LO1 Task 2 notes

L01 Task 2 notes


Purpose- The purpose of my film e.g. entertain
Genre
Form
Style
Content
Meaning
Production process

Genre

Purpose
Entertain
Sci fi
Action
Comedy
Adventure
Thriller
Family
Drama
Documentry

Barry Keith Grant (1995) All genres have sub-Genres


Form
Style
Content
Meaning
Production process

Form
I am looking at a feature film as my film is 97 minutes

Where would it  have been distributed based on the target audience


Style


Style Aesthetic quality- The way something looks, influenced by genre of film
Modern presented in 21st century
Old fashioned titanic etc
Creates verisimilitude
Give total 3-4 sentences.
Content
How is your narrative put together ? what is it about?
Todorov(1977) "narrative structures"
Kate domaille (2010) "narrative types"
Claude Levi-Strauss(1958) "Binary oppositions"
There are 5 stages in a story


Equilibrium "balanced" "everything is fine"

Dispute, something dramatic happens for example one person cheats on other person

Resolution, new state of equilibrium, new state of balance

Narrative
Todurov
1. equilibrium-fine
2. disequilibrium problem/enigma
3.resolution- sequel
Gender, male v female
Important/ dominant
Subordinate
Submissive - stereotypical
Ideology- Views opinions that we recognised.
Protagonist- Lead/Hero
Antagonist- enemy/villain
Underdog
Content and Meaning
Laura Mulvey (1975) "The male Gaze"
John Berger (1972) "objectified"- sex object
Micro elements, mize en scene (mizz on sen)
Denotation + Connotation, Infers, Implies, Suggests, Represent
(Use the word connotes)

The image denotes a red heart.
A red heart is denoted
The connotation of this red heart symbolises Love !
2. Macro, Narrative/Genre/Representation
Mulvey, Burger, Character type


Production process
pre-production?
Production
Post production
 2 examples from film for each

Sound
Diegesis- Story name
Where your narrative is set!
Diegetic, natural to the diegesis Ambient-seagull, waves etc
Sound effect
Non diegetic voice over
Sound effects, screeching brakes, engine, gun shots
connotation= danger, war
Non diegetic
Voice over
Incidental music is music that helps communicate emotions in a scene for example music can star of calm then get more intense/dramatic as the scene progresses.
Music that reflects the events taking place, can comment on tempo, pace
for example low tempo music could reflect the equilibrium(balance)
Music, where does music start playing in film etc.

Mise en scene

Starter Task
Five things in an indie rock music video.
1) Instruments- Connotes music creating
2) Band Performing- connotes their own performance
3) Stage Location- connotes where they would like to be e.g. outdoors
Five thing in a Horror Film
1) Dark lighting (low key lighting)
2) Characters
3) Blood- connotes danger
4) Secluded locations- reinforces fear, as can not escape
The 5 things I should talk about!!
1)Locations(diegesis)
2)Costume/make-up(prosthetics)
3)Props
4)Colours/Lighting
5)Gestures( how the person, character acts, are they running a lot, are they fighting a lot)

(Encoded= Embedded on purpose)

1)Stereotypes(does costume reinforce age?)
2)Narrative (does the story reinforce narrative?)
3)Genre- (Does the story reflect the film?)

MISE EN SCENE= Everything within the frame
1)Location (Diegesis, how does Location fit into the diegesis)
Does it encode verisimilitude?- Is it realistic
What does the location suggest? survival etc.
2. Costume/Make up, Does it reflect the mood of the character/environment the character is based in
3. Props, props are anything that are handheld, for example in notorious movie, things like guns are props, prop is short for property, props can also be used to in-force, control, microphone to in-force the music, lifestyle on the crowd in my film. How are the props etc.
Microphone, Gun.
Iconography
Items that create stereotypical representations that become well known and recognised e.g. microphone, stereotypical to a Brooklyn black male. (ideologies )

Colours/lighting
They connote moods and emotions
Low key lighting, high key/natural lighting
Low key lighting= Scenes with shadows. This reinforces the disequilibrium (dis-balance)
Things like fear, danger, foreshadowing events coming up are associated with this.
High key lighting= Scenes with bright light, connotes happiness, and positive moods/emotions in general.

This is England example
Their was natural lighting outside
there was low key lighting inside in some places. which represented negativity in some aspects
however the high key lighting represents positive, warmth in outside places.

5.GESTURES
Gender of the character's ?
Protagonist of the characters ?
What do gestures connote about the character

For locations and iconography at least two examples
For characters and action gestures, compare to different types of people e.g. biggie and lil ceaze, (protagonist, antagonist, male vs female)
Costume and makeup(what are people wearing) compare, upper class, lower class maybe)
props, 2/3 significant props
lighting and colour, examples of high and key and low key lighting
protagonist Biggie montage, jump cutting in studio, elipses of car lights, reverse shot structure montage cuts editing