STEROTYPES

STEROTYPES

MEAN GIRLS
Stereotypes: -
American high schools always have certain cliques who all act a certain way.
The plastics: Also known as the popular people. Always mean to others. Think they are better than everyone else in the school. Act like the rule the school, others are scared of them and walk on egg shells around them. Everyone hates them yet wants to be one of them too.
Cheerleaders: Short skirts, dumb, slutty; always obsess over the ‘jocks’. Think they’re something they’re not.
The ditzy blond, a rich bitchy girl, they are spoiled, fake personalities, promiscuous, manipulative and not very bright. Those are the obvious stereotypes.
BUDGET-$17million
BOX OFFICE-$129,042,871
RELEASE YEAR-2004

GLEE - E4 for series 1 & 2 changed to sky one for series 3 airs at 9 o’clock.
Stereotypes: -
THE DUMB BLONDE: Brittany is stereotyped as the ‘dumb blonde’ as she always makes stupid comments, and is generally confused throughout the majority of the show. She doesn’t usually get jokes or when someone is explaining anything. She is also a cheerleader, which means she has two kind of stereotypes attached to her, such as getting around the guys a lot.

THE BAD BOY: Puck is the general bad boy who messes around girls, bullies people who are bellow him in the social chain, and thinks he can get away with everything. He is also a jock and is good looking which attracts people to him.

MADE IN CHELSEA.
POSH BOY: -
Typical posh person who looks down on everyone else who doesn’t have money.
He was born into a rich family therefore lives of inheritance. Looks down on ‘high street shoppers’.

THEN AND NOW

Answer the questions below in as much detail as possible, on your blog.

1.      Describe Disney’s early film production. What innovations did Disney make use of, and were there any drawbacks to early methods of film production?

•      In 1953 Disney made their first film this was called ‘Alice’s Wonderland’ created by Walt Disney. It was black and white and had no sound so used subtitles to show speech. They set up a studio in LA in their uncle’s garage called ‘Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio’ when they started to become a success they moved to a proper studio in 1926 and Ub Iwerks joined them as an animator. The first original Disney character was Oswald the Rabbit. Film makers would make a film Distributors show the film in cinemas, and today, put the film onto DVD/BluRay.Distribution costs money, and many filmmaking companies can’t afford to do both production and distribution (or don’t have the facilities/contacts etc). For example, Snow White (1937) was made by Disney but distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and Enchanted (2007) was made by Disney and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (amongst others). Some films use multiple distributors to show films in different countries. Cartoons were produced in colour in 1932; the success of Steam Boat Willie allowed Walt to flan for their first feature length animation. Snow White won an academy award in 1939 for “a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field”. From the success of Snow White, Disney built a huge new studio in Burbank, California. The vast majority of Disney’s most popular films are adapted from stories that already exist (often fairy tales)

2.      Describe Disney’s modern methods of film production. What options are available for Disney when they are making a film? (e.g. animation or live action, 3D). What are the benefits of some of these methods? What are the drawbacks?

·         After Walt and Roy Disney died Ron Miller took over. He created Touchstone Pictures to allow Disney to create more adult films without it clashing with Disney’s main ideologies. The themes of these movies are much darker plots and have more adult content such as the language used and sex/nudity. Successful films include Pearl Harbour, Good Morning Vietnam and Armageddon. Touchstone Television and ABC studios (owned by Disney) also makes Scrubs, Lost and Desperate Housewives, amongst others. They also own the Disney channel, which shows more stereotypical Disney content. Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion. Steve Jobs was Pixar’s CEO and became one of Disney’s senior directors. It became a very successful move. 3D became popular so Disney decided to release Toy Story 3 in 3D. They also re-released the famous film ‘The Lion King’ in 3D.  

3.      How is technological advancement in film production benefitting audiences of Disney films? (i.e. are films better quality now than they used to be? Is this what audiences want?)

·         The first full length CGI movie by Disney was Toy Story which was made in 1995. The advancement in technology has made Disney even more successful than they were before. The films are a much higher quality which makes the audience watch and enjoy the films even more. The picture id more crisp and sharp. Now audiences have a lot more choice in what they want, as they can get films on Blue-Ray and DVD rather than just a crackly video. These methods are still being produced and improved so people will be attracted more and more to films.

4.      Who are Disney’s target audience? (Use your prior target audience profiling knowledge! A, B, C, succeeders, reformers, etc.)

·         Stereotypically Disney aims their movies at children. However more recently with the production of Touchstone Pictures Disney’s target audience has been massively increased and varies a lot more. Disney is mainly aimed at mainstreamers which is 40% of the population. However everyone from succeeders to reformers and class A to B enjoy a good classic Disney movie. Disney relates to a lot of people as the majority can understand and connect with the story lines.

