Film Poster

I then began to make my film poster, but rather than uploading all the seperate picture i have made a powerpoint to show the different stages of production.

Step By Step Film Poster

View more presentations from bethanie.

With reference to Marjorie Ferguson i think the actress is representing herself as romantic of sexual because of how happy she looks. She also isn't looking at the camera so is thinking about someone else. Which is what i have spoken about in another blog.

Magazine

Last night I did a lot of work on my film poster and magazines, that i will show below.

This is the start of my magazine cover, it needs a bit more work and a few more pictures. But i will be working on that tomorrow. I will also create a step by step powerpoint to show how i have prgressed doing my magazine.

Filming

When filming the shots in the wedding shot i decided that it would be good to show some of the represenations of my charcters and link the to diiferent films, and how some other films chose to represent charcters.
Rather that focussing on Amy, being the bride at this moment i want to focus on Jess (stage name mirander) Jess is the owner of the wedding shop. She has big curly hair, and dresses casually but creativly, with a jumper thrown around her shoulders, jeans and trainers. When she enters the shot we first see her say "emma" and almost float aross the room to give emma and air kiss and a hug. Which shows how she cares for emma they obviously have some sort of relationship that may have been formed earlier in the film. She also seems quite staged, a common trait in these "arty" people. In the film Love actually Mark is represented as quiet an arty, creativie character. But he isnt massivly ike jess because he is more down to earth. this is a picture from in the film that shows his creativeness. This is how i would like to potray jess, as a loving person. She is also very similar to Caroline Goodall in the princess diaries...

a couple of photos....

After doing filming last week there are a few snap shots of the day...

Photo

View more presentations from bethanie.

Conclusion!

SO today i have done some filming, and i have looked at many different theroists. I really feel that today has been good for my prject because i have alot of things i need to consider when taking photos etc x

Filming!

I did some filming today :) I was very successful all my actrersses were brilliant.
which is a good start i also took lots of photos that will be up tomorrow xxx

Categorising Facial Expressions

Categorising Facial Expressions (Marjorie Ferguson)

Women- chocolate box, invitation, super smiler, romantic or sexual

Men- carefree, practical, seductive, comic, catalogue.

I think i will use this theroist alot because i like the way she has catogorised different expressions. But i want to extend this theory into film; including clothing, sounds etc. For example i would want a "super smiler" to be wearing bright clothes. to "enhance" their smiley attitude.
I love this theory, because my film is of course a romance, and i want to portray a "romantic or sexual" facial expression in both my poster and magazine. BUT i want to use Super Smiler in the film x

Representation- The gaze (Laura Mulvey)

Representation- The gaze (Laura Mulvey)

Introduction: Technical term originally used in film theory in the 1970's to refer to the ways viewers look at images of people in visual medium. The "male gaze" can be described as femenist reference to the voyeuristic way in which men look at women. Jonathan Schroder (1998) once said- "to gaze implies more than to look at, it signifies a psychological relationship of power in which the gazer is superiors to the object of the gaze"

Forms of the gaze

The spectators gaze
the intra-digetic gaze
the direct address (or extra digetic) to the viewer.
The look of the camera
The gaze of a bystander
The gaze of an audience within a text.

Direction of gaze

Trevor Millum distinguished between these forms of attention in his study of women in magazine advertisements.

Attention directed towards others
Attention directed towards an object
Attention directed towards one self
Attention directed to the reader
Attention directed into the middle distance.
Criticisms with Mulvey's Theory

There is a failure to account for a female spectator.

Looks only at the spectator as being a heterosexual male.

Since the 1980's there has been an increasing display and sexulisation of the male body in mainstream cinema and television and in advertising.


In my film i think this "gaze" will occur alot, because it is all about one woman, who will be very beautiful, but has a bad controlling side to her. So the males of soiciety will be looking at her and wondering HOW to see her. As she has lots of good and bad points x

Stereotypes

Marjorie FergusonI want to look at stereotypes in my film compared to other films.
An introduction- an assumption about what people "are"?
What is a stereotype- A simplified representation which focuses on certain characteristics of a group and assumes these to be shared across all group members.
How does the media use stereotypes- To communicate complex information about a character, time, period, location etc. as quick as possible.
For example in my film Emma's best friend will be the typical mumsey mum, in knitted scarfs and a happy marriage but with a bit of a "saucy" side. I think this is a very loved character in many films. Such as Cameron Diaz in "the holiday" even though the children are not her own.
Tessa Perkins is a well know theorist in the media world who noted that..."stereotypes usually have an element of truth in them which makes them plausible"
I agree with this statement because to become (for example) a "geek" you need to have a few elements of geek in you.
Positive representations are call corrective stereotypes or counter types where the representations are trying to create new ideas about a previously stereotyped group.
Contemporary culture has become more aware of stereotypes and the effects they have, particularly negative ones.
Many media texts have attempted to construct new approaches to old stereotypes.
What makes a stereotype?

• Appearance
• Behaviour
• Attitude.

The representation of men and women can never illustrate the truth;

Although i write this paragraph for seperate homework i think it connects quiet well with the other work i have been doing about representation and how i want to link this with my project.

The representation of men and women can never illustrate the truth;
I believe that this statement is true, but before discussing this I want to look into what other people recognise as men and women stereotypes. The media can often give women certain stereotypes- the super-mum, the sex kitten, the nasty corporate climber. Whatever the role, television, film and popular magazines are full of images of women and girls who are typically thin, beautiful who can be “angels” or “whores”. But in reality we know that these categories can never fit every woman because they are all so different, they can be different aspects from each group that can make up a woman, but you will rarely find a “super-mum” that does nothing except be a “super-mum” because if human characteristics. There are also many stereotypes for men the most popular stereotypes of male characters as the Joker, the Jock, the Strong Silent Type, the Big Shot and the Action Hero. We also know that this is not a true representation because men can also be varied.

Filming day!

is on Thursday, hopefully everything will go to plan! x

To do list...

Okay so this is my new post.
this is my list of the things i now need to do:

• Call the bridal shop and sort out my filming day.
• Find a new actress.
• Ensure that i like the music i have now chosen

There isn't a lot of stuff that i can do in the mean time before I film, because when i film i will be starting all the tasks.

I'm going to have a look at the theorist we were looking at in last weeks theory lesson and upload the powerpoints i have done.