Friday, 23 October 2015
Audience Essay
When it comes to the audience in media there are two aspects which should be taken into consideration, whether it is a mass audience or active audience theory. The mass audience is the one which can manipulate many people and they all listen to what they are told but active audience are the individuals who think about what they are being told and interpret it. Horror films are designed to scare the mass audience but make the active audience interpret what they are viewing. They can be used as a form of escapism for some people as they overlap fantasy as well as being out of their comfort zone whilst watching.
The hypodermic model suggests that the mass audience are injected with the information which they do not chose to interpret but take literally therefore they are seen to be brainwashed by the media. The effects model is used by high authority people to make the audience in a drugged like state to show their control over them. This in some ways can be seen within my horror movie due to the fact that the teenagers are being killed off due to old views therefore it can be interpreted that the director is trying to use this hypodermic effect to tell people to condemn all teenage behavior.
Reception theory is the theory that suggests there are 3 views, the dominant, the negotiated and the opposition. The dominant view is the the one where the audience interprets the message in the way that the producer wants. The negotiated is where the audience see it in the way that the producer wants but also has a second opinion on it and the opposition view is when they do not agree at all with the dominant view. In my horror trailer this can be applied as the dominant view would be that it is scary, the negotiated view would be that it is scary in some parts and not others and the opposition view would be that it is not scary at all.
Cultivation theory, this was suggested by Gerbner who said that the more time that people are exposed to media the more 'cultivated' they are when it comes to their perceptions of reality. His theory suggests that the more people concentrate and watch the media, the more mainstream out views will become meaning that there will never be a change in views. This related to my film trailer due to the fact that people would think that there is a lot of violence going on in the world if they were exposed to this form of media text for a long time and their view of reality would be that it is violent.
The copycat theory suggests that people will copy what they see in the media therefore many killings in the world could have been triggered by the media. For example, the high increase of underage gaming means that children are more exposed to open killing on games such as GTA and even SIMS due to the fact that they can kill people and get away with it. The theory suggests that people will copy what they see and the most recent example is the child play 3 killings that were though to be triggered from that. This does not relate to my movie trailer as I do not want to be giving across the message that people should go out and kill teenagers for their antisocial behavior.
Finally the catharsis theory suggests that the large amount of exposure to violence is justified by the concept of catharsis. By watching the tragic events within a characters life it is said to cleanse our own meaning that it will do good for individuals as well as society to be cleansed. The main point about catharsis theory is that the imaginary aggressive behavior does not actually have to be competed in real life but only in the make believe. This relates to my film trailer due to the fact that people can be cleansed by watching my film as they will constantly be seeing tragic moments for my characters.
The hypodermic model suggests that the mass audience are injected with the information which they do not chose to interpret but take literally therefore they are seen to be brainwashed by the media. The effects model is used by high authority people to make the audience in a drugged like state to show their control over them. This in some ways can be seen within my horror movie due to the fact that the teenagers are being killed off due to old views therefore it can be interpreted that the director is trying to use this hypodermic effect to tell people to condemn all teenage behavior.
Reception theory is the theory that suggests there are 3 views, the dominant, the negotiated and the opposition. The dominant view is the the one where the audience interprets the message in the way that the producer wants. The negotiated is where the audience see it in the way that the producer wants but also has a second opinion on it and the opposition view is when they do not agree at all with the dominant view. In my horror trailer this can be applied as the dominant view would be that it is scary, the negotiated view would be that it is scary in some parts and not others and the opposition view would be that it is not scary at all.
Cultivation theory, this was suggested by Gerbner who said that the more time that people are exposed to media the more 'cultivated' they are when it comes to their perceptions of reality. His theory suggests that the more people concentrate and watch the media, the more mainstream out views will become meaning that there will never be a change in views. This related to my film trailer due to the fact that people would think that there is a lot of violence going on in the world if they were exposed to this form of media text for a long time and their view of reality would be that it is violent.
The copycat theory suggests that people will copy what they see in the media therefore many killings in the world could have been triggered by the media. For example, the high increase of underage gaming means that children are more exposed to open killing on games such as GTA and even SIMS due to the fact that they can kill people and get away with it. The theory suggests that people will copy what they see and the most recent example is the child play 3 killings that were though to be triggered from that. This does not relate to my movie trailer as I do not want to be giving across the message that people should go out and kill teenagers for their antisocial behavior.
