Video Nasties and 2000 Piracy

3D Essay

What conclusions can you draw from the resurgence of 3D in the 21^st Century cinema?

Films such as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, American Sniper and Guardians of the Galaxy, are all examples of how a non-3D film can be more successful than a 3D film. Due to the new release of CGI in films such as Avatar in 2009, this film was set to bring the cinema attendance to a rise. But before all of this that happened, there are factors before that led it to what it is today. 3D is being release as a new thing but really it’s been available from the early 50’s. From the 50’s it was released as the new thing but then as technology grows and gets better, 3D soon run its time when the television was release in the mid 50’s and for that cinema attendance dropped. Other than that later on in the 80’s, the release of VHS again dropped attendance because it was a cheaper way for families to view films. Finally in the 09 Avatar was released to get people back in to cinemas to try and revive the experience that you get when going to the cinema.

When all of that happened it had a traumatic change to the way people viewed films. For the 50’s it was the television being released. When the television was released it brought down cinema and films because TV’s were the new thing and they started to become a trend other than going to the cinema. But because of this, the release of more 3D films to try and bring back audiences raised. But it didn’t work for the social factor of things because having a television meant that it would be cheaper for a group to watch things like films, but then on the economic side it was ruining the studios and cinema industry because they weren’t gaining profit from screen time. So for this the studios had to fight back to win audiences back from the new releases of technology.

Film critics are ones who judge films for there story line and how flowing the narrative actually is and if it makes sense, they are also there to judge the 3D films and judge if they actually needed to be in 3D. Critics are the ones who some people follow when going to watch a film in the cinema for the experience of that film. Some critics like Mark Kermode, really try and unravel why movie studios are making films 3D. Mark Kermode is one of many critics who properly judge in depth analysis to why 3D is such a flop in ways. Kermode states in his opinion, 3D will run its course and then die out and go back to normal 2D because he thinks that the 3D gimmick is just a faze. In ways you can say he’s right because in 1953 3D ran its course and then died out until the 80’s when it was revived for a bit until the release of VHS, which then led to the decline in attendance again. Because that happened back then, it had led to the steady decline in cinema audience. Critics also state that video piracy is one of the key factors to why 3D can’t take off as much as it did when it was first released.

Video Nasties Essay

"Censorship is motivated by fears surrounding new technology's"
Discuss this statement referring to video nasties and the impacts of technological, social, political contexts of the early and mid 80's

To an extent there is reason to why this statement is true. Morally films then did have to be censored to protect the younger audiences of 12-16 year olds who are the main viewers of these films, although the films were banned and illegal to have, it didn't stop people of young ages to get a hold of them. All that made this happen was the release of the home video (VHS). Distributors of these films were people who own sweet shops to get the youth to buy a film even though they know it was illegal. The Government couldn't do much to stop this because know matter how much they tried to stop and censor most video nasties, there was always a way for people to get the video nasties and sell them all. This became such a big problem that Government forces raided these shops, but this was still all in good natural for the upper class end of the filming and political viewers to protect the littler working and middle class citizens. With the conservatives and also Mary Whitehouse, they had the intent that it was there job to protect all of society from the inimitable behaviours in some films. Conservatives also did this to try and cover up the economic aspect and cover up the moral decline.

Government with all there power and authority cannot censor out all the video nasties due to the new technologies that were just coming up at that time. VHS made all this possible by making films cheaper for families to get films and also have a bigger verity of choses because they can get any film they want. In 1984 there was the release of the Video Recordings Act 1984 (VRA) which was promoted to try and censorship video nasties by putting them though some test and evaluate if they are deemed illegal for the public to watch or if they were to violent, gory or inimitable if the youth got a hold of this. A film that was a big influence for this act to start up was Evil Dead. This was an act placed in by Government to try and protect the society but this was only put in place after they were pressured by pressure groups to try and censor off the video nasties. Even with this act still in placed, it didn't stop people from getting the films and watching and sharing. Everyone done it for the thrill and experience of watching a film that was banned in the country. And this was all due to the technological evolution.


