AS - Homework Representation - Misfits




For Friday: 200-300 words

How is age (youth) represented in the opening Misfits?

On Friday we we had been looking at individual characters but try and write a response talking about how the clip portrays young people - think about common traits or aspects.

Try to make reference to how the micro-elements are used when using examples from the clip.

AS Homework 09/09/14

Representations of Bangkok

Watch the trailer for Only God Forgives and watch the first 10 minutes or so of the Hairy Bikes show.

Then write 200+ comparing and contrasting how Bangkok is represented
(If you can refer to any of the 4 micro-elements then please do so).

Deadline: Monday 15th of September. Print out or email.







A2 MEST Final questions

Field
Why does CGI threat to realism - effect on audience.

Lizzy
Why are sociological and cultural aspects important to horror?

Mint
"70% to 80% of movies is sound, you don't realise it as you can't see it." Danny Boyle (2013).
Why is sound/music so important to cinema?
Do we re-focus this question to just music, or just sound?

Liana
Why is film noir and it's representation of women (femme fatale) still relevant today?

A2 MEST 4 Resources

http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/

https://filmstudiesforfree.wordpress.com/

http://vimeo.com/groups/audiovisualcy

http://filmanalytical.blogspot.com/


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PERCEIVED REALITY
http://the-artifice.com/take-shelter-and-digital-cinema/
http://fdm.ucsc.edu/~landrews/film178w09/Film_178_THE_RECONSTRUCTED_IMAGE_files/True%20Lies-%20Perceptual%20Realism.pdf

http://framescinemajournal.com/article/re-born-digital/


http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1FEZE-Ml5N0C&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=debate+around+digital+cinema&source=bl&ots=rqtXSGZxHH&sig=2ogdXBW01yPJOIgkKqiLLAWN7Q8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=8XEIVJ-3KsfSaPrAgtgB&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=debate%20around%20digital%20cinema&f=false

http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/656538-digital-vs-celluloid-debate-grips-movie-world.html
http://www.indiewire.com/tag/film-versus-digital
http://theglobalpanorama.com/film-vs-digital-a-history/
http://www.indiewire.com/article/heres-what-sundance-cinematographers-think-of-shooting-film-vs-digital
https://www.udemy.com/blog/film-vs-digital/

Film as Film - Victor Perkins - film is different to TV
Democratisation of media - theories around amateur 
Strong argument for digital film

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=debate+around+digital+cinema


Noir
http://www.jfki.fu-berlin.de/en/v/publications_fluck/2000/Romance_with_America/Fluck__Winfried_-_Mass_Culture_Modernism.pdf
http://www.filmnoirblonde.com/%E2%80%98black-swan%E2%80%99-charts-madness-dreamily-voluptuous-terror/
http://28thriller2013.wordpress.com/

https://filmstudiesforfree.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/dangerous-cinematic-women-studies/
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~mscaccam/Femme%20Fatale.pdf


Horror
The Horror Film
http://filmmakeriq.com/lessons/the-psychology-of-scary-movies/
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/opinion/sunday/17gray.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://filmstudiesforfree.blogspot.com/search?q=horror
http://www.jgcinema.com/single.php?sl=real-horror
http://gnovisjournal.org/2013/11/16/the-future-of-the-horror-movie-genre-social-and-technological-predictors-3/
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=how+society+shapes+horror+cinema&oq=how+society+shapes+horror+cinema&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.18326j0j4&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=91&ie=UTF-8



Music
http://hopkinscinemaddicts.typepad.com/hopkinscinemaddicts/2008/11/a-brief-discourse-on-the-importance-of-music-in-film.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19970516041845/http://citd.scar.utoronto.ca/VPAB93/course/readings/prenderg.html
http://web.archive.org/web/20031208182300/http://www.franklinmarketplace.com/filmmusic.html
http://filmsound.org/filmmusic/