5.      Choose THREE Disney films that show Dyer’s Utopian Solutions Theory. Explain how each film demonstrates the theory, and why this will attract audiences.

·         ‘Cinderella’- This fits the theory because it’s about a girl who has a tragic event in her childhood causing her not to have the best life growing up. However she then meets the man of her dreams ‘Prince Charming’ who fall in love and live happily ever after. This attracts audiences because it portrays a perfect world.

·         ‘Beauty and the Beast’- Once again this fits the general conventions of the theory as it is a happily ever after ending even though the beginning isn’t necessarily of the normal conventions. 

·         ‘Snow White’- This film also portrays the theory because it’s about a girl who is mistreated by her Step Mother however finds love with ‘Prince Charming’ and lives happily ever after. Once again portraying a perfect world.

CHARACTER

PARTY ANIMAL !

·        Frizzy wild hair, shows she has been out for a while (hair has gone a bit wild).

·        Tight black corset, ‘slutty’. Doesn’t leave much to the imagination.

·        High top trainer’s show that she’s a bit of a ‘chav’ deep down so doesn’t care too much about her appearance.  

·        Outfit is a bit tacky.

·        Only really cares about having a good time not so much how she comes across.

You tube clio- Glee (drunk episode)

In the series Glee the performance and level of acting is always at its best.

The expressions that they use always show exactly what emotion they are trying to get across. For example in the episode where they become very drunk therefore the actors have to act drunk.

When they are all dancing their moves are over exaggerated to get across that they are drunk. The volumes of their voice become very loud talking to each other as if they can’t hear one another. When Santana is shouting at her boyfriend, she is acting as the weepy hysterical drunk. Therefore to convey this she has her eyes closed her head is tilted up to Sam and her facial expressions are very wide as are her hand gestures. This also applies to Lauren and Quinn who are ‘the angry girl drunks’ therefore when they are mouthing off to Pukk they make sure to be up in his face and come across very intimidating. And as for Mercedes and Tina who are meant to be the ‘happy drunks’ they are sat on the sofa laughing all while they amusingly hit each other as people do sometimes when they are in hysterical laughter, and both have their eyes closed and lean forward and back to make sure they convey their happiness towards the audience properly.

Acting drunk can be  hard task however I believe that the Glee cast have mastered it exceptionally and each of them bring an individual quality and amusement to the audience.

Mise En Scene - Police Drama

working environment.
tables, chairs, computers, lots of paper and files, a lot of people, very busy.

Disney Films and Multimedia Platforms - Cinema

Cinema is used regularly by Disney to advertise and show their films. Trailers for new films are often showed before a Disney film, because the majority of their target audience will already be in there waiting for the film to come on. So by showing the trailer before a Disney movie it will appeal a lot more to that selection of the audience. This will advertise the movie making people want to watch it. Disney will advertise both A and B films in the cinema. They also may advertise them when other older movies are on that parents are more likely to see so they then go home and think about taking their children to go and watch it.

The cinema is quite a quick way of distributing the information as it with give the audience a teasing clip of the movie; they then will go home and research about it which involves other media institutions. A downside to this way of advertisement is that it doesn’t involve that much information and is on for a very short time so the audience may feel like they are being crammed with information causing them to forget the majority of it. Therefore Disney would have to make their trailers very memorable. People only go to the cinema once or twice so the information doesn’t last for very long.

Disney uses cinema very often to advertise their new films. However they won’t always advertise B standard films in the cinema because the budget for them is too high.

The movie Tangled used this as a way of advertisement.

I think this is a very effective way to advertise films especially if they are advertised before the right film where the majority of the target audience are there waiting for their film to come on.

Disney’s Film Production – ‘Then and Now’

Disney’s Film Production – ‘Then and Now’

Answer the questions below in as much detail as possible, on your blog.

1.      Describe Disney’s early film production. What innovations did Disney make use of, and were there any drawbacks to early methods of film production?

•      In 1953 Disney made their first film this was called ‘Alice’s Wonderland’ created by Walt Disney. It was black and white and had no sound so used subtitles to show speech. They set up a studio in LA in their uncle’s garage called ‘Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio’ when they started to become a success they moved to a proper studio in 1926 and Ub Iwerks joined them as an animator. The first original Disney character was Oswald the Rabbit. Film makers would make a film Distributors show the film in cinemas, and today, put the film onto DVD/BluRay.Distribution costs money, and many filmmaking companies can’t afford to do both production and distribution (or don’t have the facilities/contacts etc). For example, Snow White (1937) was made by Disney but distributed by RKO Radio Pictures and Enchanted (2007) was made by Disney and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (amongst others). Some films use multiple distributors to show films in different countries. Cartoons were produced in colour in 1932; the success of Steam Boat Willie allowed Walt to flan for their first feature length animation. Snow White won an academy award in 1939 for “a significant screen innovation which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field”. From the success of Snow White, Disney built a huge new studio in Burbank, California. The vast majority of Disney’s most popular films are adapted from stories that already exist (often fairy tales)

2.      Describe Disney’s modern methods of film production. What options are available for Disney when they are making a film? (e.g. animation or live action, 3D). What are the benefits of some of these methods? What are the drawbacks?