This all seemed to be creating moral panic within the Government, mainly the conservative side, which Mary Whitehouse and Margret Thatcher both used there power to try and protect society because they thought it was there moral right to do so. Both woman wanted video nasties to be banned from all television but deep down they knew know matter how much they tried, that due to new release of technology, wiping out the whole country of video nasties was a figment that they would never reach. But none the less they both were fighting and Thatcher was complaining that the video nasties was a threat to the society they lived in, but by the way that they have been doing this, more and more video nasties were being produced because all the stir and in a way, marketing, it is making people want to buy and watch them more because it was the thing that was wrong and it became a trend for people to go and watch it. The media was also further forced against this by Whitehouse who was backing her conservative party and she was reenforcing the family aspect of the video nasties. And although Mary Whitehouse and Margret Thatcher were against all of video nasties, they had never themselves watched a video nasty.

Now in this time there was the factor of the VHS just being released for the public, this enabled anyone and everyone to view what they wanted, when they wanted, even younger people. Even with the fight to censor all video nasties, with this released of VHS it basically became impossible to stop people from watching it. Plus if you tell someone you can't watch something, there more likely to go out of there way to watch it. The effect censorship would of made would be to stop the youth audiences from being exposed to graphic gore and psychological effects that it could lead, an example of this what be 'I Spit on Your Grave'. Now because of VHS, the media then started to get involved to try and maybe stop people from buying one so that they can protect the younger audiences that shouldn't be watching them in the first place. But with the way that they did it, it started to create a moral panic. This then got the public all worked up and started to believe that all video nasties were evil, but by this it was then giving the Government all evidence needed to ban all video nasties and this then gave the Government more power than they already have so they can control watch people watch. But still no matter how much they tried, the power of piracy through VHS prevented Government from having complete control over what everyone watched.

Overall you could agree to the statement, because of newer technology, the VHS, it has motivated the Government to try and censor films to protect the younger ages. And also not just from younger ages, because of the inimitable behaviour that you find in video nasties, you would have to try and keep them away from the mental challenged who could try to inimitate scenes from the films. But you could also have a disagreement to this by say you could just let people decide for themselves if they want to watch it or not, give people the free will to judge a film themselves. Why go along with what the Government and Mary Whitehouse think when they haven't even watched the video nasties themselves.

Prequels, Sequels and Reboots

Star Wars, Termintor, Star Trek

-Director (J.J Abrams)
-Genre (Sci-Fi)
-Iconic soundtrack

-Sequels 

-All reboots 

-Targets male audience 

Franchise:
"a general title or concept used for creating or marketing a series of products, typically films or television shows."

Prequel:
"a story or film containing events which precede those of an existing work."

Sequel:
"a published, broadcast, or recorded work that continues the story or develops the theme of an earlier one."

Reboot:
"restart or revive (a process or sequence, especially a series of films or television programmes); give fresh impetus to." Reimagining the original - new fans as well as old fans 

Hollywood films:

Recycling old films into new films. There running out of ideas. They have limited ideas that would be able to work.

Films have to make them like this because they can't take risk because of the Internet and us. 

Reason for why independent films are taking off so much.

Coursework: 

1. Write a script for the disruption or revolution of Inception or Shutter Island. Must explore the MACRO of the film. 

Video Nasties Content

Technical -

• Cinema attendance declined massively due to the rise of VHS
• Video Nasties created diversity of films

Social - 

• Moral Campaign against video nasties; Mary Whitehouse (NVLA), Margaret Thatcher, the media and the BBFC.
• The above mentioned scapegoated the video nasties for immoral behaviour which led to a moral panic
• Regulated videos to have age restrictions by BBFC
• Government Censorship & Police Raids on VHS dealers
• Video Nasties were niche films and really popular with teenagers due to controversy
• Video Nasties were exploited to explain responsibility for moral decline in society
• Video Nasties were made for distribution only via home-video
• Censorship or individual judgement?

