PUDDING BOWL
WHAT KIND OF NARRATIVE IS USED?
I have applied what I know about Todorov's narrative theory to the short film PUDDING BOWL.
1. A state of equilibrium at the outset- both the little boy and girl are playing quietly by themselves and the mum is in the kitchen doing her own thing.
2. A disruption of the equilibrium by some action- the little boy puts glue in the girls hair and she gets in trouble.
3. A recognition there has been a disruption- the girl gets her hair cut and goes to the mirror and sees it for the first time.
4. An attempt to repair the disruption- she puts tights on her head as a wig and lipstick on so that she looks glamorous and steals the boys bike whilst he is playing
5. A reinstatement of the equilibrium- the girl is happy again as she imagines her self when she is beautiful and older.
HOW IS TIME STRUCTURED?
The time in this short film plays out as though it would in normal life. There is a few elipses within the film, and also there is a flash forward at the end. Other than that thee is no other different time structures.
9 JUNE 2012
PRELIMINARY TASK
WHAT TYPE OF VIDEO IS IT?
We are doing a music video. The type of video that it is mainly narrative, as it the story follows what the song is singing about. It also has aspects of a performance video as it will contain a girl miming along to the song.
WHO IS THE VIDEO AIMED AT?
I feel our video will have aspects of the reformer and the struggler within it. Its looking for enlightenment because she's kind of having to accept something. But also looking for escape because although she's trying to accept it she can't seem to get away from it either. People of these stereotypes will then be more likely to watch it as they can relate to it. Although a young girl could watch this video and follow somewhat, it would take a bit of life experience to understand the deeper meaning of it and so I think the age of the people watching it would range from late teens to late twenties.
WHAT TYPE OF VIDEO IS IT?
We are doing a music video. The type of video that it is mainly narrative, as it the story follows what the song is singing about. It also has aspects of a performance video as it will contain a girl miming along to the song.
WHO IS THE VIDEO AIMED AT?
I feel our video will have aspects of the reformer and the struggler within it. Its looking for enlightenment because she's kind of having to accept something. But also looking for escape because although she's trying to accept it she can't seem to get away from it either. People of these stereotypes will then be more likely to watch it as they can relate to it. Although a young girl could watch this video and follow somewhat, it would take a bit of life experience to understand the deeper meaning of it and so I think the age of the people watching it would range from late teens to late twenties.
2 JULY 2012
TODOROV'S NARRATIVE THEORY
Todorov's theory was that all narratives begin in equilibrium or status quo where any potentially opposing forces are in balance. This is disrupted by an event which then sets off a chain of events. Problems are solved so that order can be restored back to a equilibrium.
He said that conventional narratives have five stages:
Todorov's theory was that all narratives begin in equilibrium or status quo where any potentially opposing forces are in balance. This is disrupted by an event which then sets off a chain of events. Problems are solved so that order can be restored back to a equilibrium.
He said that conventional narratives have five stages:
- A state of equilibrium at the outset
- A disruption of the equilibrium by some action
- A recognition that there has been a disruption
- An attempt to repair the disruption
- A reinstatement of the equilibrium
This structure can be seen and applied to many mainstream film narratives.
ROLAND BARTHES' THEORY
ACTION CODE - what they see, they can work out whats going on in the plot
ENIGMA CODE - where you have to work out whats going on in the plot, not sure and it isn't clear
SYMBOLIC CODE -, throuhg symbols they work it out
culture- culture specific aspects makes sense of the narative
semantic code
25 JUNE 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_Msrdg3Hk
THE BLACK HOLE
Genre
Due to a series of deciding factors I believe that this video is a science fiction genre. This is due a variety of different reasons. One being that the only sounds included in the video are made by machines and are all quite futuristic and unnatural. However this short film portrays an approach to sci-fi that I haven't seen before, in the fact that it is set in a really normal place and the thing that ends up being the main reason the film is a science fiction genre is a very normal, uninteresting object. I don't think this is what the normal sci-fi audience would expect, however saying that I still think it will be appreciated and liked.
