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.

Editing Techniques

This is a link to the ending of a film which I think is a perfect example of good editing. It has elements of continunituiy editing because it all makes sense in the order it has been put it. It also uses jump cuts in the way in which it flashbacks to what happened before. Obviously it also uses flashbacks. The main one used here is Montage Editing because it keeps flashing back to what has happened before to help the audience and the character realise what has been gonig on and in some respect it makes the story what it is, and helps put the missing peices into place. This has been used to also create a sense of confusion for both the character and the audience whoa re watching. It also helps um remeber small thigns which have happened, because when you do find out something big and important you are quite often in shock and many images cross your mind quickly and in a short peice of time.

How does the editing in Saw construct the meaning about the relationship between characters?

I think that the editing in this last section of the films clarifies everything that has happened in the film so far. It shows the relationships between each character. The other guy in the room, his wife and child, the man lying in the room.

Camera Angles and Editing

FoDefinitions of Camera Shots

Long shot: Shows the whole image, for example it would show a whole person, and not just their face or another part of their body.

Medium shot: If it was a person, then this would only show from the waist up. So it is only half the object.

Close up: This is where you focus on one part of the image, so basically it could just be of someone's face.

Shot reverse shot: This is where one character is shown looking at another character who would be off screen, and then it going to the other character looking back at the first original character.

High angle shots: This is where the camera is located high so it is looking down on the object in focus.

Low angle shots: This is where the camera is locarted low, and then it would be looking up to the object in focus.

Tracking shot: This is where the camera is placed on a track and then is moving but watching where it goes. For example, a bit like when you look out of your car window whilst in motion.

Pan: This is the horizontal motion of the camera moving. So for example, if someone was looking over some fields. They would start facung the left but after looking all around they would end on the right.

Tilt: A tilt shot is where the camera is only slightly looking up or down at the object in focus.

Definition of styles of Editing

Continuity: This is the consistency in a film or tv programme of characters and plot etc. For example if in an episode of eastenders, they cut between two scenes. Both in the same place but in one scene it was raining, but the other was not. When they are in the same place and at the same time. This would be bad continuity. Good continiuity would be if the weatehr was the same in both places.

Montage: This consists of a sequence of shots that are put together to condence narrative.

Transitions: A transisiton is how you get to one clipm to the other. This is where you must be careful on the continuity that you use. Wipes is a type of this.

Cross cutting/paralell editing: A technique used in which shots of two or more separate, usually concurrent scenes in interwoven.

Dissolve: Is gradual transition to one image to another.

Calvin Klein Advertisement Annotation

Calvin Klein Advertisement - Annotation

Laura Mulvey's Theory of the Male Gaze

This is an advert which shows evidence of the male gaze.
This backs up what Mulvey's theory is, because here, Kylie, the model is being watched by the men's view. It is compeltely for the men. This might appeeal so they can buy the underwear for their partner's. It could appeal to women also, it might show them that if they wear this underwear, then they can look like kylie.

Here, is a Calvin Klein advert which does the same.

Marjorie Ferguson & Trevor Millun

Marjorie Ferguson
Marjorie Ferguson identified four different camera shots. These are different ways that the male gaze looks at women.
These are the;
Chocolate Box: A slight smile, teeth not very visible, lips together, not showing the full on face.
Romantic or Sexual: Includes both a male and a female, very dream like, very sexual.
Invitaional: A lot of emphisis on the model's eyes, mouth closed but still smiling, head to the side.
Super Smiler: Shows the full face with a big teeth smile, head tilted forward or to the back.

Trevor Millun
Trevor Millun identified another five different shots.
Seductive: Eyes less wide, expressions are small, Confident looking.
Carefree: Active and healthy, could be to do with sports.
Practical: Concentrating, mouth closed, eyes foccussed.
Comic: Comical, exagerated, being a little bit stupid.
Catalogue: Tend to have eyes open and a big smile, quite dummy like.

The Male Gaze

The Male gaze can be described as a femist reference to the voyeuristic way in which men look at women. To gaze means, more than to just look at.
Forms of Gaze:

• Specator's Gaze
• Intra-digetic gaze
• Direct address to the viewer
• To look at the camera
• The gaze of a bystander
• The gaze of an audience with a text

Trevor Millan:
He distinguished between forms of attention to his study of women in magazines.

Paul Messorsis:
He notes that traditionally me do not look directly into the camera, although during the past two decades, there has been a noteable countentrend in male orienatated advertising. He says that the female modeld in ads are looked at from a male on looker. He says that the women is sexualised.

Laura Mulvey:
She says that the male gaze is visual pleasure. It is Active male/ passive female. She says that the women is the image and the man is the on looker. She says it is voyeurstic and fethistic.

There are some criticims to Laura Mulvey's Theory. These Are:

• A Failure to account for a female specator
• Looks only at the spectator as a hetreosexual male
• Since 1980's there has been an inscreaing display and sexualisation at the male body in mainstream cinema and telvision and in advertising.
  

Shameless Evaluation

How is each character represented in the first episode of Shameless series one?



Fiona

Fiona is the daughter of Frank, but she is seen more as the mother figure in the family. There is one camera shot in the episode where Frank is lying drunk on the floor. The camera is by Frank's face looking up to Fiona who is sitting in the chair. To me, this shows power, and the fact that she is the one in charge. The mise en scene gives us the impression that Fiona, along with the rest of the family live on a typicial council estate and are very "cheap" and to even some extend could be called "scummy", from the look of Frank. The tracksuit she wears, along with her big hooped earings could portray the image of a typical stereotype of a Chav.





Steve

The first time that we see Steve is in the club. As soon as we see him we can tell that he is probabaly from a different type of background to Fiona. For example, he is wearing a suit, which already shows that he is more wealthy than Fiona. Also, the next day when we see Frank and Steve near each other, we notice that they are very alike, for example, they have the same hairstyle. This could maybe say that Frank is a big infulence on Fiona, hence why we see Steve like this.




Lip

Lip comes across as a typical teenage boy, but we find out that he is so much more than that. He also comes across as maybe fitting the whole "Chav" stereptype. We actually learn that he is the smartest of the family, because he tutors other kids. Also, his reaction to his brother being gay is also a very important part to him, because it seems that at first he is very shocked, but when thinking about it in more depth, we realise that actually, he loves him and cares for him, and is worried that he might get hurt.




Ian

Ian is the brother to Lip who he clearly has a strong relationship with. He seems just like a normal teenage boy, except he is gay. Not only is he gay, but he is having an affair with his boss, or somebody who he works with. Who is a middle aged man, who is married, and is also religious. This gives the impression that maybe the couple are using each other. I think that Ian is the hardest charecters to work out.

Stereotypes - Homosexuality

Homosexuality

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