Political - 

• Conservative government sought to protect
• Moral Panic created by Media the term: 'video nasties'
• Riots and civil unrest, unemployment and recession
• Watching video nasties helps put it in context of narrative, the campaigners did not actually watch them
• Video Recordings Act 1984, banned list 

Economic - 

• Videos being distributed by cornershops, market traders and garages
• The covers on the boxes often more grusome than the content
• Video Nasties like Evil Dead, I Spit On Your Grave and Driller Killer were realistic because they were low budget

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Representation Comparison for VfV and CoM

-Using typical roles of a father and mother figure through Theo and Kee

-Kee being the mother as she is pregnant and trying to survive 

-Theo is the fatherly figure by being the strong, powerful and the decision maker of the the two 

-More relatable to reality with London having typical stereotypes of England 

-Red buses, phone boxes are examples of what London is typically seen as

Hypermasculinity - exaggeration of masculinity 

The Male Gaze - giving the male audience something to look at by objectifying women 

Phallic and Yonic Imagery - symbolism 

Mother figure 

Fast and Furious 4 -

Phallic: the train having the power and trying to hit them, re-enforcing 

We Need to Talk About Kevin -

Motherly figure: the mothers care for the child but then challenges the stereotype when she's throws him 

Captain America - 

Hypermasculinity: challenges it by having a weak solider being the bravest 

Video Essay:

Must have MICRO and MACRO

Discussion of the MACRO

Purpose and meaning

The National Representation 

1-Download and convert clips 

2-Writing up the text for Final Cut 

Points:

-Immigrants standing with the British people through the toughest time

(VfV - Britain Prevails 

CoM - Cafe Bombing) 

-Government control the country, but what at what cause? The positives and negatives  

(VfV - Girl Getting Shot

CoM - Miracle Cease Fire)

-Difference when Government is attacked by the public

(VfV - Parliament Blowing Up

CoM - Uprising)

Mother figure:

-Absences of mother and father figures in CoM due to no children, no hope.

-Mothers represent hope and peace in CoM.

Phallic and Yonic:

-Phallic=power

-V's knifes are his symbol 

-Tunnels are the symbolism of escape in CoM

-VfV uses more phallic and yonic scenes 

Hypermasculinity: 

-VfV uses it with V due to his strength and character

-Symboled as a hero/villain 

-Enhancing the power of the character 

-Hypermasculine characters are there to protect the people because they can't protect themselves 

-CoM doesn't have this type of character 

-Giving life is stronger than masculinity 

-Showing woman have power over men from there trait to balance out fights 

The films are both literal aspects of gender, but where one is actual and one is symbolic. VfV is following the representation but it subverts it. 

Thesis - V for Vendetta and Children of Men

V for Vendetta (VfV) and Children of Men (CoM) are two different films with many similarities. Both the films have a disaster that we as the audience don't know how it started. In VfV they try and get across he message of warning to the views but in CoM it's a sense of hope. With VfV being a Classic Hollywood Narrative, it follows some of the general conventions of a typical Hollywood film, but then can't at the end gets the viewer thinking about what just happened. This never happens in a typical Hollywood film but that is what VfV is trying to get across. CoM being an independent film, the way it is shot is very different from how VfV was shot this independent film would be trying to make the film more realistic by trying to get it's style of shot across.

CoM Narrative

Thesis - your analysis of the comparison 

Similarity:V

Birth and mothers

Terrorism 

CoM: 

Birth 

Infertility 

Terrorism 

CoM EDR:

Equilibrium- coffee shop 

Disruption - Kee is pregnant 

Resolution - Kee with her kid on a boat (cliffhanger) 

Difference - 

Spiritual birth vs actually birth 

V=hero? Gives life for the people BUT was for revenge not for the people 

Theo=hero? Gives life for humanity so life moves on 

Typical hero stereotypes V would be it

But Theo is there to show a sense of realism because more people are like Theo. Why? To show a message of hope 

V is a message of warning 

CoM is a message of hope       Difference 

POV shots to put the audience in the film, make it realistic. The director is used this in most of his films to try and get the sense of realism.

