Hustle - Gender - Mock Exam

I will be disusing both genders from a clip of the show "Hustle". I will talk about the female who plays a leading role in this scene and I will compare her with the con man.

We as an audience are instantly introduced by three characters and we are able to categorical them in a matter of seconds, with the use of social grades, styles and not forgetting to mention dialogue. The shop keeps speaks very sarcastically to the first women due to her limited amount of spending money, whereas when he spoke to the blond high class women he spoke as if he was lower then her and that she was more important then him. Once approaching the women we are able to judge her personality by her costume and style. The stereotypical blond is completely thrown off as she speaks with a very classic English which links in with the tight suit which demonstrates her business and professional side. However her red nails conotates danger and illustrates that she is dangerous even if she doesn't necessarily portray it. Once she is assisted by the male he informs her about a very expensive branded dress which she then try's on, the camera quickly cuts to the scene and focuses on her silver high heels. She beings saying "Yes, Oh yes!" which sound very sexual and as we have limited view we are unable to see what's happening. he camera slowly rises as she continue sly says the phrase, we then come to understand and see that actually she is looking at the dress in the mirror and she is saying the phrase because she feels the dress is perfect. There is a constant glamorous melody through out the whole scene so far which illustrate the classic and elegant side to the shop, it creates a rich feel to the atmosphere. We are able to instantly tell that because she has money the assistant will be extra nice specially compared to the first customer who he treated with sarcasm. The camera then swoops to the new scene which is near the till, whilst the man folds the expensive dress with extreme care, as if it was a new born. Whilst she rumbles through her purse. Half way through her ring which was given to her is missing and she has to complete change of personality, she beings throwing her belonging around as if they are nothing, whereas for some it's as if she is throwing her riches and damaging physically but also metaphorically as her image is getting destroyed as she throws her belongings around. The audience are able to see this with the use of a mid shot. The camera plays a huge part in the next scene as it begins following her around the shop whilst she searches her ring, quick cuts and fast shots also play a major role as it gives the audience a sense that she is worried but at the same time she is rushing . The sound has a drastic change from smothe melody to fast pace jazz. Whilst looking for the ring she begins disorganising the shop and destroying its classic image and feel to a very scruffy and ill looked after shop in a matter of seconds. She is then reassured and begins to await a call for her missing ring from the assistant, whilst she leaves the male comforters hers with his words "You can trust me". She hands him her business card which brings her business side back to the scene and back from her wild and rough behaviour. She then offers a £5000 reward for whoever finds the missing ring, this illustrates the type of person she is and that the ring means so much to her that she is willing to pay a high price for the finder and thus illustrates to us that she doesn't care about how much money she has to give to find that ring. She then leaves with last dialogue "I'm sure I am" which refers to the trust of the shop assistant. She smirks and leaves in a rush. The close-up used once the woman was talking evolves into a mid shot of her leaving and walking down the stairs. The audience now begin to feel as if we are apart as she speaks directly to the camera and no one else.

Later on a male walks in and stands next to the assistance who is on all fours. This implies that the shop assistant is like a dog and he is use to being commanded and lead. Then a close up is used on the male customers shoes which are very 1920s style which links with the style of music of "Jazz". This then links back to when Jazz themed music was actually played in the scene of her looking for her ring, this gives the audience a clue and feel that he actually plays a role in the missing ring even though there is no evidence to prove it. However he pretends to find the ring on the floor but had it in his hand all along, the audience then become confused and enigmas array. A shallow focus was used on the hand to give all focus on the hand and nothing else. He then explains that he has found a ring and the assistance kindly asks for the ring.  he changes his personality just so he can obtain the ring and get the reward, but what he doesn't know is that the man is in on the whole scheme and in fact he is attempting to scam him with the help of the woman. The roles are then reversed and the shop keeper begins to get up, he is taller then the customer and is dressed to a smarter standard, he is wearing glasses which also give him an intelligent side and this is backed up with his use of language and unfamiliar words. On the other hand the other guy is wearing a suit but no tie and a necklace to give him that casual look.