·         After Walt and Roy Disney died Ron Miller took over. He created Touchstone Pictures to allow Disney to create more adult films without it clashing with Disney’s main ideologies. The themes of these movies are much darker plots and have more adult content such as the language used and sex/nudity. Successful films include Pearl Harbour, Good Morning Vietnam and Armageddon. Touchstone Television and ABC studios (owned by Disney) also makes Scrubs, Lost and Desperate Housewives, amongst others. They also own the Disney channel, which shows more stereotypical Disney content. Disney purchased Pixar in 2006 for $7.4 billion. Steve Jobs was Pixar’s CEO and became one of Disney’s senior directors. It became a very successful move. 3D became popular so Disney decided to release Toy Story 3 in 3D. They also re-released the famous film ‘The Lion King’ in 3D.  

3.      How is technological advancement in film production benefitting audiences of Disney films? (i.e. are films better quality now than they used to be? Is this what audiences want?)

·         The first full length CGI movie by Disney was Toy Story which was made in 1995. The advancement in technology has made Disney even more successful than they were before. The films are a much higher quality which makes the audience watch and enjoy the films even more. The picture id more crisp and sharp. Now audiences have a lot more choice in what they want, as they can get films on Blue-Ray and DVD rather than just a crackly video. These methods are still being produced and improved so people will be attracted more and more to films.

4.      Who are Disney’s target audience? (Use your prior target audience profiling knowledge! A, B, C, succeeders, reformers, etc.)

·         Stereotypically Disney aims their movies at children. However more recently with the production of Touchstone Pictures Disney’s target audience has been massively increased and varies a lot more. Disney is mainly aimed at mainstreamers which is 40% of the population. However everyone from succeeders to reformers and class A to B enjoy a good classic Disney movie. Disney relates to a lot of people as the majority can understand and connect with the story lines.

5.      Choose THREE Disney films that show Dyer’s Utopian Solutions Theory. Explain how each film demonstrates the theory, and why this will attract audiences.

·         ‘Cinderella’- This fits the theory because it’s about a girl who has a tragic event in her childhood causing her not to have the best life growing up. However she then meets the man of her dreams ‘Prince Charming’ who fall in love and live happily ever after. This attracts audiences because it portrays a perfect world.

·         ‘Beauty and the Beast’- Once again this fits the general conventions of the theory as it is a happily ever after ending even though the beginning isn’t necessarily of the normal conventions.  

‘Snow White’- This film also portrays the theory because it’s about a girl who is mistreated by her Step Mother however finds love with ‘Prince Charming’ and lives happily ever after. Once again portraying a perfect world.

You tube clip- Glee (drunk episode)

In the series Glee the performance and level of acting is always at its best.

The expressions that they use always show exactly what emotion they are trying to get across. For example in the episode where they become very drunk therefore the actors have to act drunk.

When they are all dancing their moves are over exaggerated to get across that they are drunk. The volumes of their voice become very loud talking to each other as if they can’t hear one another. When Santana is shouting at her boyfriend, she is acting as the weepy hysterical drunk. Therefore to convey this she has her eyes closed her head is tilted up to Sam and her facial expressions are very wide as are her hand gestures. This also applies to Lauren and Quinn who are ‘the angry girl drunks’ therefore when they are mouthing off to Pukk they make sure to be up in his face and come across very intimidating. And as for Mercedes and Tina who are meant to be the ‘happy drunks’ they are sat on the sofa laughing all while they amusingly hit each other as people do sometimes when they are in hysterical laughter, and both have their eyes closed and lean forward and back to make sure they convey their happiness towards the audience properly.

Acting drunk can be  hard task however I believe that the Glee cast have mastered it exceptionally and each of them bring an individual quality and amusement to the audience.

Analysing the representation of disability in a touch of frost

In this extract Billy is disabled and this is represented in certain ways throughout the viewing. To begin with his is shown as being inferior to the other characters such as Frost. At the beginning of the viewing he is being chased by the police, when they manage to catch him a high angle shot is used which makes us as an audience look down on Billy. The start of the extract also shows Billy being detached from society as he is walking alone; making the audience suspect that he has done something wrong. His movements are very awkward and he stumbles a lot when he runs. When the camera pans to his face his eyes are half closed and mouth hanging open, which could represent that he has a mental disability.

