FTVNM Film Noir Style Production Self-reflection and evaluation

FTVNM Film Noir Style Production Self-reflection and evaluation

1. Discuss your feelings about the production task:

I'm not that satisfied with how the film has resulted as there was a lot of things that could of being done and filmed in a better way, such as where we filmed the scenes, props, and the time we had. I think that we didn't work enough as a group so when it came to the filming and getting things organised they didn't turn out as well as things could of being.

The project defiantly didn't need anymore time added as I thought it was plenty of time to put together a Film Noir project. Maybe for next time we just need to manage a time and organise more.

The things that could improve with our film would be managing our time and doing more planning so  that we know exactly what we are filming and how.

If I had to change the film project it would be changing the locations and the story around as I didn't think the film was the best it could of being.

2. As this task focused on the Film Noir Style:

The specific elements used to depict our film was the lighting, as the lighting of the scene created much more tension to the scene and the places we filmed at engaged the atmosphere to look like a Film Noir.  

The shot types used to convey the story where the ones shot inside as i thought that those scenes really made a clear vision of what was happening at the moment through the use of lighting in the background and the room.

I thought the genre for our film could of made a little more sense as I don't think that the whole storyline is very clear to explain what is happening throughout the film.

3. Personal reflection and evaluation:

The aspect that I chose to focus on the most was picking places of where we had to film and putting together a shot list for the film which I thought went well with our film, and setting sense to make it look like a Film Noir, but I wasn't to please with how things went throughout the production as I thought we needed to focus more on planning and putting everything together. The improvements that I think I have made from my tasks that I did for the film was managing my time in getting things organised.

4. Reflecting upon your completed task:

I showed our rough edit to a few people and I defiantly used there feedback as I was also told on things that could be improved such as the lighting, the locations and the props used.

I think the group did use the planning guide effectively but I did think that the storyboards and the shot list that was written were not used as much as they needed to be used, so I kind of made our film rushed and not the best it could of been.

The difficulties that I had during filming was working with the group as I did think there was a lot of time wasted throughout this and the filming wasn't the best without  a good plan of what we needed to do.

I think that the work that I have done also in the previous terms could of being better, such as trying to keep up with the blog and trying to film a production in only a certain amount of time. I think that just by managing my time and planning more my work could have being the best of what it can be.

Miss Representation

Miss Representation 

1. “You can’t be what you can’t see.” What does this quote suggest about how representations of powerful women are, largely, absent from the mass media?

This quote implies that women can only be objects, and that the media expects women to be people that there not.   

1. What does Miss Representation suggest about the way women are represented in the media? 

The media’s representation of women as flawless and perfect is more extreme than ever, computers are used to remove every blemish from every image and give models unnaturally perfect bodies.

3.  What is a stereotype? Which gender stereotypes are being repeated again and again in the media?

A widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. Women in the media and there values on how there meant to look. 

4.  In terms of representation of women, what is the problem with mainstream Hollywood films?

Women will watch women movies about men but men wont watch movies about women.

5. What sort of stereotypes are used to represent female leaders?

The stereotypes used to represent female leaders: Bossy, arrogant, attractive and Not so smart.    

6. What does Caroline Heldman argue about representations of women like Lara Croft which, on the surface, may appear empowering?

7. What, according to Gloria Steinem, is the side effect of representations created in a patriarchal system?

8. During prime time television, what age group do the majority of female characters belong to?

9. What does Jennifer Pozner claim about the representation of women on reality television?

She claims that women are dramatic, they fighting over men, women have a melt downs.  

10. Explain how the following factors may influence the representation of gender in the mass media:  cultural attitudes, media ownership, advertising, media regulation.

Institute on Gender in Media

Institute on Gender in Media 

Article 1: Females in leading film roles are dominating the box office 

This article focus on women taking on ‘big roles’, women in films have shown that they can take on the character of a strong person and that not only men are capable of being a stereotypical superhero. Women in the movies are now represented as being the sexy good looking superhero, this shows that women are strong as men.

Article 2: 7 Ways Women and Girls Are Stereotyped, Sexualized, and Underrepresented on Screen

Image 1:

• Ariel wearing sexy clothing 
• The Prince his got more appropriate clothing 
• Ariels outfit grabs more attention, where the Princes features are more his face 
• In a disney movie the characters are wearing ‘sexy clothing’. 

Ellen DeGeneres

Ellen DeGeneres 

Ellen Lee DeGeneres, is an American comedian, television host, actress, wrote, and producer. She starred in the popular sitcom Ellen from 1994 to 1998, and has hosted her syndicated TV talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, since 2003. 