Finally the catharsis theory suggests that the large amount of exposure to violence is justified by the concept of catharsis. By watching the tragic events within a characters life it is said to cleanse our own meaning that it will do good for individuals as well as society to be cleansed. The main point about catharsis theory is that the imaginary aggressive behavior does not actually have to be competed in real life but only in the make believe. This relates to my film trailer due to the fact that people can be cleansed by watching my film as they will constantly be seeing tragic moments for my characters.
Representation essay
Representation is the way that the media changes or interprets different meanings about the world that we live in. This way they construct their own beliefs through film and high important directors pass their own message on through the films they create. There are many different theories when it comes to representation and this essay will explain them.
Firstly, Berger is a theorist that suggested that within the media, men act and women appear and that women watch themselves being watched. This idea comes from the fact that he suggests that if we class someone as male or female then we are doing so on a biological basis. However, in the media if someone is seen as more masculine it is due to their social construction which means the way they act, talk and look. This coincides with my trailer as the slutty character within the trailer is always being watched by the other men in the film. This supports the theory in the way that she watches herself being watched by the other men. However, my trailer also subverts this as there is a final girl who is more masculine than all the men and fights off the killers. This is a subversion due to the fact that she does not watch herself being looked at and doesn't just appear, but instead she fights back.
Secondly, Laura Mulvey suggest the theory of the male gaze in which the woman's body on TV is displayed through the eyes of a man in a way that makes it pleasurable for a man to watch on TV. This gaze controls the woman and makes her an object for the male to view at his own erotic pleasure. This theory is supported by my film trailer as many slashers films are the ones that create this gaze over the women, for example in the film psycho the gaze can be seen when the camera moves up and down her body in the shower. This also relates to my movie as the slut character will be portrayed very sexually due to the fact that it is her nature within the role therefore the gaze will be very prominent.
Moreover, Clovers theory of the final girl who is the last female within a movie that usually survives due to her more masculine features and her inability to take part in sex, drugs or alcohol consumption. Clover says that the final girl usually has a unisex name, doesn't partake in drugs and is a virgin. This theory is supported within my film trailer as it is a slasher and I do have a final girl who conquers the antagonists. This shows that even in the modern horror movies today that there is a still a final girl character as it is a classic feature of a horror movie.
Charles Derry is another theorists who is known for three main topics which are haunting and demonic possession, apocalypse and the human monster. He says that haunting and demonic possession play on the fear of the unknown and use religion to back it up to be more realistic and scary. The character that usually gets possessed is a young girl and they are always entered, he says that this could be seen as trying to scare young children about puberty or taking control of the weaker sex. He says that the apocalypse is where a large amount of inhuman creatures come together to take over the world and kill humans, whether it be animals or a virus or aliens. The fact that these animals rise up against humans is not usually for a specific reason but does have the subtext that there is ecological inequality or it is resembling a rebellion of some sort. The human monster comes from psychopaths such as deranged killers in the film psycho or scream. However some can be born with no morals what so ever and some can be born into a society that forces them to be evil. This last point coincides with my trailer due to the fact that the killers come from a deranged background therefore kill off all of my characters for that reason.
Finally, Dobbs suggested that there are hardly any women behind the camera and that within horror the women that get remembered most are the 'scream queens' who are always attractive on screen. She suggests that there is some feminism within horror due tot he fact that it appeals widely more to a male audience even though it could appeal to both just as much due tot he fact that it is a way of being scared without being in any real danger. Even though there are problems with the final girl trope, it is not hard to feel victorious about the fact that the final girl always wins and that there are so many films with the final girl around.
Firstly, Berger is a theorist that suggested that within the media, men act and women appear and that women watch themselves being watched. This idea comes from the fact that he suggests that if we class someone as male or female then we are doing so on a biological basis. However, in the media if someone is seen as more masculine it is due to their social construction which means the way they act, talk and look. This coincides with my trailer as the slutty character within the trailer is always being watched by the other men in the film. This supports the theory in the way that she watches herself being watched by the other men. However, my trailer also subverts this as there is a final girl who is more masculine than all the men and fights off the killers. This is a subversion due to the fact that she does not watch herself being looked at and doesn't just appear, but instead she fights back.
