Narrative

Narrative

I and my partner Manraj decided to do our narrative based on football. The narrative is "The Game".

Todorov Theory

Todorov theory did help use sort out the narrative because we do have a equilibrium, disequilibrium and a new equilibrium.

Narrative

  

 The protagonist within the story is someone called Conrad Garcia. Who is half English and half Spanish. Conrad Garcia is a footballer who plays for Barnsley in the championship. This is when the equilibrium is put in place. It is the Championship playoff final and the winner of the match will get promoted into the Premiership. Unfortunately Barnsley lost on penalties, however Conrad who is a striker did score a goal during the match and converted his penalty and was also named man of the match. Due to his performance in the final and throughout the whole season a host of premier league clubs were tracking him when eventually Tottenham signed him for 7 million pounds. It was middle of the season and Conrad hadn’t played many games due to the quality of players within the Tottenham squad. Tottenham were playing a home match against Manchester United they were losing 1-0. Andre Vilas Boas the Tottenham manager needed to make a substitution quickly. He decided to take their star striker Soldado off and bring on Conrad, the Tottenham fans were booing and getting very abusive.. Until the 90^th minute where Conrad was fed in one on one he shoots he scores!

That one goal changed his life completely, now Conrad would get noticed everywhere he goes, sponsorship deals you name it. But more importantly he was starting instead of Soldado the best player at the club. Due to the fame and his big step up Conrad wanted a new contract worth a lot of money, however his agent who had been his agent since he first started playing football professionally told him he should wait. Conrad didn't like what his agent had to say and this resulted in conflict between the pair and eventually he sacked him and hired a new well known agent, who was also the agent of Soldados. The disequilibrium is now being introduced. Has Conrad has with many premier league footballers personal life was beginning to take a toll on his image has he was always partying and cheated on his girlfriend who he had been with from a young age. He got the lucrative contract he wanted but at a cost has he had lost all his friends and lost respect from the people closest to him. You could see this wasn’t affecting him on the pitch has he was still scoring goals. However Soldado didn’t like Conrad due to him taking his place in the team and had a word with his agent, has Soldado was the agents’ favourite client he decided to help Soldado. It was the penultimate weekend of the premier league and Tottenham were going for 4^th place, they were up against Sunderland. Lee Cattermole another one of this mysterious agents clients was playing. During the match you could see Cattermole was man marking Conrad and towards the end he had fouled and injured Conrad this caused a fight between the two payers causing Conrad to get sent off and also injured for a large amount of time. Cattermole then looked to the stands where the agent was and winked and just Conrads luck his replacement Soldado scored the winner.

After long rehab, Conrad decided to try fix things up with the people closest to him, this worked and he eventually re hired his ex agent and forced a move away from Tottenham and joined Arsenal their rivals.. His career was back on track but for how long...

Vladimir Propp Seven Spheres of action.

Villain: New agent

Donor: Mum

Helper: Close friends/ girlfriend/ old agent

Princess: Girlfriend

Dispatcher: Mum

Hero: Conrad Garcia

False Hero: New team mates and agent

Levi Strauss Binary Opposition

 The binary oppositions is played alot in this narrative because it comes good vs bad and hope vs fate.

Film Noir Research

Film Noir Research

Film noir is a stylish Hollywood crime drama. Film Noir is not really made any more but there has been some great films made in the past. Hollywood's film noir period is generally regarded as extending from the 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir is known named as a genre now. The hasn't really been any film noir films made know. Film noir is mostly known for their low-key lighting and for the crimes. The term film noir is french for 2black film", which was first introduced to Hollywood films by a french critic Nino Frank in 1946.


Film noir is not really mentioned in the world of cinema right now but some companies have brought back film noir back into the 21st century. The video game industry has taken film noir into a hole different level bringing in a whole different perspective of the genre. Two games that took advantage of film noir is Rockstar Game's L.A.Noire and 2K Czech's MAFIA II. Which was set in the same time period, 1940-1950. Both the games had different plots for the game they were a Third-person shooter, action-adventure.

Most recently Warn Bros released a film noir film called Gangster Squad which was based " Tales from the gangster squad by Paul Lieberman". The film was released in January 2013 and was successful but still film noir is not one of the major genres in the film industry. 

News source

News Source

Dominant reading:

The dominant reading is that these two people who look like they are soldier are about to go into a operation to help save people and beat the bad guys. People like to think that these guys are the goo guys the superheroes and people liked to think they are going to beat the bad guys. The picture by the photographer is clearly trying to show these men are fully concentrated on the operation. 

Negotiated reading:

The negotiated meaning could be that these soldiers might have went into the operation trying to not injure any hostages but then injure or maybe even kill them. This would show that we should not trust the army more than we should.

Opposite reading: 

The opposite reading could be that these soldiers might go and actually help the bad guys and start a civil war to create much more danger to the people of the place. 

Mise-en-scene of an Image

Mise-en-scene of an image

This picture you see below this, will be broken down by me using mise-en-scene.

Costume & makeup: The costume that the actor is wearing is just a t-shirt jeans, trainers and a snapback worn backwards. The denotation is that the actors costume is what teenagers wear. The connotation of the costume is that this guy is normal, he is wearing normal clothes that every normal tennager wears, so therefor when the audience see that they will see the actor wearing normal clothes and then no that this guy looks good and he is normal. The makeup that actor has is just facial hair which suggest his age which is mid teen. 

