Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Terminology terms I have learned
Sound motif - introduces a new character and sound is used to identify the character.
Eyeline match - 2 shots which are juxtaposed to show that the characters are looking at eachother.
Motivated cut- a character that makes the audience have to follow the edit, can be done with speech or sounds.
Prominance - how the long the character is on screen for/shows us the main character (dominance and power)
used to make the audience see things from a certains persons point of view if the audience doesnt want to/ who the audience side with.
(screen time meets who audience is invited to see point of view from)
Eyeline match - 2 shots which are juxtaposed to show that the characters are looking at eachother.
Motivated cut- a character that makes the audience have to follow the edit, can be done with speech or sounds.
Prominance - how the long the character is on screen for/shows us the main character (dominance and power)
used to make the audience see things from a certains persons point of view if the audience doesnt want to/ who the audience side with.
(screen time meets who audience is invited to see point of view from)
Ethnicity Portrayls
We looked at different clips to see how ethnicities were portrayed. Each clip was handed out to different groups around the classroom, we then came together to talk about al the different clips we had seen and then came together as a group to share our findings.
Eastenders = positive and exotic
The clip that we looked at was Eastenders. We saw that the clip was a positive portrayl as the scene was a traditional indian wedding. The scene was quite exotic, and there was lot of sari's and gems, traditional decorations. Some of the men wore suits to show they were businessmen and were rich. There was also a lot of dance within the clip. The lighting was quite bright and artificial looking, and the music was a mix of traditional and modern. There was quite a few close up, high and wide shots used throughout.
Top boy = Dangerous and Pitied
The clip consisted of black ethnicity, the character from the clip had an absent father. They were quite family orientated, in the clips there was some references to drugs possible they were associated with drugs. The clip was set in a high street and their costume were hoodies, they showed signs of unity with line "We will look after you". in the clip there was black cultral slang and dialects.
Four Lines = Humerous
This clip consisted of Asians trying to act like Indians. The clip was shot on 'location', it was set in Afganistan/Pakistan. They wore traditional Arab/Indian dress but all had northern,birmingham accents.
Top boy x2 = Dangerous
The black characters are dangerous and violent and they are in conflict with white culture.
This is England = positive/negative and pitied
Again this clip was black ethnicity. This clip showed family and respect. The father was absent in the clip as he was working. They were all eating exotic foods. Character dressed in a 'skin head' costume and has a jamaican accent. He is also quite racist towards white people and is on drugs which makes his flip out and beat people up.
Compulsion = positive and negative
This clip had a mixture of white and asian ethnicity. The clip contained some asian doctors and traditional asian music. There was also a mixture costumes from traditional asian dress and western clothing worn by the characters. The clip contained a family or a community and women in the clip were seen as objects to look at. There was also some mentions of drugs.
Eastender Clip = unity
A black family at a family meal, all sat around one big table. They were planning to 'show all people' something that was not made clear in the clip, all sat around a round table close together. The characters were set out together and were shot in 2's or 3's nevel alone and some uses of wide shots that showed everyone. There was reggae music playing the background. Also there was many different age groups around the table from young adults to elders. There was only black people around the table showing the idea of unity.
We then looked at the idea of opposites and the idea of UNITY and CONFLICT.
I also learnt about binary opposites.
Eastenders = positive and exotic
The clip that we looked at was Eastenders. We saw that the clip was a positive portrayl as the scene was a traditional indian wedding. The scene was quite exotic, and there was lot of sari's and gems, traditional decorations. Some of the men wore suits to show they were businessmen and were rich. There was also a lot of dance within the clip. The lighting was quite bright and artificial looking, and the music was a mix of traditional and modern. There was quite a few close up, high and wide shots used throughout.
Top boy = Dangerous and Pitied
The clip consisted of black ethnicity, the character from the clip had an absent father. They were quite family orientated, in the clips there was some references to drugs possible they were associated with drugs. The clip was set in a high street and their costume were hoodies, they showed signs of unity with line "We will look after you". in the clip there was black cultral slang and dialects.
Four Lines = Humerous
This clip consisted of Asians trying to act like Indians. The clip was shot on 'location', it was set in Afganistan/Pakistan. They wore traditional Arab/Indian dress but all had northern,birmingham accents.
