http://wesclark.com/ubn/the_set_up.html
When looking for pictures for my iconography collage (next post) I found this step by step with pictures of another film noir it's the 1949 Robert Wise film noir masterpiece, "The Set-Up". This gives such a good example of a typical structure of a film noir.
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Poll everywhere analysis
What is Poll everywhere?Poll everywhere is the fastest way to create real-time experiences for events using a mobile,
it lets you use standard web technology. It's the easiest way to gather live responses in any venue: conferences, presentations, classrooms, radio, TV, print — anywhere. Because it works with texting, web, or Twitter, its simplicity and flexibility it makes it that much easier to use.
How do you use it?
People have come up with many creative ways to use Poll Everywhere, examples of these are
How do you use it?
People have come up with many creative ways to use Poll Everywhere, examples of these are
| Audience choice awards | Texting questions to expert panels |
| Replace expensive clickers | Green surveys at conferences |
| Moderated TXT-to-screen graffiti | Text feedback to a presenter |
| Interactive signage | Automated attendance tracking |
| Anonymous polls for sensitive topics | Brainstorming with 2000 people |
| Market research | Silent SMS auctions |
| Training comprehension checks | Outdoor SMS voting |
| Grading in-class quizzes | Political elections |
The teacher placed on the board a question of her own that we had to answer, this question was about the film SE7EN, and we had to then text in to answer it. Overall I think poll everywhere is a good way to get a world wide opinion on something you need to know, I can't think of a way to get a question out better. What I think makes it better is the fact it can be linked to social networking sites like Twitter is an incredibly popular worldwide networking site. So giving you an even bigger range of people to answer the question that you want.
National readership survey-
This post is about the different types of audience and the certain types of film they would be interested in;
Classifications are based on the occupation of the head of the household.
GRADE SOCAIL CLASS CHIEF INCOME EARNER'S OCCUPATION
A - Upper middle class - Higher managerial, administrative or professional
B - Middle class - Intermediate managerial, administrative or professional
C1 - Lower middle class - Supervisory or clerical and junior managerial, administrative.
C2 - Skilled working class - Skilled manual workers
D - Working class - Semi and unskilled manual workers
E - Those at the lowest - Lowest grade workers, people who depend on welfare or the elderly.
level of subsistense
This is a chart of all classes in family, and what icome is needed to be classed as each. Class can effect what kind of movies people like due to their life style and what kind of things the family would be used to seeing and no be offended by.
Effects models.
The hypodermic needle model
The intended message is directly recieved and wholly accepted by the receiver.
Two-step flow
The people with most access to media, and highest media literacy explain diffuse the content to others. This is a modern version of the hypodermic needle.
Uses and gratifications
People are not helpless victims of mass media, but use the media to get specific gratification, (Diversion, personal relationships, personal identity, surveillence)
Reception theory
The meaning of a 'text' is not inheret within the text itself, but the audience mst elicit meaning based on their individual cultural background and life experiences.
Obstinate audience theory
This theory assumes there is a transactual communication between the audience and the media. The audience actively selects what messages to pay attention to. (Zimmerman-Bauer study-found that the audience also participates in the communication by influencing the message.)
Audience decoding
The audience member assumes the dominant hegemonic position, when they recognise and agree with the full-preferred meaning offered by the media text. The oppositional hegemonic position is established when the audience member understands the preferred meaning, but disagrees with it due to their own set of attitudes and beliefs. The negotiated hegemonic position is established when the audience member opposes or has to adapt the preferred meaning. The forth type of audience response is referred to as aberrant decoding. This is where the audience member reads the text in an unpredicted way, producing a deviant meaning.
Audience theory Typical Film Noir and Neo Noir Audience for your Film Noir
Demegraphics - National D-B (male) Female young adult (18-25 D-B)Readership Survey
Mode of address Be aware of the woman You can't trust anyone
(How does the media product
talk to you?)
Audience positioning I think there is more of a male From a females perspective
(perspective, who should gaze
you support?)
Effects models Hypodermic syringe (simple) or Reception theory-figuring out
uses and gratification.
Audience decoding Followed what most people Oppositional - woman don't kill normally
-Dominant hegemonic think
-Oppositional hegemonic
-Negotiated hegemonic
Aberrant decoding
Here is a pyramid of socail class.
Classifications are based on the occupation of the head of the household.
GRADE SOCAIL CLASS CHIEF INCOME EARNER'S OCCUPATION
A - Upper middle class - Higher managerial, administrative or professional
B - Middle class - Intermediate managerial, administrative or professional
C1 - Lower middle class - Supervisory or clerical and junior managerial, administrative.
C2 - Skilled working class - Skilled manual workers
D - Working class - Semi and unskilled manual workers
E - Those at the lowest - Lowest grade workers, people who depend on welfare or the elderly.
level of subsistense
This is a chart of all classes in family, and what icome is needed to be classed as each. Class can effect what kind of movies people like due to their life style and what kind of things the family would be used to seeing and no be offended by.
