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Statement of Intent
My film will involve the dominant signifier, being a boy who is simply just playing football, but showing immense technical skill and dedication to his play. Unknown to him, a scout is watching his every move, who then approaches the boy and offers him a big opportunity after watching him play and seeing him stay outside to train after his session. My two film posters and sequences would feature the protagonist before the big disruption in the story, being excited about the offer he’s just received and the opportunity to really experience the footballing world, and then the climax, with the protagonist crying in an office about how his career is declining due to a lack of management or real focus on the legal restrictions and requirements presented by the world of football. His agent, who really did not like the boy but saw the financial benefit in sticking with him, is trying to comfort him however he knows deep down that it was his fault for not giving the boy everything he had to maximise his chances of success. The pathos should be significant here, with a lot of sympathy for the protagonist coming into effect. My website will provide a simple yet effective means of navigating all that the production has to offer, with a home page, contents, sequences page, and a page for the posters at a minimum. It will have a simple yet sleek design to make it easy to use for a variety of audiences, and this is important because the production will be rated 12, so many people from younger audiences will be actively engaging with the product and using the service of the website. The type of audience which would consume this product is one of young people, typically males, who resonate with football well and often dream about growing up to be a footballer themselves. The type of institution who would release this kind of film would probably be a mainstream one, with perhaps ties to sports clothing, a sports brand or even with relations to football video games.
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Synopsis with statement of intent : Film Idea – The Informal Messenger – 1916
Description of Film: A young British soldier based in London, takes on a task to deliver a critical message to a Lieutenant Commander of Platoon 7 in Leicestershire. Not realising an ambush was about to take place.
My film will include a main character as the young British soldier, also known as the hero, as well as a victim who will be duped with the solider. Giving my ‘hero’ two roles within my film. This being a mid ranged Netflix film, consisting of a large amount of action and blood, leading to an age rating of 16+. I intend to create a poster with a male standing side on, looking away, as if he is at attention. Behind the writing of 1916, the background will be created as a peaceful sunrise to indicate part of my film, where the message has to be received by sunrise. My other idea for my poster is having a male character, point a gun side on as if he was about to shoot somebody with the same concept as my first idea, with the sunrise background and bold text. I hope to blur around the male so he is completely blacked out, so he’s not identifiable. Either picture I will have white text for the name of my movie – “1916” or “The Informal Messenger” with a quote below “There is only one way this war ends” or “Time is the enemy”.
My film is very similar and is based around the film 1917. My film is different to 1917 by the location it is based in, as well as the difference in genders between my film (1916) and 1917. On top of that, my film has a slight year difference.
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ghost town
Forms of political protests:
– Attempts to change laws or legislation
– Organised political movements
– Public protests
– Petitions
– Marches
- Direct resistance against society and government can lead to conflict and backlash so the use and expression of meaning in video and lyrical videos can be used as a more subtle form of rebellion.
- BBC’s quotation and ideas on ghost town: “Released on 20 June 1981 against a backdrop of rising unemployment, its blend of melancholy, unease and menace took on an entirely new meaning when Britain’s streets erupted into rioting almost three weeks later – the day before Ghost Town reached number one in the charts.”
ANTONIO GRAMSCI
: Italian philosopher writing in the 1930s
Key Terms:
● 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
When writing in the 1930s Gramsci researched why so many people followed and believed in fascist Germany.
It became the idea about hegemony, where more powerful people would change peoples views and imbedded their own political views deep into their culture as the easiest way to make someone believe in such extreme views is to access their emotional and mental state and to get them to truly believe in what they are told, which is done through this hegemony. —–>
- Cultural hegemony functions by framing the ideologies of the dominant social group as the only legitimate
ideology
- The ideologies of the dominant group are expressed and maintained through its economic, political, moral,
and social institutions (like the education system and the media). - As a result, oppressed groups believe that the social and economic conditions of society are natural and
inevitable, rather than created by the dominant group.
Paul Gilroy + GHOST TOWN QUOTES AND NOTES
Post-colonial Melancholia: Racial representations were “fixed in a matrix between the imagery of squalor and that of sordid sexuality” Gilroy argued that this was gated the black community out by saying they are a “other” race in the majority white Britain.
