The titles form their own sequence, with the sound acting as both non-diegetic and diegetic sound as the two boys later sing to it. The titles are given their own style. It is a mixture of two colours, yellow-green and white. With the roles and names being the same size. Splitscreen is used,.
When using sound in film, one simple division that is made is between diegetic and non-diegeticsound.This means that either the sound is part of the fictional world of the narrative, or isn't, it isn't recognised by any of the character's hearing senses. In Billy Elliot we have an interesting mix, where the diegetic sound becomes non-diegetic. For as the aforementioned in the title protagonist dances to a tune, h
After deciding that tagging the posts with the different evaluation questions was not necessary as the topics of the questions already existed as tags (conventions, representation, audience, distribution, technology)
This website didn't me enough due to not clarifying the process with any visuals.
I had to pause and rewind a few times, but it soon helped me.
*Insert screen recording of removing evaluation labels"
BILLY:
Today is another day full of endless possibilities. ... Yeah right, who am I kidding? So was yesterday.
Now you might think I'm this gloomy goth, that I hate the world just sound deep and artistic. But no, I've actually got someone I love. (close-ups of Rachel) I've actually found someone now, even though they're a bit of a mainstreamer. (reveal Rachel in common room) But she really is such a work of art.
Splitscreen of Rachel in common room and Rachel painting (at such a work of art)
RACHEL:
Look at me there, fitting in. But it's not what I feel inside. I dress like other girls do, try to talk like they do, but I don't know, I've never actually fit in anywhere, never had anyone. Well, until now.
BILLY:
So yeah, one small problem with this love of my life. Doesn't like girls. (at the mirror wiping lipstick off) I'm such a traitor for taking this off, but maybe she'll notice me if I don't try to be noticed.
HUGH:
My life motto is, just enjoy it. I know a lot of people think I'm privileged. Well I am. No use in them. If they want to change
Girl asks her to blow her pool stick.
Ah yes, always glad to do a favour. But no, no, I'll behave, I have a new treasure to look after at the moment.
CORRIDOR
BILLY:
Right, now just gotta. Oh crud, . What do I do. Come on Billy, it won't change the weirdo everyone thinks you are.
Rachel waves
BILLY:
Oh my god. Is she? This must be some kind of dr- (was going to say dream)
Hugh bashes into her.
HUGH
Dream on lezza!
RACHEL (smiling at her new boyfriend)
I know he's bit of a dick. But I feel he at least gives me some attention, and he's there for me. Suppose that's what I want.
The two walk off.
HUGH:
Oh dear, what a villain I am. But come on, I'm doing her a favour. Rachel's got class, she'd never go out with a
BILLY
-freak like me.
Billy just sits there. Eventually, Jake lowers his hand to help her.
BILLY (looking up)
Oh great, the only goth in the village, meets the only geek in the village. No thanks.
In this interview American's struggle to understand colloquial, non-RP accents is demonstrated.
He says people not knowing what he's saying is "his world".
In Money Monster, when playing grief-stricken antagonist character, he could have played it with his normal accent, it would even have gone with the British villain stereotype. But '71 proved that a protagonist with both a working class background and non RP-accent does not sell well, as well as his character not having enough of the conventional hero archetypes (no love story, not enough confidence in personality, no real interaction with other characters, has no real power in the narrative, is nearly killed in the end and is the one who has to be saved). This makes the film less marketable to a mainstream audience for a wide release.
I managed to get Sebastian Hickey also managed to join the shoot. There was one issue that I had forgotten but was soon sorted, asking permission from the teachers for my actors to be just on the outskirts of school premises, although as I hoped our head of secondary had no objection. But in feature when using students below Sixth Form as actors during school time this is something I will always have to clear with the Head of Secondary/the Key Stage or the student's form tutor
The timing worked more or less pretty well, I managed to finish ten minutes before afternoon lessons started. It took a while however to get them to react rightly to an imagined Hugh. However the final take is un doubtley the best, which is the one I will use. However, Jason sweared using the f-word. The audio is muffled, but it probably will be heard by some of the audience. If my film gets a PG-13 rating in the USA, this would be the film's f-bomb.
Representation
- Only sound is Jason's voice, however the other nationalities of Swedish and Irish-Italian won't be recognised.
- In order not to make Jason's character look like the stereotype of a drug dealer, I made sure he took his hood off
- Also Simon often wears a hairband. While in real life he doesn't wear it with any connotative intentions of gender or sexuality, this could be read as a feminine stereotype of a gay male.
TIME Monday, 06.03.17, 12:50 - 13:15 LOCATION St Georges International School ACTORS these two definitely confirmed Simon Svensson Jason Hulster Simon might be able to bring one or two students other students to the shoot. But two are enough, for Simon to wave at Hugh, and Jason to rebuff him for doing that.
NARRATIVE
Fill in In order to fill in for Hugh waving at someone, I will take three students from the year below me to have one of them wave at Will, anchoring his popular status even earlier. This is also intended to hint at the character's bisexuality, the one counter typical aspect of the character, an idea I got from the character of Skins, who also inspired me for a scrapped scene earlier. PLANNED INTERTEXTUAL REFERENCES - none
Michael Angarano was together with Kristen Stewart, his name will be familiar to some due to gossip, so some might go when they hear name: "Oh did you know, he was together with the Twilight girl"
Uma Thurman is the real star.
How It Was Distributed
Released at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2010, then seven months later released in the US in April 2011.
Avalailable on Netflix only to US, not like for example The Spectacular Now which is available to all viewers Amazon Video: ...
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This is also how I would advertise my film if a trailer was made.
