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Key idea: the political, personal and cultural are always intertwined

The Idea of Resistance and Political Protest

Culture is what influences people’s hearts, minds and opinions. This is the site of popular change.

Hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders
● Hegemonic culture: the dominant culture
● Cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means.
● Ideology: worldview – beliefs, assumptions and values

● In the 1970s, a group of cultural theorists in Birmingham applied Gramsci’s theories to post-war
British working-class youth culture
● Looked at working class cultures like the teddy-boys, mods, skinheads, and punks – subcultures
unified by shared tastes in fashion, music and ideology.
● They argued argued that the formation of subcultures offered young working class people a solution
to the problems they were collectively experiencing in society.

The caged birds sings for freedom to bring

“Slavery’s still alive, check Amendment 13”

amendment 13 states “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” this states that if your a criminal a punishment can therefore be slavery therefore having America profiting on people

post colonialism

But here it is specifically looking at identity and representation through the lens of Empire and Colonialism.

The Shadow of Slavery

post colonialism is a way of critically looking at culture a key figure is Edward Saiv he wrote a book called orientalism

and he’s talking about the link between culture and imperial colonialism

Jacques Lacan: “The other”

he talks abut the search for identity by looking at the mirror and the mirror is like a media text.

My film is going to be about someone who is being followed by a evil entity that they cant see or hear it will follow them as the person tries to get rid of it.

statement of intent- i am going to be filming someone who is trying to escape something that they cant see of hear.

The genre of my film is drama, horror

dominant signifier : the dominant signifier in this image is the characters they stand out because they are the main thing in this image the fact they have a blindfold on is also significant

the writing: the letters on the image are bold and therefore your eyes are drawn to it.

the actors Julian Edwards, Vivien Lyra Blair, Sandra Bullock

dominant signifier: the dominant signifier in this image is the character looking up at the celing.

ankerite: the writing on this image is bold and stands out and it is linked to the horror style .

different media forms forms have different media language as an introduction is worth looking overall at what constitutes the language of moving image. we are looking at the language so we can understand the rules and conventions that are there.

The camera is a important tool as it determines the focus and depth of field. the focus can be used to direct and prioritise certain information. for example, it should determine where the audience is focusing on and to look at.

High angle / Low angle / bulls-eye / birds eye / canted angle

Tracking / Panning / Craning / Tilting / Hand held / Steadicam

Establishing Shot / Long Shot / Medium Shot / Close-up / Big Close-Up / Extreme Close Up (students often struggle with the first and the last again issues with SCALE, SIZE & SPACE, so practice is really important)

Insert Shot

shot size is really important. for example with extreme closeup it gives you a more dramatic on screen moment of the character rather than a far away shot as it does not dramatics the scene as much. also with far away shots it shows a more dramatic sense of the scene.

insert shot is the shot that is inserted to focus of the thing that is being focused on in the scene.

edit

Moving from Camera to Edit, would be to compare the way that the camera can frame and position characters and thereby the audience by creating ‘subjectivity‘ and empathy. This is so important for creating a story, characters, a theme and of course communicate meaning Similarly, the way in which images are edited together has a massive significance in terms of communicating an idea and of creating meaning.

editing stiches together your camera work.

1. EDIT ON ACTION
2. EDIT ON A MATCHING SHAPE, COLOUR, THEME
3. EDIT ON A LOOK, A GLANCE, EYELINE
4. EDIT ON A SOUND BRIDGE
5. EDIT ON A CHANGE OF SHOT SIZE
6. EDIT ON A CHANGE OF SHOT CAMERA POSITION (+30′)

when my character was pushed I cut on the action of him falling. I also cut on the focus of the hand grasping the sand and letting go I cut after the action of the hand grasping the ground.

parallel editing

The use of sequential editing (editing one clip to another) allows for a number of key concepts to be produced:

• parallel editing: two events editing together – so that they may be happening at the same time, or not?
• flashback / flash-forward – allowing time to shift

montage: telling a long story in a short period of time, this can be done by taking the important events in the story you are trying to tell and cut them together to make a sequence that therefore tells the story in a short time. Montage can also be used as symbolism.

logical shot progression

Conventional shot progression – to create VERISIMILITUDE (ie realism, believability) usually involves the following shots (although not always in the same order).

The use of these shots allow the audience to understand SPATIAL RELATIONSHIPS between locations, people, movements etc. The length of shot will determine the drama, empathy, theme etc. The choice of how to sequence each shot will determine the AESTHETIC QUALITY of the product. The next sequence will then follow a similar pattern, which again allows the audience to understand concepts such as SPACE, TIME, DISTANCE, MOVEMENT, MOTIVATION, PLOT, THEME etc.

shot reverse shot

he Shot / Reverse Shot a really good starting point for students to both think about and produce moving image products. The basic sequence runs from a wide angle master shot that is at a 90′ angle to (usually) two characters. This sets up the visual space and allows the film-maker to to then shoot separate close-ups, that if connected through an eye-line match are able to give the impression that they are opposite each other talking. The shots are usually over the shoulder.