Top boy x2 = Dangerous
The black characters are dangerous and violent and they are in conflict with white culture.
This is England = positive/negative and pitied
Again this clip was black ethnicity. This clip showed family and respect. The father was absent in the clip as he was working. They were all eating exotic foods. Character dressed in a 'skin head' costume and has a jamaican accent. He is also quite racist towards white people and is on drugs which makes his flip out and beat people up.
Compulsion = positive and negative
This clip had a mixture of white and asian ethnicity. The clip contained some asian doctors and traditional asian music. There was also a mixture costumes from traditional asian dress and western clothing worn by the characters. The clip contained a family or a community and women in the clip were seen as objects to look at. There was also some mentions of drugs.
Eastender Clip = unity
A black family at a family meal, all sat around one big table. They were planning to 'show all people' something that was not made clear in the clip, all sat around a round table close together. The characters were set out together and were shot in 2's or 3's nevel alone and some uses of wide shots that showed everyone. There was reggae music playing the background. Also there was many different age groups around the table from young adults to elders. There was only black people around the table showing the idea of unity.
We then looked at the idea of opposites and the idea of UNITY and CONFLICT.
I also learnt about binary opposites.
Representation of ethnicity
Emphasis/complement/enhance
The stereotypes of ethnic groups:
- Exotic
- Dangerous
- Pitied
- Humerous
- United
We watched a clip that showed a white man and a black being portrayed two different ways. They were in a deserted warehouse that the white man was dressed smartly and appeared to be running away from aa black man dressed in what could only be seen as a black coat. Most of the screen time was placed onto the white man and his fear of the man chasing him, there was only quick shots of the black man, never any shots on his face. Then when the two characters came together we all expected the white man to be the victim, but then we learned that he was the bad guy and that the black guy was just trying to get some revenge on him. This was when his face finally became revealed so we could sympathise with him instead of the other guy.
We then looked at how asians are portayed within the media. We looked into what jobs we signify with them such as doctors, restaurant owners, pharamacists and shop owners.We then looked at to what was considered to be important to them and we though that their religion, family, traditions, respect for elders, arranged marriage, male dominated and how patriarchal they were. We looked at how we percieved them to behave, we thought gangs, technelogical, respectful to family and they're quite sporty. We thought about how they lived and came op with two completely opposite ideas, one was slums in India and then big houses and England. We then saw that they especially liked to celebrate their weddings. they also have the abilities of being smart, sporty and handy.
We then looked at how we thought of black people through the portrayl of the media. We looked at what we percieved them to do as jobs, we thought of, door men, drug dealers, builders, bus drivers, heads of church, sports and dancers. We then looked into their values and we thought of church and their religions and beliefs, how they dont snitch on one another,and how they stand up for what they believe is right. We also thought of them living in bif familys or in gangs and they enjoy their music (pop, motown.) and their abilities at sport especially within football and basketball as they are generally quite big and powerful.
We then looked at travellers and how percieved them from the media. We percieved there jobs as to be illegal door to door salesman, fairground workers, boxer/fighters and scrap metal collecters. They value their familys and traditions, and know how to stand up for themselves and they always sort out family disputes through nuckel fights and dog fights. They live in caravans and big communities. They have big celebrations for weddings and funerals and they are always unified.
These are the portrays that we have percieved through the media.
The stereotypes of ethnic groups:
- Exotic
- Dangerous
- Pitied
- Humerous
- United
We watched a clip that showed a white man and a black being portrayed two different ways. They were in a deserted warehouse that the white man was dressed smartly and appeared to be running away from aa black man dressed in what could only be seen as a black coat. Most of the screen time was placed onto the white man and his fear of the man chasing him, there was only quick shots of the black man, never any shots on his face. Then when the two characters came together we all expected the white man to be the victim, but then we learned that he was the bad guy and that the black guy was just trying to get some revenge on him. This was when his face finally became revealed so we could sympathise with him instead of the other guy.
We then looked at how asians are portayed within the media. We looked into what jobs we signify with them such as doctors, restaurant owners, pharamacists and shop owners.We then looked at to what was considered to be important to them and we though that their religion, family, traditions, respect for elders, arranged marriage, male dominated and how patriarchal they were. We looked at how we percieved them to behave, we thought gangs, technelogical, respectful to family and they're quite sporty. We thought about how they lived and came op with two completely opposite ideas, one was slums in India and then big houses and England. We then saw that they especially liked to celebrate their weddings. they also have the abilities of being smart, sporty and handy.
