In Luther, binary opposition is used to show the power males stereotypically have over females, this is shown when Luther is shown looking down at Alice to represent a sign of power and dominance. Yet through a point of view shot from Luther's perspective shows us how Alice doesn't seem intimidated and she appears to be rather bold. This is unstereotypical as females are generally seen to be weak and need protecting so this means Alice defeats this stereotype.
We are first presented to the characters through shallow focus to tell the audience these two are the main focus in this scene. There also isn't the non-diegetic sound of music until later on in the clip which suggests this is an important conversation and there shouldn't be any distractions. This could also be shown through Luther's actions as when Alice shows signs of affection, he turns away. Stereotypically men use women for sex so here we see a gender reversal as it seems to be Alice who wants it whereas Luther does not. Through the use of turning away this suggests the conversation is important and Luther doesn't want to be distracted by affection from Alice.
Through the use of mise-en-scene, we're shown that Alice appears to be wearing makeup which suggests she wants to look good for Luther. The general representation for women is that they want to look good for their partner as they feel their appearance is more attractive so this shows that Alice wants to attract Luther. Although she fits this stereotype, in her apartment we are shown she has a lot of books which suggests that she is intelligent and would have a wide knowledge. Stereotypically women are seen as dumb and don't undersigned what's going on yet Alice knows exactly what's happening and will talk back to Luther giving her opinion on the situation.
As the conversation between Alice and Luther progresses, the shot-reverse-shots between them gradually get more fast paced which show the rise in tension and how they have to think quicker about their responses. Overall this shows both Luther and Alice fit yet are different for the stereotype of gender as Alice is sexualised and Luther is dominant but Alice seems to be smart yet Luther appears to not respond to her sexualised actions.
Thursday 29 September 2016
Friday 23 September 2016
The Male Gaze- Gansta music video- by Kehlani
The Male Gaze is used in the music video of Gansta by Kehlani which is from the film Suicide Squad and it shows the dominance and power The Joker has over the females. This shows how although it focuses on more females in this music video, the males still seems to have control over them. This could be seen as degrading as the video does present women in a sexual manner but their clothing isn't that inappropriate. But Harley Quinn presents herself in an inappropriate way by doing very sexual dancing such as pole dancing and dancing on The Joker. This demonstrates the sexual relationship between men and women and we can see The Male Gaze being physically used by The Joker. This is degrading as it shows her dancing is the only reason he's communicating with her.
In the music video, we're introduced to Kehlani who is lying on the floor in a suggestive way but is wearing appropriate clothing still and is surrounded by glass and has a baseball bat. This suggests she's trying to present herself in a rebellious way. At 12 seconds, we see a girl hanging upside down in a cage which presents women in a weak way as we see she's in a very bad state. This suggests someone as been very violent and forceful to her to get her into this position. But, the cage is surrounded by barbed wire which could suggest she's either dangerous, smart or powerful which isn't the stereotypical viewpoint of a female.
Kehlani is shown wearing rings which is very typical of a female to be wearing jewellery yet we can see she has tattoos which generally males typically have. At 42 seconds, we're introduced to The Joker and through a over the shoulder shot, we see him touching another females lips in a very suggestive way. It also shows us looking at her in a high angle which suggests the idea that she's weaker than him and he has power over her.
At 1 minute, we are shown a girl in water wearing very suggestive clothing and it suggests she's drowning. This is also shown with red lighting and smoke which is very alluring as red is the colour for love and lust. We're not really shown the girls face which again suggest to the audience the main focus on this girl is her body which again is very degrading.
At 1 minute 12 seconds, The Joker gives a female a very lustful look and as the focus is on the female at the time, she doesn't seem to respond to this and almost appears afraid. Following on from this, The Joker pulls a girl out of a hot liquid at 1 minute 24 seconds which suggests he was trying to drown her. The way he lifts her out of this shows how he has the dominant role in this situation.
We are now shown some very provocative dancing at 1 minute 51 seconds and The Joker makes it very clear he's enjoying it. Following on from this, she physically dances on him in a very sexual manner at 2 minutes 6 seconds but it does appear she has control over what she's doing which shows she wasn't forced. They're surrounded by a big group of people which suggests women are only used for sex and entertainment.
But at 2 minutes 21 seconds, the same girl who was doing provocative dancing is shown wearing lots of clothes and is reading a book. She appears to not be trying to impress anyone which shows she's been de-sexualised which is a large contrast to how she was before.
