Prezi Evaluation

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Location Shots

Looking into or OTS, we wanted to film it in a wood so it brings a sense of mystery to the whole thing and having it darker makes it more 'spooky' to the death which is happening during the first part of our opening title sequence. I went out a took a few pictures of where we were going to film and the places around it and discussed where we were going to film. I edited some of the pictures to see what it would look like within a film noir and see what it would look like if we put our production in black and white.
Here are a few examples:

Task 9 - Research Task

- How do teenagers read American and British T.V. differently?
- Attitudes towards violence in films.

How do teenagers read American and British T.V. differently?

Shows like 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' and 'The Oprah Winfrey Show' involve high-end interviews with famous stars such as directors and actors who are well known around the whole of the world. These two particular shows are famous enough in themselves but the extra of having such a wide range of 'celebrities' who appear on the show brings in a range of target audiences depending on who is on the show by personal choice. 

This shows the difference between American and British shows. For example, in Britain, we still have the idea of the shows in America like 'Jonathon Ross Show' and 'The Graham Norton Show' but audience rating lack more because of its overall popularity. Also, Britain has a smaller film industry than America so bringing 'celebrities' onto the show is much harder.

Comedy shows like 'Friends' and 'How I Met Your Mother' are different to British comedies like 'Outnumbered' and 'The Inbetweeners’ plainly because of how the different audiences react to the shows which shows that in the two film industries, comedy is very different like in the 'The Inbetweeners' the humour is more childish and the jokes are more rude and personal. This is different because in America, they don’t have that childish humour that British television portrays and brings more melodramatic element to it.

Attitudes towards violence in films.

Attitudes towards violence in films are varied across age and gender groups. For example, younger children will find violence more frightening than teenagers who have watched violence on television and on video games for longer than the younger children. Also, this is different for females because females generally prefer to watch soaps and programmes which have romance in them. Also, males find it more interesting to watch violence than to watch romance.

This could be different to other countries because other cultures will vies violence in different ways. For example, people from England might view violence differently to how people from America view violence. Also, religion can play a big part of how different people's attitudes to violence because different religions do not approve of violence.

Researching into Neo-Noir

Red Riding 1974 
   - Evil twin of 'Life on Mars'

- Panning shots
- Dark and mysterious atmosphere
- Periedic times - costume
- Monochrone - brown
- Addressed crime - disapperance
- Introduction to anti - hero
- Chiarascuro - opening scene/white feathers black background
- Newspaper reporter 
- Breaking conventions - accoustic guitair
- Voiceover - side with that character
- Rural location/dystropian
- Flawed anti- hero
- Framing shots

Blade Runner
- Dark atmosphere
- Chiacascuro - black silhouette in white light
- Monochrome - shades of grey
- Location in a prison - shows crime
- Breaking convention - modern music
-Smoking - detective
- Set in modern times
- Not important characters
- Heartbeat music
- Sciene fiction - no sense of realism

Muholland Drive
- Jazzy music
- Orchestral music
- Dark and mysterious
- Rural location - dystopian
- Traditional make - up and hair - femme fetale
- Get shown the crime
- Smoke to set eary atmosphere
- Panning shots
- Chiarascuro marrative - blonde female/happy and dancing and brown haired female/dark and mysterious
- Brunette - femme fatale, dark, demanding, guilty
- Blonde - happy and innocent
- When car crash - flash of white light.

Task 10 - Niche Audience

A niche audience is a small, selected group of people which share a very unique interest. This may mean in television programmes, films etc but can also in the main public eye for example, products you can buy in normal stores.

Personally, the types of media texts that I consume which are targeted at a niche market, are programmes which would include information about Norwich. Normally, Norwich is seen as a place to mock and ridicule the population from being brought up in the area. For example, in comedic programmes, such as Live At The Apollo (Marcus Brigstoke and Russell Howard) and also Alan Partridge like to do this frequently.

On the opposite side, there are some programmes which specifically are selected for an audience maybe for different cultures and being an equal amount of races into it. For example, In Eastenders there are many different races which show different cutltures and could also be played around with the show stories, For example, gay relationships with a muslim and christian which helps show contriversy in problems in religon.

Task 8 - Morley Ideas of Gender Differences

Morley's ideas of gender differences were clear to him in the use that people made of the media in their everyday lives depending on their gender. Morley found out that men tended to prefer factual programmes such as the news and documentaries whilst women preferred fiction soaps and other drama series. Also, men preferred watching the programmes extensively whilst women tended to be doing something else at the same time. Another thing that Morley found out that if anybody had control over what was on the TV, it would most likely be the man - due to the stereotype of that man is the most dominate in the family/household. This means that it may of changed in the more modern times.

But, this doesn't necessarily mean that there are fundamental differences between men and women. What it does relate to though, is the kind of lives that the different genders lead. For example, men often work during the day which is outside of the home, therefore television is seen as a form of relaxation at the end of the day. For women, on the other hand, the home is seen as a place of work and therefore, that work will continue during the evening when television is switched on. Again, this is still looked on as a stereotypical view. Also this idea is classed as out of date and therefore the research such as Morley's if carried out today would come up with quite different conclusions.

We interviewed many people ranging from different ages and from both genders to see how they feel about television and specifically on Morley's ideas in the present day. We asked teenagers how they felt about the whole situation. Lee Cooper answered our questions which will be soon added to our blog. We also, asked Emily's mum (Sam Dimas) exactly the same questions which will also we added to our blog to show our differences.
Surprisingly, there was difference between the two members of the public. This looked into the two age groups so looking at the contrasts from different ages and gender. In some parts of the interviews in which we went away with, Morley's ideas were accurate to a degree but due to the way in how people live and the modern technology today, it changes the way in how his ideas are seen and put forward.

Setback on Filming

Due to different personal problems, the dates in which were able to film were unable to film so we have had to change how we are going to do it. Hopefully, we are going to be able to film the rest of the filming as well the 'redo' of the first scene again this Sunday (6/2/11) and then we will be able to finish all the main project filming then. This means, that we will be able to edit all of the project on the Tuesday or if it goes over then we will be able to do the editing on Thursday. After that, we will be finished on all of our main project. From now until Sunday, we will be making blog work a main priority so we can get that finished and out of the way.