We then looked at how we thought of black people through the portrayl of the media. We looked at what we percieved them to do as jobs, we thought of, door men, drug dealers, builders, bus drivers, heads of church, sports and dancers. We then looked into their values and we thought of church and their religions and beliefs, how they dont snitch on one another,and how they stand up for what they believe is right. We also thought of them living in bif familys or in gangs and they enjoy their music (pop, motown.) and their abilities at sport especially within football and basketball as they are generally quite big and powerful.
We then looked at travellers and how percieved them from the media. We percieved there jobs as to be illegal door to door salesman, fairground workers, boxer/fighters and scrap metal collecters. They value their familys and traditions, and know how to stand up for themselves and they always sort out family disputes through nuckel fights and dog fights. They live in caravans and big communities. They have big celebrations for weddings and funerals and they are always unified.
These are the portrays that we have percieved through the media.
Representation of Age (reminder from comparison of characters from harry brown clip)
Today we looked at how shots can portray age, how sounds can portray age and a comparison of characters from the Harry Brown clip using M.E.S, sound, lighting and camera.
I also learnt was proxemic codes means, the closeness of people in a shot and how this can be used to make certain characters seem bigger or more people.
I also learnt juxtaposistion which is how shots are put together, to show the difference between the two.
I also learnt was proxemic codes means, the closeness of people in a shot and how this can be used to make certain characters seem bigger or more people.
I also learnt juxtaposistion which is how shots are put together, to show the difference between the two.
my missing posts
I recently noticed that posts had been missing. As i edited through old posts I noticed they had saved as drafts instead of blogging, so thought I had best upload them.......
Wednesday, 8 February 2012
mock exam monarch of the glen
In the clip the youth are portrayed as to be gossips and lazy in the clip compared to the hard working adults around them. This is reinforced through the slow edits which show their stereotype of youth being lazy and the camera angles were also very high angled making them look smaller and less powerful. The stereotype that is being reinforced is that teenagers don’t care and are just lazy. Also the adults in the clip are all wearing thick layers of clothing and the youth are only wearing thin hardy any layers, the girl in the clip is only wearing a thin top, reinforcing the idea the idea that youth dress inappropriately. The idea of the clip being youth dominated is being challenged by the soundtrack which is slow paced and classical which is generally representing adults and upper class people not working class youth. A quick edit comes into action when the youth girl crashes the car after clearly be seen not having any idea how to drive the car. The edit then becomes quick paced jumping straight to the scene of the accident. Here the idea being reinforced is that youth are careless, reckless and cannot be trusted. One of the next scenes after that jumps to the headmaster character shouting at the young girl re-enforcing the idea that elderly are more superior to youth and that they disapprove of youths actions. Also the shots on the elderly man are more low angled making him look much more superior and the juxtaposition of how much time is spent on him gives him the status and power in the scene, also the youth character is surrounded by adults in the scene. Also she’s shot from a high angle making her look smaller and vulnerable in the scene. Also the edits are quite quick in the shot reverse shot conversation. This helps to build up tension within the scene as your seeing each characters expression quickly and throughout the dialogue. Also this is challenging the idea that the elderly are slow, by having quick edits instead of slow edits. In the next scene we see a fairly large well decorated room, which is full of antique furniture. Also in the edge of the shot you can see whiskey sitting on one side this quite an adult, elderly drink which is re-enforced when the two men begin to drink a glass of whiskey. The men then talk and the elderly character inform the other character that the youthful girl has not sat a single exam. This then leads into the adult character striding angrily across the room before forcefully pulling the door open. He then strides over toward the girl and shout at her “you haven’t sat a single exam?” in a quite forceful tone and with a fierce expression in his facial expression and body language. The next shot of the girl is another high shot of the girl and she then screams “I hate you!” before running off. This could re-enforce the idea that youth run away from difficult or tense situations or that they also react in a childlike way when they don’t get their own way.