The Detention Film

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28 Days Later - Screen Grab Anaylsis

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Film Language – Technical Features

 Camera Shots, Angle, Movement and Composition

The angle, focus and position of the camera always have a purpose, not just which it illustrates. It’s all done to represent something or someone in a particular way. In the clip “Hotel B” once the immigration team went looking round the hotel they instantly found a suspect. Once we are aware of the situation the camera works its magic. A close-up is used to represent the suspect’s facial expression, as we are so close we begin to feel as if we were in his position and we are able to feel what he’s going through. A fast zoom is used to reinforce the shock of the suspect and yet again we are able to see his facial expression at a closer look, The zoom and close-up are as if they are working together, both of their camera shots and movement is able to cut more of the background out making the audience focus on the subject, not what’s happening in the background. The camera also gives us enough information to understand that the subject is a black male who is an immigrant who works as a cleaner in a hotel, he appears to be around 20-25 and a working social class. I am able to tell this with the help of the shallow focus which is at place. I am able to purely focus on the male instead of anything else in the background which make cause distraction.

Editing (Post production)

Editing is a major part of any film work as it also helps the representation and meaning of a shot with the transitions and cutting of scenes. For example, when the black male sees the immigration team he begins to flee, straight after the close-up zoom shot. Three to four shots are shown with straight cuts and at quick speed (action match). This gives us a feel of the scene and with the fast cuts and fast motion shots we begin to get excited with the show and instantly become more interested and concentrated as you want to see what will happen next. We are able to tell what type of people the immigration team are due to the way they grab the male suspect and how quick they did so. It represented them as a very serious team which are not there to mess around, these reinforces the serious side of the scene.

Sound

Sound holds a huge part of film/tv show even though you might not notice it, it’s a mood starter and it sets the scenes. For example, going back to the scene of the male suspect being caught by the immigration team. There is a both diegetic and non-diegetic. Once the man notice’s he gasps which is a diegetic sound, just because of this sound we are able to tell how shocked and worried he is at that moment in time, but at the same time a non-diegetic sound is playing in the background, the backing music has a serious melody to it and once the action happens and the fast motion editing gets in place the sound gradually gets louder, as if it’s getting to you in real life. This grabs the attention of the audience. The soundtrack was picked deliberately to fit the theme of the scene. This also informs us about the type of hotel it really is, serious and tense.

Mise-en-Scène

Once in the small confined room all the immigrants are worried about what’s going to happen to them. The lightning and colour then take action to make that feeling really come to life, with the low key lighting and spot light like lights it reinforces the fast there in a confined space and that there all in a very depressing state at the time as there friend is unable is missing from the pack and faces getting caught. There’s lots of shadows on all the other characters who don’t have a big part in the scene and this makes them feel less important in the scene, this is also done when the unconscious woman becomes conscious, one of the male immigrants knew about the woman’s problem and was able to help her, whereas the woman who actually was helping the immigrants didn’t. Shadows then took place when she raised her head up and thanked the man. Also the Filming of the program took place in a location where as other programs would have probably been in a studio and a studio you have more freedom with the camera as you know how much space you need/want. The immigrant who got caught was wearing a uniform which was a brown/redy colour. It was clear to the audience that it was the cleaning uniform as one of the male immigrant says a line when there all in the small room "I wasn't always a cleaner". He was wearing the same uniform as the male who got caught meaning its the cleaners uniform. Other uniforms were present such as chiefs and female cleaner uniform. This also represent there working social glass and their status e.g. Cleaner for the hotel.

Johnny Fonseca

Monarch of the Glen - Clip

Example Camera Shots/Angles

Mid shot

I used a mid shot for this photo so I could demonstrate her loneliness. Her hands and body posturer have been placed like that on purpose to add that uncomfortable look. I used a mid shot as I needed a good amount of her body to illustrate he positioning. 

Close Up/ Low angle

I used a close up to illustrate that we are looking at the exit sign meaning someone's probably running away/out of the building. A low angle was used to demonstrate the power that the sign has and how it leads so many people to safety. 

Canted Show

In this specific shot i felt that a canted showed would go fell as it gives the audience that sense of discomfort and how each girl seems to really be looking at the audience as if he/she is someone they do not like. The tilting of each girls head reinforces the sense of discomfort.

