Tuesday, 7 December 2010
G322 TV Drama: Representation - Sexuality: How Women are represented in Film
Laura Mulvey and the Male Gaze:
Binary Opposition - Definition
Binary Opposition: where texts are organised around sets of opposite values such as good and evil, light and dark.
Clip on the link below to read about this in more detail.
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/popups/opposition.htm
Clip on the link below to read about this in more detail.
http://www.englishbiz.co.uk/popups/opposition.htm
Enigma
Enigma: A narrative device that teases the audience by presenting a puzzle or riddle to be solved.
This is when a mystery is created either relating to the narrative or the character in the story.
Remember the opening sequence from the film "Desperado" when Steve Buscemi talks about the Antonio Banderas character. The sequence cuts between interest created by the story-telling in the bar and the mystery created by the filming techniques used to obscure Banderas' identity.
The camera tilt which classically reveals a characters identity has long been a feature of Hollywood western genre.
Desperado example of Enigma
The actor Clint Eastwood often played the mysterious stranger in the spaghetti westerns he made in the 1960's
Classic example of how enigma is created in film
The Mast of Zorro
The enigma or mystery of characterisations are often used as a seduction devise in films too. A classic example of this was the film "The Graduate".
The Graduate
This is when a mystery is created either relating to the narrative or the character in the story.
Remember the opening sequence from the film "Desperado" when Steve Buscemi talks about the Antonio Banderas character. The sequence cuts between interest created by the story-telling in the bar and the mystery created by the filming techniques used to obscure Banderas' identity.
The camera tilt which classically reveals a characters identity has long been a feature of Hollywood western genre.
Desperado example of Enigma
The actor Clint Eastwood often played the mysterious stranger in the spaghetti westerns he made in the 1960's
Classic example of how enigma is created in film
The Mast of Zorro
The enigma or mystery of characterisations are often used as a seduction devise in films too. A classic example of this was the film "The Graduate".
The Graduate
Intertextuality
Intertextual (or intermedial): The chain of signification in which texts make references to one another. When one text refers to another it is called ‘intertextual’, while ‘intermedial’ describes a media form which relies on understanding an experience of other media (e.g. film and music) to make meaning.
An example of when one media text references another can be seen in the Simpsons' clip below.
The show is of course the animated cartoon of the simpsons family but sequence is a reference to the Indiana Jones films. This flatters the audience with a shared or "in-joke"
The reference may quite small or subtle but the audience will understand the connotation (connected meaning).
This example of the opening titles for "Everyone Loves Raymond" uses the sound effect from the film "Jaws" and the famous camera technique (Zido) to focus our attention on the fact that Raymond's overbearing mother is about to invite herself into his house. The overly dramatic use of a reference to his mother and a horror film provokes a humorous response from the audience.
Denotation and Connotation
Semiotics: The study signs and sign systems
Denotation: What an image actually shows and is immediately apparent, as opposed to the assumptions an individual reader may make about it.
Connotation: The meaning of a sign that is arrived at through cultural experiences a reader brings to it.
This is all about associated meanings think about the connected meanings of the following colours:
Red, black, blue, green, white, purple, yellow and pink.
read the article below which talks in detail about gender and the colour pink
Observer Online Article the Connotations of Pink
Some connotations to places, people, music, colours, smells, objects and things have a commonly (universally) associated meaning for many people and then others have a very personal associated meaning (connotation) depending on our experiences.
Denotation: What an image actually shows and is immediately apparent, as opposed to the assumptions an individual reader may make about it.
Connotation: The meaning of a sign that is arrived at through cultural experiences a reader brings to it.
This is all about associated meanings think about the connected meanings of the following colours:
Red, black, blue, green, white, purple, yellow and pink.
read the article below which talks in detail about gender and the colour pink
Observer Online Article the Connotations of Pink
Some connotations to places, people, music, colours, smells, objects and things have a commonly (universally) associated meaning for many people and then others have a very personal associated meaning (connotation) depending on our experiences.
Revision Clips and Questions: Film Language
A) explain what is meant by diegetic sound
B) explain what is meant by non-diegetic sound
C) What type of editing technique is described here.
The majority of film sequences are edited so that time seems to flow, uninterrupted, from shot to shot.
The majority of film sequences are edited so that time seems to flow, uninterrupted, from shot to shot.
Clip 1
Name the type of editing technique used in this sequence.
Explain the effect
Clip 2
Name the type of shot (framing) mostly used in this sequence.
Explain the effect.
Clip 3
Name the type of sound edit used in this sequence.
Explain the effect.
Clip 4
Name the type of editing technique used in this sequence.
Explain the effect
Clip 5
Name the type of camera technique used in this sequence.
Explain the effect Clip 6
Name the type of camera technique used in this sequence.
Explain the effect.
Clip 7
Name the type of sound technique used in this sequence
Explain the effect.
Clip 8
Name the type of editing technique used in this sequence.
Explain the effect.
Clip 9
Name the type of camera technique used in this sequence.
Explain the effect
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