Red is often paired with white, black, or other neutral shades for brands that are high-energy and powerful. Also, red is a warm colour and can remind you of a summery holiday.
yellow has the feeling of optimism, confidence, self-esteem, happiness, and encouragement. It suggests sunshine, summer. green is linked with health and feels natural
blue is a colour of calm, control, logic, honesty, intelligence, security, purity, freedom, and confidence.
purple
traditional color of royalty, luxury, and spirituality. It triggers associations with creativity, extravagance, fantasy, sophistication, mystery, calm, luxury, high quality, and independence.
purple is more of a luxury colour as it has a past of being hard to obtain and being expensive.
Gaye Tuchman help develop the concept of Symbolic Annihilation, Symbolic annihilation is a term used to show misrepresentation or under representation of group of people in media. Also, Gaye reported that women where treated unfairly in media. she often stated that womens magazines always focused on cleaning and looking good for there husbands. They never really got out of this bubble.
The cult of femininity was based on the traditional roles that women where given. such as caring, loving, fragile, family and there appearance.
the womens sport and fitness foundation found little importance in the media and didnt crop up anywhere.
in the book “the mouse that roared” Henry Giroux argued that the representation of women in media where restricted and forced on these roles.
Snow White – who cleans the house of the male dwarves and is eventually rescued by a male prince because she is pretty.
Beauty and the Beast – In which Belle endures an abusive and violent beast in order to redeem him.
Ariel – who gives up her voice to win the prince with her body.
Mulan – who wins the war almost single handed only to return home to be romanced.
Laura Mulvy develop the male gaze, which she believe that cinema films are developed in the pleasure of men more. The main point being that it sexulised females body’s. she believed that the audience was in the view of a heterosexual male and that the camera view was important.
To pass the Bechdel test films must have at least two (named) women in it, Who talk to each other and that is above something other than a man
presence of women as sources was 28%.
half of the presence being eye witness reports the rest being experts and spokespeople
The Beauty myth is women that have been pressured, as things such as photoshopping images and the media continues to associate slimness with health, happiness, success and popularity.
“Since 2015 there has been an increase in diversity of representations of women in advertising.”
i agree 100%. Advertisements, although still portraying the slim/looking beautiful = happiness, has become alot more diverse and contain alot wide range of races and genders.
Today we looked at James brown and wrote some of the fact we found and put them on the board
I then looked into popular forms of media that would get the isle of man talking about james brown
in short he:
he argued and wrote about the political system in the newspapers and changed the whole system and was wrongfully thrown in jail.
i settled on a game, since the isle of man tt game was a success then brain stormed all my ideas and need to develop one of them.
Then i started to expand on one of my ideas
I then expanded my game idea on what i thought was a message driven game delivering the message more powerfully and the income he received and caring for his family. creating multiple endings for making a wrong decision such as giving up or not going to a riot. changing the story as you go.
This song is about America and how feels about it. He hides racial, controversial topics and messages through out the video, the main one being the Jim Crow stance.
A white man, Thomas Dartmouth Rice was born in the 1808 in New York. He went into theater in his twenties in the early 1830s. his act? He painted his face black and did a song and dance.
Red Cloths and guns
every-time he uses a weapon in the video its always gets taken away by a red cloth. To me this means that the weapon has this type of importance, power and should be treated like a god.
How busy and crazy the back round gets
near the beginning near the end
as we watch the video the back round gets more and more chaotic as at the start they are all dancing on cars and having a good time but though out the video more things like police, fires, a guy jumping off a ledge, people running and screaming and much more.
“Witness” is a short movie made by director Ali Asgari. It is about a mother that helps an elderly woman and a traumatic event happens, that makes her start confronting the impact of her actions. It was filmed with a small crew of only 10 people.
This short film start started off like an average life. a mother with a somewhat busy life and her child. The mother had got her a dress what the child didn’t like so they went to go switch it out. when getting to the mall she left the child in the car as to not get her car towed. the pace of the start was very slow and had a-lot a dialogue giving us a little information about the characters. I feel like we didn’t learn any names or get to connect with any of the characters other than the mother is a-bit stressed. I didn’t see anything come out of the child other than later in the film where she gets impatient and leaves the car when she was not told to say in the car. This doesn’t give us enough to connect with the characters and feel their emotions which the mother should be developed the most. But she isn’t.
When the mother gets to the mall, the child is left in the car as the mother goes inside and exchanges the dress. while she is exchanging the dress she sees this elder women struggling to get go down the escalator and decides to go and help her. while helping her the women accidentally trips and falls down the escalator. over all of this, it gives us this boring character doing a boring task. she doesn’t talk much, she doesn’t do much and over all get boring very fast.