Effects models.
The hypodermic needle model
The intended message is directly recieved and wholly accepted by the receiver.
Two-step flow
The people with most access to media, and highest media literacy explain diffuse the content to others. This is a modern version of the hypodermic needle.
Uses and gratifications
People are not helpless victims of mass media, but use the media to get specific gratification, (Diversion, personal relationships, personal identity, surveillence)
Reception theory
The meaning of a 'text' is not inheret within the text itself, but the audience mst elicit meaning based on their individual cultural background and life experiences.
Obstinate audience theory
This theory assumes there is a transactual communication between the audience and the media. The audience actively selects what messages to pay attention to. (Zimmerman-Bauer study-found that the audience also participates in the communication by influencing the message.)
Audience decoding
The audience member assumes the dominant hegemonic position, when they recognise and agree with the full-preferred meaning offered by the media text. The oppositional hegemonic position is established when the audience member understands the preferred meaning, but disagrees with it due to their own set of attitudes and beliefs. The negotiated hegemonic position is established when the audience member opposes or has to adapt the preferred meaning. The forth type of audience response is referred to as aberrant decoding. This is where the audience member reads the text in an unpredicted way, producing a deviant meaning.
Audience theory Typical Film Noir and Neo Noir Audience for your Film Noir
Demegraphics - National D-B (male) Female young adult (18-25 D-B)Readership Survey
Mode of address Be aware of the woman You can't trust anyone
(How does the media product
talk to you?)
Audience positioning I think there is more of a male From a females perspective
(perspective, who should gaze
you support?)
Effects models Hypodermic syringe (simple) or Reception theory-figuring out
uses and gratification.
Audience decoding Followed what most people Oppositional - woman don't kill normally
-Dominant hegemonic think
-Oppositional hegemonic
-Negotiated hegemonic
Aberrant decoding
Double Idemnity & The Killers analysis
An insurance rep lets himself be talked into a murder/insurance fraudscheme that arouses an insurance investigator's suspicions.
Character: Double Idemnity has both the traditional femme fatale and anti hero.
The Killers plot;
Hit men kill an unresisting victim, and investigator Reardon uncovers his past involvement with beautiful, deadly Kitty Collins.
Character: The Killers plot has both the femme fatale and the anti hero.
Character: The Killers plot has both the femme fatale and the anti hero.
Mulholland drive, Red Riding & Blade hunter analysis
Mulholland Drive is a 2001 American neo-noir psychological thriller written and directed by David Lynch starring Justin Theroux, Naomi Watts, and Laura harring.
This film has typical characteristics that make it like a film noir, for example;
Typical
-Dark lighting.
-Music (but not as dramatic as a film noir)
-The women's make up is glamorous.
-Smoke is used in a lot of scenes.
-Transition through out the film is as fast.
However there are characteristics of this film that make it unlike a typical neo noir.
Un-typical
-Dark lighting but not black and white.
-The main character is female (femme fatale) no anti-hero.
Typical
-The Story is narrated by the main character. (more likely to be male)
-Midshots/closeups.
-Well dressed main characters.
-The characters smoke and drink a lot.
-Sepia filter. (1970's browns/yellows used)
-Mention of crime - (anit hero is a crime reporter)
-Anti hero living up to his dad who died.
Un-typical
-Sepia and not black and white.
-Acoustic guitar music.
-Rural surroundings and not urban.
-Blood is shown in scenes.
Typical
-Light shining through window
-Characters smoke.
-Set in the city
Un-Typical
-Set in space.
Each one of these movies have some typical film noir styles, but does that make them a Neo noir? In my opinion Blade runner may have characterictics of a neo noir, but it does actually make it one. I would still class it as sci-fi due to it being set in space.Whereas Muholland drive as an example, because this was actually made to be a neo noir I would class it as one due to the it being more typical film noir then un-typical.
Monday, 5 March 2012
Sound for our film noir.
Desired sound effect Action to create sounds for How did you make the sound
Blood dripping - In the start of the scene, blood is dripping
from a table to the floor.
Heels (inside) - The femme fatale is walking around a room,
walking over the body and out of the room.
Heels (outside) - The femme fatale is walking down the alley
way.
Breathing - The femme fatale is going down a dark alley
way and is panicked and tense.
Scraping chair -
Swiping noise
Rustleing
Piano riff
Blood dripping - In the start of the scene, blood is dripping
from a table to the floor.
Heels (inside) - The femme fatale is walking around a room,
walking over the body and out of the room.
Heels (outside) - The femme fatale is walking down the alley
way.
Breathing - The femme fatale is going down a dark alley
way and is panicked and tense.
Scraping chair -
Swiping noise
Rustleing
Piano riff
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