Secondly, Laura Mulvey suggest the theory of the male gaze in which the woman's body on TV is displayed through the eyes of a man in a way that makes it pleasurable for a man to watch on TV. This gaze controls the woman and makes her an object for the male to view at his own erotic pleasure. This theory is supported by my film trailer as many slashers films are the ones that create this gaze over the women, for example in the film psycho the gaze can be seen when the camera moves up and down her body in the shower. This also relates to my movie as the slut character will be portrayed very sexually due to the fact that it is her nature within the role therefore the gaze will be very prominent.
Moreover, Clovers theory of the final girl who is the last female within a movie that usually survives due to her more masculine features and her inability to take part in sex, drugs or alcohol consumption. Clover says that the final girl usually has a unisex name, doesn't partake in drugs and is a virgin. This theory is supported within my film trailer as it is a slasher and I do have a final girl who conquers the antagonists. This shows that even in the modern horror movies today that there is a still a final girl character as it is a classic feature of a horror movie.
Charles Derry is another theorists who is known for three main topics which are haunting and demonic possession, apocalypse and the human monster. He says that haunting and demonic possession play on the fear of the unknown and use religion to back it up to be more realistic and scary. The character that usually gets possessed is a young girl and they are always entered, he says that this could be seen as trying to scare young children about puberty or taking control of the weaker sex. He says that the apocalypse is where a large amount of inhuman creatures come together to take over the world and kill humans, whether it be animals or a virus or aliens. The fact that these animals rise up against humans is not usually for a specific reason but does have the subtext that there is ecological inequality or it is resembling a rebellion of some sort. The human monster comes from psychopaths such as deranged killers in the film psycho or scream. However some can be born with no morals what so ever and some can be born into a society that forces them to be evil. This last point coincides with my trailer due to the fact that the killers come from a deranged background therefore kill off all of my characters for that reason.
Finally, Dobbs suggested that there are hardly any women behind the camera and that within horror the women that get remembered most are the 'scream queens' who are always attractive on screen. She suggests that there is some feminism within horror due tot he fact that it appeals widely more to a male audience even though it could appeal to both just as much due tot he fact that it is a way of being scared without being in any real danger. Even though there are problems with the final girl trope, it is not hard to feel victorious about the fact that the final girl always wins and that there are so many films with the final girl around.
Thursday, 22 October 2015
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Thursday, 1 October 2015
Narrative 30 min essay
The narrative of s tory is always created with a certain
layout that has to be followed in order for it to be seen as a ‘movie.’ There
are many theorists that have come up with ideas on how a film is constructed.
The first theorists was Todorov who came up with the idea
that a movie was created on the simple structure of equilibrium, disequilibrium
and resolution. The equilibrium is the beginning where everything seems fine
and the story is told to create the first scene and the characters are
introduced. The disequilibrium is the middle where all the problems start to
occur and characters usually die. The resolution is where everything is solved
and the final girl usually overrides the villain. This theory relates to my
trailer as I will base my trailer in the same way, I will add a small chunk of
the equilibrium and then the rest will be the disequilibrium where I show
different parts of the main events. However
this theory also doesn’t link t my trailer in the way that I will not show the
resolution otherwise that will give away the whole movie and the audience will
not want to go and see it.
The second theorist was Propp who suggested that there were
always these main characters within a movie that can be seen. The characters
were: The villain, the hero, the donor, the helper, the princess, the
dispatcher and the false hero. The idea that these characters are usually found
in a movie does show in my movie as I have the characters that he has listed. I
have the villains, the hero, the helper, the princess, the false hero and the
donor which shows that Prop’s theory is relatable to my trailer. However in
some cases this theory might not coincide with all horrors as it could be a
zombie film and they are a lone character most of the time.
Levi Strauss is the next theorists who created the idea that
in every movie there are binary opposites which can be seen everywhere. In
horror the main binary opposites are good vs evil however it can be seen in
simple things such as hero and villain. This coincides with my trailer as in
the trailer you will be able to see the hero vs the villain showing that the
theory of binary opposites is true. This theory also links across all the
sub-genres within a horror as there is always good fighting evil.
To conclude, I believe that all three narrative theorists
have made distinct connections between the basic conventions of a horror movie
to make their theories correct. All three have had an impact on my trailer and
can be seen when the trailer will be built.
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