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Q1- In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Sinister, isolated and gritty could be the defition of the British Ganster locations; they´re are mainly in Britain,industralized aesthetically so the sense of coldness is immediate to the audience while also reinforces it´s lack of morality.This kind of places exude a loneliness and breakness tone that defines the film to the viewer. Bloodcurling locations help portray the dark nature of the film and help the audience to catalogue the clip.
Since I wanted my thriller transmits this kind of influences, I chose creative Esseb Boys as creative support since all their locations are based on a disturbing and gray Britain that would help to mimic in my film it´s bleak tone.
The protagonist introduces the audience to a desolate city, where apparently no one else inhabits but my protagonist, as we continue to look every step, he never found anyone. This was a personal choice influenced by the bleak atmosphere that give off locations in Essex Boys. My goal was to present the reader with a city stripped of hope at the foot of a destructive reality.I wanted to reflect by abandoned locations of England the emotions of my protagonist, so the viewer understands subjectively the torment of the character.
My Locations are a reflection of the soul of my character and how she sees life. An example clearly influenced by the aesthetics of many urbanized areas in England are brick buildings, They represent the repressed depression in my protagonist which extends throughout the city and converting the buildings into a metaphor of incarceration.
As the protagonist guide the audience on her way to the unknown, we find a location strongly influenced by Essex boys.
This shot uses a combination of cinematic and compotional teachniques as coloring to convey to the audience a sense of bleakness and desolation with links to my thriller and it´s prominent theme of darkness and criminality.
While essex boys used extremely empty scenes to bring the audience the low morality of the characters I have decided to challenge this choice of doing the opposite composition but with the same goal, to transmit to the audience the emotions of my character.
The plane has been maintained and so the same comtemporary style, leaving the great breadth of the scene but from a front angle surprised us with a new view of the city, the absense of buildings used in Essex boys has been replaced by an unusual architectural composition.
Vanishing points are used to draw unconciously the audience´s eye through paralel sharp lines to the horizon to emphaize the atmosphere of emptiness.The localitation used in this shot seems surrounded and sooked in a darkness bleakness tone metaphor for the events that take place within it. This convention also add sense of emprisionment and endlesness making the viewer feels there is no way out in today´s world.
As a first thing to comment, this vast location is completely urbanized and obstructed by buildings, while the Essex boys used a secluded beach where there is nothing but water and land. I interpret these places as facets or levels of morality within oneself. The beach symbolizes a sense of more primary and basic morality than the city desolation. The consciousness of the characters is brutally empty and broken, which explains their reactions and actions, there is no value 'built'.
Compared to the beach, the city is jammed and stuck, there is no space in the empty scene, almost everything is full and busy in a architectural form; not even the sky is easy to spot as it is cut and hidden behind stone buildings.The level of morality of this character is more developed and 'built' as it is located in an urbanized and modern site, as an example of progress and advancement.
But despite this, the atmosphere is cold and uncomforting to the audience as there are too many structures on the scene and gives the feeling of claustrophobia and boxing.
For that reason, the buildings are prisons in a desperate and empty city. My character feels imprisoned and oppressed, has let 'buildings' take in command of her city and form a bridge she takes involuntarily to his fate.The sky behind the buildings symbolizes that the main character seems to loose her concern about freedom and herself.
This shot showcases the use of saturated bleak colours.By taken away the vividness of colur and limiting the amount of colors used, the sense of hope and goddness is also removed ans so the audience again left with an emphaised theme of inmorality.
This shot showcases the use of saturated bleak colours.By taken away the vividness of colur and limiting the amount of colors used, the sense of hope and goddness is also removed ans so the audience again left with an emphaised theme of inmorality.
The metaphor of the bridge is deeply influenced by the film 'The Third Man' because in one scene the protagonist man begins to climb the stairs that lead to his metaphorically end, at the time climbing the stairs his destiny changes and this affects his morality and conscience.
He shares with my protagonist's sense of boxing and it is surrounded by stairs that only lead you to 'one direction'. This convention took me to imitate the same sense of incarceration towards one direction, and I wanted to capture it in a more contemporary way supporting me in colonial architectural figures such as bridges to make clear my objective for the audience.
Both the bars of the stairs as the bridge, preventing the characters fall into the abyss or in this case to freedom. The circusnstancias around the two characters building the road while they themselves inadvertently placed the bars that prevent them from returning to purity, it is an involuntary and ignorant election taking self-destruction when they begin to walk the path of immorality.