Fatherly figures are Jasper in CoM and Dietrich in V 

V for Vendetta:

 

-Villain is the army/Government

-Dispatcher is Evey when V saves her and invites her to the destruction of the old bailey 

-Evey in the first part as the typical woman would be the helper to V

-Evey again would be the princess because in the first part she needs saving and protecting 

-the donor in this would be V and could be Dietrich for both helping Evey when she needed help 

-V would be the hero for many people in VfV because he stands up for the people and takes down the Government but blowing up Parliament. But he is this way due to him wanting vengeance for the Government 

Children of Men:

-Villain is the Government 

-The dispatcher would be Julian for the original offering but could be Kee as well because she gives Theo the meaning for doing it 

-The helper would be Jasper because he gives Theo and everyone a place to stay and be safe

-Kee would be seen as the princess of the film due to the fact she needs protecting throughout and being rescued from Government 

-The donor in CoM could be Jasper, he gives Theo the place to stay and gives him a car to escape 

-Finally the hero would be Theo because he is there to help and sacrifice to send hope for the new generation

Character Driven Motivations:

V for Vendetta is trying to get across the sense of realism. Not as simplistic as people want it to be. V's motivation is revenge on Government but ends up being the hero for the people of London. Good vs Bad

Children of Men is more complicated than VfV. We can't tell who would be the villain and hero because some of the characters are more likely to have more than one motivation. With infertility when someone comes up pregnant like Kee, it's gives the meaning of hope to the characters of the film.

The character of Sid in Chilren of Men is an important character due to him having a change in moods towards the Theo and Kee. Once he sees the baby he then takes it into his own hands and acts like most of humanity would probably do by trying to take the baby and use it as a tool go get what he wants.

Children of Men and V for Vendetta Comparative Essay

Now both films Children of Men and V for Vendetta are dystopian based. Both set in the near future with a corrupted Government who run everything. Although both films have a different drive mind, Children of Men focuses on the infertility of women and how it affects the society. In V for Vendetta it shows how a corrupt Government run by a dictator can abuse the power over there people, and then have the people stand for what is right.

Obviously the first similarity we can get from the two films is that they are both dystopian futures set in London, and that are both under control from there Government who want to make England a better, purer country. Both films have the same intentions for all the homosexuals, jews and any religions, they all want them gone but they do it in there own way. By making this in the near future it could be trying to send warning symbols to the viewers. That if this happens, if the country goes into the dictatorship state then we will be overrun by the power of the Government and forced to follow more rules. But still in Children of Men it was a natural case, the film never explained how it got into that state. And in V for Vendetta it was a biological war starting with the Government and turning people with them.

Another similarity of the two is the theme of revolution. To get the messages across both films have to have a violent uprising to achieve there freedom. In V for Vendetta it was the peoples uprising from there homes to go and stand beside V who was there to be the leader of the revolution for the people. Although his actions may have been seen as heroic and peaceful protest at the start, when V decided to blow up the House of Parliament it was then seen as violent protest. But all this was still for one thing and one thing only, freedom, which there achieved once the buildings were gone, and the country could start  rebuilding again. Like in Children of Men the film also had a violent uprising to get the points across but there was no question being answered as to how this war started. None the less the revolution was still to over come the fear of Government.

A difference between the two films would be that they have different drive point, they have a different way of reaching the goal. For Children of Men there main focus was infertility, that is what all the character are sparring towards. As the problem is unexplained it is very hard to determine any other possible themes between both films. The drive point for V for Vendetta is when the protagonist (V) is searching for revenge, but his revenge is seen as heroic and that is when the people stand with him to start a new beginning.

Overall the two films Children of Men and V for Vendetta have many similarities in there style and there layout of themes. There only main difference though is there final drive point.

