham and are trying to get used to have a black couple as there new next door neighbors. This TV show was popular because it was on at the time when Britain recently arrived population of black immigrants. 

My first reaction to when I watched the first episode was the words that they used are very different from today. He said words like 'sambo', 'Chocolate drop', 'Nig-nog' and 'brown eyes' which would be classed as racist if we said them in this day and age. This just shows  the different between the old English terms and what they said to colored people.  In one part of the second episode when Eddie Booth segregates the whites from the blacks. He starts to talk about how they can get there country back from the 'blacks' because he think that they are taking over and that there are too many of them. Eddie even said ' why are there so many foreigners in Italy', even when he is the foreigner. But he doesn't see it that way.

Another part in episode 2 the victor leaves and they are represented with a new one. But when Eddie sees who it is you can tell that he is disgraced strait away that he sends a letter the Archbishop because he doesn't want a 'nignog' as a victor. He also says he wants a 'white victor' because he is white himself. His wife Joan Booth disagrees with what Eddie is saying and says 'What difference does it make'.  In the letter that Eddie wrote he said that he Suggests that the church sends its blacks victors back to the jungle'. If some one said this to any mix raced person they would go to prison for being racist, but in those days there was no law for being racist or anything about it.

Eddie isnt the only one being racist it is also it is Bill Reynolds who refers Eddie to as a 'White Honky' (which is just another word for white people) and 'snowflake' which are both racist words to white people as well. So its not just one being racist it is both.

Eddie inst just being racist to colored people it is also the new owner of the corner shop who is from Pakistan. Eddie calls him a 'filthy Paki' because he think he is stealing when he actually isn't.    

Overall I think that this program just highlights the differences between what was shown on TV back in the 1970's and how TV has changed up until now. If you watch TV there would never be any mention of back people being different or being called 'Nignogs' because its racism. Overall there is really one main character that is actually being racist and that is Eddie. When Eddie says something racist the audience start to laugh as if it were funny because back then in the 1970's it was funny to them to be racist. But know it is a criminal offence. The words they use that are racist would never be said by the younger generation because they were not brought up with people being racist. But the older generation have been brought up with blacks and whites being different.

Facts about Walt Disney

- People who worked for Walt Disney were not allowed to have beards until 2012.

- The Founders  were Walt Disney and Roy O Disney.

- They had over 175,000 employees.


- Walt Disney received one regular Oscar statue and then seven smaller statues, for when Snow White and the Seven Dwarves won an award.

- Walt Disney is one of the largest and best known studios in American Cinema.

- Disney also owns and operates the ABC broadcast television network; cable television networks such as Disney Channel.
- The total assets of Disney is 81.241 Billion dollars.

- Disney is not just a film company they are a multi national corporation. They have there own theme park, broadcasting station and there own music label.

- Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest and its sequel Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End were produced together on a combined budget of $450 million, making them the most expensive production.

Preliminary task 

Post-Production

After we had finished filming all the shots that we needed, we imported them onto our computer and then we started to look at the clips and put them all together. 

First we had to collect all the clips that we had and then delete the ones that we didn't need and start from the beginning clip and work our way through. We dint really focus too much on the dialogue yet because we just wanted to get the film flowing and then we would move onto the sound. 

  With one or two of the clips that we wanted to use we had to cut them so the scene would flow but in one clip the subject was in a different position so it didn't look 100% accurate. 

After we had finished putting all the clips together we had to then sort out the dialogue. The first thing we did was find a clock ticking, and then make it louder because it was very quiet. But when the characters started to talk we still wanted the clock to be ticking. But when we actually watched the final film the clock didn't sound right it was too quiet and didn't fit in. Also the dialogue was quiet at some points because the camera was too far away from the character speaking so it would be quieter.
In one scene the character opens a door which we thought you would be able to hear but when we watched it back you cant really hear anything being opened. So if we had a little longer we should have added a door sound to add a better effect.

Overall I think the sound was good in our film, there were just a few parts that we could tweak to make it a little better.
Overall I think the editing was good and we had some good cuts and different editing techniques that looked good. 

