Purpose: Purpose is to inform/educate/entertain and how does it do it?
The audience International, national?
What is it made for, profit? promotion?
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Rom-Com, Kids, Animated, Action, Thriller, Zom-Com, True Story, Documentary, Musical, Family, Fantasy, Adventure.
What genre is the film?
(Barry Keith Grant "All genres have sub-genres."1995)
what sub-genre does the film fit in?
Form: What type of product? Feature film? Short?
How long/Duration is the film?
Where was it distributed?
I know where it was distributed because of target audience.
Where can you watch it? Netflix streaming, Places where it's available on DVD/ Blu-Ray, the cinema, download of ITunes and Google Play, Illegal downloads (especially conglomerate films) .
Style: Aesthetic Quality: The way something looks, ( modern (setting, present day?),old fashioned (set in the past?),futuristic (set in the future?) or Verisimilitude (does it look realistic?))
Content + Meaning: How is the narrative put together, what is it about?
a)Todorov: Narrative Structures
5 stages of telling a story. 3 Main stages: Beginning (Set up) , middle (climax/problem) and end (conclusion).
1)Equilibrium (Balance, Everything is fine)
2)Disequilibrium (Unbalanced, Problems start to happen, enigma)
3)Resolution (Problems are solved, new state of the equilibrium), sometimes can lead to sequal if left on cliffhanger.
b)Kate Domaille: Narrative Types
8 narrative types: The simpsons is Orpheus: The loss of something personal, the gift that is taken away, the tragedy of loss or the journey which follows the loss:
explain why it is.
c)Claude Levi-Strauss: Binary Oppositions
Binary (State of something), Oppositions (contrast, versus)
If it's binary opposition of gender, it would be male versus female and if it was age it would be young versus old.
Men are stereotypically dominant and important because in past history they have always gone out and done the work, female are subordinate, submissive and caring.
Ideology -> views + opinions on things in society we recognise.
My film's binary opposition in The Simpsons is Protaganist (Lead/ Hero) versus Antagonist (Enemy/Villian) which is The Simpsons family versus the president of EPA, it can also be The Simpsons family versus the problems they are in.
meaning
Sound:Diegisis: Story World, where your narrative is set ( made up city, America in 2008/ Alaska 2008 which is realistic and versimilitude as being recognisable but isn't real as it is an animated film)
Verisimilitude (Appearance of bein real).
Non-Diegetic (heard by audience): Voice over, incedental music (used to reflect the mood of the scene), Music (song to go with a scene)
Diegetic (Audience and characters): Natural to story world like dialogue and sound effects (like in a city it would be car engines and crowds of people talking). Even sound that you can't see but you know is natural to the scene. KEY DIALOGUE to be put in the script. A diegetic voice over is a character in the film who is narrating in the film for a flashback for example. Music from a music source what the audience and characters in the film can hear such as a radio.
Sound effects connotation example: Car engines, screaching breaks and gun shots connotes to danger, conflict, war and is a spectacle in the film which makes it exciting.
Dialogue: Mode of Adress, how the adressor speaks to the addressee.
Peer to Peer:Informal/Slang, calm, banter, same social level, one peer may be a bit older or younger
Parent* to Peer**: Informal, personal and Calm.
Teacher* to Peer**:Formal, Instructions, guidance and teaching.
*Dominant
**Subordinate
Mise en Scene:
Indie music video:
- The band performing
- The music instruments
- Stage/ location (Oustide, Personal)
- Other people/ fans
- Low Key Lighting
- Characters
- blood/ gore
- Village/ Haunted House (Small area so person/ people can't escape)
- Locations (Where its set, Diegesis) enforced by narrative
- Costume/Make up (Prosphetics) enforced by narrative and stereotypes
- Props enforced by stereotype and Narrative
- Colour/ Lighting enforced by genre and narrative
- Gestures (How the person acts or what movements they do alot) enforced by stereotype.
Location:
It is set in Sprinfield, America which is a made up town so isn't verisimilitude but then it's set in Alaska, US which is represented by a stereotypical description of snow, mountains, lodges, wildlife and peaceful as in the story this is a new found equilibrium until more drama happens. The diegesis is set in 2007 but isn't as verisimilitude as the real 2007 as the president is a fictional character in their world and not the real president Bush.
Costume:
Costume are what you've been TOLD to wear whilst clothes are your own choice.This means costumes are encoded, The Simpsons are the antagonist and wear casual whilst the protaganist wears a suit, so it shows that the protaganist is a business man and smart whilst The Simpsons are wearing genric clothes, so they would have normal smartness.
Props:
Prop is short for property, so is handheld by the actor an example in the simpsons is the gun what a police officer uses on Bart's skateboard.
Iconography:
Things in the movie that are iconical, items that create stereotypical representations that become well known and recognised. They intertextualise a character in the film to be like a well known actor called Arnold Schwarzenegger. They use the iconical stereotype of Alaska and even the fact that they get $1,000 when they move to alaska.
Colours and Lighting:
Can create emotion and mood to the film.
Low key Lighting: encoded when scene/location has shadows and light, normally used in disequilibrium. Connotation: fear of not knowing what's in the dark. (Find example)
High Key Lighting: When the scene/location is well lit and bright. Connotes: Happiness, resolution, angelic. (Find example)
Gestures:
Gender/character types: How Antagonist and protaganists moves.
SCRIPT: In terms of Content discuss the narrative of the film and discuss the basic:
- Locations and Iconography (2-3 Examples)
- Characters and acting gestures (Protaganist and Antagonist)
- Costume and make up (protaganist and antagonist)
- Props (1-3 significant figures (connote and denote)
- Lighting and colour (High and Low key examples)
Editing
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Denotation and Connotation:
Denotation: Describe what I see and hear.
'The Image denates a red heart"
"A red heart is denoted in the image"
"The denotation of the image is a red heart"
Connotation: The meaning behind what I see and hear, what it suggests, represents, implies and infers.
"There red heart connotes love"
"Love is connated in this image of a denoted red heart"
"The Connotation of this red heart symbolises love"
What does the Film connate/signify?
Macro- Narrative/ genre/ representation
Production Process:
Pre production
Production
Post Production
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