As a Manx citizen death penalties here are never brought up or talked about, so watching the women walk away and not go down the escalator to help really confused me as i didn’t get across that this movie was set in Iran. The punishment in Iran Being the death penalty if proven guilty. I think in Iran the movie would be able to betray this meaning of i could get a death sentence if i go down and help her. But something as simple as a news paper telling us about the death penalty or her explaining something to her child about it would have wrapped up the movie nicely for world wide coverage and understanding.
context: this is where she sees the dead body she pushed down the stairs
The acting was underwhelming, as the scene where the mother is going down the stairs we get a slow pan and not very doesn’t really give a stressed or give the women (the mother) any emotion. making the character feel dry and not interesting at all. The child witnessing her mother actions wasn’t clear at all. I feel like there should have been a clip of her standing looking at the body from the balcony or a different angle where you could see the girl looking down at the body. i felt it could have just been a random balcony we never really saw.
In comparison to the other two movies we watched i feel like witness was the weakest of all three. Chicken and Dolapo both developed characters and displayed there msgs in two different but better ways. Chicken put it in a funny ways that we could laugh and understand the complications that foreign people could run into. Witness is just confusing. For me after the first time i watched it i was lost and gave me the question of “what was the story they where trying to give us?” I thought it was about morals and fast decision making about someone with no morals or care for other people. but i dont feel confidant on that.
overall i feel like the movie is ok, the story is alright but can improve to show the mother has a bit more human feel. Also including hints for people across seas that might not be very knowledgeable about Iran and the laws, so adding maybe a newspaper with article about the death sentences that she picks up or there is a sale man and he is shouting the latest article.
The first one “dolapo is fine” is about a British Black Girl stepping into the business industry and being pressured into changing herself for the business industry
chicken is about a black mother getting overcharged for something she did buy and the trouble they go though to to get a refund
witness is about a women that wants to change the colour of a dress she orders but wants to help this women but something goes wrong with her daughter watching.
in my opinion “Dolapo is fine” is the best and most powerful, maybe because i can relate and because it made me smile with the twist. the wide range of camera movement and motion makes the short very pleasant to look at. The story is very well written but could have made certain scenarios funnier or more interesting. but over all the message is short, sweet and entertaining.
chicken was my second favourite as it takes a problem a foreigner would have and turns it into funny way of delivering the message. This kept me engaged and wanting to watch the rest of the short.
The last one, witness. Although having the funny escalator scene, i felt like it didn’t really have a clear message. I felt like there they had a reason to go to the mall but then, the kid witnessed it happen but why does the mother run away after a women fell? over all i just didnt understand why she made the decisions she did. i think more dialogue or hearing what she was thinking.
The Uk one show little to no dialogue and leaves you with 1 powerful phrase “you broke my heart, you killed me” this leaves you with questions and makes you think. This is what they thought would interest the British audience. it had no music, just sounds of animals, insects and wind with no music.
the USA trailer has a-lot more dialogue than the uk one and they add some music near the end. the clip they show adds a bit more drama and gives you less questions but in my opinion it doesn’t keep me interested. as there is a-lot happing that i don’t really care about. i feel like they are are building up the drama and telling the audience what is happening rather than giving them questions
Also in both trailers they use a black actor as one of the characters, as in most of the previous movies about him he was white. probably due to the time they where made later or directors not reading the story correctly.
The first thing i noticed in the first movie was the camera movement. In the first one was very basic and slow and a few fades, overall very basic camera movement. nothing crazy but taking in the factors that this was made in 1990 and it mas made for purely the horror factor and to creep you out, this could have set the mood and could have been the top quality at the time for horror films as horror was not as popular as other films.
In the remake they add more movement and top down views. and over all a cleaner cuts and and more emersion. just the way the camera is used is creative and unexpected
such as this scene, the camera just flows and cuts nicely and when we are behind the kids we cut in front so that we are not looking at the same thing for too long.
Character development/ actors:
The acting in the first one is a lot cheesier in some of the scarier scenes. The newer films obviously has with time has gotten better. but overall i think the first one actually shows the stronger bond between the children and in the end thats what kills pennywise. However, in the second one the bond is there, but they also include a bit of conflict which i think is also a great decision. This conflict keeps us invested in the movie and interested in whats going to happen next. In theory, Making the children’s bond stronger.
I feel like the 2017 has a lot of a better build up and suspense to it and the original lacks. The original i feel like is focused more on the story, which they do very well and probably why it was so successful. The newer one takes this amazing story, changes a few parts and modernised it to make the movie even more just an outstanding movie. overall i think it makes the scenarios a lot better, entertaining and creeper, as it reaches into a lot more different fears.
Overall the remakes quality and the funds where higher expecting a higher quality and story writing. i think they have achieved this, the remake updates and utilises more up to date technology and uses more gc and better story telling. reading a few reviews online people like the original and say you cant beat it
I think this is defiantly linked to nostalgia and memories as a teen or adult when they watched the original
Personally i agree with the creepiness factor but i think with rework it makes pennywise a lot more memorable and is not just the clown movie. Such as it makes him a lot more darker and not as bright as the original. Overall i think the main change was the lighting for the drain scene and just every-time we see him the lighting is just off and way too bright. but the new lighting makes the skin more paler and greyish. Also the nose is just painted on, also like its skin and more like he is this shapeshifter or alien feel to him as it pushes him away from just being this clown. This gives It an identity. finally the lips that goes all the way through his eyes, as to not copy the Joker, and gives him a unique look.
Ben Byron 