Preliminary task

Production

When we had finished the story board and were happy with it the next day we started to film out video. We knew where we had to go and what we had to do because of our story board. When we were filming we needed to remember to not go over the 180 degree rule otherwise our final film wont look right and it would be unfinished. We used  a tripod to be able to get still and steady shots which makes the film look more professional.

When we were shooting our film we had times where we had forgotten about the 180 degree rule so when we watched it back on the camera so we had to redo that clip again so It was all on the same side.

One other problem we had when we were filming was we turned the hall lights off and then realised it looked better for the scene. This meant that we had to redo a few shots because the lighting was different and would look out of place when we would watch it back.

Another problem that we had was when we did the focus pull we had to get the right speed because If it was too fast It would look out of sync, but if we did it too slow it would just make the shot even slower.

When we were shooting our film we had to take multiple takes for some of the scenes. Most of the time it was due to the fact that the actors kept on laughing or some one walked into the scene and you were able to see them in the background.

Overall I think we all did a good job at filming and that we followed the story board well and got the clips we wanted. If we had another chance I think we would only change a few things to make it better in some parts.

Preliminary task

Story board

 

This is my analysis of the video that we produced. I will state the good, the bad and the  improvements that we could use to be able to improve the clip. 

 

We started off by creating a story board which would include saying what the shot type, the duration and the audio. We created a story board so when we started to film we knew what shot type was next and where it should take place.

 

 This is the story board that we used when starting to create our video. We drew out our characters and the props that were going to use.









We used a story board so we were able to follow a format which let us know what shot was next and what props we needed.
This also meant we could follow something when we were shooting.

This was the second page of thee story board. This is when the second character walks  into the room and sits down on the chair. We were going to add a clock ticking in the background whilst the characters are speaking to each other.

  

This is the last slide of our story board. This just shows us what the next shot needs to be.  We just used simple drawings so it wouldn't make it to simple.



Story board

 

In class we were asked to create a story board to the film Gladiator.

We were given photos of the first 3 minutes, and we had to say what the camera type would be, what the audio would be and then what the action would be in this little section.

We did this exercise to get us ready for when we would need to produce our final beginning of our film.

 

 



 Camera – Close up tracking shot of the ring.

Audio – SFX ; Sound of the Children playing, and a  women is singing 

                             

Action – Man walks thought field brushing his hand over wheat grass. 

 

 

Camera – Medium close up because you are able to see the shoulders.

Audio - Sound – Of the wind

Action – Lost in the thought

 

                                                            
Camera – Wide angle of the battlefield

 

Sound – Horses trotting and breathing of the horse’s  – and the guitar.

 

Action – Getting ready for the battle. Horses charge thought the shot.

Crane to next frame.

                                     

Creating my own horror poster

In class I was set a task with a partner to create our own horror posters. we wanted to make the mask more realistic by using blood that the teacher had brought in and used it to make the eyes more blood shot. We also used it around the mouth so I looked like he had just eaten some one. We wanted to try and find a location in the school where there was very little light to make the picture look better. We ended up using the hall which had black curtains which they use for plays. We went behind them so there was very little light showing and took photos of my partner wearing the mask.

 These are some of the photos that we took in the hall. These photos are the ones that we didn't use because they had something wrong with them, for example the lighting, the body position or the background. With this one we didn't use it because the lighting only shows one side of the mask's face because the light was aimed at the right side (from the viewers perspective).

With this photo we didn't like how the lighting was too strong on just the left side of his face. We wanted there to be very minimal lighting so it would make the poster look scarier then having the whole mask light up which in this photo most of the mask is light up.

We ended up using this photo for our poster because we both agreed that the lighting, body position and background were all how we wanted them to be so we ended up editing this one for our final poster. We liked this photo because of how the lighting isn't too overpowering and we liked how one side of the face is darker from the light but isn't too dark so you are unable to see it. We also liked the fact that you are able to see the eyes of the subject in that is wearing the mask, which we both thought made it look more realistic.