Establishing shot

I used an establishing shot to represent the new location for the viewers, once having a shot of the library for about 2 seconds we are able to tell that the the next scene will be placed in the library.

Long Shot/ Eye Level

I wanted to use a long shot to represent her full body posture and the surrounding she is in. As she is standing in the middle of a long corridor we are able to tell she is lost, probably due to how BIG the school is. I felt that Eye level would be best as it would give the audience that sense that the camera is another person and we are following her.

Worm's eye view

I wanted to use an effect worms eye view so we used a great software provided by Apple for iphones which places the available light where we want it (just by a touch of our fingers!). We just flipped the camera on the iphone and took the photo. This is shown to be a worms eye view as its as if the audience is looking up at the humans and that they as an audience are vulnerable.

Extreme Close UP

I used an extreme close up in this situation to tell the emotion of the cat, just by the cats eye which is closed we are able to tell she is tired/sleeping which could be due to a long day of work/play.

High angle

I used a high angle so that us as an audience looked like we have more power to  the people we are looking down on someone.  In this photo we can tell that the boy is sad and scared of us as he's looking up at us with a very emotional face.

Bird's eye view

This is a shot from above in the sky looking down at target. It can express how quiet or how bust a certain area is, it also delivers a lot of mise-en-scene. This shot is very effective in a chase scene.

Media AS Mock (September)

     Monarch of the Glen creates two excellent examples of opposing representation of age which links well with Levi-Straus' theory of binary opposites within a narrative, causing conflict. I will be discussing how both 'youth' and 'mature' are presented such as 'youth' are unreliable and 'mature' being traditional.

     Amy's personality is spread through the clip with her dialogue, background and costume. With her bright yellow top we are able to work out that she feels the need to be different and by doing that she will be able to illustrate her personality at the same time. In contrast to Amy's t-shirt everyone one else is wearing very earthy colours and haven't made an effort to look different. Mid shots and log shots are used to illustrate her outfit, coloures are spreaded everywhere and on everything, even her hair band is a different colour compared to an older characters which is plain black. We begin to understand that Amy enjoys customizing herself in somewhat way, for instants she walks with a slouch, whereas everybody else walks with a straight back. Her eye make up even has a blue tint to match her youthful outfit. 

     Once Amy is trusted with a mature task she still goes ahead and does it just to look older and more mature, that's what youths dream of. Once she gets in to the car she mutterings words such as "clutch". From the viewers understanding she is thinking back on her driving lessons even though she said to Paul (Which is like her father in the clips we watched) that she passed first time, just by the fact that she lied about a situation which could be dangerous illustrates her childish personality and how youths such as Amy should not be trusted. Going back to when she was attempting to start the car, the mature young man stopped what he was doing and watched the car as she was taking a long time to do a simple task for someone who passed her license first time. Once she gets into the car crash with her headteacher, Amy gets out of the car to witness the damage she has done due to her youthful decisions of acting older then she really is. The older males guard Amy as if she is a piece of treasure, she begins to curl p behind the men once she notices who she crashed into, her headmaster. She knew she was in trouble. This explains Amy's reasons for running/moving away. She wants to be older and more mature.

    Moving on the father like figure demands Amy to pack and he got to response of "I hate you". After hearing this I fully understand the headmasters view on Amy and how she really is a child and she backs my point up by a phrase which is said by very young children when they don't get there own way.

     In contrast the headmaster approaches the clip once the incident happens. Once he gets out of the car his body is very straight which reinforces the serious side of him, he spoke with a a aggressive tone once he found out who caused the incident. The laid out the basics of the mature roll, even the outfit worn, the colours were very bland and earth like compared to Amy's outrageous yellow top. He was very well groomed with a blazer, shirt and tie, which represents his personality as dedicated and sophisticated. Once in the house, he asks for a brandy, a brandy is an alcoholic beverage which youths such as Amy are not allowed to drink. But also Brandy is a very strong drink which reinforces his personality of a mature manor.

Ary 11
EX 10
T 4

Total
25 = D