The bars of the bridge create a vanishing point that converges off-screen,leading audience,s eye to plunge in to the deeping darkness, giving us a sense of falling that is both visual and moral.
This scene refers specifically to the stairs of 'The Third Man', my character go up the last stretch of the end of the road to meet with the detective who will give her the information whereby a sinister killer finishes her.
Since I had previously changed the metaphor of the stairs on a bridge, I wanted to make a deep influencial bow to this movie using actual stairs.
The stairs are in a way the key feature that foreshadows the terrible end to the audience and connects subjectively the twos sides of moral ambiguity.
The shot of the stairs (picture above)uses conventions of film noir and aspects of media language to construct a sentence of disorientation. An unbalanced shot with the weird title angle makes you focus in the presence of paralels lines and leads the audience´s eye in one direction.This angular technique connotes clear influences of German Expressionism to construct connotations of anxiety and panic.
Furthermore,the low angle and strange composition creates feelings of vertigo. This cinematic distortion created by the composition and the camera angle creates a visual metaphor for moral ambiguity. It viasually represent the moral and cultural anxiety that haunted Europe after WW2 in a more contemporary and soft way,representing the sense of evil and fear that seemed to lie within grandeur.
Following this linear pattern two silhouetted in the sky are two buildings, completely different background as part of this scene.
One of them is located just behind the main character and almost completely covers the entire plane; this building is built by bricks current aesthetic and very urban style. Metaphorically this building symbolizes the contemporary era, the current torments of the life of the character. Its structure is geometric and basic, almost tempting boring.
Left in the corner, next to the brick building is a cathedral of Gothic style that simbolize the past life of the protagonist and her previous fears.
One of the reasons why I decided to include the cathedral was my shot that looked a fairly obvious link between his aquitectonico style and the characteristics of the German Expressionism.Gothic architecture employs well-carved ashlar stone. Its essential elements are the pointed arch and vault, composed of arches that cross diagonally, called nerves, with a central key. It sets an interesting tone between the two builgings reflecting to the audience that this is a different city apart from others in england.
The choice of the cathedral also helps me break the cold aesthetic barrier that I had put in my film, challenging the location of influence in Essex Boys.The presence of this particular building and sinister enigma brings a squared city that apparently already has a past.
Something it has in common the buildings in my trailer and the third man are both effect a potentially aesthetic power over the players. The immensity with the surrounding characters make them a tiny figure compared to the city, this effect can build a metaphor about the fear of the characters. Distortion suffering in their minds and dark thoughts exaggerate reality seeing all too big for them.
In this image, the composition the buildins, the ins and out, suggest to the viewer that the character is in a really confusing maze,In third man use mistering using shadows to cover the doors to make him look lost and disorienteted. This choice makes the audience curious about what entrance is the character going to use or what are behing those doors.
In my case I use clarity and natural light eliminating on purpose any enigmatic feeling about the direction of the character because that wasn't my goal.
I used a grey tone to settle the audience in a bleak mood to make them pay attention to the character and not his surrounders. I putted the audience in a observational position towards the girl, the mystery wasn't going to start yet.
Even if I wanted to imitate in great aspect the feeling of intensity and depth that is achieved in the above photo I could not exactly get my character positioned of the central framework of the rule of thirds.
As you can see it is slightly move to the left of the yellow line while in the third man the main character stays out of the line. With this achievemente i wanted to make my actress isolated and lost,as the city has taken the control of everything, i wanted to make the audience see her as she was out of frame.
This involuntary succes develop how this rule was executed turning my scene focused and centralized creating a sharp direction toward the viewer.
German Expressionism is almost palpable in these pictures ,shadows work as veils to cover the identity of the character, connoting the anxiety and tense representation of an old Europe.
The slightly low angle reflect how the German Expressionism techniques have been used to construct connotations of anxiety and panic. The abscence of horizontal line is unsettling and suggests a disturbed perspective to the viewer
The angular lighting chioscuro constrasting lighting creates a visual metaphor for moral disortion.The bridge builds a darkened vanishing point that increases the feeling of anxiety.
I took inspiration of this shot and I mimic a similar scene of the protagonism character going through and underpass.
