Thriller film - MISSING.

Revised location shots.

As we decided to change the location from Prince of wales street to underneath the bridge on prince of wales street near the river, we have taken new location shots to comply with our location in our film.

This is behind the steps where the boy hides, whilst the girl is walking down the steps in the first shot.

These are the steps that the girl walks down in the first shot and feature in the background of some of the following shots.

This is the overall location the line of lamposts along the path provide us with the lighting that we needed and also helped us to have a limited and pastel colour palette within the film.

This is the bridge that the boy and girl walk over just before the boy tried to attack the girl, the bridge reinforces the sense of insecurity on the girls behalf.

The gate that features in a shot in the film, this shows an escape for the girl.

Images by; Lexie Ferguson

Jane Eyre Notes - Construction of class and status.

Mise-en-scene

• The colour red is used connoting; passion, exotic, fairytale or dream like world, intertexual reference to red riding hood.
• Pink glow/filter on Jane; daydream, memory, unrealistic.
• Creative, vivid imagination, looking at books - showing Jane is secluded.
• Red room
• Inferior status - "Jane is the youngest, so they hold an attitude of we dont care about her"
• John Need (Janes cousin) - bully, see his feet first, trying to fins Jane hidden behind a curtain; showing she is not intergrated into the family as he is.
• Status; family portrait, the act of having an artist to paint a family portrait in your home and the costumes connote wealth, jane is not included " shes not part of our family", says one of her cousins - her status is lower than her aunts and cousins.
• Janes mum and dad died, left in care of her auntie and uncle, her uncle died and was therefore left in the care of her auntie who dispises her, she treats Jane as an outsider, her uncle haunts the red room.
• Non ambient- inside scene, candle is used to light a dark outside scene.
• Epidemic ofm typhoid hit the school in reality and is documented in the programme - themes are based on reality within the programme
• Helen- Janes only close friend dies of typoid; preliferites art preiod shown as the background, represents helen as spiritual, angel - is always on Janes mind
• Changes at the house; lighting, ambient, outside
• Non ambient lighting ; chiarascuro
• Music; birds connotes house may be haunted
• Horse; belongs to rochestor refelcts his personality in the way the horse is behaving, violent, passionate, jane is scared of the horse and rochestor; never had a lot to do with men
• Has control of the realtionship; he needs her pychsical support as he has injured himself by falling off his horse.
• Mist; curious, dream like, fantasy, spooky, illusionary, eery
• She had to change her clothes; not good enough for rochestor; status - higher class
• Moral high ground; jane eyre; standing up on stairs - has to walk down the stairs to be at his level although he is has a higher social status thna jane, she has a higher moral status than rochestor.

Editing

• Cuts from Jane to Mr Brokelhurst
• Blue filter - sadness, depression, Brokelhurst ; cold character - represent school as a whole

Sound

• Diegetic and non-diegetic; more realistic and authenticity
• Soundtrack; Fantasy
• Sounds of the jungle; connecting to the book Jane is reading

Camera Shots

• Extreme close up of Jane; connotes vulnerabilty, brings the audience closer to her, feeling sorry for her - high angle shows her inferiority.
• Brokelhurst; school teacher, high status; low angle shots, high angle shot of the children connoting their inferiority and lack of importance
• Panning shot of the graveyard
• Eclipse; cutting to the future Jane is an adult
• Zoom out; gives the audience more information, reveals more characters and objects.
• Establishing shots; desert and young girl; high angle, importance of the girl medium/long shot, wide anlge shot of the girl. Jane has her back to the audinece; hidden identity, turing away from something in a `protest`.
• Pans upto thes sky, gril looks up; dreamworld, daydreaming, fantasising
• Wide angle pan of empty desert state; lonliness, passion and exotic
• Close up of Jane; importance
• Cross disolve; in and out of her dream
• Zoom in and out; breaks distinction between dream and reality.
• Close up fo fight between John and Jane - violence
• Red room- high angle, long shot, connotes her inferioty, vulnerabilty, sslightly tilted/canted anlge, confusion, disorentation.
• Handheld camera; shaky - scared
• Shot reverse shot; high angle of Jane, low angle of aunt, re-enforeces status.
• Rule of thrids- importance of the man and the paintings, status draws attention to himself.
• Eclipse - changing of time - day and night.

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representation of gender in an extract from eastenders.

In the live episode from Eastenders gender is representated through the mise-en-scene, sound, camera shots and editing.

Within the mise-en-scene; Janine, the women who everyone hates is wearing very plain rather masculine casual clothing, which excludes her from everybody else who is wearing smart, formal clothing, this also creates a void between her and all the smartly dresses glamourous wedding guests, her costume also shows how isolated she is. The colours of the costumes also connotes their status as, Peggy; an older women, who runs the pub, is wearing a very glamorous costumewhich is purple, the use of this colour connotes royality and upper class, this also shows the strength of older women in society. The young girl, Lucy is wearing a very revealing top, which represents her as a `sex object` and perhaps shows her inferiority to men; this is particularly apparant when her fathers enemy, Phil acts very violently towards the teenager. Many of the males are wearing suits which are darker colours, which represent them as being smartly dressed, however the use of dark colours represents their true characters and the way they act violently towards women.

The lighting is mainly non-ambient lighting as it is set at night time.

The camera shots that are used show the reactions between characters in conversations. Close up shots are used, however not very frequently they were mainly used to show stacey in a heated argument with her husband, his father and uncle, within the argument two person shots and over the shoulder shots are frequently used, they empahsise the way that Bradley, Max and Jack are crowding around Stacey and being very dominant within the argument. The males body language in this argument is very aggresive and dominant towards the women. The males in the extract are shown as typical white british, working class, males; although they are fairly violent towards the women. As far as the extract goes, all the men are hetrosexual, which represents their macho-like and masculinity.