Her stand-up career started in the early 1980s, culminating in a 1986 appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson likened her to Bob Newhart, and invited her for an onscreen chat after her set; DeGeneres was the first female comedian invited by the ionic host to join him for such a discussion, at a time when such an invitation was widely regarded as one of the most influential endorsements available for a comic. As an actress Ellen also starred in movies, Mr. Wong, Finding memo (the voice of Dori) and  The love letter. 

DeGeneres graduated from Atlanta High School in May 1976, after completing her first years of high school at Grace King High School in Metairie, Louisiana She moved back to New Orleans to attend the University of New Orleans where she majored in communication studies. After one semester, she left school to do clerical work in a law firm with a cousin, Laura Gillen. She also held a job selling clothes at the chain store the Merry-Go-Round at the Lakeside Shopping Center. Her early jobs included working at J.C Penny, and being a waitress at T.G.I Frida's and another restaurant, a house painter, a hostess, and a bartender. She relates much of her childhood and career experiences in her comedic work. 

In 2015, Forbes estimated DeGeneres' net worth at US$75 million.  In 2015, she was named the 50th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes and number two on the World Pride Power list.

She is a fan of the National football league, and has shown particular support for the New Orleans Saints and the Green Bay Packers. In 2011, she attended a Saints practice dressed as Packers Hall of Famer Don Hutson.

In 1997, DeGeneres came out as lesbian. The bold disclosure of her sexual orientation sparked clamorous interest by American tabloids.The contentiousness of the media coverage stunted DeGeneres' professional career and left her "mired in depression”. In her book Love, Ellen, DeGeneres' mother, Betty DeGeneres describes being initially shocked when her daughter came out, but has become one of her strongest supporters; she is also an active member of Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) and spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaigns Coming out Project.

Girls and Women Stereotypes

Girls and Women Stereotypes 

• Attractive 
• Elegant
• Prevailing
• Skinny 
• Make up 
• Stupid/ Twirl hair/Incapable/ Can’t read a map
• Emotional/Weak/men are intimidating/mood swings/breaking a nail/ 
• Relationships/Best friends/ more emotional 
• Relationship for women are driven more by emotions
• Domesticated 

Gender In Media

Gender in Media 

• Pink and White-Stereotype 
• White signifies pure and innocency
• Pink signifies beauty and girly 

• Showing like a bad girl but sexy
• Symbolises evil (red bottle) 
• analogous 

• Stereotypical dumb receptionist
• Works in an office
• She cant even make her own soup
• The other people are panicking  

VIDEO-Cup of Soup Advertisement 

• Famous 
• Paparazzi taking pictures of her (attention all on her) 
• She is dressing in really expensive clothes 

• Crying/Probably over nothing  
• She is a Stereotypical dramatic person 
• Famous 

• Wearing casual clothes (unusual)
• Talking on the phone, looks like she is meeting up with someone 
• She knows Paparazzi are there

• Red dress represents warm colours
• Long dress, formal evening
• Red carpet 
  

• Famous
• All they care about it Beauty 
• The world looks up to them 
• Formal 
• Red carpet

• Model 
• Pink represents girly 
• Skinny (way to much)
• She is stereotypical by making the world think that that’s what we have to look like

Male Advertising

Male Advertising 

Solo Man 

• Australian man, strong 
• Men should be intimidated
• They need to be athletic 
• Men should be able to survive on there own 

Diet Coke Man

• If you drink a coke shirtless you attract women 
• Drinks sloppy and messy 
• Man doing all the hard work 
• The women were hitmatised by him

Lynx Angels 

• Angels walking through, men only looking at them
• No male is good enough to get a good looking woman 

Calvin Klein

• Having a tattoo symbolises ‘Tough’
• Bad boy
• If you where Calvin’s you will be like this 
• Showing off his muscles 
• Men are supposed to be sexy 

Azzaro Men’s Fragrance

• Pretty boy 
• Targeting at males 
• If you where this fragrance you get the women 

Omega Watches 

• Selling class 
• Luxury watch
• Appeals to males- Strong/confident/saves the day/gets all the women 

Twilight Trailer-Men 

• Fighting over the female character 
• Bella is the objects of there affection
• Female character can’t really do anything for herself 
• Strong/tall/good looking/masculine  

Gender Stereotype-Sleeping Beauty

Gender Stereotype

• Aurora: Princess Aurora was represented as a sensitive, innocent, weak and emotional. This is shown by breaking into tears when a problem occurred, the dreams she had about meeting her true love and lying down waiting the strong and powerful prince to come and save her. Thus, showing women as weak and helpless, always waiting for heroine males to come and save them.  

