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This will help you to. 1. Analyse films using analytical approach films for film studies 2. To analyse films for critical approaches

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  1. This will help you to • 1. Analyse films using analytical approach films for film studies • 2. To analyse films for critical approaches • Most important: You must not choose the same films when you analyse them and you must make sure what you submit for each task is different, or you will have to re do it.

  2. Film studies • For this task you must pick two full films, or clips from a few films or trailers to show you can analyse them. • 1. You will pick a film or (clips) you must a use feminist perspective to analyse the clips and use both genre analysis with a bit of narrative analysis to analyse them. • You must analyse a second film from a feminist perspective, but use content analyse approach.

  3. To start the assignment • Intro: You may start with something similar. In this report I am going to analyse two films using a feminist perspective, and I am going to compare a qualitative genre based analysis with a quantitative content analysis, to show how different methods work. I have chosen to analyse two horror film one is ... The other is . • (What you could do is compare old horrors with new or remakes like clash of the titans, i.e. with a genre analysis how have characters changes, with a content analysis are weapons prioritised differently)

  4. How to analyse from a feminist perspective • If you cant remember much about feminism then read the PowerPoint on feminism and horror films first. You could apply feminism to other types of genres, but there are plenty of theorists to use when it comes to horror i.e. Laura Mulvey and the Male gaze, Final girl theory; Carol glover. • The key thing about feminism is showing that in films women are show as being unequal and playing stereotypical roles, this could be shown through low and high angle shots, or just in the choice of clothing that she is made to wear i.e. red and white have different connotations.

  5. Representation • Laura Mulvey – argues that cinema positions the audience as male. The camera gazes at the female object on screen. It also frames the male character watching the female. • We watch the girl; we see the male watching the girl; we position ourselves within the text as a male objectively gazing at the female. • Can be applied to other media forms also. • Key word: Hegemony (dominant ideology)

  6. Example of feminist analysis(this is above what you would be expected to do, but worth a watch)

  7. Genre based analysis what to look for • The Main Genres Action / Adventure What defines a film's genre? Comedy Characters Crime/gangster Mise-en-scene Drama NarrativeFamily Music Historical / Epic EditingHorror • Musical • Science Fiction • War • Westerns • All genres are recognizable, well that is one theory, but in genre theory there is also a debate which suggests rather than genres being fixed they change over times and become spoofs/paradoies, a bit like scream and scary movie. What you could do is analyse old horrors with new, to see if women’s roles have changes or look at how genres have changed. Through the following analysis

  8. Generic features • Genre share the same elements of paradigms with others in the same category, this makes them recognisable to the producers who create them and the audience. Audiences recognise these patterns and things brings about a certain expectations i.e. horror films the isolated house, the final girl etc.

  9. Use the following bullet point of general features to help you analyse and use key words in your analysis such as iconography, low angles, mise-en-scene, juxtaposition, watch the following examples afterwards to help you analyse). Paradigms: 1. Typical Mise-en-scène/Visual style (iconography, props, set design, lighting, temporal and geographic location, costume, shot types, camera angles, special effects). 2. Typical types of Narrative (plots, historical setting, set pieces). 3. Generic Types(link this to feminism and how men and women are represented i.e. Are there typical characters (do typical male/female roles exist, archetypes?) i.e how are men portayed how are women portrayed.

  10. Typical studios/production companies… i.e. certain genres have certain directors, and certain types of sound effect and editing i.e. paced paced editing shows tension being built think about the trailer for taken 4. Typical Personnel (directors, producers, actors, stars, auteurs etc.) i.ege 5. Typical Sound Design (sound design, dialogue, music, sound effects). 6. Typical Editing Style.

  11. Watch the following they will help you analyse your films.

  12. Be able to develop responses to media products You will analyse the films using a content analysis of films, but also analyse generic codes and conventions i.e(content, style, symbolic, cultural, technical); changes over time, egin audience, ideological shifts, re-definition, obsolescence, spoof, pastiche, parody Look at the Narrative structures: narrative, eg single strand, multi-strand, closed, open, linear, non-linear; alternative narrative; enigma; climax; equilibrium Representation issues: negative; positive; of social groups; of social issues; stereotyping; presence and absence

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