In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
The notebook is deemed to be the most romantic movie ever. Well according to critics that is. I took the idea around when 'Harry met Sally' and 'The Notebook' to start off the first scene off the the music video. We then gave it a U-turn into a much darker 'Girl, Interrupted' feel with the theme of teen suicide. Its not the happiest of themes, yet we managed to develop a sudden change of genre and theme around the video. This is a mass develop of current media products as not many media texts drastically change genre. This is not to say that none do, as many major movies change pace halfway through, With such movies being 'Hot Fuzz' and Danny Boyle's 'Sunshine' both have a drastic change of pace in their screen time. However both 'The Notebook' and the themes from 'Girl, Interrupted' were influential. You could also argue that this could be a form of use.
Like most people my age, I have jumped on the non-stop 'Breaking Bad' bandwagon. And why not, Its dramatic, well shot and great AMC TV. Though there is one eye catching feature on this hit TV series. The ever so famous time-lapse. This occurs in most episodes. with view of the New Mexico outback. This inspired me to create on of my own and develop it to my own techniques. Unlike 'Breaking Bad' my time-lapse has a significance to the audience. As this is where it all goes wrong. I know that the time lapse has been around longer than this show, dating back to the 1880's. Yet this is the show that inspired me to use this and develop it to my own use in my video.
Challenge
An element that shows the speeding of time is the very famous 'Time-lapse' this says a lot more than is originally puts out. This is the period in which the whole cutest happy relationship turns a lot more sour then leads to the inevitable end. There was scene that was an original idea that we left out. That the girl moved on very quickly and walking past the boy, with her new boyfriend would lead him to his contemplation of the end. But instead using the genres idea of interpretation I wanted to leave that out so the viewer can question why he took it so hard.
I also took into consideration the Effect theory. which is what people do with this piece of media. I hope that people use it to realise that they aren't alone. Yet it can be misconstrued as an idea for the contemplating. The idea is risky and for the people contemplating it, it can go either of ways. Media is a risky thing, its about how you use it as, according to the effect theory it can manipulate people. We challenge the gender representation in the media. In a standard relationship, the woman is always perceived to care most about it, while the man is happy to be in the relationship or not, the man is always the more dominant and effects the woman emotionally a lot more than the other way around. In our media text we perceive this to be the other way around, as the woman's action clearly emotionally scar the male. This is mentioned in Winship's "Gender Complicity Theory", this states that females see themselves in the image which the masculine culture has defined.
Something we definitely challenged is the Romantic movie/ romance movie. As when a couple are together and they break up. The woman/man goes back to fight for them. Instead thats not real, Thats an exaggerated interpretation of a relationship. We turned that on it head with this and made it an over exaggerated version the other way around. As they do not fight for each other, one just gives up. I would only consider this as the video takes a very dramatic turn. As the start does not suggest the end at all.
USE
The song we chose is an experimental genre. Ambient rock, the story is not bound by a linear story line set out by what the band want you too feel. Ambient rock, such as classical it set out to people who want to listen to music to feel something and forget their troubles, rather than have people tell them what to feel. As with vocals you need to find something that directly links to the way you feel. With a love affair its not hard as most songs tend to about that. Yet if you have a more free thought issue its better to turn to vocal less songs to help you through. While the piece of music we used has no lyrics, we tried our best to use a story line that appears that it is set in stone with the events, yet in retrospect is subtly open to interpretation. We have both shown images of romance and depression. When the story looks happy its when the music is a bit more up tempo. Whilst the scenes of depression and suicide are when the music is more lower tempo. I believe that it fits very well with the tempo as they are the parts of music that relate to it. Again bringing in the theory of binary opposition, as romance is in my mind and I'm assuming others as closely linked to depression as insanity is to genius. Romance is an example of true happiness (as long as it is with the right person) and depression is an example of true sadness. Which I displayed in a pretty obvious way.
This is a picture of when Harry met sally. I really love this movie, and I am particaurly fond of the characters in this movie. Especially Harry and Sally. I wanted to have the same romance between my characters and this movies. Now obviously i couldn't bring the same amount of character development within the first minute as within a 2 hour movie yet it was influential for me.
Develop
The most experimental thing I believe in my opinion is the sudden U-bend that is made in the guys life. At the start with the woman it is shown that it looks like nothing can go wrong. Then suddenly in ends and it leads the the broken man you see at the end. If you refer back to my example music videos. You can see that in all three it follows one kind of theme, it starts with a depressing theme and ends with it, It is shown as more of a coping mechanism behind the characters in which you may be able to use in real life circumstances. Where as in my video I didn't follow that convention at all. As depressing as it seems i wanted to sway from that 'there's a light at the end of the tunnel theme' and focus on the fact that some people don't make it. Its a kind of awareness video rather than anything else.
