Wednesday, 8 May 2013
How typical are your chosen texts of their genre?
Fish Tank is a social-realist film set in Tilbury, Essex, which has a reputation for its crime and anti-social behaviour. In the film there is no non-diegetic music or sounds to give a sense of realism. To add to the sense of realism all the camera work is handheld and it is all tracking shots, following Mia and showing the world from her point of view. This movie has some similarities to famous 60's social-realist films such as 'A taste of honey' and 'Saturday night and sunday morning'. These similarities include an urban setting. 'Saturday night and sunday morning' was set in Nottingham, and Tilbury is surrounded by motorways above the river Thames.
Monday, 22 April 2013
Discuss the audience appeal of your three main texts (30)
Mad Men is a long-running American TV series, made by the company AMC. Mad Men came about at the beginning of 'Retrophilia', a craze where 60's fashion and culture became popular again. Even though the programme wasn't particularly popular, it was part of the spark which got everyone interested in the 60's again. Mad Men is very highly detailed so in the programme the clothes they wore and what they did at work (i.e. drink and smoke on the job) is very accurate.
Mad Men, and the episode I looked at 'The Other Woman' received huge critical acclaim. The actual series won the Emmy for outstanding drama series 3 years in a row, and 'The Other Woman' was submitted to the 2012 Primetime Emmy awards.
Lost is a 6-season long TV series made by ABC. Its title scene is simple, yet effective. It has a misty font which is at a strange angle, and the music is very strange. Already this is different to Mad Men because of its use of non-diegetic music. This is to tell the audience how to feel. The opening scene of episode 2, 'Pilot Part 2' in Season 1 refers back to the previous episode straight away so the audience doesn't have to have watched the previous episode to know what happened. This is a linear narrative; a very passive, mainstream structure. Another passive and mainstream element is the clear representations of characters. In the opening scene, Charlie asks Jack a number of questions, hoping for clear and reassuring answers, giving Jack the representation of a hero and a leader in terms of Propp's theory. Of the three people walking through the jungle, he is also the one leading the way back to the beach. At the end of the scene, there is a close-up of Charlie's face, and the non-diegetic music tells the audience to be wary of Charlie. This cues the next scene, which shows Charlie taking illegal drugs on a plane and then going to flush them down the toilet.
Later on in the same episode, Sayid, Charlie, Sawyer, Kate, Boone and Shannon are walking through the jungle to try and get reception on the transceiver. Eventually Sawyer and Sayid argue and as their voices raise a loud noise is heard. There are fast shots, and in them they take turns in showing close-ups of the characters faces and watching a monster (later they realise it's a polar bear) hurtling towards them.
Lost is a good example of a hybrid-genre. This means it contains elements of more than genre to appeal to a wider audience. Lost is predominantly Action and Sci-fi, with elements of Romance and even Comedy. They also use a multi-national cast of different ages and appearances to appeal to an even wider, world-wide audience.
Louis Theroux's documentary named 'America's Most Hated Family in Crisis is a good example of using the BBC's 'remit', which is a template for programmes 'to inform, to entertain and to educate'. The programme got mainly positive reviews, though The Irish Times said 'The excitement of seeing Louis Theroux back on screen with a new documentary soon wore off'. This is possibly in reference to the fact is wasn't particularly as hard-hitting as the first documentary. It got 3.33 million viewers, and it was the most watched BBC2 programme that week.
It is fairly passive viewing; at the beginning Louis asks 'is it possible you've become more weird?' in reference to the last time he was there, and there is some non-diegetic music which puts certain stereotypes in to the audience's head, for example, there is some slide-guitar 'redneck' music which gives the stereotype that the church are wacky americans.
Mad Men, and the episode I looked at 'The Other Woman' received huge critical acclaim. The actual series won the Emmy for outstanding drama series 3 years in a row, and 'The Other Woman' was submitted to the 2012 Primetime Emmy awards.
Lost is a 6-season long TV series made by ABC. Its title scene is simple, yet effective. It has a misty font which is at a strange angle, and the music is very strange. Already this is different to Mad Men because of its use of non-diegetic music. This is to tell the audience how to feel. The opening scene of episode 2, 'Pilot Part 2' in Season 1 refers back to the previous episode straight away so the audience doesn't have to have watched the previous episode to know what happened. This is a linear narrative; a very passive, mainstream structure. Another passive and mainstream element is the clear representations of characters. In the opening scene, Charlie asks Jack a number of questions, hoping for clear and reassuring answers, giving Jack the representation of a hero and a leader in terms of Propp's theory. Of the three people walking through the jungle, he is also the one leading the way back to the beach. At the end of the scene, there is a close-up of Charlie's face, and the non-diegetic music tells the audience to be wary of Charlie. This cues the next scene, which shows Charlie taking illegal drugs on a plane and then going to flush them down the toilet.
Later on in the same episode, Sayid, Charlie, Sawyer, Kate, Boone and Shannon are walking through the jungle to try and get reception on the transceiver. Eventually Sawyer and Sayid argue and as their voices raise a loud noise is heard. There are fast shots, and in them they take turns in showing close-ups of the characters faces and watching a monster (later they realise it's a polar bear) hurtling towards them.
Lost is a good example of a hybrid-genre. This means it contains elements of more than genre to appeal to a wider audience. Lost is predominantly Action and Sci-fi, with elements of Romance and even Comedy. They also use a multi-national cast of different ages and appearances to appeal to an even wider, world-wide audience.
Louis Theroux's documentary named 'America's Most Hated Family in Crisis is a good example of using the BBC's 'remit', which is a template for programmes 'to inform, to entertain and to educate'. The programme got mainly positive reviews, though The Irish Times said 'The excitement of seeing Louis Theroux back on screen with a new documentary soon wore off'. This is possibly in reference to the fact is wasn't particularly as hard-hitting as the first documentary. It got 3.33 million viewers, and it was the most watched BBC2 programme that week.
It is fairly passive viewing; at the beginning Louis asks 'is it possible you've become more weird?' in reference to the last time he was there, and there is some non-diegetic music which puts certain stereotypes in to the audience's head, for example, there is some slide-guitar 'redneck' music which gives the stereotype that the church are wacky americans.
Friday, 1 February 2013
Magazine
Magazine cover (3)
Music
Large photo covering most of the cover, with text around it describing whats in the magazine
Two small side articles about one live gig and what is on the coming pages
http://www.dafont.com/jd-digital.font
Cheeta music
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