The next shot then changes back to a scene where a load of adults are working hard which is reinforced by the classical fast paced music playing in the background. The music could be seen to signify the adults as classical music could be seen as elderly music and fast paced music youthful so by mixing the two showing adults. The shots of them are also quick paced to show how hard and fast they are working as by their dialogue they’re up against a deadline to get finished. The next scene cuts quickly onto the girl leaving letters on the bed for some people and the music seems to have slowed reinforcing her emotions and feelings and the hurt she feels to leave. Behind the letters are some typically girly magazines which gives you an insight into the girl age and time of life.
Also the lighting throughout the piece was quite bright and mostly natural lighting. In this shot the lighting is quite bright drawing your attention to the magazines. We then see a glimpse of some photos of the girls friends who happy ad celebrating something. The next scene an elderly woman comes walking into the room looking for the youth girl. When she sees she is not there she runs showing the idea that elderly panic easily and do have a concern for the youth and worry about them when they don’t know where they are or what they’re doing. The scene next cuts to a forest area where adults are working, another adult man arrives and starts shouting at the others to “stop this is my land”. This reinforces the idea that adults like to challenge peoples authority and like to have power and feel intimidated when they cannot regain the power and status. All the characters costume in this scene are all farmer and countryside like, they are all pale, green blue and black coloured. Also the elderly woman is wearing a flat cap which is associated with elderly people, whilst the younger generations wear jackets and jeans.
Thursday, 19 January 2012
Harry Brown character comparison part 2
After watching 2 parts of the Harry Brown we came together as a group and listed all the different areas where we found evidence to back up our points on where we thought age was shown. The 4 areas we used were camera, edit, sound and mes.
The age difference was shown by the energy and of the youth and the vunrability of age.
In the first clip we could see youths smoking crack cocaine from an inhalent device, this then allowed the pace of the shots to be set, the edits were quite quick to show the effect of the drugs on the youths. This is the differet to the slow shots used to show harry browns frailty and his way of life.
Terminology
The youths clip was quite fast paced, quick cuts, 'camera phone', aggressive, hoodies, no self respect, anonymous, technilogical, youth dont care about appearance,
Harry brown clip was slow, fade cuts, close ups/long shots, lonely, respect, traditional, scared, vunrable, takes care in appearance, harsh lighting exposes him.
In the youth clip the camera quality was quite poor when the youth was riding the motorbike, this was to make the audience feel involved and part of the gang, also the poor quality was to make the scene believable as in the fact that, that scene had been shot on a camera phone. Also the way the youths acted and spoke you could see that they had no respect for themselves or for the people around them, they also acted immature for their age.
In the harry brown clip the shots were quite long and slow and showed day to day activity such as getting ready, this was to show his bordem and lonleyness and the fact that he does the same thing every day. This is reality where as the youths would do new things everyday as they are still young enough to treat every day of life like an adventure.
From this task we learnt how to focus on the 4 key elements to make a character comparisom between to different age groups.
The age difference was shown by the energy and of the youth and the vunrability of age.
In the first clip we could see youths smoking crack cocaine from an inhalent device, this then allowed the pace of the shots to be set, the edits were quite quick to show the effect of the drugs on the youths. This is the differet to the slow shots used to show harry browns frailty and his way of life.
Terminology
The youths clip was quite fast paced, quick cuts, 'camera phone', aggressive, hoodies, no self respect, anonymous, technilogical, youth dont care about appearance,
Harry brown clip was slow, fade cuts, close ups/long shots, lonely, respect, traditional, scared, vunrable, takes care in appearance, harsh lighting exposes him.
In the youth clip the camera quality was quite poor when the youth was riding the motorbike, this was to make the audience feel involved and part of the gang, also the poor quality was to make the scene believable as in the fact that, that scene had been shot on a camera phone. Also the way the youths acted and spoke you could see that they had no respect for themselves or for the people around them, they also acted immature for their age.
In the harry brown clip the shots were quite long and slow and showed day to day activity such as getting ready, this was to show his bordem and lonleyness and the fact that he does the same thing every day. This is reality where as the youths would do new things everyday as they are still young enough to treat every day of life like an adventure.
From this task we learnt how to focus on the 4 key elements to make a character comparisom between to different age groups.
Sexuality and Gender: What stereotypes are used, what assumptions are made. What associations come to mind when you hear the word 'straight' and 'gay'
Sexuality and Gender: What stereotypes are used, what assumptions are made. What associations come to mind when you hear the word 'straight' and 'gay'
How sexuality is being portrayed
After watching two different clips from the tv drama Sherlock Holmes I am going to evaluate how Meadows portrayed sexuality through the characters by focusing on Mise en Scene, editing and sound.
