Evaulation Question 2

Logo development and creation

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Evaulation Question 1

In what ways does your media product use, develop or challenge forms and conventions of real media products?
Our film product uses many of the forms and conventions that are portrayed in numerous film noir detective films. We have stereotypically used a lone detective to show our audience that we are using the main codes and conventions of film noir but expanding on them with our own interpretations to represent a modern society, for example; The detective represents a lone detective, whom has great experience and knowledge in crime. As well as solving big murders and crimes, they have their own problems to sort, however putting our own twist on the character led us to changing several main roles in the film from male to female to represent the change in gender and roles. Finally the Detective's partner is played by a male actor to suggest woman are gradually becoming the more dominent character and are able to gain the better jobs, this is also backed up with our main major character being female; 'Marilyn'

 All of the following film noir posters present the female character in the centre frame, either showing that she is main protagonist or antagonist. We felt that with this being a re-occuring theme we should stick to it with our films poster so that follows all of the film noirs codes and conventions. Making it more realistic and indicating a mysterious storyline as we have no actual knowledge of who the character shown is or her past.

 Our final poster, as you can see we have modernised and developed our poster further by adding the typical director infromation in a slim and tall font across the photo and including ratings and verdicts from film magazines in the top left and right hand corners. Also the age certificate and the photoshoped production logo inidicates it is a modern day film, as this software wouldn't have been accesible for 1940s film production teams.

Filming issues

We have encountered many problems whilst filming our media project. This has slowed down the process of creating our film, however we have tried to resolve the situations in numerous ways so that our film is as successfull as we have hoped it would be.

• Actors; Our original actors were unable to film when we needed them to due to outside plans and because of this we had to find new actors to take part in our film. Luckily we managed to resolve this but it has made the process of our film slower than expected.
• Locations; We have encountered a few problems when wanting to film outside after college because of the heavy rush hour traffic and with our film being set in the 1940s it would not be ideal to see a modern car in the background. To work around this we have changed our busier locations for quiter ones that wont be as busy and industrial.
• Times; With our film being set during both night and day we have had to put together a filming schedule so that we are aware of when it is we are filming and where so not to fall behind when it comes to editing our film.

Filming pictures

Above is a selection of stills from our film 'Marilyn'

My groups filming timetable

We have put together a timetable so that we can plan when we are able to film, create our poster and blog. This will help orgainise the making of our film efficiently so that we dont fall behind when it comes down to editing.

Ideology

What is ideology?

'Ideology' refers to a system of belief that is constructed and presented by a media text. The media can construct our views of our society and our attitudes towards society. A newspaper will usually have an explicit political ideology, but have an implicit ideology as well.

Identifying ideologyIdeologies are promoted in many ways e.g women are portrayed in films as sexy and emotional when it comes to men whereas in magazines they are portrayed as the perfect woman with the 'ideal' lifestyle that most readers aspire to. This 'ideal' is directly linked to the dominent ideologies in society. Consider the text in relation to the ideologies underpinning the text;
- Are they explicit or implicit?
- How does the text employ dominent ideologies?
- What ideological assumptions are made in the text?
- Are these ideologies cultured, institutional or both?
- Do the ideologies reflect the type of  text?

Cast and costumes

Camera man and Director; Tom

No costume needed apart from casual clothing that is easy to move around in.

Marilyn; Played by me (Kirsty)

Dressed in a black 1950's style dress, to match with the genre and era of the film. Also dressed in a fur coat, black heels and white pearls to show she is elegant and extremely wealthy. To symbolise she is a woman of passion we have added red lipstick to the costume, it is also symbolises the blood of her husband, whom she murders. Putting her in a black costume shows she is mounring for her husband after his death but also hides the fact she killed him herself, as the style of the dress emphasises elegance.

Policewoman; Played by Sophie

Dressed in the stereotypical police uniform colours of black and white, to show she is a part of the profession. Casually dressed as they would have been in the 1950's, still need to create a badge and hat to make the costume more realistic to the audience. Hair is tyed back as she would have needed to blend in with the male workers.

Detective and Partner; Played by Zoe and Ryan

Detective: In smart 3/4 jeans with tailored cream coat. Suggests power and feminism. Not one to dress like a stereotypical 1940s lady. Tweed bakers hat, typical popular pattern of the era.

Partner: Long sleeved white shirt with black trousers; simple and sophisticated. With black tweed hat to inidcate his occupation as many detectives would wear hats in the 40s.

Police officer; Played by Sam Sorrell

Decided to keep the costume simple using the stereotypical colours associated with police uniforms, this was used to keep costs to a minimum. However in the 1940s they would have not been as strict on uniform as they relied on detectives rather than groups of policemen to solve crimes, therefore they weren't as important.

Film Noir Posters

This poster is for the film 'This Gun For Hire'. The woman is the main focul point of the design to show she is closely related to the detective below, as she is looking down towards him with a smouldering look. She is also shown wearing lipstick to indicate that she is romantically linked to the male character. The fact that the male is holding a gun symbolises the title of the film 'This Gun For Hire' and also shows he is the protagonoist trying to save the community and his blonde beauty.

This is a poster for the hit film 'Laura'. We are instantly introduced to Laura being the strong female character as she is placed centre of attention with her arms dominently folded, wearing a bright scarlett coloured dress. The colour choice could symbolise her being a mysterious character, because red often resembles blood and death and can also indicate love and romance. The smaller picture below gives us a short  snippet of Laura manipulating and playing games with two men, this is obvious by her positioning being a lot higher and with her looking straight into his eyes. The antagonist of the film is clearly shown on the right hand side as he is placed in the darkness with lot of shadowing, holding a gun towards Laura.