Facial Expressions.

Margerie Ferguson also distinguished between different forms of stereotypical facial expressions taken up by male and female roles.

Females

• The chocolate box look, this refers to the blissful enjoyment facial expression found on the front of chocolate boxs.
• Super-smiler, this refers to the type of look adopted by a female were she keeps smiling excessively showing her teeth the whole time. For example in a tooth paste advert were the teeth and the smile is the focal point.
• Invitational, this is a warm almost suggestive expression that invites the audience or character to join her.
• Romantic or sexual, is a seductive look that is adopted to try and arouse some emotion from either the character in the text or the audience.

Males

• Carefree, an expression that shows a relaxed, calm, blissful in ignorance man.
• Practcal, this look shows the male as a weathered useful individual who has a hands on more traditional dominant masculine role.
• Seductive, this look shows a want, a desire for a character in the text or the audience trying to entise them.
• Comic, is were the expression shows them as less of a traditional male and more of a funny man who is sensitive and witty.
• Catalogue, this involves a lost in the midground stair were by the characters gaze isnot focused. For example a look adopted by catalogue models.

Post modern media

Post modern media is the idea that the media reality is now the new reality. As we no long can distinguish between the things that are real and images of things that are real and real experiences and simulation of them. Represenations are re interpreted and changed through pastiche, by paying homeage to another media text, parodys and intertexual references. Some directors don't try and hide the fact the media text is constructed, deliberately exposing the text as constructed to tell the audience that the piece is not real and it never pretends to be real at any point. Quintine Tarintino does this in his film 'Kill Bill' were the exaggerated blood spraying and body dismemberment shows the audience this is not real. Some of the camera shots also reveal the location as a film set for example a over head shot of two of the characters in seperate rooms with the camera positioned over the conjoining wall. 4:27-8:02

Target Audience

The demographic i will be targeting will be the young working class male. In terms of social standing they are quite low down and have generally low incomes. Their social catergory is C2-E, as they can be either a skilled manual worker after having done an appreticeship or learned a trade through college or a family member(C2), they can also be a semi skilled or non skilled manual worker after entering a job after school(D), and finally they can be just casual workers or unemployed by either still being at school or just having a part time job(E).

This Niche market will like my short film as the going out with the intension to get out of control and overflowing violence will be what they look for in entertainment. They will be able to relate to the characters and will understand the dark humour of the hero being being over confident and getting retribution for his actions.

The Presentation

This is my Pitch for my short film to the class.

The Presentation

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The Idea.

I want to produce a short film, 5minutes in duration, that encapsulates a key contemporary issue and a traditional movie genre.

· I have decided to incorporate the issue encounted during a night out in the contemporary UK. For exmaple binge drinking, drugs, and violence.


· The traditional movie genre I wish to bring into the short film is an old american western style. I will try to encorporate this into the short film during a conflict between the main character and a villian. This will be merge into a shoot-out themed fight. It will build on a surreal feel that will come from the main character being heavily under the influence of different substances.


· I will encorporate key western shoot-out camera shots into this sequence.
- low shot, from behind the villian capturing the hero in the shot and both gun hands.
- extreme close ups, of the eyes in particular but also the faces to capture the emotions and tension of the scene.
- over the shoulder shot, that once again incorporates both characters and there emotions through the face of one of the characters.


· I havent yet come to a conclusion on the influence this western style theme will have on the mise en scene. The more I use the stereotypical old american items of clothing and hats, guns, and scenery the more surreal and distanced from the target audience the film becomes. But on the other hand the more believable the western theme becomes with the inclusion of these features.

The negatives of producing a piece of work themed on a western is the unpopularity of the genre with the institutions in recent years. With westerns in the making being very few if not non-existent. I will have to try and side with the more modern genre of action thriller over the more traditional western to bring a newer twist and a fresh take on the classic genre. This has been done in previous movie for example 'back to the future'. Where the western becomes a sci-fi hybrid. This is the only way the westerns have a direct influence on films in comtemporary films as they have became hybrids to maintain a changing appeal of the target audience.

The scenes will flick between the reality of the main characters situation and the surreal imaginary world he is experiencing.


This will be made clear to the audience through clear changes in editing speed, for example the editing will be quicker to sympbolise the frantic chaos of his real life situation while the surreal western themed imagination will have much slower editing as it is under control and has a very suppressed tension and nervousness that is present in most westerns of the past.

It will also be clear through the camera angles as i expect to use different more classically western shots like the low angle and extreme close up to gain the effect of the western gun slinging film.

Possibly the most recognisible change i wish to include though will be the change between diegtic sound and non-diegetic sound as the real life reality will have shouting and street back groung noses while on the other hand the western surreal sequence will include limited controlled sound and possibly music to add to the effect of the western.