For mine and Jenni's OTS I thought of looking at characters and what we need to think about when casting for these different characters. 'The anti-heros in film noir were a metamorphic symptom of societies evils, with a strong undercurrent of moral conflict, purposefulness and sense of injustice' reference: http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html. This therefore means that there were rarely happy or optimistic endings in film noirs. Therefore, when thinking about our OTS we need to think of a sad and depressing storyline. The femme fatale in classical film noir films, is seductive and will try to get her own way however possible. Also, the character has to be promiscuous so when writing the script we must write it so that she seems that she is promiscuous. In our OTS we were going to have four characters, detective, detective's assistant, femme fatale and the victim. We have chosen these characters because they will make an interesting plot and storyline. In normal plot and storylines in a film noir film, were often non-linear and twisting. The narrative was frwquently complex, maze-like, confessional and first-person voice-over narration. This is effective because it can emphasise pieces of dialogue which, when emphasised, will make it dramatic and effective.
Monday 22 November 2010
Analysing another persons work...
The blog i am going to analyse is http://a2mediastudiesdaisyconway.blogspot.com/.
I like the layout of this blog and therefore this is why i have begun to analyse it. It's got a simple background, although, i think it's a bit too bold and eye catching. But the good thing is that there isnt that much of it to make it too eye catching and therefore distracted....if that makes any sense :P
Also, there is a lot research into what she wants to do. I think that this is good because then you definitely know what you are about to do. I mean...you wouldn't go into something without knowing what you were getting yourself into.
Although, the only bad thing is that she hasn't got any useful links which could help reference what she is saying. Overall, i think that this is a very good blog.
I like the layout of this blog and therefore this is why i have begun to analyse it. It's got a simple background, although, i think it's a bit too bold and eye catching. But the good thing is that there isnt that much of it to make it too eye catching and therefore distracted....if that makes any sense :P
Also, there is a lot research into what she wants to do. I think that this is good because then you definitely know what you are about to do. I mean...you wouldn't go into something without knowing what you were getting yourself into.
Although, the only bad thing is that she hasn't got any useful links which could help reference what she is saying. Overall, i think that this is a very good blog.
Tuesday 16 November 2010
Diary Entry 2.
Well...this lesson we started doing our presentations for our concept boards. Our concept boards must be completely filled with what we are doing for our project. So, i am going to start on my concept board now and upload it to my blog. I will fill you in with any more information as I go.
Ciao...x
Ciao...x
Tuesday 9 November 2010
Diary Entry 1.
Hello!
Well today we all made notes about what to put on our concept maps! For full details please see the previous post. Anyway, for our media we have to film and edit 3 minutes of an opening title sequence. This title sequence must be categorised in the film noir genre as that is what we have to do. On thursday's lesson we have to create our concept maps. This is why we have all our notes which is on the previous post so that we can look at that and use it for our concept maps.
Well...that's it! I'll be making a new diary entry tomorrow to say what I've been doing!
Ciao! x
Well today we all made notes about what to put on our concept maps! For full details please see the previous post. Anyway, for our media we have to film and edit 3 minutes of an opening title sequence. This title sequence must be categorised in the film noir genre as that is what we have to do. On thursday's lesson we have to create our concept maps. This is why we have all our notes which is on the previous post so that we can look at that and use it for our concept maps.
Well...that's it! I'll be making a new diary entry tomorrow to say what I've been doing!
Ciao! x
Notes for the Concept Map.
- TITLE
- Genre - Film Noir
- Plots: Order/Stricture of narrative
- Narrative: Story
Both the narrative and the story have edits, titles and transitions. - Storyboard
- Cast - Character; Accents; Mannerisms; Representation - Style; Props; Costume
- Set
- Mise-en-Scene - Lighting
- Signifier/Icon (something with connotations larger than the object)
- Connotation - Suggestion/Implied/Meaning
- Denotation - Emphasised/Explicit/Factual/Stated
- Sound - Diegetic/Non-Diegetic; Effects; Foleying; Synchronous/Asynchronous; Ambient; Contrapunctal - Amplifies action with sound that is in contrast with the action
- Camers - Shot; Pace; Angle; Transitions
- Mood
- Style
- Target Audience - Demographics (Factual data - Gender/Age/Class) (Analytical); Projected/Preferred - Who it is aimed at; Audience groupings
- Traditional - Fixed/Wont take risks
- Post-Modern - Interlectual approach/Open-minded and influenced to change
- Hedonist - Risk taking/Experimental
- Hommage - Humourous/Honour other films
- Pastiche - Serious/Non-Humourous
- Niche
- Mainstream
- Conventions - (Established or expected rules of the genre)
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