Conclusion

Conclusion

V for Vendetta's sides of the war are V vs the Government. V can be seen as a terrorist or a freedom fighting so it's hard to choose a side. In Children of Men the war is between the rebels and the army. Any other film we would choose the rebels but in this case the rebels aren't the good people we think they always are in other films. The baby in the film could be seen as a Jesus figure with a sense of rebirth and hope for everyone

How Does V Represent Typical Gender Roles to Communicate Messages?

Throughout the film V for Vendetta, it brings out some of the stereotypical gender roles between characters. They way it presents the gender roles at the beginning is quite sexist. It doesn't show the femininity of the characters until later on in the film. Once into the film you can clearly see that they then start to promote the fact of being feminine, masculine men, such as Chancellor Sutler,  loses there masculinity towards the end and then the film starts applying it to there actions and behaviour.

There is a sense of the father and mother figures towards some of the characters towards each other. If we take V for example he would be a mother figure at the beginning of the film towards Evey. He takes her in and looks after her by doing actions that we would categorised with feminine traits. Traits such as cooking which most people would class mainly as a feminine characteristic. Also when V is alone he likes to dance which is more popular with woman. Although V does a lot of these feminine actions, he still has a hype of masculinity by the actions he does towards Government and the scientist that experiments on him by killing them all. Going back to V being a mother figure, he is also a fatherly figure. When we think of fatherly figures we get the approach that they need to be strong, caring and someone they can trust. Evey up to this point trusted V but then that changes when she is put into a mock prison camp set up by V to try and get Evey to over come her fear. This is then giving her the sense of freedom that she's wanted and she is then reborn in a way.

At first, Evey is show to us as a typical women. Long hair, make-up and getting dressed up to go out. When she does go out her fear starts to come out more with the way she acts when she is attempted to be raped. This whole conception of fear is that there is always a source. In Evey's case it would be when her mother is kidnapped and black bagged out of her life. After that she has been living in fear all her and she has been needing a father figure to look up to. Dietrich would be the most suited in a way because being Evey's boss and them being close, Evey has someone to look up to. The scene where Evey can over come her fear is when she has just come out of the prison and has just realised that V set it up. She walks onto the balcony and raises her arms up to give the sense of freedom in her life. It then juxtapose with the scene when V is doing that in the fire, but his isn't for freedom, but for vengeance.

Chancellor Sutler possibly has the biggest impact of a fatherly figure. He has the most power over anyone in the film due to his stature. As a fatherly figure Sutler controls most of the nation, much like a father that has to control his family. He creates the rules, he tells people what they can and cannot do. When Sutler is first introduces it's him on the big screen talking down to three inspectors who are talking about the problem with the destruction of the Old Bailey. As the dictator Sutler has to tell everyone what to do and then they make up an excuse for why the Old Bailey was blown up. Sutler has a lot of the masculine traits that you would think that a dictator would have, he has the power, and most of all he has the voice of the people. His gender does change right at the end when he is killed by V. V makes him act all innocent, has him on his knees begging for his life. At this point Sutler knows what he has done wrong and he is crying and grovelling, this brings his high level of power and masculinity right down to low level of femininity. Now that Sutler's fatherly position has just been destroyed from his actions towards the people and towards V, he has now been removed from the family in a way and now killed. This could link in to reality due to the fact that if you are using power over family, you can be forgotten, you can be left by the people that helped you get to where you are.

Men act, women appear. This is challenged in V due the gender change with Evey. At the beginning where we have Natalie Portman as the typical girly girl with her hair and make up, change to where she loses her femininity. By having her change to a male gender role, she is now changing the perception of the men act and women appear. Originally, Natalie Portman would be there to feature, to be looked at, she is the Male Gaze in this film, but when she gets taken to the mock prison camp and has her head shaved, her femininity gets more and more shorter. The way she is made to look in the second part of film is to make her look man, to create a Female Gaze if you will. This is then there to try and get us to understand that there is more to woman in a film, other to just be looked at by males.

