Tuesday 29 January 2013

representation


A young male actor plays the lead role of Red Riding; by choosing to have the main character portrayed as a young man this generates a large female audience. Eddie, a young reporter always turns to his supervisor for advice. His supervisor is played by an older, fatter man. This could be used to show that with age there is wisdom and experience where as Eddie has none of this and is always finding himself getting into trouble due to lacking the experience that his supervisor has. However as he is young and is able to take risks, be brave and also promiscuous, something of which todays younger generation maybe described as. By having these age stereotypes of old peoples wisdom and the younger carefree characters the audience is able to relate to characters.

Eddie interviews and forms an intimate bond with a older female character, this could be used to represent the changing views on age gaps between couples, as these types of relationship are becoming more common in todays society. The couple could also show that the woman is dependent on her partner as the women does not work and requires his support. This again fits into the stereo type of men being the ones to put the food on the table. All of the victims are young girls and the mothers of these girls all seem to be single mothers. This could be representing how hard life is as a single mother and that everything is that little bit harder, especially grieving, as the mothers have no one to rely on. This also shows the common representation of women being the weaker gender and is dependent on others. As well as this the fact that young children have been killed shows how precious they really are and how they are dependent on adults. The serial killer being an adult could represent the unstable household of today and how over time children’s up bringing’s have deteriorated, they no longer are able to play out on the street or simply go to the park as such because of all of the adults that do not understand how precious it is to have a child in your life.





Friday 25 January 2013

Things we will need.

What we need:
·         School uniform
·         Photos of family
·         Dart
·         Knife
·         Big Coat
·         Digital Clock

Synopsis

Deborah Strongman is a detective searching for the killer of her daughter against the wishes of the police force that she works for. When she gets a call to come to a scene of a crime, she has no idea that she will find her dead daughter only minutes from her home. Despite the promise from her co-workers that they will find the killer, Deborah decides to take matters into her own hands, desparate to know what led to the death of her teenage daughter. We witness a series of events in which Deborah risks both her career and her safety in this longing search to bring justice for both her daughter, and herself. Upon months of searching, we conclude and Deborah finds herself in a familiar house. All too familiar. Finding herself face-to-face with her ex-lover, she realises that his next target was to be her 11 year old son. Avenging her daughters death, she shoots him. She has found justice.

Friday 18 January 2013

Thriller.

We have decided to chose thriller as our chosen genre, we decided this as we thought it was an intresting genre and appeals to many.
We looked at the film house at the end of the street, we liked the way the trailer quickly changed between shots which created tense atmosphere and made the veiwer feel involved in the trailer. Heres the trailer:

From research we found that people aged between 18-25 are most likely to enjoy watching thrillers. Aswell as this we found that it was also mainly men who watched thrillers, however we were unsure wheter or not to also target our film at females aswell.  In the end we decided to include 18-25 year old females in our audience aswell as we felt that thriller was widely watched by many females also, other members of my group our female and also enjoy thriller films. In order encourage a larger amount of female veiwers we decided to have our main character to be played by a female so they are able to relate to her.

Task genre

For or our task we looked at a few different film genres in order to get inspiration for our main task, and are still undecided on what our chosen genre is.
First we looked at the kidulthood trailer, we liked the idea of this opening as gave an insight to the different characters within the film.
We also looked at Juno for inspiration. We liked the idea of this trailer as it was very querky and created a very good feel for the rest of the movie, something we want to interpret into our own film.

We also looked at the opening of Lord of War, this trailer followed the process of bullets being made, we liked this idea and thought that something similar to this maybe the best option to do as it is fairly simple yet still a fairly effective way of opening a film.



Friday 11 January 2013

Friday Night Lights

Over the christmas period i watched the first series of a tv series called friday night lights, which was about a coach and his football team trying to get to the state finals. As you get into the series you find yourself feeling part of the team and look forward to the end of the show where there match normally takes place. Friday night lights is very good as using non digetic sound to make you feel more emotional to whats happening on screen. Many issues are brought up thourgout friday night lights such as racial problems, for example the white players in friday night lights where given more of an opportunity to be the star players. Aswell as this issues with age is also made apperent, aswell as gender roles. The show is shot very professionally and so there is no shacky camera and so reduces the realism of the show, however there is a still a very realisitic feel to the show as the problems that the team face appear to be that of what a real football team may face, such as problems with steroids.