Media 2019/20

Genre - Romance Film - Scott Pilgrim vs The World This film is a romance however if you include sub-genres then it would be classed as an anti-romance film as at the core of the film it is about the character Scott Pilgrim falling in love with the character Ramona Flowers but must fight 7 characters of the film from Ramona's past known as 'the 7 evil ex's' or also known as 'the league of evil ex's'. Throughout the film Scott fights 'the evil ex's' like a video game as it takes many aspects from comic books, arcade games and video game references placed and deliberately put into the film. The film is filled with intellectual puzzles and visceral pleasures, mainly for the audience that would like to play video games and read comic books in their spare time. However it does have basic fundamentals that any viewer would understand. Intellectual puzzles are for the audience that would play games and read comics as it has many references to vide...

Saving Private Ryan Miss-en-Scene 0:04 - The angle of this shot is tilted to the side, this shows the effect of disorientation and discomfort. 0:22 - The camera is free hand or connected to a body rig. Doing this makes the audience feel like a soldier looking over at the other landing crafts, this shows some realism to the shot. 0:29 - We can see a hand shaking. This is showing the audience the characters emotion before we can see what the character looks like. We can clearly see that the character is nervous or anxious. 0:55 - Zooming out from the one character to show several more creates a claustrophobic feeling in the image. 2:00 - Showing us several soldiers been mowed down inside of the landing craft shows the audience the bloodbath of the historical event. The shot also been taken inside of the landing craft makes us feel like a soldier that could be shot and killed at any moment. 2:10 - We can see the Allied troops from the gunner bunkers on the beach...

What is representation? What have meh theorists suggested is important when considering representation? Why is representation such a central key concept in media studies? Represent Present Repeat Chiron-the banner at the bottom of the news The concept of representation applies to everything we see on the screen Walter Lippmann-character typing-using shortcuts in the construction of characters to make meaning such as... Archetype-a familiar character that has emerged from hundred of years of story telling Stereotype-a very shallow representation of a type of person or social group, based on behaviours or appearance A generic type-a character that is common in a genre The male gaze is something that propersized the media industry so everything that is created even by a woman would be through the eyes of a man. Laura Mulvey