The song we chose is an experimental genre. Ambient rock, the story is not bound by a linear story line set out by what the band want you too feel. Ambient rock, such as classical it set out to people who want to listen to music to feel something and forget their troubles, rather than have people tell them what to feel. As with vocals you need to find something that directly links to the way you feel. With a love affair its not hard as most songs tend to about that. Yet if you have a more free thought issue its better to turn to vocal less songs to help you through. While the piece of music we used has no lyrics, we tried our best to use a story line that appears that it is set in stone with the events, yet in retrospect is subtly open to interpretation. We have both shown images of romance and depression. When the story looks happy its when the music is a bit more up tempo. Whilst the scenes of depression and suicide are when the music is more lower tempo. I believe that it fits very well with the tempo as they are the parts of music that relate to it. Again bringing in the theory of binary opposition, as romance is in my mind and I'm assuming others as closely linked to depression as insanity is to genius. Romance is an example of true happiness (as long as it is with the right person) and depression is an example of true sadness. Which I displayed in a pretty obvious way.
This is a picture of when Harry met sally. I really love this movie, and I am particaurly fond of the characters in this movie. Especially Harry and Sally. I wanted to have the same romance between my characters and this movies. Now obviously i couldn't bring the same amount of character development within the first minute as within a 2 hour movie yet it was influential for me.
Develop
The most experimental thing I believe in my opinion is the sudden U-bend that is made in the guys life. At the start with the woman it is shown that it looks like nothing can go wrong. Then suddenly in ends and it leads the the broken man you see at the end. If you refer back to my example music videos. You can see that in all three it follows one kind of theme, it starts with a depressing theme and ends with it, It is shown as more of a coping mechanism behind the characters in which you may be able to use in real life circumstances. Where as in my video I didn't follow that convention at all. As depressing as it seems i wanted to sway from that 'there's a light at the end of the tunnel theme' and focus on the fact that some people don't make it. Its a kind of awareness video rather than anything else.
The notebook is deemed to be the most romantic movie ever. Well according to critics that is. I took the idea around when 'Harry met Sally' and 'The Notebook' to start off the first scene off the the music video. We then gave it a U-turn into a much darker 'Girl, Interrupted' feel with the theme of teen suicide. Its not the happiest of themes, yet we managed to develop a sudden change of genre and theme around the video. This is a mass develop of current media products as not many media texts drastically change genre. This is not to say that none do, as many major movies change pace halfway through, With such movies being 'Hot Fuzz' and Danny Boyle's 'Sunshine' both have a drastic change of pace in their screen time. However both 'The Notebook' and the themes from 'Girl, Interrupted' were influential. You could also argue that this could be a form of use.
Like most people my age, I have jumped on the non-stop 'Breaking Bad' bandwagon. And why not, Its dramatic, well shot and great AMC TV. Though there is one eye catching feature on this hit TV series. The ever so famous time-lapse. This occurs in most episodes. with view of the New Mexico outback. This inspired me to create on of my own and develop it to my own techniques. Unlike 'Breaking Bad' my time-lapse has a significance to the audience. As this is where it all goes wrong. I know that the time lapse has been around longer than this show, dating back to the 1880's. Yet this is the show that inspired me to use this and develop it to my own use in my video. Challenge
An element that shows the speeding of time is the very famous 'Time-lapse' this says a lot more than is originally puts out. This is the period in which the whole cutest happy relationship turns a lot more sour then leads to the inevitable end. There was scene that was an original idea that we left out. That the girl moved on very quickly and walking past the boy, with her new boyfriend would lead him to his contemplation of the end. But instead using the genres idea of interpretation I wanted to leave that out so the viewer can question why he took it so hard.
I also took into consideration the Effect theory. which is what people do with this piece of media. I hope that people use it to realise that they aren't alone. Yet it can be misconstrued as an idea for the contemplating. The idea is risky and for the people contemplating it, it can go either of ways. Media is a risky thing, its about how you use it as, according to the effect theory it can manipulate people. We challenge the gender representation in the media. In a standard relationship, the woman is always perceived to care most about it, while the man is happy to be in the relationship or not, the man is always the more dominant and effects the woman emotionally a lot more than the other way around. In our media text we perceive this to be the other way around, as the woman's action clearly emotionally scar the male. This is mentioned in Winship's "Gender Complicity Theory", this states that females see themselves in the image which the masculine culture has defined.
Something we definitely challenged is the Romantic movie/ romance movie. As when a couple are together and they break up. The woman/man goes back to fight for them. Instead thats not real, Thats an exaggerated interpretation of a relationship. We turned that on it head with this and made it an over exaggerated version the other way around. As they do not fight for each other, one just gives up. I would only consider this as the video takes a very dramatic turn. As the start does not suggest the end at all.
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