In the first clip called “What do you mean gay?” the audience are introduced to the character Jim who later turns out to be the Jim Moriarty being hunted by Sherlock Holmes and Watson. His sexuality is portrayed greatly by mise en scene. Jim is wearing a skin tight lightly coloured top which seems quite feminine especially when he stands next to Sherlock who is wearing a dark suit which is a lot more masculine. Also when both Sherlock and Jim speak you can again see the difference between Jim being more feminine and Sherlock being the more masculine. Jim speaks in a quite high pitched, feminine voice and seems quite excitable/emotional when meeting Sherlock, whereas on the other hand Sherlock does not greet Jim as enthusiastically as is more matter of fact and blunt when calling him “gay”. Also Sherlock’s voice is quite deep compared to Jims “So your Sherlock Holmes” which is quite a feminine thing to say when first being introduced to someone.
I also noticed Sherlock’s instant judgement of Jim when he accused him of being gay, which also showed his homophobic belief. Also this made Sherlock more dominant as Jim did not reply to the accusation pointed towards him and just made a distraction and then changed subject before quickly leaving, which again is a feminine trait of leaving a situation when uncomfortable in and not causing a scene. Also we can tell Sherlock is the more dominant by the Camera shots and editing. There are more close-ups on Sherlock and more long shots on Jim, the long shots allows you to see how Jim is dressed and walks in the scenes which all were quite feminine. Also Sherlock was seen more throughout the clip showing he was the more dominant as he made more time on the screen.
In the second clip called ‘Sherlock meets Moriarty” Jim become much more masculine and a clear change in sexuality has been made from clip one. The mise en scene is one of the obvious places the change has happened. Now Jim is also wearing a suit similar to the one Sherlock is wearing in both clips, now both characters are masculine and are both fighting each other to be the more dominant. Also in this clip Sherlock pulls out a gun which allows him to become the more dominant and Jim also kept speaking in a high pitched voice throughout. Just after Sherlock pulls the gun out on Jim or Moriarty as we now know who is being hunted by Sherlock, have red laser markers on him and Watson. This means that they’re masculine has been challenged and overpowered. Also the setting is also questionable has to whether being masculine or feminine as they are in a gym or fitness centre and are all standing next to a pool. Also the use of sound is quite important to the scene as the music is slow and builds the tension and continues to play throughout the scene keeping the tension. Its quite slow and classical and deep sounding instruments mostly associated to men. In this scene the dialogue is important as Jim changes between using his natural deep voice and his mocking “gay”, feminine voice. This is clearly Jim showing his masculinity by mocking Sherlock for believing in his gay act. Also the editing shows the battle between the two characters for the masculinity in the scene. The camera shots consist more long shots to show the audience what is happening in the shots and to show how they are behaving, if they acting in a masculine way. There is a final shot at the end which could be an establishing shot of Sherlock to build the suspense for the audience and shows that Sherlock is holding the power at the end of the scene, he is the more masculine in that moment. This will also leave a lasting impression on the audience as he is the last character they would see.
harry brown character comparison
In the first clip youths were shown by their stereotypical idea of how they act, they all had tracksuits, weapons and were taking drugs.
They were shown to hold all the power.
The edits in the clip were quite energetic and fast paced. Also the shots were quite quick and didn't last long as each shot was broken up to show another angle.
This was different from the harry brown clip. In this clip he was shown to be more frail and ill health, opposite to how the youths were shown as they were messing round on a motorbike, where as harry was shown using an inhaler due to his age.
In this clip the edits were quite slower to show the characters age and ill health. They were all quite gently paced unlike the fast pacing of the edits on the earlier clip.
They were shown to hold all the power.
The edits in the clip were quite energetic and fast paced. Also the shots were quite quick and didn't last long as each shot was broken up to show another angle.
This was different from the harry brown clip. In this clip he was shown to be more frail and ill health, opposite to how the youths were shown as they were messing round on a motorbike, where as harry was shown using an inhaler due to his age.
In this clip the edits were quite slower to show the characters age and ill health. They were all quite gently paced unlike the fast pacing of the edits on the earlier clip.
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