The sound in the extract is mainly diegetic; in the streets outside scenes; people walking in the street, movements, shutting of doors, at bianca and rickys wedding in the pub the sound also consists of mainly diegetic sounds; movement, dialouge, glasses tapping together, however there is non-diegetic sounds in the background that being music, the non-diegetic soundtrack is particularly apparant in the scene in the pub cellar, where Janine and Peggy are having an argument, the use of putting these two women together for an arugment, creates differences and opposites because of their costumes; being glamourous and unglamourous, and the women being; young and old.

In conclusion, the extract represents gender in a way that men are superior to women, and men act in a violent or portective manner towards women.

Discuss the ways in which media products are distributed to audiences relating to the british film industry.

Media products are produced and distributed in institutions that are related to the audience that predominantly uses the institutions, for example Picturehouse cinemas, predominantly show independent or specialist films, whereas Vue cinema show predominantly mainstream films, they also show a wide variety of films, however picturehouse cinema only show a small selection of films.

Picturehouse and Vue cinemas may both face issues. Picturehouse cinemas may be faced with issues such as; they do not provide enough variety of films which appeal to a wide audience, therefore restricting the amount of people who use the picturehouse cinemas, therefore decreasing the cinemas profits. Picturehouse cinemas, may also face issues regarding the technology and number of screens within the cinema, for example cinema city, a picturehouse cinema in Norwich has three screens, therefore limiting the amount of films that can be shown at one time, however the cinema does have digital technology, which enables the cinema to show more films, because it is cheaper than the previous 35mm film that was used in the cinema and is still used in some cinemas.

Vue cinemas, may also be faced with issues, however picturehouse cinemas, because they are independent are more likely to be faced with more issues than Vue cinemas will be faced with. On the other hand, Vue cinemas may be faced with issues such as; competition between other mainstream cinemas [amount of showing times + their convenience, prices, location], only show mainstream, conventional films, which may not appeal to all of the target audience.

Technology has a vast impact on how media products are produced and distributed, mainly applying to the last ten years, because of the rapid growth and advancements in technology. Technology helps films to be produced and distributed by using the internet, television, mobile phones, mp3s, iPods, social networking sites, film rental, downloading, HD television, Blu-ray, 3D technology and proliferation of technology. These different types of technology allow the audience to be able to watch or download films from a larger variety of sources. The growth of technology, and expansion in the ways that we can watch films, widens the audience for films, however this will also have an effect on the amount of people who go to the cinema to watch a film, because of the growth in technology, therefore decreasing cinemas profits and stopping the cinemas from being able to expand or invest within the existing cinema complex.

Although technology, has had a positive impact of the film industry and helped it to rapidly expand, it has also let piracy happen, because of the technology that is now available, it has allowed people to either record films in the cinema and post it on the internet or record them to DVD, it also allows people to illegally download films from the internet before they have been released on to DVD, technology has also allowed people to burn DVDs for friends and family, which is against copyright laws as you are copying a DVD that you do not have any rights for. Piracy has a large impact on the film industry; it is responsible for loosing £700 million at the box office last year, just because people buy or illegally download films rather than seeing them at the cinema. Technology has a big impact of piracy, because the internet especially is the main source to pirate films. Piracy has an affect on not just cinemas but; the film industry as a whole, actors and actresses, people who work on the sets of films, DVD sales.

Piracy also decreases the amount of jobs in the film industry, which will have the biggest effect on current school and college students and their future careers. Piracy has a huge impact on independent film companies because they do not have large budgets, if their box office and DVD sales decrease, they can not afford to make other films, therefore minimising the independent film industry. It also has an affect on the amount of films that are made, because of the lack of money within the film industry, therefore leading to less producers and consequently a decrease the type and variety of films that are being made. Mainstream film companies are not badly affected by piracy, however independent film companies are, this is not economically viable, therefore creating an imbalance in the British film industry. It also gives audience less choice of films.

The increase in the investment of digital screens within cinemas has enhanced screenings in cinemas and enables cinemas to show a larger variety of films and a larger amount of films, because it is cheaper to show and get hold of digital films, as opposed to 35mm film, which is very expensive to buy. Vue and picturehouse cinemas all have digital screens within their cinemas. Although with the use of digital screens it is cheaper to show films, it also allows cinemas to stream live events from the cinemas such as live concerts and sporting events, it also allows cinemas to invite their audiences to play video games on the big screen, with other players around the world.

Location shots.

These are the location shots from our original storyboard.

This is a shot of the corner of prince of wales road where our thriller is set, the pub in the shot is at the top of the steps that the girl stumbles down in our thriller.

This is a shot of the bridge, overlooking the river and pathway were our thriller is film.

This is another shot of prince of wales road.

This is a shot of the nightclub that the girl has been in, in the original plans we were going to show the scenes in the nightclub.

Location shots by; Lexie Ferguson

Commentary by; Louise McGee

Storyboard.

This is the original storyboard that we created during the planning of our thriller, however in the final product of our thriller, we have changed the shots that we have used, because of the timing of our thriller and the fact that we were only allowed the to have a total time of two minutes of footage, in our final product we cut out the scenes of the girl and her friends, because we did not think these were very important in creating suspense and ambiguity. We also cut the club scene and the kidnapping scene involving the van, because using these we would not be able to adhere to the time limit. So we decided to just use the scenes when the girl is walking home by the river and the boy and girl meet.