• Prince Philip: Prince Phillip is the love interest of Princess Aurora and the leading male protagonist of Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty. Phillip is known to be brave and heroic, he appears to be fairly easygoing. At times, he is able to subtly persuade people to do as he wants. 

• Flora, Fauna, and Marryweather: Three main characters of “Sleeping Beauty” are the Good Fairies, On Princess Aurora’s 16th birthday, the three fairies tried to bake a cake and sew a dress without using magic, yet they failed and the only solution was using magic. Thus, the message behind those scenes is making children understand that life is difficult. This in turn, creates a fantasy world for children to live in illusions, in a world of magic and dreams that would never come true. This eventually, will make children uncertain about what is real and what is not.

• King Stefan: Stefan is portrayed as a humble figure, living father, and the more forceful side of the kingdom's monarchy consisting of himself and his queen, Leah. When confronted by Maleficent, he remained silent, mostly, but with a stern, and fairly intimidating expression. Aside from that scene, Stefan is mostly seen as a soft-spoken man; specifically during his scenes with the more boastful King Hurbert 

Facts-Sleeping Beauty

Interesting Facts 

• Sleeping Beauty, is adapted from the Charles Perrault and Brothers Grimm versions of the classic fairy tale. 
• Aurora's true love, Prince Philip, took his name from the British prince of the same name, husband of Queen Elizabeth ll, then still new to the throne.
• Much of the musical score is adapted from Tchaikovsky's "Sleeping Beauty" ballet. But George Bruns, who arranged the music, too much of the credit for the score.
• In 1953, Legendary Warner Bros. Animator Chuck Jones worked on "Sleeping Beauty" for four months, at a time when the Warners animation shop was shut down. He did not receive a credit on the film. 
• "Sleeping Beauty" was the first animated feature to be filmed in the wide-screen 70MM Technirama format. 
• It was also the last Disney cartoon feature to use hand-linked cels (the foreground transparencies on which the characters are painted). 

Shot List

Shot List 

Shot of: Megan going for a run 

Shot of: Megan getting ready for school in her room

Shot of: Megan walking into school

Shot of: A school girl introducing herself to Megan 

Shot of: popular girls walking through the school

Shot of: Alicia walking pass Megan and drops her books

Shot of: Megan sitting at lunch time eating and Alicia comes and tells her to move 

Shot of: Alicia pushes Megan and drops her books and Jack goes and help her

Shot of: Alicia going up to Megan and telling her off for going near Jack 

Shot of: Darcy seeing how mean Alicia is to Megan 

Shot of: Megan and Amy sitting together talking 

Shot of: Megan walking back home and Darcy joins her 

Shot of: Darcy walking into school with Megan 

Shot of: sitting in a classroom (passing notes around)

Shot of: Megan going to the bathroom and crying 

Shot of: Amy giving her a lesson on how to stick up for herself

Shot of: Alicia going up to Megan

Shot of: Megan going up o Alicia and telling her off in front of lots of people 

Shot of: Jack and Darcy ditching Alicia and going with Megan 

Shot of: Megan, Jack, Amy, and Darcy leaving school together 

Character's

The Heroes Journey: Character’s 

Genre: Comedy/Drama 

Abby- Shot list

Nadia-Props 

Characters

• Nerd/Hero: (Megan) Abby

• Jock/Goddess:(Jack) Tanay 

• The Popular Girl:(Alicia) Chloe

• Friend from new school/Mentor:(Amy) Nadia 

• Shape shifter/good:(Darcy) Ellythea 

Megan Brown, is a unpopular girl who has struggled through her high school years, this new year she decides to move to a new school, she likes to read and go for runs in the morning before school starts. 

Amy Moore, is a blond headed with hazel coloured eyes, she loves the ocean and loves to surf, she has never liked high school, but cares about others around her, she likes to be independent and do things her way. 

Jack Anderson, is the football captain of his school he likes to show off to the girls he is the most populist guy in the school. Jack has brown eyes and short caramel coloured hair. 

Alicia Lee, is a tall brunette who loves to shop instead of study she likes to do her nails instead of school. She has the whole school after her. She is not a very kind person she only thinks about herself and about being popular.  

Darcy Moore, is a girl who loves shopping she cares about reasonable things not only about her social life, she’s best friends with Alicia she has a very kind heart but doesn't show it she likes to do what others do, she loves the attention.

