Explaining our storyboard

Risk Assessment

• No filming in inappropriate locations
• Check safety of locations
• Minimise risk of theft of the equipment
• When filming on location ensure teachers and a responsible adult know where you are and have your phone number and know when you are returning
• Check all equipment is working before you leave
• Ensure you have permission for filming is necessary
• Always film with at least one other person

Reply for permission

This is the email we recieved back from Madam Tassauds, giving us permission to film there as part of our coursework.

Filming location

We are going to be filming in a number of different locations for our music video. However we wanted to film in Madame Tussauds for part of our music video. We had to email them to ask for permission to make sure we would be able to go to Madam Tussauds and film at their attraction.

This is the email we sent them to ask.

Media texts

The influence and consumptions of media texts by the audience can help them with issues such as learning, emotional satisfaction, relaxation, help with issues of personal identity, help with issues of social identity, and issues of aggression and violence.

Feminist Film Theory & Audiences

• Laura Mulvey
• Visual pleasure and narrative cinema (1975)

The Theory

• Cinema reflects society
• Therefore cinema reflects a partiarchal society
• How does a patriarchal society manifest itself in cinema?
• FOR EXAMPLE: patriarchy and phallocentrism are linked.
• The phallus is the symbol of power
• Note how guns are used in films
• Gun = phallus = power

The Gaze

• The gaze of the camera is the male gaze
• The male gaze is active, the female gaze is passive
• Within the narrative, amle characters dorects their gaze towards female characters

Theory

• The spectator is made to identify with the male look, because the camera films from the optical, as well as the libidinal point of view of the male character
• There are three levels of the cinematic gaze - camera gaze, character gaze and spectator gaze, that objectify (sexual character) the female character (triple gaze)
• Therefore the audience is constructed as thpugh everyone was male
• women are forced to look as though they were a male audience member

Agency

• In the classical Hollywood cinema the male protagonist has agency - he is active and powerful
• He is the agent around whom the dramatic action unfolds
• The female character is passive and powerless - she is the object of desire for protagonist and audience

Erotic Disire

• Mulvey argues that women have two roles in film:

1. an object of erotic desire for the characters
2. as an object of erotic desire for the audience

Suture

Classical Hollywood narrative and editing "sutures" or postions the audience in certain ways of making only one preferred reading possible, however unconscious the audience is of that position.