The destruction of Old Bailey probably gave V a hypermasculinity rush, meaning that it gave him more masculinity in his actions. The explosion made him look more powerful and the way that they have shot it, the use of the different angles, gave him the hype of masculinity that defined the gender of V. When if you look at the Old Bailey, it has a point top that can give it phallic imagery. The Old Bailey is a court, it represents can represent the justice of people, meaning if it destroyed, all meaning lost. When V destroys it, he uses it as a symbol. It symbolises the Government, Government not giving justice to innocent people. With the Old Bailey being a phallic object, when destroyed, it can get rid of all the power in that it has, it makes it weak and it makes it feminine.

V for Vendetta represents typical stereotypes of gender roles throughout the film. By doing this it gets communicates messages to the audience. This can be for showing the viewer to bring out the feminine traits. V helps promote the ideas of feminine traits in many ways seen throughout the film. Such as the phallic imagery and the use of the mother and father roles between characters.

How Does V for Vendetta Get Across its Message & Beliefs Through Its Themes

Introduction -
V for Vendetta involves many themes, some of which have messages that can get across as to how the story is told. Vengeance is a theme, V is doing all of this for revenge on the people that experimented on him many years ago. Whilst V is doing this for revenge, the sense of freedom is starts to come out, as V makes all the people stand up to Government and join him. Revolution is one of the most important themes as all the people are now learning not to be feared by Government, but for Government to be feared of the people. Also terrorism can be a big part, as V's acts are being called an act of terrorism, to him they are what he believes in. Religion can also play about this due to the Government experimenting and trying to make humans better.

Theme 1 -
Vengeance. This is what the story is evolved around. V is an experimentation from Government works but when all was destroyed and killed, he survived, all this has been for revenge so V has gone to kill all the people that were still alive and that experimented on him. One of these was the bishop scene. Evey was helping V to kill him by dressing up and acting venerable to the bishop, but when they are talking Evey tries to example it all to him but he doesn't believe. All this happens and then V comes in and kills him, but before he does the bishop knows who he is. He gets all this idea of vengeance when he dies. Purpose is to understand why he is doing all of this to all the people.

Theme 2 -
As all this is being done for revenge on Government, V unveils the theme of freedom. Freedom is the people standing up against there Government. At the final march scene where everyone has joined together, that has now given all the people a sense of freedom. The Government will stand down because they have over come the controlling nature of he Governments power. It's also shown through the angling of the camera, when it looks at the military men, the camera looks down upon them to show that power is being lost. This linking into that people shouldn't be afraid to show what they believe in.

Theme 3 -
One of the biggest themes and possibly the most important message in the film is the sense of revolution. When everyone is stood together all wearing the V mask, they have all now stood up in what V believes in, but then this gets the sense that they will now not be afraid to stand up in what they believe. Government should fear the people, not the people fearing the Government. Tries to get the message across that this is how real society should think, Government is just face, they need someone for people to believe in that they know they will help there future, but as the last person in charge said the same and yet nothing happens.

Theme 4 -
Terrorism occurs a lot in the film. But what people think is terrorism, V thinks is symbolism. When the Old Bailey is destroyed it's classed as terrorism. But for V it symbolises what he will do the following year. It makes it hard for us to determine the identity of someone when they think that the wrong think is the right thing to do. Gets a question going on what actually is terrorism? Terrorism is defined in many different ways, if someone does something bad on a day to day basis, is that classed as terrorism? Gets us thinking about reality in different ways as if everyone and everything we do could be an act of terrorism.

Theme 5 -
Finally religion. As Government take the lives of hundreds, possibly thousands to try and make us better humans in the scenes where people line up for shots, but then cut to a scene where there all dead in a ditch. They succeed in one try and that is when everything got destroyed and V had become a stronger person. As religion in this goes it tries to tell us that we shouldn't try and change who we are, some people would think that it's wrong and really we are just trying to play God in some ways. If this did happen and we succeed, like they did once, it could come back and kill us all for what we did to it.

