We have Filmed!

We have began filming! We have done our video blog and done the scene where Edie is being filmed by Andy. After experimenting with the camera a little to get a feel for it, I showed Shelley as she wasn't sure about everything. We used a variety of shots such as high angle, mid shots, long shots and Shelley attempted to track and pan but they may be shaky and unusable but we will see!

Animatic

This is our animatic. We added come of our song and titles!

Going To Film

Tomorrow we are going to film ourselves talking about our plans! Can't wait! We have many ideas we can use to make it as interesting as possible without getting too boring!

Digipak-Ideas

I have already done an example of a cover that we are not going to use but was a good insight to some ideas. We won't use that picture because it was too big and the writing looked out of place over my face.

Definition: Digipak is a patented style of compact disc or DVD packaging.

Other ideas for front cover:

This would be a great idea to use this kind of cover, it shows the many faces of Edie.

I love this photo of Edie! It shows her happy but at the same time, killing herself slowly, which explains her very well.

Ideas for inside the pack:

As Bob Dylan was an singer, he had his own albums. This is very useful because we can get some ideas to his taste and apply it too our digipak to make it look as though it is really his. He has some simple pictures but made them abstract, this will be fun because we can experiment with the pack in so many ways.

I like this idea also because it is in the same style as some of Edies photos and it shows his emotions well.

Me and Shelley both like this picture as it shows his passion for music but also the pain he has for losing Edie. Its simple but great!




For the middle panel we could use the a love triangle shot like this:

The final panel should be Andy Warhol. There arn't many photos of him to immitate but this photo is great to copy anyway!

Gary Roberts

We have our song!!! Today Gary sent the song so now we can get to filming. As my boyfriend will be playing Bob Dylan he needs to learn the words and now he can as he can put it on his iPod and practice alot more.

Gary has recoreded it in a studio and smartened it up abit and its absolutly brillient!

Audiences and Audience Theory

-Suture
-Feminist film theory and audiences

Suture
-Classical Hollywood narrative and editing "sutures" or positions the audience in certain ways making only one preferred reading possible, however unconscious the audience is of that position.

Feminist Film Theory and Audiences
-Laura Mulvey
-Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975)

-Cinema reflects society
-Therefore cinema reflects a patriarchal society
-How does a patriarchal society manifest itself in cinema?

e.g.
-Patriarchy and phallocentrism are linked
-The phallus is the symbol of power
-Note how guns are used in films
-Guns = phallus = power

-The male mid-life crisis and phallocentrism
-The E-type Jaguar

The Gaze
-The "gaze" of the camera is the male "gaze"
-The male gaze is active, the female passive
-Within the narrative male characters direct their gaze towards female characters
-The spectator is made to identify with the male look, because the camera films from the optical, as well as libidinal, point of view of the male character
-Thus three levels of the cinematic gaze- camera, character and spectator- that objectify the female character (the triple gaze)
-Therefore the audience is constructed as though everyone was male
-Women are focused to look as though they were a male audience member

Agency
-In the classical Hollywood cinema the male protagonist has agency- he is active and powerful
-He is the agent around whom the dramatic action unfolds
- The female character is passive and powerless she is the object of desire for protagonist and audience

Erotic Desire
-Mulvey argues that women have roles in film:

1. As an object of erotic desire for the characters
2. As an object of erotic desire for the audience

Gary Roberts

Gary emailed me today:

I replyed:

CD Cover Idea

I thought I'd experiment with making a CD cover. I took the idea from The Cult's CD cover.

The 3rd and 4th of November, I was off school due to food poisoning =(.
When I get the notes from class I will post them. In the mean time I will do some more research.