Short Film Tips

Representations.

The person being represented in this video is a young woman who could be a metaphoric representation for the difficulties faced by younger generations in this day and age as it is get increasingly harder to make a living for oneself. So in that sense this is a negative representation as the girl in the video is homeless and sleeping on a park bench with nothing but shabby ripped clothes and a duvet to sleep under. The video represents that hardships the girl has to face. Looking at her face, you can see her eye make-up is all smudged and running down her face which shows she has been crying and is actually crying at one point in the video. This highlights the desperation of the girls situation once more acting as a negative representation. There is a slight stereotype of people that live on the street in the way that she is selling the 'Big Issue' magazine or something like it, which you would usually associate with a homeless person. Further the negative representation, the girl then turns to prostitution to try and earn some money coupled with the use of drugs. This could be seen as a partial stereotype of todays younger generations with the excessive use of Drugs or even sex to get things that you want. More negative representation can be seen when you think about how she lives on the street with barely anything to live by, but the second she gets some money, all be it from a dodgy source, she then spends it on Drugs rather than essentials such as food,drink, new clothes, ect. This shows us that she is stuck in a vicious cycle of addiction amongst other things.

Conventions for the Action Genre.

Main Conventions- The main conventions for a Action genre film would include such things as:

• large explosions
• Gun fights/ Fist fights/ other sorts of conflict
• Large, butch men (usually), Skilled fighters 
• Car chases
• High Tempo
• Hectic 
• heavy sort of music to accompany high action scenes
• Attractive women

These are just some of the things that came into my mind when i think of the main conventions that would appear in an Action film.

Semantics associated with this genre would again be things such as:

• Guns
• Fast cars
• Drugs
• Hench men

examples of the sorts of cars usually used in this genre are cars like Ford GTs, Mustangs and Ferraris.

the sorts of people would usually be rather muscly, Tall and fast.

Syntactically an action film would begin with something more calm, where the character will be introduced to allow the audience to get a feel of the character, after this, say if the film was based on a bank robbery, you might see the robbers planning their assault on the bank where they will then go and carry out their plan more often than not accompanied by a fight sequence (usually with guns). After robbing the bank there is normally always a car chase of high speed proportions with guns shots being fired all over the place. I guess it could be said that the film often starts of quietly and builds up to a massive bowl of action.

Certain film producers and directors might use a specific genre such as this because they want to appeal to a certain type of audience. If the film company had already released a few films of other genres over the year, they might feel that they are missing out on a certain proportion of the audience and so they create an action film to tap into the other parts of the media market.

MISS LEA. My Bubble.com is not currently working neither on the school mac or mine at home so i made it text based so you didn't think i was just not bothering to do my homework.  I will transfer this to slideshare ASAP but the Powerpoint thing keeps not responding so i'll do it later.

The 2 Briefs and The Linked Theories.

Brief 1: we can create a promotional package for the release of a music album which would have to include the creation of a promo video to go with 2 other creation options that include:

• A website homepage made for the band/Artist.
• A cover for the release of the DVD.
• A Magazine advertisement for the DVD

Brief 10: Creation of A short film which would last around about 5 minutes, the film can be live action or an animation or even a combination of the both. This will go together with 2 of the following options:

• A poster to accompany the film.
• A radio trailer for the film
• A film magazine review page featuring the film.

Also we must include into our chosen brief of coursework the key, linked theories such as:

• Genre.
• Narrative.
• Representation.
• Audience.
• Media language.