Conclusion -
I believe that the film does show many messages to the audience through its themes. The way is film is produced and the structure it follows, you could not clarify it as a typical Hollywood Narrative. Although it does follow some of the rules, must are just guided. This could mean that because of how it's set out, and how it doesn't follow certain rules, it can make us question the rules in real life on society and Government are set out and how we follow certain rules.

Cinematography

Stock Characters & VfV Links

Stock Charatcers: 

A character that fits a role 

V

-Black knight 

-Anti-hero 

-Hero 

-Lone vigilante 

-V doesn't conform to stock charatcers, because it keeps it interesting, makes it more mysterious, to make you think, understand a warning and message. Shows realism 

-Isn't a typical Hollywood film.

V for Vendetta Links -

Cause and effect: V gets powers from experimentations

Character driven: V has a 'prize' to claim which is the Parilament buildings destroyed 

Opposition and conflict: The symbol of Government and realism, there is no decisive villain 

3 Act Structure (E-D-R)

Positive End/Closure 

Believable 'Realism'

Summary: Why does V for Vendetta not fit/fit into a typical Holloywood film? 

There are ways that it does fall into a Hollywood film, ways such as cause and effects, something happens to someone and we know how it happened. In V's case it would be that he got powers from being experimented on and now wanting revenge. It doesn't fit into it due to it not being just a one character driven film. In others there would be one character that without them there would be no film, but in V for Vendetta, there's more than one character that drives the film. But still both of the characters that drive it forward are both relevant and without either there is no film. There's a lot of opposition and conflict that can make this a Hollywood film. The film is deliberately is doing this to show the different rules that need to be followed. The good the bad, the rules are very black and white. 

Exam Prep - The Messages of VfV

Themes:

What the characters are doing and why they're doing it.

Characters are symbolic. 

Messages:

-People should not fear Government.

-Sends warning. (Dystopian themed, there to send warnings) 

-Totalitarianism (Ruled by one dictator.) 

-Revolution is the replacement of the Government. 

-Freedom is worth dying for. 

-Democracy is a face. It makes people think they have a say and some control over the Government decisions.

-Conspiracy Theories is the belief by an individual/group that may be responsible for a particular event. 

-Fascism a dictator/party. Nationalism is a fascist theme; the idea that the countries people stick together. 

Why is V for Vendetta More than 1 Genre?

V for Vendetta - Question

Genre of VfV

Types of Genres it could be:

Drama

Horror 

Musical 

Action & adventure

Historical 

War

Science fiction 

Thriller

V for Vendetta 

Why is it more than one genre? 

- Appeal to wider audience 

- Keep it interesting 

- Mostly appealing to for males 

- Male Gaze 

- The person we follow is Evey

- Without her there's no film 

Why is it Sci-Fi?

- Realism 

- "near" future 

- Distopia 

- Doesn't show conventions 

- The way we set the film 

- Too show that certain things could happen

- Makes us look at reality in different ways 

What makes it a thriller? 

- Involves an exciting plot 

- Espionage 

- Crime 

- Detective investigation 

- Should make convosations about reality 

What is the mystery? 

- Whos behind the mask

- How did it get like that in the first place 

- Twist

- Conspiracy 

- Freedom vs Protection 

What makes/doesn't make it an action?

- Fights 

- Takes away the reality of fights

- Entertainment 

- Good or bad character isn't justified clearly 

- No high tech equipment 

- Partially good and bad

- Destroys Parliament who are hiding behind symbolism 

- Shows everyone is good à and bad 

- Experiment on the people with power

- Power meaning people who have a voice over the Government 

Camera Content

Voyeurism-

-Is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considering to be of a private nature. 

-Voyeurism may involve the making of a secret photography or video of the subject during an intimate activity.

-In today's society the concept if voyeurism has evolved.

-Non-pornographic tv shows such as Survivor and The Real World as good examples of voyeurism.

The Male Gaze-

-Is the feminist theory that was first developed by Laura Mulvey in 1975.    -The Male Gaze occurs when the audience or viewer is put into perspective of a heterosexual male.

