shadow photography practise

shadows connote enigma, in this shoot we tried to capture shadows of particular bodyparts to create mystery or a question.

Crime narative photoshoot

For this blog task, we created a short crime narrative involving a phone thief. this is how we conveyed the story in chronological order.

 

 

 

1. a guy on his new iphone, probably on instagram.

 

 

2. the villain steals the phone.

 

 

3. the guy asks his friend for help getting the phone back.

 

 

4. the guy points the thief out tp his friend.

 

 

5. his friend approaches and steals the phone from the thief.

 

 

6. the guys friend gives him his phone back!

 

 

 

To make the story anachronic, we re-arranged the events in this order-

 

3

4

1

2

5

6

 

This creates an enigma as we see the situation before it has happened. using flashbacks this helps to add depth to the story.

Genres.

Genres are different types of film for instance horror or comedy that aim to please the audience in a different way depending on the type of audience. A person who likes the horror genre may like it because it is jumpy and they are thrill-seekers, whereas people who enjoy romantic movies may watch them because they are more caring.


Hybrid genres are films where 2 or more genres are used and work with eachother, such as rom-com, or rom-zom-com. films such as shaun of the dead pull off the 'rom-zom-com' hybrid genre well. another film that uses hybrid genres but is not so new is 'alien', combining the sci fi genre with the horror genre.


The genres of film that are most popular in terms of Oscars are usually In the romance, comedy or drama genres. These are especially popular as drama and romance can both be made into 'epics', films that have very large budgets and aim to go down in history such as the godfather or citizen Kane which were revolutionary at the time. 


Some short films get picked up by bigger companies who would like to make them into feature length films. An example of a short film that has been turned into a feature length film is 'across the hall'. Originally wrote by alex merkin, he sold the rights to a bigger company, then wrote and directed the feature length version.


There is a huge fanbase for short horrors, probably because they are so easy to make and therefore there are a lot of them, and the fan base has grown considerably larger than other ones that there are not so many of. also there seems to be a correlation between age and genre. Stereotypically a lot of young people use the internet, and young people's favourite genre of film appears to be horror, so there is a lot of online activity surrounding horror.

60 second bunny task

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tzvetan_Todorov - this is a link to the Wikipedia page of 'Tzvetan Todorov'. he is a Bulgarian theorist responsible for 'Todorov's narrative theory'. He said that each film has a set pattern and follows in five stages; the film begins with an equilibrium (a sense of normality for the characters), the disruption, and set out to repair it (by solving the problem that normality then gets disrupted, the characters then recognise), in this section their will be lots of smaller disruptions, this may cause disagreements  as to what the major disruption is, it is what initially the characters are trying to repair; finally, a new equilibrium is put into place.


Vladmir prop was a Russian theorist who came up with a narrative based theory on character types and functions. He originally applied this theory to fairytales but it is now applied to all narratives. Propp said that narratives tend to have all or most of the following character types; hero, villain, heroes helper, donor, dispatcher, false hero, princess and father. The princess is not necessarily a princess,it is in basic terms the heroes reward and the father traditionally in fairytales would be the princess' father, in other narratives in would simply be the princess' protector. Here is a link to his Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp