My Logo

This is the logo of my production company Jaguar Studios.

I chose a Jaguar for the logo because they are a fierce wild animal which fits right in as it is action and adventure company. It also makes the company look powerful, respectable and professional which is what i aimed to to when I made the Logo. The text is green and in a wild font to get peoples attention and to show that the company is different to the others and that we are going to bring something new to the movies we make.

Camera Frames: The Expendables 2

Extreme Close Up (ECU)

Close Up (CU)

Medium Shot (MS)

Medium Long shot/ Long shot (MLS/LS)

Extreme Long/Wide Shot (EWS)

Representation Theorys

The Male Gaze

This was recognised by Laura Mulvey is the cinema apparatus of Hollywood which puts the audience in a masculine subject position an women are seen as the object of desire. Many films are structured on these Ideas. There are two types of male gaze "looking at whores" or "unreachables"  (for example Madonna). This shows a sexist view on women as they are seen to just be there to look at and nothing else.

The Bechdal Test

This tests films on three things to see if the film is sexist against women or not:
1) It must have at least two named women in the film
2) They must have at least one conversation with each other
3) It must also include something besides men

Even on modern day films many of them fail this test and women are still portrayed as just a object of desire. 

Richard Dyer as a theory that stereotypes come down to power. Dyer argues that how people are seen in the media affects how they are treated in real life by society.

Barthes looks at mythology, in regards to people and places.He suggests the media often gives us mythic representations or a fairytale-like portrayal of a particular place or person.

Stereotype

This Magazine is representing women by using Vanessa Hudgens to show off the shape of her body by wearing her underwear and a cardigan. They use her to attract men and women to look at the magazine and want to look like her. This magazine is meant to show you how to appeal to a man by being in good shape by doing the techniques they recommend. This set a bad image for women as it makes out that all they are useful for it to look nice to attract men. This magazine is all about focusing on getting a nice body which is giving a shallow image about relationships. This magazine makes out that you need to have a nice body to get a man which gives the wrong impression to women reading it.

Ghost Ship Semiotics

From the opening scene you can see that it's set in the mid 1900s because of the outfits and the music. You can also tell that they are upper class, because of their outfits and the way they look. Initially, because of the typography and the use of pink, we assume that it will be light hearted and the total opposite of what a horror is. The music contributes to this assumption, as it is calming and uplifting. The singer is wearing a red dress which indicates a warning of something that will go wrong. However, the little girl's white dress indicates innocence and tranquillity but she does look quite pale.

You are then taken outside from the bright dance floor to the dark, formidable switch and reel shows us that something bad is going to happen as the music quietens as well. Lots of sounds of the wire take over from the calm music. The pink roses are cut first by the wire which links back to the pink typography at the start of the light hearted, happy film that we all expected. The horrible sound of the vibrating saw make it even more horrific as it makes it feel like we are standing right next to the saw. As the saw cut through everyone the lighting darkens to a dim grey, representing the change in mood and time; now everything will be different for the little girl. The Sea Captain comforted her and protected her despite that fact that he was about to die showing that everything that will help her will get hurt or die.

The film is also set on a boat in the middle of nowhere so you know that something is bound to go wrong as there’s no one to help them. It’s also set a night and as in every horror film that’s when everything bad happens. The start and the end shows you coming out of the water to watch and then returning to the water afterwards. This shows that the horror that did this may live in the water and the area the boat was in was haunted as it lurks in the darkness below

Trial Of Film Pitch

Our Average Feedback Score was 51/70

The General our average feedback was that there wasn't enough interest described in the pitch about the opening scene which would get people’s attention to want to watch it. This was our fault was with obviously didn't deliver it clearly in the pitch we gave. Our marketing, Film title and Convention all scored very highly which shows that our ideas to get it on the market are good and that the title was catchy and will get people to want to watch it.

The parts we believe we need to improve on from the feedback we received are improving the depth of information given on the opening scene of our pitch and possibly changing some of the actors for some more high end film stars to help the film sell.

To Break audience expectations the main character will switch sides and turn on his od friends causing a twist in the film that no one would see coming.

Denotation and Connotation

 

This Poster is on the film Due Date shows two men holding a dog wearing a lampshade dog collar. The man on the left has an injured right hand and has blood over him wearing a blue shirt and the other one seems to be fine and happy and wearing a red shirt that is holding the dog. They are in a desert in the middle of nowhere and the sky is overcast. The man on the left who is played by Robert Downey Jr. also is wearing sunglasses and leaning on the other man. The man in the red shirt who is played by Zach Galifianakis also has a beard.

You can tell this is a comedy by the way one person is happy and one person is not this shows that Zach annoys Robert. The one on the left is also wearing sunglasses meaning he doesn’t want to be seen with the other man as he may be embarrassed by him. Robert is also leaning on Zach this shows that Robert thinks he is better than Zach as he is putting himself above him by leaning on him.

The colour of the two shirts tells a lot about the two characters as Robert is wearing a blue shirt which shows he’s a calm and cool character but Zach is wearing a red shirt which shows he is going to either be a dangerous character or attract danger in the film. This lead me on to the injury on Roberts right hand this shows there will be action and danger in the film which will probably caused by Zach.

They also have a dog with them; it is wearing a lampshade collar which shows it has something wrong with it and it’s not in its best shape this also links to the comedy as having a disabled pet will always cause something interesting to happen in the film. It is also being held by Zach showing that it is probably his dog so it might cause some danger as well as its owner is danger prone. It is also between the two characters so it might be the link of the characters or it might be the dog that breaks them apart.

It is also set in a desert in the middle of nowhere showing that at this point they are either lost or on the run from something making you think what are they running from? 

Saving Private Ryan Opening Scene

  In the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan you a greeted by the horrors of D Day as the soldiers land on the beach to find them stuck there under fire of German machine gunners. This scene shows the horror of D Day as you watch American soldiers shot to pieces and lose their limbs trying to get off the beach and secure the German guns so the rest of the Army can land. The scene has lots of gore action and strategy on how they got off the beach.

The film is set on Omaha beach in Normandy; you can tell that is a beach by the sea and the sand as they run towards the rocks. You can also see that it is set in WW2 because of the guns they are using and uniform they are wearing. This opening scene has lots of action, gore, death and strategy which sets the scene for the rest of the film. The Opening Scene is set around a Sergeant who is disorientated from a bomb that has gone off near him. It shows it from his point of view looking around the beach watching horrific things happen to soldiers. This makes you see it from a normal soldier’s point of view and the horrors and situations they had to deal with.

Evaluation

LAP Chart

Prelim Task

Construction

Research

Planning

Genre