The Hero's Journey: Storyline

The Hero’s Journey: Story line 

Genre: Comedy/Drama

Megan is a nerdy girl who has struggled through her high school years, this year she has decided to move to a new school for a fresh start. She then gets a girl who introduces herself and shows her around. Alicia is not happy that they have a new student to the school. She then falls for Jack, but knowing that she wont have a chance with him. She doesn't realise that Jack then falls for her. She then has Amy by her side that guides her to be a more confident person and stick up for herself, she sticks up for her self to Alicia and tells her off in front of everybody, then Jack and Darcy leave Alicia and become friends with Amy and Megan.  

Avengers: Age of Ultron

Avengers: Age of Ultron

How has the Avengers: Age of ultron been advertised and promoted?

• Facebook

• TV

• Cinema

• Instergram

• Youtube

How many official trailers were released?

• Four official trailers were released.  

Name some other forms of online, TV, cinema promotion used.  

• Facebook-Ads, looking at you newsfeed videos will pop up that have been shared, images on your newsfeed.

• Instergram- sponsored posts come on to your feed

• Youtube-Ads, before watching a clip the trailer will play

• Cinema- posters, before the movie begins they play the trailers

• TV- Ads, watching a show when the Ad comes on they will play the trailer.  

No Social Media 

You are marketing to the same audience (15 up) but you don’t have social media. How do you market your film? Instead of making the advertising primarily online, you could put up billboards, you could put up posters, advertising in the cinemas. 

No Internet 

You have no Internet you are in 1985; you have the cinemas, TV. How do you market your film? You could market your film in magazines, newspapers, the cinemas, radio, McDonald toys, and Merchandising.   

Shot List

Shots 

Crime/Mystery

Character name: Taylor Jerkins

Shot of: looking at news paper articles

Shot of: close up of dead man

Shot of: close up gun on table

Shot of: Researching on computer  

Shot of: close up of typing murder

Shot of: phone near his head

Shot of: counting money

Shot of: close up handing an envelope to another man

Shot of: close up of taking gun out of his pocket

Shot of: turning on car

Shot of: close up of looking at map

Shot of: close up counting money

Shot of: close up of gun

Shot of: coming out of car and revealing character

Essay Tips

Essay Tips

Topic sentence

• Mis-on-scene establishes the environment-props
• The style of acting and lighting- establish the mood
• Cinematography to tell the story/ sound and edit

How has the director used mis-on-scene

• Both directors have used lighting to establish genre
• The directors have used props and music to establish the genre
• The directors have used appropriate props to establish the genre

The director of sequence one used to do this in construct the director has used different props, lighting etc.

The director under exposer to adapt this feeling

Opening paragraph

• Introduce with a small sentence
• The director has used mis-on-scene to establish the timing in this period
• In the essay task you need to evaluate the effectiveness of each scene for the chosen genre.

FTVNM Trailer Information

FTVNM- Assignment information

Genre

Sub Genre

Characters

Mis on sand

Costume

Props

Fairy godmother

-Female

-Old

-Sweet

-Wise

-Powerful

-Gentle

-Understanding

-Helpful

-When someone is in trouble 

-Glamorous 

-Has wings 

Magical (show wand) 

Color

Symbolizes 

Fairy God father

Shot 1. Close up of his back 

Shot 2. Close up of his shoes 

Shot 3. Close up of his fairy dust bag 

Shot 4. Close up of taking out his wand 

Shot 5. Close up of him taking out something mysterious out of his pocket

Shot 6. Close up of his face 

Shot 7. Reviling his face towards the end

Shot 8. Finding out what he was taking out of his pocket 

Shot 9. Show what his wearing 

Shot 10.

Character Profile

Character profile

Taylor Hale, is an independent worker, he left school at 16, he likes to do his own thing most of the time; he is currently working at a gun shop, local near his house in Brooklyn NYC. Taylor has one sister, and his mum and dad split up when he was 5 years old. He has one best friend named Luke Hemming’s that doesn’t live to far from Taylor. Taylor is 21 and about 1.70 high he has brown eyes, olive skin colour, has dark brown hair almost black, he always dresses in black. Taylor enjoys Shooting when he is not committing crimes, his enemies are the FBI. Hale, doesn’t trust any one that’s why he only has one friend. When Taylor is free in his spare time he likes to practice his fighting, he has no fear he is intelligent at what he does and knows when wrong or right. Taylor does have a weakness and that’s if his parents will ever find out about him at what he does. His fear is if anyone ever touches his family, as soon as Taylor is able to move away out of the country he will. He commits crimes not for a living, but because he got into a drug business and can’t get out of it so bad people are after him. Taylor’s achievement is to put an end to this story. Taylor likes to set himself goals and keep moving forward he takes very good care of his family making sure that non of the bad people hurt his family.