When we started to edit the photo we wanted to make the mask look darker and more realistic. First we made the grey t-shirt darker so its harder to see and then we edited to face. We wanted the face to be more of a pale red colour so it looked more realistic. When in Photoshop we used the hue/saturation too to make the reds of the blood stand out.  We also used the sharpen tool on the mask, to emphasise the wrinkles on the face to make it look more realistic.      

 

 This was our very nearly finished poster that we had made in class. All we had to do next was to add a billing block, release date, ratings and the tagline. We wanted to use a red colour for the font because we thought get would go well with the blood on the witches face. We also added a another face that is faded in front of the main face to look like she is shaking her head and to make it more interesting, rather then just having the simple one face like we had on the other stage.  



Evaluating my Dialogue video

 

video Link to the Dialogue

In media we were set a task to create a small video that had dialogue in it. Although we completed the small clip there were some problems with our final outcome. One problem which the clip was that you could hear the background noise like the wind and people talking which distracts you from the conversation between the two characters. Another problem that we had was when we used a wide angle shot of both of the characters, the audio was very quiet and muffled because the camera was too far away from the characters. So if we were to do this again we would have to use a external microphone so we are able to capture the dialogue and not be to quiet. In our clip we ended up using music to try and get rid of some of the background music, but the music ended up being to loud so we  you weren't able to hear some of the speak within the  two characters.

Mise-en-Scene

 

This is a shot of Casino Royale (James Bond) which shows different aspects of mise-en-scene. In this shot it has low key lighting to be able to show the little help he has. There are beam of light that is in the background can show that he has been taken away from his life and that he is going to be killed. This could also show that he has a hope because the beam of lighting is shining down on him and that he has hope. this could also be seen that he is the hero because the light is shining on him.

The light that is being used is the key light that because the light is directly pointed at the subject.  Another Mise-en-scene technique is props. The props in this shot show that antagonist (Mads Mikkelson) has more power because he has a rope which is a prop and James Bond is unarmed and tied to a chair. This shows that he has less power because he has no weapon to fight back with.

In this scene the setting very isolated because they are in a empty run down boat where Bond is nowhere near any help. The costume and props is important in this scene because the antagonist is dressed in black, which can represent that he is evil.  James Bond is naked and tied down to a chair which can show his vulnerability.

 

Editing Techniques

These three shots area an example of a shot reverse shot of the chicken seeing that he is going to die. This shot is also a eye line shot because the chicken is looking at the feathers and then we cut back to the chicken but with a difference expression and because he  sees this he then runs away This can show that the chicken’s life is going to end which can also represent that rockets life will end as well.

Eye line match

This is a eye line match to show that James Bond is under cover and is scouting the area to help him on his mission. This is used to show James Bond’s attention towards the CCTV camera. 

Shot reverse shot

This is a shot reverse shot used to show a connection between these two characters. This make the audience intrigued to know the mystery in their connection. 

Graphic match

This is a graphic match to show that gambling will be a apart of James Bond’s mission (007).  This can also show that a key theme in this film is about Love, due to the fact that the playing card is the 7 of hearts and is connected to 007.

Charlie Harris - Lighting.

3 point lighting

3 point lighting consists of three different lights: The Key light. The Fill light and The Back light.By using these lights you are able to illuminate the shots and also being able to control the shadows.

Key light
This is a Key light is the when the light is pointed directly at the subject. If you were to take a shot outside the sun would be your key light. The key light also creates the main illumination and is the main light source.





Fill light 
The fill light is when it makes the subject more visible. The fill light should be opposite the Key light.The fill light also balances the key by illuminating shaded surfaces.








Back light
The back light is when a light shines the subject from behind. It is almost like seeing a silhouette which is being formed from the light behind. 

High key

This is when there are no shadows and then what is left is strong detail. This type of lighting was used in Tv shows and films as a way to kill the shadows. They did this by shining 3 lights on the actor.

Back lit shots
This is when the subject is being illuminated from behind and this acts like a glowing effect around the characters. This can be dun by natural light or man made light as well.

Low key

This is when the shot is a dark image and only uses light for specific tones of the face or where ever. This shot is mainly used for dark shadows and can cause a slight sense of alienation.