Thursday 5 May 2011

Representation of Gender- Primeval

The representation of Gender in Primeval starts of the shot where the male which is an over the shoulder shot/point of view where he is chasing a lady and then dialogue starts as the camera zoomed to the couples face then they started talking. The scene quickly and smoothly changed to the the truck as the camera zoomed to set the scene of the location where it was located, the location of the set was in a muddy/ adventure park. As the scene changed to we saw the lady who was in the truck she was a short haired blond lady who was wearing a leather jacket this was very clear to the audience because the camera zoomed to the character in this scene it seemed like the roles reverse the lady driving and controlling the truck whereas the man should  be controlling the heaving vehicle this was defiantly a representation of gender because we also see the male who was in tracks suit very comfortable clothing telling the lady what to do as she steered the vehicle.

There was a numerous amounts of whip pans during the scene where the tiger comes in aggressively attacking the truck she also saved the man where the tiger was running towards the male this was an extreme close up on the tiger as he ran toward the male character this denotes the power and the extreme force of the animal at this point the male character was in the hole where the lady was digging before the tiger came to this particular scene we see it was an high angle shot of character denoting the strength power of the male character. we also see the fear of the male character as he spots the animal running toward him. The lady then saves him by distracting the animal the camera then starts moving very fast as the anticipation and anxiety grows within the audience. as the scenes move continually and quickly to make the audience have fear with in them.

As the scene quickly, continually change without realisation to the audience there is an extreme high angle shot of the ladder where the male is chased to by the animal this was done because they wanted us to sympathise with the character. Throughout Primeval we are introduced to the Non- diegetic sounds this gets louder as the anticipation grows this also gets faster/louder every time something happens there was also different sounds such as the diegetic sounds trucks/tiger and the male character.

In this scene as the non diegetic slows down and becomes calmer we see as lady who comes to a barn and its farmer and she starts interrogating him about the tiger and starts accusing him about him breeding dogs to fight and be aggressive. Here we see the slim/ pretty lady a stereotypical women who only cares about her attire she begins to interrogate and we see an over the shoulder/ point of view shot of the farmer and his expression we also see his face start to become drained and very red as if to say he is tired of being interrogated and always accused by other people, we can already see by the farmers accent as not being very uneducated and his attire: he was wearing a very dirty/scruffy jumper denoting his social class and his gender that men are always dirty and the stereotypes which are always directed towards men. As he gets frustrated the camera zooms to the farmer we see her pushed to ground and a rifle pointed to her by the other character (farmer) and the camera instantly goes to an high angle as the farmer pushes the posh lady on to the ground here we see the camera in the farmers point of view and his superiority over her.  We hear her dialogue and she calls him Mr west and here she was on a low angle as she looks up at him.

Tuesday 3 May 2011

Representation of Ethnicity - Hotel Babylon

Camera Shot, Angle and Composition

At the beginning of the Five minute sequence of hotel Babylon the first shot was of the hotel manager who was faced by a white english policeman  who informed the white manager that the hotel would be surrounded by police officers and that nobody would be allowed to exit I cam to a conclusion that there were maybe criminals in the hotel building that they didn't want to miss out on this. The camera angle on this was a full body shot of the police men and their boss which indicated their superiority and power this angle was shot from the hotels receptionist point of view.

There was a slow but yet sharp shot of the Blond receptionist she was also a white lady which worked there her look indicated she was a intelligent, confident lady she was accompanied by the immigration service who were three men two large men and there boss they were all dressed in black suites and the boss had a suit they were very business like by the way they talked and walked they also seemed powerful and respectful. 

Bridget jones's Diary

  • Storyline

    Bridget Jones is an average woman struggling against her age, her weight, her job, her lack of a man, and her many imperfections. As a New Year's Resolution, Bridget decides to take control of her life, starting by keeping a diary in which she will always tell the complete truth. The fireworks begin when her charming though disreputable boss takes an interest in the quirky Miss Jones. Thrown into the mix are Bridget's band of slightly eccentric friends and a rather disagreeable acquaintance who Bridget cannot seem to stop running into or help finding quietly attractive.The Budget of the film- Budget  $26,000,000 (estimated)
  • Comedy ,Romance, Drama
  • Budget - 45 million 
  • Opening Weekend
  • $10,733,933 (USA) 
  • Release Date:

     13 April 2001 (UK)
  • Gross:

     $71,500,556 (USA) (5 August 2001)
The director : Sharon Maguire  
The writer : Helen fielding 
The Release date :13 April 2001 
Distributor : Universal studios (worldwide)

The Poster !

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Revision

The role and responsibility of the producer-

The producer is the first person to become involved in a movie project. The producer does all the post-production and marketing and distribution the main role of the producer of the producer is to turn the story into a profitable cinematic entertainment and its their job to emend and include parts of the project they dislike or like it.  Its the producers role to get the the commercial and creative vision of the movie and the producers role to get as much press as possible to the project they are are doing. He has to also control of the whole project and he is also involved with the process

Tuesday 26 April 2011

Revision booklet

Revision Booklet Film Industry

SMART Targets

These targets are targets I came up up with to help get the grades that I aspire to get in my media exam and project

1) Using media terminology more often in essay writing this will be done by revising over media terms that Miss gave us and writing down the definitions.

2) My second target will be to do more essay writing to help improve the writing of my essay and use more terms that relate to the case study.

3) The third of my target is to come after school and do more of revision and finish off the project this will also be done at home and do revision from the revision booklet Mr holloway had given us.

These are the targets which Sir gave us to help us with the grade we need to achieve -

1)Download and read film institution support guide from blog and use in revision for exam.

2)Watch and analyse TV drama regularly with a focus on representations and how they are created through camera, mise en scene, sound and edit.

3)Complete Foundation Portfolio (coursework) including evaluation questions ASAP.