1B Revision:
Representation (possible topic) - Is the re-presenting of a reality to an audience. Can be of a place, issue, event, person etc.
Mediation - Taking an image from reality, interpreting it and re-presenting in a certain way for an audience.
Richard Dyer - How people see us determines how we are treated, how we treat others is due to how we see them, this comes from representation within media texts. Sub-groups may be stereotyped when never even seen by a particular individual before.
Roland Bathes - Enigma code theory 1974 (within the narrative code theory) suggests that building up tension and then leaving the audience with unanswered questions of what will happen is how an audience is entertained and makes them want to keep watching. In relation to my film opening which I created in my AS foundation year, I built tension by showing a scene In which the protagonist is attacked, the audience is then left with answered questions such as who was the attacker, does he survive? and why was the protagonist attacked. This makes the audience want to keep watching.
David Chandler - Argues that representation is always constructed on aspects of reality, such as places, events, objects, culture.
Baker 1989 - Argues that stereotyping is inaccurate and misinterprets the real world
Hebdidge - Argues that a subculture is a subgroup who feel neglected by societal standards, therefore act in a way which the dominant ideology's of society, way they dress - youth within deprived areas.
What concepts did I aim to represent In my film opening? - I aimed to represent violence and crime surrounding youth living within deprived areas. I also represented past events within my footage through the use of a flashback scene.
Essay writing - 1st mention which project you are writing about and what happens - For this answer I am going to talk about my foundation portfolio main task which I created in my first year, this was a film opening based in the crime drama genre named Only Business. The basic action of the opening shows a young male running away from something unknown to the audience, later through the use of a flashback scene it appears he is running from a drug deal that went wrong and ended up with an attacker being stabbed.
2nd write about some of the key concepts of the topic which you are being asked to relate - e.g. talk about two theories within representation and define what representation is
3rd start to apply the topic to your work - representation of youth being violent and criminals shown in my film opening, this may conform to stereotypes, however may involve Giroux's theory that youth are an empty category. I did this through the mise-en-scene of youth carrying knifes, wearing tracksuits and the way they talk. Physically when editing this scene In premiere pro I used the razor tool to cut down shots, so that I could cut from a shot of the fighting action from a long shot distance, to a close view showing the knife as the protagonist turns it on the attacker.
When talking about representation in regards to your film opening talk about how identities have been represented and how you constructed this representation in production
In my film opening I have challenged typical narrative conventions which present clear lines of distinction between antagonist and protagonist, as both of the character seem evil to some extent in my footage. I created representation to show my characters in this way in order to entertain the audience as this is an uncommon technique used in filming, however this representation of unclear line between antagonist and protagonist is risky as it makes it hard for the audience to make a connection towards characters.
Genre - A style or category which a particular art form falls into, one particular production can fit several genres.
Genre is not fixed and by jointing genres together hybrids can be formed.
McQuail 1987 suggests that genre is used to relate production to the expectation of consumers
Say how what I did reinforced Steve Neale's theory 1980 that genre is instances of repetition and variation. Repetition to existing crime films such as harry brown, includes dark setting and scene of underpass where crimes take place, such as murder and selling/using drugs.
Steve Neale (1980) - Genre is a series of repetition and variation, to make it recognisable to the genre but not exactly the same as existing texts. (1980). My crime drama involves deprived setting as often seen in crime films such as underpass and estate In Harry Brown 2009, this is recognisable, however variation is that attacker is wearing smart clothing rather than looking like typical criminal youth, makes audience question who this attacker really is, relates to Roland Bathes Enigma code theory. Builds tension then leaves audience with unanswered questions. twisted the stereotypical generic features of the typical criminal youth. The use of deprived location within the genre reinforces society's fears of crime, violence and therefore danger within run down or deprived areas, the locations used gives off this scene as dark underpass with graffiti, inspiration from Harry Brown and large estate blocks can be seen in the background of the footage, editing dimmed the footage to give a dark effect making the audience feel the area is dangerous using the 'brightness' tool and simply lowering the brightness in particular shots, natural darkness in underpass scene shows the attacker coming up behind silhouette of protagonist.
Gledhill (1985) there are 'no rigid rules of inclusion and exclusion'
Chandler (2000) - It is difficult to make clear cut distinctions between genre, genres overlap
Essay writing on genre intro:
Genre is a style or category which a particular text falls into, weather it be, film, music or art etc. In this case I will be talking about genre in relation to film. I am going to talk about my film opening which I created in my AS year for my foundation portfolio, based in the crime drama genre, choosing this genre allowed me to be creative although it also meant that I was slightly limited as I had to stick to typical generic conventions of the genre in order for it to be recognised by its target audience.
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