Racial Otherness: Gilroy explored the idea of racial otherness being underlying in print media during the 1970s and 1980s, he mainly focused on how the idea of black males regularly was set to be a criminal one. Gilroy’s main focus and research was in his study of black representation in the UK. The study was called “There Ain’t No Black In The Union Jack” where he focused on how newspapers were lurid and racist towards black people.
Quotes:
- “It was clear that something was very, very, wrong,” the song’s writer, Jerry Dammers
- “I saw it develop from a boom town, my family doing very well, through to the collapse of the industry and the bottom falling out of family life. Your economy is destroyed and, to me, that’s what Ghost Town is about.“
- “No job to be found in this country,” one voice cries out. “The people getting angry,” booms another, ominously.
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statement of intent
My film is going to be about a girl who has been shielded from the real world all her life. She has only been around her two parents and her auntie her whole life. She was never allowed to leave the house. Home schooled all her life and her parents controlled everything. They had conditioned her to believe that anything outside their home was a danger but obviously as a growing child, her curiosity grew also. The main character – the 17 year old girl – does look to escape her home as she wants to explore the outside world.
At age 10 her curiosity started to grow and she started to look more out the windows but all she ever did see were foggy skies as her house was so far up on a hill, secluded from any other civilisation. From 11, she started to notice strange deliveries during the night as she always seen a bright headlight shine through her window at exactly 1:30am. When she was younger she believed it was a star as that was what she was lead to believe.
This film will be targeting teenagers who may relate to some extent. Maybe not relate literally but can relate figuratively speaking. A viewer might feel trapped in their own life therefore would seek comfort through this film because it may or may not be a similar experience.
The genre of my film is a thriller with some unexpected turns that will make it a horror. There is also mystery appearing in my film because
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Statement of intentent- Movie
Synopsis– a teen girl who is struggling with mental health issues feels very isolated spending much of her time listening to sad music: she wants to become a singer but doesn’t believe it’s possible for a girl like her. Then she comes across Demi Lavato who was going through similar struggles to her and succeeded whilst showing the lights of recovery, inspiring her to make her own music.
Statement of intent–
I would like to create 2 different posters of a film based upon how music stars can deeply connect with even the most vulnerable people and significantly change their outlook on life. I would like it to show this transition from hopelessness to optimism through the posters. I could do this by using a contrast of colours/ saturation levels and the character presenting a right-frame gaze (Barthes suggests using connotations such as these in order to promote meaning). Both posters will portray anchorage in order for clear connotations and signification. I will use a message reduction technique to allow others to connect easily with the ideas of the film.
The posters will show the internal structure theorised by Todorov (Tripartite narrative structure) which is when there is an equilibrium, disruption and new equilibrium. This will be represented through a flashback of childhood followed by the low state she is in as a teen then her finding Demi Lavato’s music and being so inspired.
There will be 3 main characters: the girl, her bestfriend and her dad. The girl will show a positive stereotype towards the end. In the posters it will only feature the faces of the girl and Demi Lovato to emphasise the strong relationship that is between them.
The type of company that would make my film would be a big cinema company which would later get downloaded to a conglomerate like Netflix to attract a wider audience of a whole generation of people and allow for more private watching alone.
The genre will be a drama however it may be a hybrid genre as there will be a musical aspect to it as well.
I will try to use two different types of background in one of my film posters to show how things change and in the other one I will combine the two situations in one big picture to add a sense of mystery and inquisitiveness. I will use a serif font for the title like all these posters do and included a quote from someone who has watched it in smaller text. In one of the posters I will use a close-up to connect with the character and in the other I will use a long shot to show how the character is dominated by their environment. The signified is the powerful impact music can have on your outlook of life and the signifier is the face expressions and colour tones. The dull colours are a symbolic symbol of sadness, the shape of the trees in the Big fish poster are an indexical sign of fish bones. The film poster A Beautiful Mind challenges the ideology of men having to act strong all the time and is a radical character whereas in Braveheart the main character is presented as reactionary.