What can you recognise in this shot from the clip?

-high wide shots to show the setting

-low angle shot

-close up of apes to show more importance 

-still shots 

-throws bone up and camera follows it up to space, shows millions of years evolution from bone to space

-low angle when hitting bones (shows power) 

-idea that we evolved from apes, Darwin's theory 

-using tools for first time, that's why he was confused while doing it 

-graphic match 

-central framing 

-close ups 

-aliens helped us evolve

-as the sun goes up it shows where we should go and discover 

Narrative: the way the stories being told 

Sub-text: underlying ideas, messages/meaning

Unusual shots usually have most meaning

How is the camera giving deeper meaning to the sub-text?

-shallow focus 

-following shot

-close up in car

-point of view 

-view angle 

-shows fear of the people 

Director is trying to get across the fear of the actors when batman is running around. This happens by constantly using close ups and shallow focus shots. Shallow is used to show more fear than the other character, so the close up character has more fear. The point of view shot was used to show the audience what it's like to be in that position. The wide shot was used to give the location/setting away and the atomsphere of the setting.

Inglorious Basterds Pub Scene -

-opposing each other, wide angle 

-gain importance 

-gun under table, on the surface there's difference  

-close up 

-over the shoulder

-guns symbolize importance 

-shallow focus 

-holds gun by couch to show masculinity 

-battle for power

-all kicks off

Saving Private Ryan -

-extreme close ups, helps connect with character 

-hand shaking

-low angle shots of us looking at him

-shows power, but getting shot so losing power

-dramatic shot

-point of view

-immediacy 

-slow mo, no sound, focus's on facial expressions not surroundings 

Goodfellas -

-following shot, (tracking shot) 

-gets special treatment than other people 

-power

-long take 

-realism

-mafia gang 

-doing it to base on real life

Gone with the Wind -

-pans out 

-walk through dead/injured bodies 

-deeper the pan, shallow focus occurs

-close up to camera

-power over the doctor, then doctor stands and gains importance 

-central position in pan shot

MICRO - Limitless Analysis

"Micro"
- Cinematography
- Sound
- Mise-en-Scene
- Edit

'Citizen Kane' Camera Work:
Power?
Relationship?
Mother and son
Husband and wife
Lawyer
Mothers most important as she stays in the main shot
Tilted to show power
Man leaves shot
Silence falls
Emotional connection
Master shots
Main characters is centre shot
Man influences on mother
Boy is always visible
Steps in to scene to gain importance
Emotional connects to camera

Main Shots:
Low angle
Wide
Medium close up
Long shot

Say what you see:
Positioning in camera
Occupy more space
Relationship between people
Power can change, movement with characters

Analysis:
Woman's more important, has power
Blocking, whats being seen in the shot
Mum and dad, opposite sides of each other, oppose
Lawyer is between the parents,
Boy is always in middle of the shot, shows how he is stuck between

Limitless Bar Scene:
Setting: A bar

Characters: A dealer and a buyer

Costume: Dealer - Nice suit, drinking coffee
Buyer - Drinking beer, scruffy hair

The drug gives him more confidences, changes him completely, he starts working on something that would help him get a job, it's changed his personality, colour is bright to show he's starting again in life, everything's together it's neat, the setting changes, uses laptop to open a new chapter, costumes changed looks better, eyes are brighter

The term 'Blocking' is miss-en-scene

Analysis: 

At the start he was a loser, everything wasn't going for him. When he took a drug to open up more parts of the brain, his life changed and so did the film. The lighting was brighter to show him being confident, also his eyes brighten up to show different aspects in how the drug changed him. He's changed his appearance from scruffy homeless, to casual, somthing everyone does, he's taken off the look of a loser and now changed to someone who has meaning and more importance. His location in his home is now cleaner, it shows him changing for the better and helping him understand life more and starting a new. The framing is more focused on him as he is more opening in his performance. The way he stands shows how he's gained a lot, unlike when he was in the bar all hunched over and closed in.