Representation...

1) Who And What Is Being Represented?
In our music video we are representing the artist in a love story narrative. We focused on the lyrics to create   imagery that matched what was being said. Therefore, the artist was represented in a serious and romantic role.

2) How Is That Representation Being Created?
We created this representation mainly through the choice of mise-en-scene. The setting was very important while filming our video. We analyzed the lyrics closely before filming and noticed that they mentioned nature a lot for instance "lakes and seas". So we then chose artistic and natural locations such as a forest, a river and around traditional cambridge architecture to film. These places had a romantic feel about them where you can imagine couples exploring together therefore they linked to the love story theme.

3) Why Did You Create The Representation In That Way? What Was Your Intention?
  We wanted the settings to have a romantic connotation so that the audience interpret the surroundings as romantic places to be. Some people may see the image without any meaning for instance just a forest or just a riverbank but viewers with an artistic eye and romantic side to them will interpret the setting how we intended it to be seen.

4) What Is The Effect Of The Representation?
The intended audience of our song and music video we think is females. This is because the lyrics are a girl    expressing her feelings about her love interest and comparing his beauty to nature. We chose to represent the artist as a mature teenage girl.
The majority of girls dream about a fairytale romance because they are influenced by love stories in films and television programmes, that's where their knowledge of romance comes from.

Genre...

1) Do you think genres are timeless? Can we still label films?
We think that genres are timeless because they have been around for years and the story lines are very similar today as they were years ago. The standard genres have been used for many years and can't create a new type of genre without it being a hybrid genre. All the main genres have been covered so it's difficult to develop a brand new one.

2) Why do you think hybrid genres are developing so much?
We think that hybrid genres are developing so much because modern day audiences are getting fed up of predicable story lines. If you know the genre, it can be quite easy to guess what is going to happen throughout the film. Hybrid genres are used to surprise the audience and keep them interested.

3) Choose one of your products and determine how it does/doesn't conform to a genre?
We choose Yasmin's thriller 'A Bit Tied Up' to analyse. The genre is thriller, this is shown to the audience via three different themes including setting, theme/topic and format. You can tell Yasmin's film opening is a thriller from the setting e.g. the main action happens in a dark creepy room which is typical of the thriller genre. For example, the issues and concepts shown in the film. In our thriller, the main action is set around one character who receives a voicemail from the antagonist. This lets the audience know that the antagonist is messing with her head by letting her know that her friend was in trouble, but not giving her any information to tell her were she is. The antagonist seems to be getting enjoyment out of this which then shows the audience the sub genre.

BATMAN BEGINS OPENING

NARRATIVE THEORY


Propp: 
-The Hero character within the narrative of Batman Begins is Bruce Wayne.
-The Father character is Bruce's actual dad.
-The Dispatcher is Henri Ducard, he is also the False Hero
-The Villain is the homeless man because he shot Bruce's parents and stole their money
-The Helper we thought from watching the opening of the film, would be Alfred

The Hero's Journey
As there are two different time periods from Bruce's life we see two different preparation stages in the hero's journey. The first would be Bruce as a child losing his parents because a homeless man shot them for their money. The second would be in Bruce's later life when he is in prison and he has a fight with the rest of the prisoners.

Finding Nemo...

We are using Finding Nemo as an example of Propp's theory.

1) Hero - Marlin (Nemo's Dad) - he is on a quest to find his son Nemo
2) Villian - P. Sherman (The Dentist) - The dentist is the character that takes Nemo away from Marlin
3) Donor - Crush & Squirt (Turtles) - The turtles provide Marlin and Dory with information to help them find Nemo
4) False Hero - Bruce (Sharks) - At first we think the sharks would be able to help Marlin on his quest however Bruce's hunger gets the better of him and Marlin and Dory have to run away from him 
5) Dispatcher - Marlin - Marlin is motivated by himself to go on the quest because he is all alone without his wife and son
6) Helper - Dory - Dory stays with Marlin for the whole journey to help him find his son
7) Princess - Nemo - In this story Nemo is the Princess character, here the expected gender role has changed as he is male not female

8) Father - Marlin 

Thriller....

Cinematography:
- Opening panning shot, establishes the setting and follows the character on screen.
- Close up of victims face showing that she has been gagged, making the audience question what has happened to her.
- Mid-shot of the business woman shows her facial expressions, she looks bored as if she is just doing her day to day routine and just wants to get home from work. She is completely unaware of what is happening to her friend.
- The close up of the phone is to inform us that the business woman has had a missed call from her friend, this shot develops the story because so far there has been no speech to explain anything.
- The close up of the victims face is clearer this time which draws you into the story
- There is a long shot showing the whole of the victims body, we discover that she has been kidnapped and tied up unable to escape. The quality of the shot is fuzzy and dark which makes you realise that something bad and mysterious is happening and being kept secret.

Editing:
- There is a quick fade at the opening to establish the setting
- There are random black and white, out of focus, jumping shots in between the ordinary shots of the business woman. These random shots are intended to look like CCTV footage and are very effective at gripping the audience's attention.

Mise - En - Scene:
- Lighting and Colour: The shots of the business woman are in natural light, the colours are very ordinary and dull to show that there's not much excitement in her life and every day routine. There is a complete contrast in lighting and colour when the camera is on the victim, it is very dark with a torch light on her face creating a creepy atmosphere. This shows the story is focussed on her.
- Costume: The business woman is dressed in a black and white suit which you straight away link to an office job. The victim is wearing ordinary, every day clothing of jeans, boots and a purple top which shows she was going about her every day life when she was kidnapped unaware.

Sound: The music starts off quite boring but becomes more exciting when the beat comes in. The footsteps are visceral sounds as they are really loud and creaky.