Narrative
Time in this film just plays out as it would in real life. This then makes the audience think that something like this could happen to them in their everyday lives too, therefore giving them something to almost look forward to, and to aspire to be like. The end of the film is very open ended; will he get out the safe? will anyone find him? will he just die in there? what will happen to the black hole?
By doing this it makes the audience wonder and want to know more, leaving them thinking about the film, which will probably lead them to tell their friends about it and for the film to become a popular topic of conversation.
THE BLACK HOLE
Genre
Due to a series of deciding factors I believe that this video is a science fiction genre. This is due a variety of different reasons. One being that the only sounds included in the video are made by machines and are all quite futuristic and unnatural. However this short film portrays an approach to sci-fi that I haven't seen before, in the fact that it is set in a really normal place and the thing that ends up being the main reason the film is a science fiction genre is a very normal, uninteresting object. I don't think this is what the normal sci-fi audience would expect, however saying that I still think it will be appreciated and liked.
Narrative
Time in this film just plays out as it would in real life. This then makes the audience think that something like this could happen to them in their everyday lives too, therefore giving them something to almost look forward to, and to aspire to be like. The end of the film is very open ended; will he get out the safe? will anyone find him? will he just die in there? what will happen to the black hole?
By doing this it makes the audience wonder and want to know more, leaving them thinking about the film, which will probably lead them to tell their friends about it and for the film to become a popular topic of conversation.
29 JUNE 2012
PUDDING BOWL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUJWZYOxMEg
What does this short film mean to me?
I really like this as a short film. To me is shows me how a young, even though she's been punished for the bad behaviour of her brother, she still makes the most of it. Even though she's had all her long hair cut off into an unattractive haircut she still makes the most of it and still shows how she can still be glamourous. And also get back at her brother and his friend. The film makes me empathise for the little girl. It physically made me smile as, being a girl, I can imagine how upset she would be, and how she handles her annoyance is adorable. her appearance is obviously very important to her.
Mise En Scene:
From the beginning of the short film I wasn't quite sure what direction it was going to take. However once the theme of appearance is clearer then it becomes apparent that almost everything is related to this theme. For example, Ive is cutting out pictures of glamourous models at the beginning and then when her mother gets angry at her for the glue in her hair she quickly grabs one of the pictures she's cutting. Then later on she puts the stockings on her head and plays with them as though its hair and puts on the lip stick. This shows how she's just trying to make the best of anything she can.
She then fantasises about being older and glamourous with all the boys chasing after her and throwing roses at her, showing what she actually wants.
Shots and Edit:
Right at the beginning there is an extreme zoom on the young girls face and the images she's cutting out. This emphasis' the fact that the most important theme throughout the short film is going to be appearance and the glamourousness of the young girl.
Sound:
The sound at the beginning emphasis massively the sound of scissors, which could be to foreshadow the big affecting part they are going to play later on in the film.
There is very artificial sound throughout the video, however when she turns into the beautiful glamourous women there is very posh glamourous music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUJWZYOxMEg
What does this short film mean to me?
I really like this as a short film. To me is shows me how a young, even though she's been punished for the bad behaviour of her brother, she still makes the most of it. Even though she's had all her long hair cut off into an unattractive haircut she still makes the most of it and still shows how she can still be glamourous. And also get back at her brother and his friend. The film makes me empathise for the little girl. It physically made me smile as, being a girl, I can imagine how upset she would be, and how she handles her annoyance is adorable. her appearance is obviously very important to her.
Mise En Scene:
From the beginning of the short film I wasn't quite sure what direction it was going to take. However once the theme of appearance is clearer then it becomes apparent that almost everything is related to this theme. For example, Ive is cutting out pictures of glamourous models at the beginning and then when her mother gets angry at her for the glue in her hair she quickly grabs one of the pictures she's cutting. Then later on she puts the stockings on her head and plays with them as though its hair and puts on the lip stick. This shows how she's just trying to make the best of anything she can.
She then fantasises about being older and glamourous with all the boys chasing after her and throwing roses at her, showing what she actually wants.
Shots and Edit:
Right at the beginning there is an extreme zoom on the young girls face and the images she's cutting out. This emphasis' the fact that the most important theme throughout the short film is going to be appearance and the glamourousness of the young girl.