In the music video, we're introduced to Kehlani who is lying on the floor in a suggestive way but is wearing appropriate clothing still and is surrounded by glass and has a baseball bat. This suggests she's trying to present herself in a rebellious way. At 12 seconds, we see a girl hanging upside down in a cage which presents women in a weak way as we see she's in a very bad state. This suggests someone as been very violent and forceful to her to get her into this position. But, the cage is surrounded by barbed wire which could suggest she's either dangerous, smart or powerful which isn't the stereotypical viewpoint of a female.
Kehlani is shown wearing rings which is very typical of a female to be wearing jewellery yet we can see she has tattoos which generally males typically have. At 42 seconds, we're introduced to The Joker and through a over the shoulder shot, we see him touching another females lips in a very suggestive way. It also shows us looking at her in a high angle which suggests the idea that she's weaker than him and he has power over her.
At 1 minute, we are shown a girl in water wearing very suggestive clothing and it suggests she's drowning. This is also shown with red lighting and smoke which is very alluring as red is the colour for love and lust. We're not really shown the girls face which again suggest to the audience the main focus on this girl is her body which again is very degrading.
At 1 minute 12 seconds, The Joker gives a female a very lustful look and as the focus is on the female at the time, she doesn't seem to respond to this and almost appears afraid. Following on from this, The Joker pulls a girl out of a hot liquid at 1 minute 24 seconds which suggests he was trying to drown her. The way he lifts her out of this shows how he has the dominant role in this situation.
We are now shown some very provocative dancing at 1 minute 51 seconds and The Joker makes it very clear he's enjoying it. Following on from this, she physically dances on him in a very sexual manner at 2 minutes 6 seconds but it does appear she has control over what she's doing which shows she wasn't forced. They're surrounded by a big group of people which suggests women are only used for sex and entertainment.
But at 2 minutes 21 seconds, the same girl who was doing provocative dancing is shown wearing lots of clothes and is reading a book. She appears to not be trying to impress anyone which shows she's been de-sexualised which is a large contrast to how she was before.
Wednesday 21 September 2016
Representation in Our Girl
In the scene cross cutting is used to show show what's happening inside and outside of the ambulance while using fast paced editing to demonstrate how fast the ambulance is moving. This builds tension while the non diegetic sound of music gradually gets louder to show how powerful and tense the situation is. Low angles are used to portray how Georgie is the victim as we are shown a point of view shot of her looking up at the terrorist which shows how he has power over her.
Georgie is presented as the victim by her screaming and being obviously scared of the terrorists as they deliberately intimidate her by threatening her. This is also shown by the terrorists moving Georgie by pulling her by her hair and the audience are shown she gets an injury on her cheek. This stereotypically shows us the power and dominance the male terrorists have over Georgie.
The synchronous sound of gunshots is used while using a cross cut to show the effect the gunshots are having on the soldiers. This continues over a sound bridge while we're shown the point of view shot from the angle of the terrorists to show the injuries they're inflicting. As this is happening, the music gets very loud and over powering which represent how powerful the terrorists are in this situation.
Costume is used to show how the terrorists are hiding their identity which tell us how they understand they're committing a crime yet still continue anyway. Georgie isn't in the general army uniform instead she's in scrubs as she is the doctor on the ambulance which stereotypically shows how the female generally looks after the male. This isn't a very stereotypical outfit to be wearing as it's more practical than fashionable which suggests to the audience she doesn't care about how she looks.
Georgie is presented as the victim by her screaming and being obviously scared of the terrorists as they deliberately intimidate her by threatening her. This is also shown by the terrorists moving Georgie by pulling her by her hair and the audience are shown she gets an injury on her cheek. This stereotypically shows us the power and dominance the male terrorists have over Georgie.
The synchronous sound of gunshots is used while using a cross cut to show the effect the gunshots are having on the soldiers. This continues over a sound bridge while we're shown the point of view shot from the angle of the terrorists to show the injuries they're inflicting. As this is happening, the music gets very loud and over powering which represent how powerful the terrorists are in this situation.
Costume is used to show how the terrorists are hiding their identity which tell us how they understand they're committing a crime yet still continue anyway. Georgie isn't in the general army uniform instead she's in scrubs as she is the doctor on the ambulance which stereotypically shows how the female generally looks after the male. This isn't a very stereotypical outfit to be wearing as it's more practical than fashionable which suggests to the audience she doesn't care about how she looks.
Tuesday 13 September 2016
TV Research Task
1. American Horror Story
This is a horror TV series which is created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The different seasons contain different story lines and the plots generally don't overlap except sometimes showing a character from a past season. Season One is about a murder house which a family move into and lots of different people have been murdered there in the past whereas Season Five is about a freak show which is very similar to a circus and shows people who are slightly abnormal.
