Stereotypes

Narratives using theorys

Vladimir Propp - The seven spheres of action

The villain: Ronald, the princess’s evil half-brother

The donor: Jim, gives the hero a sword in his time of need for the battle

The helper: Herbert, helps Andrew defeat Ronald in the battle

The princess: Rosetta, is in danger when her half-brother returns

The dispatcher: Anita, informs Andrew that Ronald has returned to the Kingdom, he must save them all

The hero: Andrew, saves the Kingdom and restores peace



Roland Barthes-

Enigma/Hermeneutic codes: We find out during the climax of the narrative that Ronald is evil.     Therefore throughout the story mystery and suspense is built.

Action codes: When Ronald pulls out his sword, the audience know that a battle is about to take place.

Multi strand narrative: It is not a multi strand narrative as there is only one plot built up in a single episode.

Linear pattern: The story follows a chronological order, beginning, climax and end (resolution).

Tzvetan Todorov-

Equilibrium: The narrative begins with an existing state of harmony where Rosetta is looking forward to her birthday and her half-brother visiting her.

Disequilibrium: Rosetta finds out why her brother left the kingdom, he was evil and tried to kill her father in order to gain status and become the King. A dual takes place between Ronald and Andrew the brave knight, when the Kingdom find that he has returned.

New Equilibrium: Ronald is defeated and never again returns to the Kingdom to cause harm, the Kingdom live in harmony and peace is restored.

parallel and contrapuntal sound- Indiana Jones

Feedback from Mr Halsey-

What went well ?

• Brilliant choice of music.  
• contrapuntal images were consistent until the sixth image .
• parallel images very movie driven , fits the cinematic feel , adventure genre.

Even better if?

• proof reading.
• image of brides maid stood out and pictures are no longer consistent
• did images need titles as audience should be able to establish what's contrapuntal and what's parallel.

My feedback-

• I have used a continuous theme throughout the video and should have kept it the same I changed the images as I felt that I should allow my audience to understand that there is a range of images that could have had a contrapuntal effect and not just horror. In the future if I were to re-do this task I would make images consistent and also remove the titles at the bottom of the screen so the audience have a chance to establish what is what.       

Analysing TV episodes using theory's

Analysing- the Simpsons season 6 episode 1

Roland Barthes-

Enigma/Hermeneutic codes: Bart see’s ned burying something and we hear screaming however we don’t see what was buried which keep the audience in the dark about what has happened or happened.

Action codes: the Simpsons getting a pool is an example of an action code another example of an action code is when Bart breaks his leg.

Multi strand narrative series: the episode does contain multi strand narratives as there are many problems such as it’s very hot and they had a pool temporarily and then after wanted to get one for the back garden.

Linear or Non-linear pattern: linear the episode follows an A-B style narrative as it is in chronological order. Saying what happens in steps of taking place e.g. it was very hot, so they got a pool, Bart tried to show off and broke his leg, this is a basic example to show linear narratives.

Tavian Tomorrow-

Equilibrium: everyone is happy but the weather is very hot.

Disequilibrium: it’s very hot so the Simpsons have decided to get a pool however Bart tries to show and so he breaks his leg which means that throughout the hot summer he was not able to go swimming but was in him room forgotten by his friends and family who were enjoying the pool while we watched using binoculars.

New Equilibrium: Bart confront Ned about what had happened and asks about what he berried in the garden which lead to Ned admitting what he had done and everybody is that happy and balance is when restored again. 

Vladimir Prop - The seven spheres of action

The villain: nelson can be considered the hero as he made Bart look at thing which made him fall and break his leg.

The donor: Lisa gives Bart a telescope

The helper: Lisa also helps in

The princess: Ned’s wife is the person who needed to be saved

The dispatcher: Bart set Lisa to go find out more information.

The hero: the hero is Bart although Lisa was the dispatcher Bart had to try to save Lisa but found the truth out when he helped her

Film noir

Research on film noir

Film noir consists of dark, moody and dramatic cinematography, the genre of film noir instantly conjures cinematic scenes in your mind of New York detectives.Film noir is from the French word "noir" translates to "black" or "dark," and film noir describes a style of film making rather than an actual film genre. At the heart of film noir is a dramatic story, often filled with crime and sexual scenarios. The lighting is sometimes either stark dark or light contrasts as are the dramatic shadowing effects known also as the chiaroscuro style; Chiaroscuro is a style of light and dark. One typical cliché and always notable scene type is the shadows of characters. an example

The poster of sin city is a very good example of film noir it uses a contrast of dark and light to show the genre of the film, the dark shadows used help the audience assume that there is danger and mystery however the white and lighter areas suggests that there is hope. the film poster has powers boothe as the in the central showing him as the main focus also his face consists of many plasters which suggests violence due to the use of plasters also it allows the audience to then assume that it is a typical genre of film noir which is crime. the light helps to give clues of many aspects such as where the film is set in the back a filler top light may have been used to show the setting as light on the apartment is added in order to show a suggestion of where it the film is set, also the tiles of the film "Sin City" helps us to understand that the film could perhaps also be set on in the city.

The trailer of the film uses lots of light and dark scenes in order to continue with the film noir, at 15.5 second of the trailer the scene is dark and is then lit up by the sirens and headlight of police cars tho allows the audience to identify the genre which is crime. Throughout the trailer many scenes of the characters are shown as still images showing a black and light grey outline of the character face along side the name which continues the theme of film noir but also tell the audience who and what the film will be about. at 48 seconds a scene of a man with long hair is used the left hand side of his face is lit up and the right hand side is left with a more natural form of light  which could be either created by the moon or recreated using stage lighting , also the left hand side of the face gets lighter due to the thunder and lighting used which makes the audience feel that there is danger but also some form of evil in the film as lighting can connote danger, pain and evil. The trailer uses a range of shots in order to portray different views and ideas of the character to the audience.

Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall

Stuart hall(1980) he discovered the theory of encoding and decoding , his theory is different from althusser in emphasizing more scope for diversity of response to media text.Halls argued that the dominant ideology is typically inscribed as the preferred reading in a media text. however this is not easily adopted by all readers ,some readers only take in what they see and not break down the image to understand any other meanings but the one shown by the news paper. dominant reading is what the creator intends for the audience to believe, the negotiable reading is an alternative reading that is completely opposite tot he writers intentions. Oppositional reading are a middle ground not being biased one side but understand both the dominant reading and negotiable reading and are 50/50.    

News breakdown

Three seriously hurt as Boris bus on wrong route causes pile-up on first day of service

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/three-seriously-hurt-as-boris-bus-on-wrong-route-causes-pileup-on-first-day-of-service-8834134.html

Pile-up: the scene on Chelsea Bridge Road shows the wreckage after the crash involving a new Route Master bus (Picture: Nigel Howard)

The dominant reading of the article is to show that TFL is not efficient in what they do and have mean that an accident have been caused as the bus was on the wrong route also it would suggests that driver was not under clear  instructions. Another understanding of the image could be that the bus is not designed as well as anticipated which means that Boris huge spending on the bus was not a waste.   

The oppositional reading is that new buses have been put in to London to help people have a more efficient and reliant bus service. Also to provide a quicker, easier and more welcoming form of transport which is ECO friendly. 

 

The negotiable reading is that the new buses were put out to help Londoners gets around better, however the accident due to being on the wrong route can be an honest mistake and that there may have been some misunderstanding along the way.