When Frost goes to Billy’s house he leaves his coat on showing that he doesn’t really want to be there. The lighting is always darker on Billy rather than frost connoting that Frost is a lot smarter than Billy. Billy rarely makes eye contact with Frost this portrays how Billy may feel uncomfortable and intimidated. The way that Frost talks to Billy is the same way that you may talk to a child as it is slow and patronising. Frost is assuming that Billy is incapable to understand just because he as a disability.

The camera angle that is used between Frost and Billy in the interrogation scene always represents them as being equal as they are never high or low angles. The conversation uses a shot reverse shot editing style including long shots and straight cuts. This allows the pace of the scene to be slow however creates intensity for the audience.  The close up shots let you see the characters expressions extremely well giving you a good insight into their emotions. This shows that Frost gets increasingly irritated with Billy who becomes a lot more defensive.

Performance wise, frost always speaks very clear and calm this represents him as being professional and in control of his emotions and actions. When he questions Billy he does however at certain moments become agitated loosing his temper causing his tone to become short and sharp. This may connote that Billy can’t answer the questions in the desired way as he has a lesser mental capacity than Frost therefore can’t answer the questions satisfactorily. At one moment Billy’s dad actually talks over Billy correcting what he says, and Frost and Billy’s dad have a conversation as if he was not there. This represents that Billy cannot talk nor think for himself. And shows that disabled people are over-ruled by others in society.   

PERFORMANCE

1) To make up an effective performance actors use a combination of body language and facial expressions as well as varying the tone, pitch and volume of their voice. For example in Good Will Hunting Robin Williams used a lot of hand movements as he begins to get into the story he is telling. When he becomes more excited he stands up and jumps around as if to reenact out the memory he is speaking about. He also closes his eyes a lot as if to reminisce in the memory he's telling, and always has a small content smile when he talks about his wife. When he gets to an exciting part of the story his volume increases and becomes quicker and a higher pitch.

2) All the attributes that the actors bring to the screen effect me as an audience member because they make it a lot more believeable. They use the kind of facial expressions and different gesters that people would use as if it was really happening which involves the audience member even more, creating a connection between the actors and audience aswell as the TV show itself.

3) I believe acting effects a film a lot, if there is a peice of extremely bad acting it can completely put someone off watching that certain film. It's also the same as over acting, which has the potential to be really cringey. However, if the acting is brilliant it connects the audience more making it more believeable and reliable. It can also make the film a lot more dramatic and emotional, it can either make a film or break it.
4) I believe mise en scene isn't as important as the acting however still plays a large part in a performance. Acting involves the audience in the film whereas mise en scene is just there and always will be. However they are both extremely important and a film/tv show wouldn't be as effective or dramatic without one or the other.

Costume and make up

PARTY ANIMAL !

·        Frizzy wild hair, shows she has been out for a while (hair has gone a bit wild).

·        Tight black corset, ‘slutty’. Doesn’t leave much to the imagination.

·        High top trainer’s show that she’s a bit of a ‘chav’ deep down so doesn’t care too much about her appearance.  

·        Outfit is a bit tacky.

·        Only really cares about having a good time not so much how she comes across.

Mise En Scene - Teenage Drama

The majority of teenage dramas include parties.

The Mise En Scene would include a lot of people all crowed throughout a house and garden. A lot of american teenage dramas all have the 'red cups' which would be the props, other props would be things like the bottles of alcohol. It's normally dark and has artifical lighting. There would be a lot of extras to fill out the venue and make the party look more realistic.

Mise En Scene - Hospital

Hospital genreThe majority of the time the corridors in the hospital will be long white or blue, these colours are used as they are calming. There is usually a lot of equipment within the corridors and sometimes the odd hospital bed. There are also chairs where visitors are allowed to sit and the doctors and nurses are usually seen running around a lot.
The hospital wards are also always very busy therefore a lot of extras will need to be used to make the set look realistic, extras will be patients, doctors, nurses or visitors so their outfits will range depending on the part they are playing. Finally all different kind of props will be used such as different hospital equipment and essentials.

Mise En Scene

Means 'in the scene'
It is everything within a frame (or shot), and tells the audience a lot about the movie quickly

• Mise en scene includes....
• the set
• Props
• Costumes
• Make up
• Extras
• Lighting
• It sets the scene 

The set is where the action takes place, for example, a car park, a living room, a classroom, a church.A prop is something that the character picks up and interacts with, for example, door is part of the set, a mug of tea is a prop.
Extras are people in the scene who are not the main characters - they may not speak or be seen for very long.