Sound:
The sound at the beginning emphasis massively the sound of scissors, which could be to foreshadow the big affecting part they are going to play later on in the film.
There is very artificial sound throughout the video, however when she turns into the beautiful glamourous women there is very posh glamourous music
2 JULY 2012
BOYCE AVENUE - FIND ME
We watched this video and discussed the social aspirations, demographics and the type of video it was.
I decided that this video would be almost entirely aimed at women who have either broke up with the love of their life, or just found the love of their life. Either way the women watching it will be emotional. There is also some male attractions in this video, for example the fact that every time theres a complicated, interesting instrumental on one of the guitars the camera does an extreme close up of it. Showing that there is a music element too it, almost saying that its okay for men to like this song.
I think that the video will be aimed at women in their late teens early twenties, because this song takes some intelligence to relate too. You need to have lived a little to be able to relate to what their singing about. A 11 year old girl isn't really going to understand.
The video is a performance video mainly, but also has a side narrative story like most performance videos have. The woman in the narrative isn't hot like in many dance videos and she doesn't really exude sex appeal. However she is pretty and has a caring man by her side which is what many women will be looking for.
Its probably an indie rock genre, and is pretty obviously a power ballad.
CHARLIE SIMPSON - PARACHUTE
This video has many different aspects too it. It is partly a performance video because of the fact that he is singing along to the song throughout the entire song. It also plays the part of a narrative video as well as some of the parts of the video play on what the lyrics say and it very loosely tells a story. However it also is concept as well because of the billboard aspect and some of the things that he does doesn't really relate to anything.
Again, similarly to the previous video I think this music video is mainly aimed at women in their late teens early twenties. However there is more of an appeal to the male demographic in this video as in some like could be about a man apologising by giving a girl some flowers and it making everything okay, which is what many men look for.
This video appeals to women as a lot of women look for the man they've been hurt by to apologise for everything they've done, which in some way this is what this song is saying.
Again you need to have lived a before you can fully understand what this video is trying to say, you need to have been hurt and let down or you wont really get the impact the video is supposed to be putting across.
I think this video is again probably indie rock because of the intense guitar playing through the entire video, and the "cool guy" aspect it has throughout.
We watched this video and discussed the social aspirations, demographics and the type of video it was.
I decided that this video would be almost entirely aimed at women who have either broke up with the love of their life, or just found the love of their life. Either way the women watching it will be emotional. There is also some male attractions in this video, for example the fact that every time theres a complicated, interesting instrumental on one of the guitars the camera does an extreme close up of it. Showing that there is a music element too it, almost saying that its okay for men to like this song.
I think that the video will be aimed at women in their late teens early twenties, because this song takes some intelligence to relate too. You need to have lived a little to be able to relate to what their singing about. A 11 year old girl isn't really going to understand.
The video is a performance video mainly, but also has a side narrative story like most performance videos have. The woman in the narrative isn't hot like in many dance videos and she doesn't really exude sex appeal. However she is pretty and has a caring man by her side which is what many women will be looking for.
Its probably an indie rock genre, and is pretty obviously a power ballad.
CHARLIE SIMPSON - PARACHUTE
This video has many different aspects too it. It is partly a performance video because of the fact that he is singing along to the song throughout the entire song. It also plays the part of a narrative video as well as some of the parts of the video play on what the lyrics say and it very loosely tells a story. However it also is concept as well because of the billboard aspect and some of the things that he does doesn't really relate to anything.
Again, similarly to the previous video I think this music video is mainly aimed at women in their late teens early twenties. However there is more of an appeal to the male demographic in this video as in some like could be about a man apologising by giving a girl some flowers and it making everything okay, which is what many men look for.
This video appeals to women as a lot of women look for the man they've been hurt by to apologise for everything they've done, which in some way this is what this song is saying.
Again you need to have lived a before you can fully understand what this video is trying to say, you need to have been hurt and let down or you wont really get the impact the video is supposed to be putting across.
I think this video is again probably indie rock because of the intense guitar playing through the entire video, and the "cool guy" aspect it has throughout.
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