If I had been able to shoot the scene in the gym, and I would have tried to incorporate some form of gaze in the shoulder-revealing sportswear
This video remarks on a trend in recent rom-coms that are filled with more and more sexuality and nudity. Becky Roe bemusing the increase of male nudity, rom-coms engaging more with heterosexual women's sexuality, thereby increasing the Female Gaze? Is this a trend just with adult rom-coms, or with teen rom-coms? As was seen in the teen series Skins, only ten years ago, the portrayal of teenage sexuality can still be a controversial topic, that is only recently becoming more the norm.
Several feminists and other theorists feel that romantic comedies can glorify stalking, and give audiences false perceptions that everything will be surmounted by their faith in true love, which for example was the subject for a study by Heriot Watt University.
Your favorite rom-com is actually super creepyvon thewashingtonpost This video in particular looks at There's Something About Mary, and also raises the issue that while men's stalking is portrayed as heroic and romantic, women's is portrayed as creepy, weird and out of place, such as in Hello My Name Is Dorris, Fatal Attraction and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Also, in Bollywood for e.g: Raanjhanna the romantic stalking perpetuated by infatuated young men is taken even further to the extreme, which also is seen as mirroring a patriarchic structure of Indian society that has relaxed views on stalking.
This was also a criticism directed towards the Twilight franchise, especially with its huge female teen audience, that it glorified stalking through a handsome dark stranger of Edward.
These fears are part of the hypodermic needle theory, which sees the audience as passive and very easily influenced by the media, like a drug influencing the body negatively, as said in the video below it is a linear communication theory.
The romantic debate, where the rushing in on the wedding trope is seen as a sexist representation of woman who can't decide on true love unlike men who will make the final, right choice for them and sweep them away on their feet
A recent article criticising Love Actually:
"there’s a plotline about how all American women are dying to sleep with nerdy Englishmen, because that’s a leitmotif in Richard Curtis’s films."
POINTS OF INFLUENCE:
If my film were produced to a full feature film, then I wouldn't have it end with the two girls, Billy and Rachel, coming together, to not promote an ideal of true love being unconquerable, and to portray Billy's stalking as slightly pointless. However, it wouldn't end on a gloomy note, as also romantic comedies that end badly are not financially successful, the reason why the ending of Pretty Woman was changed to the couple getting together after all. I would have Billy and Rachel, after realising they cannot get together because Rachel simply isn't interested in the female sex as Billy is, they would still end on a friendly note, similar to the ending in Rushmore. Then the final scene would be Billy and Jake dancing happily despite not coming together with their crushes, like in My Best Friend's Wedding but with the hetereosexual girl dancing with her gay best friend reversed, the lesbian outsider dancing with her straight outsider best friend.
The message I would thereby be sending to my audience would be not to completely obssess about unrequited love and to try and seek more life-affirmance in friendships.
My film might achieve extra distribution through straight-to-DVD
Big Fat Gypsy Gangster
Ricky Grover, 2011
DISTRIBUTOR: 4DigitalMedia
How come Ali G Indahouse, a spin-off film also featuring a character from The 11 O'Clock Show, became an indie hit and BFGG only went straight to DVD?
It was not well received by critics, torn apart by some.
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This review was a bit more merciful, with it also contributing to distribution with its advert to rent/buy.
Steven Berkoff renowned and controversial theatre grandee (ironically one of the practitioners I am studying in Drama at the moment), will be well known to an arthouse audience (ABC1), but not to average UK citizen. Also, the nature of the film's genre and its distribution will put some fans off as it cannot begin to compare with his work on stage.
Early Jan: Will shot footage in gym in early January
Sun 15 Jan: Was going to shoot sample footage in gym but Will didn't feel comfortable with it.
Fr 20 Jan: Costume and explaining character to Hannah, looking at her room and starting to imagine how to create the mise-en-scene
Sun 22 Jan: Create the mis-en-scene and sample scenes in Billy's room
Thu 26 Jan: Rachel in Artist Studio
Fr 27 Jan: Hugh coming through secretary, and walking from there to Zinnen,
and Billy walking to school
Sun 29 Jan: All of filming in Billy's room
Mon 30 Jan: Hugh in common room, Locker Scene, Billy coming down
Tue 31 Jan: Green Screen, Billy entering school and Rachel in room
Wed 1 Feb: Hugh coming in from car and being complimented by teacher
Thu 3 Feb: Rachel with other girls and common room and looking at sketch of Hugh
Thu 2 March: CrossWord diegetic title Mon 6 March: Outside school, Simon waving at Hugh Fri 7 April: Backdrop for green screen of Billy walking through.
After giving me some tips when coming across me by chance while developing my first cut for the opening scene, I wanted to show Jon from Year 13 and get some proper, recorded audience feedback.
I know a girl who's tough but sweet She's so fine, she can't be beat She's got everything that I desire Sets the summer sun on fire
I want candy I want candy I want candy I want candy
Go to see her when the sun goes down Ain't no finer girl in town You're my girl, what the doctor ordered So sweet, you make my mouth water
I want candy I want candy I want candy I want candy
Candy on the beach, there's nothing better But I like candy when it's wrapped in a sweater Some day soon I'll make you mine Then I'll have candy all the time
I want candy I want candy I want candy I want candy
Candy in the morning time, Candy in the hot sunshine. Candy baby can't you see, All I want is your candy!
Candy in the morning time, Candy in the hot sunshine. Candy baby can't you see, All I want is your candy! (Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey) All I want is your candy! (Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey) All I want is your candy!
This isn't the opening sequence of the film, but still a very good influence for my use of split screen, and will be my primary stimulus. First 45 seconds the introduction of the first character, Caucasian female getting up and ready f
As the first shot at the location of the other prominent character appears on screen it is
Cut from close-up to shot-reverse shot, then as cut to original shot again, CU turns to ELS