This is a horror TV series which is created and produced by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk. The different seasons contain different story lines and the plots generally don't overlap except sometimes showing a character from a past season. Season One is about a murder house which a family move into and lots of different people have been murdered there in the past whereas Season Five is about a freak show which is very similar to a circus and shows people who are slightly abnormal.
2. Vampire Diaries
This is an American supernatural drama television series developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec and is based on a book series which is also called the Vampire Diaries and is written by L. J. Smith. The show is very popular and has won four of the People's Choice Award and numerous Teen Choice Awards. The series follows the lives of two brothers, Damon and Stefan Salvatore, who have been living their lives as vampires for centuries and they try and blend into the normal world every day.
3. Sherlock
This is a British-American crime drama television series based on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. The series is set in the present day and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. It was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
4. Stranger Things
This is a American Supernatural Horror-Sci-Fi TV Series and the plot follows the disappearance of a young boy, and a telekinetic girl who helps his friends in their search, while the boy's mother, older brother and the town police start their own investigations. The show is set in the fictional town of Hawkins, India in the 1980s.
5. Game of Thrones
This is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and D. B. Weiss. It's an adaptation of A Song of Ice and Fire which is George R. R. Martin's series of fantasy novels. It's filmed at Titanic Studios in Belfast and on location somewhere in the United Kingdom, as well as in Croatia, Iceland, Malta, Morocco, Spain, and the United States. It has several plot lines including preparation for the creatures advancing and the winter, a conflict for the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms and people attempting to claim the throne.
6. Orange Is the New Black
This is an American comedy-drama web television series and The series focuses on Piper Chapman (Taylor Schilling), a woman living in New York City and is sentenced to 15 months in Litchfield Penitentiary, a minimum-security women's federal prison and later goes into MCC, a private prison company in New York.
7. The Killing
This is an American crime drama television series that premiered on April 3, 2011 and is based on the Danish television series Forbrydelsen (The Crime). It's set in Seattle, Washington and the series follows the various murder investigations by homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder.
8. The Inbetweeners
The Inbetweeners focuses on Will who has just moved into the area three friends at the fictional Rudge Park Comprehensive. The episodes include situations of school bullying, broken family life, indifferent school staff, male bonding, and failed sexual encounters. It is a British sitcom and was created and written by Damon Beesley and Iain Morris.
9. Our Girl
This is about a girl in the Army who defeats stereotypes by presenting herself as a strong role model and can do anything a man can do. The seasons and episodes involve different situations such as in Season 2 Georgie is captured by terrorists and she has to escape.
10. Doctor Who
This is a fantasy TV Series as it`s about a man who calls himself "The Doctor" who has the ability to travel through space and time. The seasons feature different plots and will change the actor for The Doctor through regeneration due to the length of the show.
Friday 9 September 2016
Representation- UK Tribes
I took a survey on http://www.uktribes.com/uncategorized/find-your-tribe and I found out I was a Townie which means I love hanging out with my friends and going to the pub. I think I belong to this group as I can be very social due to extra curricular activities and I do love going out to meet friends very much. I did this survey around January this year when I had to find out what tribe I was in for my GCSE work and I was a Townie then as well. This shows that my personality has not changed in this space of time.
I don't copy celebrities but there are a few that I relate to in their sense of humour, fashion sense and moral beliefs. An example of this is is is Willow Shields as although I wouldn't say I see myself in her I love her sense of style and I'll sometimes look to buy similar items. I also love Jennifer Lawrence's sense of humour.
I feel that if I do copy celebrities it isn't intentional, for example if I have the same fashion taste as a certain celebrity or like the same song as them. This shows how seeing celebrities on the internet might subconsciously affect our actions which shows the effect media can have on society.
5x5 Activity
Tv Shows
- American Horror Story- This is a horror TV drama which is shown on Netflix and throughout the seasons they contain different story lines. An example is in Season One it was set in a murder house whereas in Season Two was in the asylum.
- Great British Bake Off- This is a realism cooking show that stars normal people and they are judged on their ability to cook.
- Take me Out- This is a realism TV show that could be classed as a romance as the purpose is to match new couples. A single man comes down and talks about himself and if a girl likes him she`ll leave her light on and they`ll go away to get to know each other more.
- I`m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here- A reality TV Series that is a series of challenges for a variety of different celebrities and one celebrity is eliminated every week.
- Stranger Things- A Sci Fi Netflix drama which is about when Will goes missing his mother Joyce launches an investigation involving the local authorities and they involve mysteries including supernatural forces, government experiments and a strange little girl.
- John "Johnny" Depp- Johnny Depp has starred as Sweeney Todd in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber and as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. He is currently 53 years old.