The Leveson inquiry was a judge-led inquiry (spanning across 2011 and 2012) set up Prime Minister David Cameron. It reviewed the general culture and ethics of the British media, and made recommendations for a new, independent body to replace existing press complaints commission. This was a result of the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the now defunct News of the World tabloid. This was where employees of the news paper were accused of phone hacking, police bribery, and exercising improper influence is the pursuit of finding a story.

The final 2000 page report was published on the 29th of November 2012.

the bombshell movie is a true story based on the accounts of the women at fox news who set out to expose CEO Roger Alias for sexual harassment.

“Having had enough of her boss’s sexual harassments, Gretchen Carlson files a lawsuit against Fox News founder Roger Ailes. Her bravery triggers a domino effect, culminating into a liberation movement.”

Sexual harassment – a type of harassment involving the use of explicit or implicit sexual overtones, including the unwelcome and inappropriate promise of rewards in exchange for sexual favours.

Todorov’s theory:

equilibrium- one (first) of the stages in the theory of narrative structure of Todorov’s theory. it is explained about the condition that happens with a character. its the beginning of the film and the characters life is normal

disruption- this is the second stage of his theory, where the characters life is about to change/ have a interference

new equilibrium- the final stage of Todorov’s theory where a characters life goes back to normal and is the end of the film.

He recognises that the stories are always linear

his theory can be manipulated into multiple equilibrium meaning that media companies try and produce what’s known as a roller-coaster affect to give the viewers calmness but also exitment.

Vladimir Propp:

he believed that stories were constructed with 8 different stock characters such as the:

hero- 2 types of hero’s. the seeker-hero who usually relies more heavily on the donor to perform their quest, and the victim-hero who needs to overcome a weakness to complete their quest.

helper- a typically magical entity that comes to aid the hero in their quest

princess- the hero desires her throughout the story and she is seen as a prize for the hero

villain- an evil character that creates a struggle for the hero.

victim- a character who is in the middle of a quest/fight. and is aught in the crossfire.

dispatcher- sends the hero on his quest at the start of the story.

father- the person who typically doesn’t allow the hero to marry the princess/ daughter as he needs to show his worth by completing the quest.

false hero- a figure who takes credit for the hero’s actions and tries to marry the princess.

Propp was a soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible structural units.

Propp published a book in 1929 called ‘Morphology of the Folktale’.

He also suggests that stores do not necessarily require all character types as well as organising narrative structures into a combination of 31 defined plot moments, that he called ‘narratemes’, also referred to the starting points of a story.

cultural resistance

cultural hegemony

subcultural theory

when people protest and laws are put in place to try and resolve the issue, this doesn’t necessarily mean that anything will change and doesn’t mean that peoples opinions on the mater will change. Peoples opinions change through cultural beliefs.

Antonio Gramsci was an Italian philosopher who argued about the theory of Cultural hegemony in the 1930s.

Hegemony is the dominant ruling class who are seen as the legitimate ideas/ ideology.

the idea of the dominant group are expressed and maintained through its economic, political, moral and social institutions. These intuitions socialise people into accepting the norms and the values of the dominant group.

hegemonic: dominant, ruling-class, power-holders

hegemonic culture: the dominant culture

cultural hegemony: power, rule, or domination maintained by ideological and cultural means

ideology: worldview- beliefs, assumptions and values

campaigns: Roc against racism, rock against sexism

seymour chatman

there are 2 parts to a story the important things and the embellishment. the important things are called kernels. kernels are the key moments in the plot. you might distinguish the kernels from the satellites. satellites just give you embellishment they are the less important stuff in the film.

Roland Barthes

proairetc code= action, movement, causation

hermeutic code= reflection, dialouge, character

enigma code= the way in which intrigue and ideas are raised- which encourage an audience to want more information

Maybelline ad

in the Maybelline add they use a variety of techniques to sell their product. In the advert they are in a rich looking hotel in new York this links to the richness of the people in the advert making connotations to the people who buy the Maybelline product are rich and posh. The people in the ad then switch once they have used the product to more rich wearing gold and in full glam. The representation of colour and sexuality is good in this advert as they have one male who is wearing makeup and is gay and they also have a black female therefore showing a wider range of people rather than just having a straight white female using the product.

dictable expectations-

reinforced-strengthen or support 

 amplify-increase the volume

 repertoire of elements-key elements of a film that are consistently repeated throughout a genre

corpus-a collection of written texts

 verisimilitude-the appearance of being true or real.

realism

construction of reality.

historically specific

sub-genres

hybrid genres