Update!

Me and Abbi have just finished putting together our film. We have a few small tocuhes to do to it to just make it that bit more professional and give it a polished finish.

The most trouble we have had with our film so far is the music because it was hard to get it timed. This is what we will be working on next.

Gender & Ethnicity - Life and Mars

The reference to the Sari in the street half of the clip by the police officer is the first 'racist'. It is very dis respectful if it is seen as a joke or found funny. In other terms, it can just be seen as a mis understanding. That the police officer actually thought that she was wearing a nightie. I think that it was said as a joke and was a racist remark. The other racist comment is when he acuses the Asian of stealing the tv, or implying that he thinks he has. This is just because of the colour of his skin.

Irish people are represented in this extract. They are shown as the lower class. "only fit for shoveling shit". They were only given the jobs that the english people didn't want. Eg, being given all of the labouring jobs. When the Irishman was on screen, he looked like he had been beaten up, most likely by the police which is something that happened quite often.

The main reference to a woman is the line about a woman running the country. This is take straight as a joke. The men seem to have an "As if" Attitude. it just goes to show the inferior attitude there was with women. This is also scene with the "flashing her knickers" remark. All of the men laugh at this joke and even the woman does which could either show that she finds it funny too, or likes the attention, but I think that it means she is used to it so doesn't react to the joke about her.

The way Men are shown in the extract are as if they are the role models for the women, that they have the power. It seems that the White men also seem to have some kind of power over the coloured which is shown in the first part with the characters shown, eg policeman.

Sound Evaluation

The Alice and Wonderland trailer contains both Diegetic sound and Non Diegetic sound.

Where the mad hater talks about wonderland and says "to survive it, you need to be as mad as a hater". This is Non Diegetic because only the audience can hear it.

When he talks to Alice or any of the other characters, this is where it is Diegetic Sound.

The fighting scenes in the film are both Deigetic and Non diegtic because the sounds of the fight are realistic but there is music playing which is Non diegetic.

Evaluation of Filming

Me and Abbi have just finished half of our filming for our final film. On the whole it went really well.
I found that the new thumbnails have given our film a much more belieavble storyline and a stronger narrative.

Notes from "The Soloist"

The film is based on a column in the LA Times. The column is about two real people; Nathanial Ayers and Steve Lopez.

The film humanises problems which people over look, eg. Homelessness.
It was also shot in "Anderson street" giving a very good portrayal of what it is actually like. This also came with how they chose their extras for the film who were from social services or also the real people living on the street who actually live in these conditions.

Something else that really made the film more realistic was the fact that they brought Nathaniel on to the set when rehearsing the music. This must of gave him a view on what the film was going to be like and to even help with how to make it more like real life and more like his music.

There were 2 potential problems for this film. The first was that the director, Joe Wright was filming in America, which is a country he had never worked in before and knew nothing about. Another was that the actor, Robert Downey Jr, had to play 'crazy', and if this is done wrong it can look taccy and cheap, and he could even risk his career.