Charles Whitewood

Media language can be defined as the codes and conventions of a particular media text. This means that what you see in films have a specific meaning that is typical and usual to people involved with the media however to everyone else it would be seen as holding a deeper meaning. In this essay I will be explaining the way I have used camera, editing, sound, mise-en-scene, and semiotics in my trailer 'last man standing'. Semiotics can be defined as the study of signs which create a meaning through language and codes, a sig in a horror film for example can be anything such as blood signifying death, or a corridor holding the meaning of a yonic object. In my trailer we had a sharp crafting tool that was lodged into a tree that was holding a blood stained t-shirt up, the tool signified not only death but a phallic object. This ties in with symbolic codes, this can be objects that signify religion, death or it can be the colours of a costume or the costume itself, it can also be ...

In this essay I will be talking to you about what creativity is, what it means and I will reinforce this through peoples quotes and examples to show the meaning and what is good and bad. Creativity can be defined as a work in progress that allows room for skill development and can lead onto a sense of potential for other projects later on. (e.g. one thing can lead to another that could lead to creating a masterpiece or something original). In being creative you are pushing the boundaries and challenging conventions through behaving and thinking in an imaginative way. This is good because imaginative activity gives purpose for people and could lead to generating something original. The whole point of being creative is to make something that fits your preferences personally without anyones input and is based around your connotation of something. For example; if two people look at a pen, one would see just a pen that writes were as the other would see the things it could create, its p...

Audience is the most important part of a film due to the fact that they are the people that are consuming the product that is made. In this essay i will be applying mass audience theory and active audience theory to my summer trailer last man standing. Mass audience theory can be defined as the audience being passive and that they can be influenced easily, it also believes that everyone sees and interprets the media in the same way. on the other hand active audience theory goes against mass audience theory by saying that the audience see media texts in multiple separate ways and it examines their responses. the effects model is argued that media has an effect on the audience and can be influential towards the audience but the effects that it gives off are seen as typically negative. it also expresses that audiences are passive which correlates with mass audience. in-addition this model says that the viewer accepts the message that is presented to them through text. this stands out...

In this essay i will be talking about the representation scream queens, the final girl, religion and sexuality , hegemony and teen punishment, and the monster. during this essay i will be questioning and explaining who they are what they mean and why they are important to horror. I would say that my trailer is misogynistic due to the fact that there are are no females in the trailer which could connote patriarchy and male  dominance. The monster in the trailer could represent how males are in society and how they try to dominate everyone and everything. Firstly out of male gaze or scream queens i would say that our trailer applies to male gaze as although we don't have females in our trailer that we objectify we do have a view from male only perspectives, in my trailer all the camera shots were from either mine or Daniels point of view allowing the viewer to see from a male dominant view. This view is seen in the woods through out the trailer and you can see p...

introduction: Narrative can be defined as a chain of events in a cause and affect relationship occurring in time, and is a sequence of events in a chronological order to make a meaningful story. the trailer I will be using is Last Man Standing from our production called enemy of my enemy. Narrative is important to my trailer because like Vlad Propp says there are limited character types that share the same function. Furthermore Strauss is a valid narrative theory as it says that narratives are structured by pairs of binary opposites and this is evident in my trailer because we have good v evil and teen punishment. todorovs theory shows an equilibrium (happy, normal, utopian place to be) then a problem that arises to destroy the happiness which is called distruption and finally there is the resolution which is when the characters get rid of the aggressor or ghost and everything goes back to normal. The problem with having the resolution in the trailer is that it ruins th...

Genre is something that is used to gain knowledge of an audience and how they respond to certain things. In this essay I will be  analysing the way the concept of genre is portrayed in a trailer by previous media students from the production of jawsplitter, this trailer is called Enthrallment. At the beginning of this trailer you can see religious imagery which could imply that the genre of the film is psychological horror, I think this as this genre typically has religion involved to fight of evil, this tells me that this trailer is about good v evil. Daniel chandler backs up the meaning of genre and its origin. In-addition to this the trailer has clearly shown that there is a genre.Steve  Neale said that “genres are processes” that can evolve and change overtime which likely led to the creation of sub-genres. Before this argument was made the audience probably would have seen this as a horror purely because of the scary/tense music and the lighting, ...