Merlin-Male Representaion.

What representations of gender are constructed by the extract through the use of mise en scene, editing, use of camera, sound?

As soon as the trailor starts we can see Merlin sat in what seems to be a big castle, he is sat on his own in a relatively large room, the camera angle looks to be a long shot, which is also similar to when he is stood on his own in some case. This could be done for the two reasons, the first is that it could have been used to show that the male is the dominant, and has superior strenth compared to the female. The other is that the director is trying to show that Merlin will have to deal with some tricky situations on his own, and when it comes down to it, he will have nobody to rely on.

We then see a close up on Merlin's face where we see that there is a sparkle in his eye, this could be used to show that Merlin will be unique to others and do what nobody else can do, and produce magic, which could mean he will once again be dominant and can over power others.

Also usually they the camera pointing upwards when looking at the men e.g. when one of the men is pointing up at the castle, which once again could be used to show that the women had to look up to the men.

The voiceover throughout is a man, this to me sounds like it could be a 'wise man' (maybe like Merlin when he's older) trying to spread his knowledge, but it once again look like the man is dominant, and everything that a man says is more important than whatever a woman says, almost as if a male would make all the decisions and would be seen as more important than the woman. The music also builds up expectations and builds up tension, and it playing as Merlin and somebody else are in a confrontation, this once again makes out men are superior as they are the ones who go and fight battle, and can be more physical.

Throughout the trailer we say that men are treated with more respect, and look like they're more domiant and much more important.

Disability- Tourettes

Monday, 8 November 2010

Disability

Tourettes is now a well known disability but once it was seen a rude and hinderance to society. Nowadays tourettes is accepted by the general public. Big Brother winner Pete Bennett who also suffered with exposed the illness helped explain the misconceptions of the illness, and was a very popular chartacter. This particular clip is taken from a channel four documentary on tourettes.

Animoto Video attempt one

Not 100% sure why I chose this film, i'm not a massive fan of the sequal!

Original Theorists

VLADAMIR PROPP

Propp comes from the country of Russia, the main theory of his work is that always believed that to every narrative there was a 'hero' 'villain' 'false hero' 'helper' and a 'donor' contained inside. This can be related to life on mars because Sam Tyler can be seen as the hero because of his determination and inspiration to get the job done, Colin Reams can be seen as the villain as he is the one who Tyler is trying to convict and Gene Hunt is looked at as the false hero because he can be seen as being a popular character for all the wrong reasons.

Todorov

He originates from the country of Bulgaria. As well as becoming known for his theories he was also a keen author. Most of his work is from the 1960's and he is seen as being very influencial. His main theory was that every narrative had three periods in it, first of all was an introduction where everything is in balance and some cases 'happy' but then something 'big' or disasterous happens with changes things so everything becomes 'pear shaped' finally it will then have an ending where the disaster goes back to how it originally was. In relation to life on mars, we see it when Tyler is doing his normal everyday job when a disater happens and he is took back to te 1970's and he then must work his situation out and get back to the present, which he eventually does.

Levi-Strauss

Strauss who comes from the country of France lived until he was one hundred years old. He main theory was that all narratives contain a feature of Binary Opposites. This is where you two completely opposite things the same narrative for example it can be related to life on mars because during the programme Tyler is living in the present day when suddenly he is hit by a car and taken back in time to the 1970's and this can be seen as binary opposites because there is a complete contrast in settings for Tyler. 

FILM DIRECTORS!

Last week in AS Media we studied for careers of  6 different directors, we looked at the breif background of these directors, the style of filning they used, what audience they usually appeal too and what famous films or music videos they have directed in the past.

Wes Anderson

• He has directed films such as The Royal Tennenbaums and the American Express Advert.
• He ususally uses classic folk music or british rock for the soundtrack of his film.
• He often directs 'up market' films, so usualy they would be watched by a wealthier audience.
• He was born in Texas and he is 41 years old.
• Anderson takes things such as props very seriously, and they must always be in what he believes to be 'perfect' position

Shynola

Shynola is not one person but a group of four men, they all met at Kent Institute of Art and Design.

Gideon Baws, Chris Harding, Richard Kenworthy and Jason Groves were the men involved.

They produced the film 'Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy'

Did advertisments for Playstation

Also music videos for Coldplay and BLUR.

Spike Jonze

• Was born in Rockville, 41 years old.
• Has recieved an Oscar for his work on the film Adaption.
• He also recieved Golden Globes for this project.
• He has created advertisments for companies such as Ikea and gap.
• He also created American programma jackass.
• An effect of his work is that he tries to make his work look cheap and easy to make with no special effects when it is complete opposite, expensive with a high amount of effort put into it. 

Sorry this is not completed! I had to finish off my English Coursework, I will complete as soon as I get another chance.

Todays Media Lesson 13.10.10

Today in Media we studied the 'Britishness' in films. We looked at how directors give films bristish stereotypes to show countries like America what it is appartantly like to live in Britain. We looked at Hot Fuzz at saw how things like the police ringing bells going from a siren to a bell to a ringing showed how the police force has changed over years. We also looked at regular features of British films, and what is associated with Britain. Such as often we see a film based around an urban run down estate, to show working class.

A personal favourite style of British film is films based on the British cultural movement. Films like trainspotting that I believed peaked during the Britpop era which dealed with th concept of drugs. Plus films like Quadrophenia starring Phil Daniels which looks at the Mod scene and plays classic and iconic music such as The Jam and The Who

Magazine Post-Production

After reviewing the outcome of my magazine, I am slighly disappointed with the outcome, as I feel that it looked bland and bleak. Although as the focus of this was to get used to working with photoshop, I suppose in some ways it was quite good that I gained experience and realised and that if one thing goes wrong then the whole of your project can go wrong. So I have learnt how important it is to have a different layer for everything single thing you do. If there's one thing that i was happy about with my magazine though, it was the images. I thought they had been cut to a decent standard and there wasn't too many jaged lines in the cut- outs.

Overall I believe I have learn from this first part of the cousrse and will look forward and try to relish it when we get another chance to do it.