Pete fraser talk

Today, we were asked to go to the assembly hall as Pete Fraser came into to talk to all of the Media Studies students about the course and to give us some tips about the course and how to get the most marks possible. Pete showed us some students past film openings and we the as a group would discuss why the film opening was given the grade it was awarded and what its strengths and weaknesses were. This was very useful as it is gave us a lot of tips how to make ours better and this also will give us a better chance of getting the marks that are available.

Narrative

A narrative is a retelling of a story and is often brought across to the audience through a voice over. It is not the story itself rather the telling of the story and so each of the events is a recollection. Narratives are used as they can give in depth details into the rise to and during a key scene within a film. Barthe devised that when a story is taken a part a whole collection of new meanings are generated and so the story gains depth. A narratives order as given by Torodov suggests there are 5 stages to the narrative: An equilibrium, A disruption of an equilibrium, Recognition of disruption, Restoration and back to the beginning equilibrium. often the disruption was caused by an antagonist who is often decided by the theory of binary opposites devised by Levi-Strauss.

Representation

Representation is used in the film industry in order to use well known stereotypes and archetypes in order to present a character,events or ideas to the audience. This is controlled by gatekeepers who decide what the audience is to be allowed to see and what they can not. For example a stereotype may be used to display a foreigner because some people may otherwise not be able to identify the characters decent.

Juno Production diary

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study and use of symbols and representation through symbolism. For example we looked at the symbol of the swastika and what nit might represent. At first most of the class saw a vision of the Nazi rule, however when given an explanation the class learned that the swastika was actually a symbol for eternal spiritual victory that ancient Indians would believe in. The mistake is the fault of representation in which people interpret the meaning in the fault of a lack of knowledge.

The Film Industry

Whilst researching the film institution we were tasked as a group of three to develop and propose a film pitch to a group of peers and then we took criticism and looked into techniques used within the film industry.We attempted to display how we would audition and choose our actors as well as how to market the made up film we had created of which ours was called "The Lurking".

Film Language Textual Analysis

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=boyz+n+the+hood+dutch+subtitles&FORM=HDRSC3#view=detail&mid=BCA98CE309ED50662AF4BCA98CE309ED50662AF4

Above is the link to boyz n the hood of which we watched the first 6 minutes. In class we looked into the film language used to describe and explain what is happening on screen and why.
Mise En Scene:
Costume
Track suits
Lighting
Dull as if to show the roughness of the film throughout
Actors
Young to help the film have an impact on a variety of different audiences
Make up
very minimal and simplistic to create a realistic scenario
Props
very few but they include the blood and the sot up poster
Setting
In a supposed black cultured area in order to give a view of the scene and history behind the film

Juno film opening task

For the past week i have been paired with Tilly and we were set the task of recreating the film opening from the film Juno. We used it as good practice to use the program Adobe Premiere in order to practice our filming and editing methods in a film opening task. Below is our final cut of our short video of the remake and we used the original soundtrack over the top to allow the realism to be enables. We had to carefully story board the video and attempt to recreate each and every shot from the first 1:05 minutes of the opening sequence