- Evan Peters- Evan Peters is 29 years old and has starred as Tate in the TV Series American Horror Story and he also played as Quicksilver in X-Men: Apocalypse.
- Jennifer Lawrence- Jennifer Lawrence is a 26 year old actress and has starred in the Hunger Games film series as Katniss and as Elissa in House at the End of the Street.
- Leonardo Dicaprio- Leonardo Dicaprio starred as Jack in Titanic and as Hugh Glass in The Revenant. He is currently 41 years old.
- Emma Roberts- Emma Roberts is 25 years old starred as Vee in Nerve, Chanel Oberlin in Scream Queens as as Poppy in Wild Child.
- Jacksepticeye- Sean William McLoughli, better known as Jack, is an Irish gaming youtuber and has 12,086,021 subscribers (data collected on 7/09/16).) He films on his own and with other youtubers such as Pewdiepie, Cinnemontoastken and Markiplier. His channel was created on February 24th 2007 but he started uploading videos from November 12th 2012.
- Pointlessblog- Alfie Deyes has this channel as well as Pointlessblogvlogs and he is best known for his vlogging (video blogging) which he does on a daily basis and uploads the vlog of the day before at 17:00pm each day. On his main channel (Pointlessblog) he uploads a wide variety of content including challenges and random activities and this channel has 5,398,368 (data collected on 7/09/16) subscribers. His vlogging channel (Pointlessblogvlogs) only contains his vlogs and has 3,430,866 (data collected on 7/09/16) subscribers.
- Shane Dawson- Shane Dawson has two channels, Shane and Shane Dawson TV, and Shane is his main channel and he uploads a wide variety of content on both of these. On his channel Shane he has 7,870,745 (data collected 7/09/16) subscribers and on Shane Dawson TV he has 7,683,941 (data collected 7/09/16) subscribers which show they are both very similar amounts.
- Pewdiepie- Felix Kjellberg is a Swedish gaming youtuber but lives in the UK and is one of the most well known you tubers there is and he has a large sum of 47,796,880 (data collected 7/09/16) subscribers. He uploads gaming videos, vlogs and challenges on his channel and he records both on his own and with friends.
- Joey Graceaffa- Joey Graceaffa uploads a wide range of content and he also has two channels but they are both called Joey Graceaffa yet different content is uploaded on each. His main channel has 6,765,371 (data collected 7/09/16) subscribers and he uploads blogs and challenges whereas on his other channel it is mainly gaming and has 1,941,147 (data collected 7/09/16) subscribers.
Films
- Nerve- This is an teen tech-thriller adventure film that is an online game of dares and you have to pay to watch the players but if you are a player and you complete the dare, you win money. This is us following Vee's and Ian's adventure and seeing if wether of them make it to the final and what dares they have to complete on the way.
- Hush- This is a horror film and is about how a deaf women living in a remote area will be able to survive a murderer coming to her house. Due to the lack of one of the senses, she's at a disadvantage so she has to work out a strategy to be able to survive.
- Harry Potter, Prisoner of Azkaban- This is a fantasy thriller that follows Harry Potter and his friends Ron and Hermione and they find out Sirius Black is out of prison who is a possible murderer and he attempts to find Harry, but not for the reason we think.
- The Hunger Games, Catching Fire- This is Katniss' second Hunger Games and it's a quarter quell as it's the 85th Hunger Games so it's a lot more intense. Only one can win but how are they going to let all the other victors they know and love die?
- Sinister- This is a horror film and was directed by Scott Derrickson and is about how a curse follows a family and eventually possesses one of the children to murder their whole family. The family were cursed when a family moved into the house of the last murder and every single time this happened they would find a box of tapes in the attic showing all the past murders of the families.
Songs
- Hallelujah- This is by Panic! At The Disco and it from the album Death Of A Bachelor. I like this song as it has a very upbeat and catchy tune.
- Closer- This is by The Chainsmokers feat Halsey and it`s proven to be a very successful song over the past few weeks as it`s constantly being played on the radio and is currently Number 5 in the UK Hot Songs in the ITunes Store.
- For the First Time- This is by The Script and it`s from the album Science & Faith and I like this song as it has a very powerful message which proves it to be very popular.
- Heathens- This is by Twenty One Pilots and was written for the soundtrack for the film Suicide Squad and that feature has given the song a lot of publicity so is becoming very successful and is promoting the band.
- Standing In The Rain- This is by Action Bronson (with Mark Ronson and Dan Auerbach) and was also written for the soundtrack of Suicide Squad and is part of the Suicide Squad album.
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