There are several obscured vanishing points, high contrast lighting and a character placed slightly off centre which all combine to create a shot that emanates fear.Both shots come before the death of the main character and creates the perfect contract of tension.
My influence in deciding the dress for my characters was based mainly on Film Noir and movies like Essex Boys.
I created a new presentation to a woman femme fatale and turn revoke the stereotype of femininity at was added to women.One of my personal goals was to use her dressing to convey to the audience the emotions of the character. The black dress and stockings refers to the emotional torment that lives inside, in turn, these two items represent the character's failed attempt to seem glamorous and sophisticated.An example of it is the black sweatshirt,which is the piece of the puzzle that does not fit visually with the clothing of the protagonist as it is a sport garment.
The red color is a representation of danger, which took dereference and apply in my thriller using lipstick and red heels as it is also used in films like Sin City.
Following this linear pattern two silhouetted in the sky are two buildings, completely different background as part of this scene.
One of them is located just behind the main character and almost completely covers the entire plane; this building is built by bricks current aesthetic and very urban style. Metaphorically this building symbolizes the contemporary era, the current torments of the life of the character. Its structure is geometric and basic, almost tempting boring.
Left in the corner, next to the brick building is a cathedral of Gothic style that simbolize the past life of the protagonist and her previous fears.One of the reasons why I decided to include the cathedral was my shot that looked a fairly obvious link between his aquitectonico style and the characteristics of the German Expressionism.Gothic architecture employs well-carved ashlar stone. Its essential elements are the pointed arch and vault, composed of arches that cross diagonally, called nerves, with a central key. It sets an interesting tone between the two builgings reflecting to the audience that this is a different city apart from others in england.
The choice of the cathedral also helps me break the cold aesthetic barrier that I had put in my film, challenging the location of influence in Essex Boys.The presence of this particular building and sinister enigma brings a squared city that apparently already has a past.
Something it has in common the buildings in my trailer and the third man are both effect a potentially aesthetic power over the players. The immensity with the surrounding characters make them a tiny figure compared to the city, this effect can build a metaphor about the fear of the characters. Distortion suffering in their minds and dark thoughts exaggerate reality seeing all too big for them.
In this image, the composition the buildins, the ins and out, suggest to the viewer that the character is in a really confusing maze,In third man use mistering using shadows to cover the doors to make him look lost and disorienteted. This choice makes the audience curious about what entrance is the character going to use or what are behing those doors.In my case I use clarity and natural light eliminating on purpose any enigmatic feeling about the direction of the character because that wasn't my goal.
I used a grey tone to settle the audience in a bleak mood to make them pay attention to the character and not his surrounders. I putted the audience in a observational position towards the girl, the mystery wasn't going to start yet.
Even if I wanted to imitate in great aspect the feeling of intensity and depth that is achieved in the above photo I could not exactly get my character positioned of the central framework of the rule of thirds.
As you can see it is slightly move to the left of the yellow line while in the third man the main character stays out of the line. With this achievemente i wanted to make my actress isolated and lost,as the city has taken the control of everything, i wanted to make the audience see her as she was out of frame.
This involuntary succes develop how this rule was executed turning my scene focused and centralized creating a sharp direction toward the viewer.
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The angular lighting chioscuro constrasting lighting creates a visual metaphor for moral disortion.The bridge builds a darkened vanishing point that increases the feeling of anxiety.
I took inspiration of this shot and I mimic a similar scene of the protagonism character going through and underpass.
There are several obscured vanishing points, high contrast lighting and a character placed slightly off centre which all combine to create a shot that emanates fear.Both shots come before the death of the main character and creates the perfect contract of tension.
For my main character´s clothing I challenged stereotypes used in Film Noir against women; in all the films of this style they are completely sexualized women by their clothing as apparently was the only way to represent a femme fatale.Prominent tight dresses and necklines are replaced by a more conservative tight black dress, black stockings, a red heels, a sweatshirt and a tousled bun.
I created a new presentation to a woman femme fatale and turn revoke the stereotype of femininity at was added to women.One of my personal goals was to use her dressing to convey to the audience the emotions of the character. The black dress and stockings refers to the emotional torment that lives inside, in turn, these two items represent the character's failed attempt to seem glamorous and sophisticated.An example of it is the black sweatshirt,which is the piece of the puzzle that does not fit visually with the clothing of the protagonist as it is a sport garment.viernes, 15 de abril de 2016
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