Lighting & colour: The lighting of the image has been done naturally and artificially by using back filler lights and editing softwares. The naturally light is coming from the sun which sets the time of the day. The colour sets the emotion and atmosphere of the image. The colour filter that they have used makes the actor look like he has a mission or a obstacle that he has too overcome.      
Actor, placement & movement:

Setting & Props: The sitting of the image is set near a harbor with lost of stairs, rails and blocks which is lots of obstacles of bmx riders. The prop that they have used a BMX, a normal BMX that most people can afford. The setting and prop gives us lots of ideas of what the actor is doing here.

Placement and Movement: In the image there is no movement but there is placement. The most obvious placement is where the actor and his BMX is and how he is with his BMX. The actor is on his BMX standing while the BMX is between his legs. His hands are on the handles like he is about to start, but most importantly his his face and his eyes is looking towards the sunset, which is the icon of the image.

Analysing Nike print advert

Analysing Nike print advert

The print advert I will be analysing is the Nike “JUST DO IT” brand print advert. The print advert shows a defined black male aged around 17-23 years old in the air with one arm on his skateboard. Next to the male there is a copy and it says “MY ASSAULT . Overall print is very power to promote their brand and I will be braking it down below.

Colour has been used so well, that it has help this print to become very powerful. In the picture we see a black background and white in the text, clothes of the male and the outline and wheels of the skateboard. The reason why they used black and white is because, white and black are exactly opposites of each other and that’s why it would stand out. The background is black which sets an enigma and makes the audience try to connote the where the setting is. The clothes of the male is set out to stand out – white. White stands out more than any other colour and it sets a theme. The reason why they chose white is because the male is black and looks ghetto and people see ghetto people cool and the white makes him stand out. Even the skateboard refers to the black male. Black deck but the wheels and outline are white.  Just like the male he has a dark body and then white shoes which represents the wheels and the shorts as the outline. The text below the male is the strapline of the brand saying “JUST DO IT”. The strapline is flowed by the Nike logo which is white just like the strapline and all the writing in the print except a big text that is on the left of the black male. This big copy stands out the most because it has white background and black text. The copy says "MY ASSAULT". The reason why they have made the text black and the background of the text white is because they want the copy stand out the most and it does it is the most different thing on the print.

Setting is a major thing in this print. It sets the atmosphere in the print and it sets the audience. The setting is unclear but we can connote that it is supposed to be like that so that the male well be the only attraction and it looks like he might be somewhere but it doesn't matter where he is because the male looks so focused that nothing else matters its all about him and the skateboard.

The lighting takes a major part in the print and in the pose of the male. All the lighting is on the male and the skateboard. The lighting on the males arm and top of his body has been done exceptionally well, so well that you can see every little detail on his arm and on the top of his body. The lighting well show the audience that this guy is black and he is most probably from a ghetto area and he looks really good wearing this brand, also he is really good at skateboard.

The type of shot that they used really help the framing and composition of this print. These 3 combined into one aspect, making it easier to make this print advert successful. The type of shot is a portrait long shot. This shot was probably taken landscape and then cropped into this portrait. When this was taken and cropped this was then framed with just adding the black background and when was they composed the print advert it was easy to identify where to put the logo, copy, website and strapline.     

The key concepts of the Apple iPhone 5c Promotional video. 

The Apple iPhone 5c promotional video has lots of key concepts and key terminology for me and write about. The reason why Apple has created the iPhone 5c is because for who generally cant afford the iPhone 5 or 5s.

The video has a white background through most of the video which shows that Apple is modern and is the future. The white background also shows that Apple is simple and not complicated and easy to use their products. White also represents positivity, that really help make the brand and the product look good.  The other key concept that they used was the cinematography. Apple used lots of close ups of the iPhone 5c. They used close ups to each detail of the phone. They used powerful and sharp focus on the phone to show every detail. 

 The person that is talking first, is British and his accent makes him sound clever and also he is British and he is from England and England has lots of history. The narrative help the audience understand the value of the phone that Apple are trying promote. The narrative is a good narrative because it shows the audience how the product was made, and it when you see the phone being made it felt like a documentary and when you see a documentary you know it is true so then audience trust what the guys in the video are saying. 

Film Language and genre

Film Language and genre

The trailer i will be analysing will be the very successful Superbad. Superbad is a American comedy film, which was released in 17th of August 2007. The film was directed by Greg Mottola. Mottola is experienced director when it comes to comedy films, He has directed films like Adventureland, Paul and Clear History. The film was written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who started on the script when they were both thirteen years old. By the time they were fifteen they had completed a draft.

What made the trailer very successful and what made people watch it was the awkward moments and when something doesn't go according to plan. People like to see things go wrong because when something goes wrong, its funny or something stupid has caused the error. This is two of the key conventions of comedy.

Another aspect that made the trailer was the soundtrack. The sound was a James Brown funk rock called Superbad. The song was very popular in the 70's. The song had a funk vibe grove that would make anyone moved their head to beat, so it was a perfect song choice. The impact that the song had was that that song was so upbeat and happy that it made have this vibe in everyone who watched. The song matched the pace of the editing which didn't make the trailer weired. The song even gave me so adrenaline after watching the trailer.

                                                                                   

Blog number 1

Blog Number 1

This year I will be doing A-level Media for one of my A-levels. When I was choosing  my A-level choices Media was my first choice alongside media. One of the reasons that choose Media was that I love film making - its my passion. Another reason is that it goes good with my other 2 subjects that i have picked for my A-level, AS Music Tech and AS Drama.

  In A-level I am hoping to develop my filming and analysing skills. To me, filming and analysing are, for me, the most important skills. I really want to do my best this year and come out as an underdog and then next year I will hope fully be the one to beat.