Media Evaluation Question 2
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LOCATIONS/ LIGHTING
We associated out OTS with various outside
locations:
- By the river
- Forest/ woods
- Field/ grass area
- Pathway
These locations are seen as mysterious places. The river and
forest locations are associated with a dark, murky atmosphere,
meaning that very few women would typically go there by
themselves, because of the dangers of being ‘raped’ or ‘murdered’
which is the typical story line to these locations. The darkness
represents solitude and isolation. But it’s the fear of being alone
and having someone creep up on you that you need to be scared
of. Darkness also is the sign of evil and villian’s (the dark side),
meaning that evil is everywhere. Our OTS breaks social grouping
as the femme fatale is walking round all these locations by herself,
proving that despite all the controversy, this female does not need
a male to look after her. All the outside locations represent
someone who travels around, and is fast paced and is no stranger
to danger.
The indoor locations (office/workplace) is seen as a place to retreat with
the plain white walls. The strong lighting, bounces off the objects, casting
a shadow on the wall. Shadows create a mysterious, forbidden ambiance;
not the retreat you were looking for and intrigues the audience. Lightness
represents the anti-hero, who (if sticking to normal film noir conventions)
concurs evil. We filmed all the outside locations during the day, using
nothing but natural light. This shows that our femme fatale isn’t afraid to
be seen, which shows she isn’t getting up to no good, unlike the
traditional film noirs. This neo noir twist appeals to more of a modern,
younger audience; not your typical audience associated with film noir.
SCHEDULING/EXHIBITION
The violence/death/crime within film noir means that our OTS would have to be
show to an older audience because of the adult themes. This means it would
probably be screened in cinema’s as a 12 because there isn’t too much
blood/gore, but there may be some violence and references to drugs and sex. If
our OTS was shown on TV, it would have to be a late night film, or at least after
watershed because of the content. The audience who watch it would have to be
quite intelligent and knowledgeable to be able to follow the story line, so this also
attracts the older generation to watch our film. This also targets our film at an
older audience. However the neo noir elements involved appeal to a younger
audience ( mid-teens/ late teens), so it appeals to both the traditional older
audiences as well as the younger action adventure seekers.
MISE-EN-SCENE/PROPS
The iconography within (alcohol, guns, matches) relate to the
time period our OTS was set in. Budweiser is normally associated
as being an ‘older mans’ choice of drink, and the other
iconography would attract the older generation as they can relate
to the props and can understand the time period, so would be
quite intelligent. The red elements on our femme fatale (lips,
heels, nails) are used for seduction to both the male characters
with in the film, but to also attract male audience members
because of the attractive young girl playing the femme fatale.
SEMIOTIC REPRESENTATION: SOUND/SYMBOLS/ICONS
For modern twist in the typical jazz music we stripped it back to the
keyboard. As the story builds up, the music does too. We done this by changing
the music this allowed the characters to grow. Traditional jazz musicians
would be interested to see how we have put a modern twist on jazz to bring in
a younger audience. Modern, contemporary music appeals to a modern
audience. The empty bottle in our OTS represents alcoholism and how it can
leave you feeling empty and make a character seem depressed and
unsatisfied, so goes searching for something more. At the end of our OTS the
music stops over the last frame. The silence leaves the audience wondering
what’s going to happen next. Adding a surprise shock there is a sudden crash,
which makes the audience jump, adding mischief to hook the harder to please
younger audience.
AUDIENCE THEORY
The audience must be educated enough to piece together a mystery
puzzle as there is no dialogue in the opening sequence and all is
revealed through iconography and camera work. The audience
follow where the camera takes them. They want to be taken on a
journey. We know at the beginning that the femme fatale ‘drowns’
but is not dead. This leaves the audience to wonder how it happened,
why it happened and who done it. This type of genre usually attracts
middle age males, however because of the female lead, more females
will be interested to see it.
CHARACTER REPRESENTATIONS
The modern twist of a female lead will attract females to
watch the film, but also the young men will be enticed by her
looks. The pretty femme fatale is a strong, seductive
character with manipulative charms to seduce the men. Her
job as a crime reporter shows us she is well educated for a
woman of her time period; almost a younger Miss Marple.
Her intellectuality tells us that she is middle - high class,
therefore (if following the traditional crime drama narrative)
will be involved with the crime, and her family may get
involved.
CAMERA TECHNIQUES
Framing is used to highlight the clues that are uneducated
so they can follow the story. This is also a way of controlling
the audience and making them see what you want them to
see; bringing the audiences focus onto something important,
allowing them to try and link things together. Pan’s of long
scenery shots are conventions of a traditional crime drama
like Miss Marple, so the older women who watched Miss
Marple would be interested in our film. The low angles
shows the femme fatales high status due to her educational
background .
NARRATIVE THEORYIn our OTS we have a plot of a fake death. This is a twist in the typical
traditional crime narratives. This means that the audience have to be
educated to understand the story. We have the traditional characters in the
film: femme fatale, villain etc.. But the twist with the fake death gives the
narrative a more interesting, adventure, mysterious like plot to the story
meaning it will interest the action adventure modern audiences are drawn to.
For our narrative we revealed that our femme fatale drowns, and the whole
film is a flash back telling the story about why it happened and why the
females eyes open at the end. This twist in the opening sequence hooks the
audience in and leaves them asking questions that they want to be answered.
TRANSITIONSThroughout our OTS we stuck to the same transitions. We
used cross-dissolve to link our frames together. This
transition slowly overlaps so as one from fades out, the
other starts to play over the top. The transition has quite an
old fashioned look and feel, and will attract an audience
who used to watch black and white films, with basic
transitions. We used a cross dissolve for linking two scenery
shots. This is what used to happen in old fashioned crime
drama’s, giving some audience members a sense of
nostalgia.