Media Studies Shannon

As a class we concidered what a few characters are ;

Villian - the WTC and its accosiates.

Hero - Philippe

Donor - Circus

Helper - Jean Louis

Princess - the actual walk itself

Dispatcher - Media (newspaper)

Father - the press

False hero - the judge.

Todorov ;

equlibrium - easy aspect / discovery of wire walking.

disruption or equlibrium - the newspaper article

recognition of distruption - realises the obstacles, the phisicality of thw WTC

attempt to repair - the “coup”

new equlibruim - after event, relisation of the dream

Annie and Philippe ;

equlibrium - when he is wire walking

disruption - when philippe realises his dream

recognisation - when Annie sides with the other guy and then starts crying

attempt to repair - when Annie is in the crowds of people when Philippe is about to walk the wire

new equlibrium - when the police arrive on top of the tower and Philippe walking on the wire and having sex with the groupie

Recognition ;

equlibrium - in the field doing different things

disruption - the arguements about how they were going to get the wire across

recognition - when they pretened they are in the WTC

attempt to repair - when the investigation starts, when they start making their way up to the top

new equlibrium - when they realise it can be done.

The central premise of Man On Wire that James Marsh constructed is around the narrative heist/thriller. This engauges our attention as an audience because it isn’t set for one culture and is an interesting documentary that could be for any age. Because this audience is used to this they are able to understand it. Something that might put people off the documentary is that the towers arnt there anymore so it might bring back bad memories. to try and make more people watch it they have broadened it to him wire walking as a young boy and in Nottrahdam so that it isn’t all about the two towers.

The eye - Jessica Alba

This medium has been chosen because it advertises and makes you think what the movie is about. The purpose of this text is to make it stand out from other posters it may be beside. For example the hand coming out the eye, you wouldn’t normally see that walking down the street. The genre in this text is fantasy horror because the hand coming out the eye suggests that there is going to be killings, but they might not be very realistic. The font is sans-serif and it blurs out at the end which would suggest that someone is going to loose some eye sight. The colours are quite light but the is in the only dark bit which could suggest that you see darkness, the film could be gloomey and scary. The camera is at eye level, which could say that there is going to be two people staring at eachother in the eye, one good and one bad perhaps.

Religous - Bill Maher

The medium has been chosen because it advertises and makes you think about what the movie is about. The purpose of this text is to make it look unique and different by having three monkeys, on with a crown on. The genre in this text is comedy because there is monkeys as the main part who are genuenly funny anyway and with the  big chains and crown it sugests it is quite humorous. The font is serif to make the title stand out because it is spelt wrong but meant to be so that says that they are a little stupid. The colours are bright and the raise in the backgroung says the monkeys are high up and important.

Women In Trouble - Sebastian Gutierrez

This medium has been chosen because it advertises and makes you think about what the movie is about. The purpose of this text is to make it girly  and outstanding. the genre in this text is chick flick because it is pink and black and all girls. The font is serif, but even more fancy, which could suggest that they are posh and stuck up. The colours are plain pink and black but it makes it look effective and eye catching, not too colourful.

Today we got together and started filming some shots of connor walking out the door and me then following behind him getting closer and closer. We got half way through filming some shots and the memory was full. So we had to stop and get some footage deleted off the camera that wasn’t needed.

Yesterday, we were going to our location to see what was going where and plan some shots out, but we got the time all wrong, so our location was all ready for us and we didn’t turn up. We felt really bad so we went up and apologised and rearanged it to another date.

Our final idea we have decided on is, a man waking up sitting on a chair beside a desk, an office type thing. He gets up and washes his face, gets dressed, and heads out the door. He sees this figure following him alond so he gets faster and faster. The figure turns out to be infront of him which gives him the fright of his life. He gets shot and dies. 

James is going to be the man waking up and I am going to be the killer.

We had done an exercise in class last Wednesday, the 18th which was to be a two minute thriller film which we had two periods to do. It was a great experience to get a feel for the cameras, what it will be like doing the real one, and getting a feeling of who is good at what. It also gave us a confidence boost so that we can all work together in our groups and everyone supports everyone!

Last Thursday, the 26th, Ryan and I went up to the Argyll College/Careers Scotland to ask permission if we could use their office as our setting. We were to write a formal request to them and see what happens. So Ryan got right down to that while James was on the script, Connor was finishing the story board, and I was getting the schedule sorted.

The story board will be on here shortly, next week sometime hopefully.

We have our idea so we started having a talk about who would have what roles to have a rough idea of who was going to be who. We decided that Ryan since this bit was his idea he would be the man waking up and walking down the street - the main character, he would also edit it along with james who is going to be the man that kills ryans character. And me and connor are going to take shots about with the camera and being an extra. We thought that it would be good if we had our own music in it instead of using an existing one so I’m going to do that. We also thought about where it was going to be set, we are thinking of doing it in Ryans grans which is in PortEllen, Charlotte street, there is a little alley way near by round the corner which would be great to do it there because the bit when he goes round the corner into an alley. Its perfect! We were planning on shooting it in the dark so it gave it more of a gloomy effect, but then you wouldn’t be able to see very well. So we were thinking or strapping torches to the cameras so that we could see. But then we thought there is street lights out the back of the alley and out the front so we would only really need torches for the alley but it might be quite an unintentinal effect for it to be dead dark. We were talking about what sort of camera we would use, wheather it would be tape, or a big one. We went with tape.

We came up with an idea which tweecked all our idea together so our idea became starting off with a guy waking up beside his bed and everything is all messy and crazy. So he goes to the bathroom and he is light headed, he decides to splash water on his face. Then it cuts to him walking down the street then goes round the corner and starts running but only focuses on his feet and ancles then he runs into an alley. After this it cuts out back to him and keeps doing that with a heartbeat getting faster then all the credits. And the end is a bit off a shock and just ends with a man turning a corner and gets shot. We deciced this so that it gave a feeling that it ended when there was so much more to find out and so that people would go to their friends and say ‘oh, you need to watch this and try figure it out, then more people would see it.’ smart thinking that is Â

We discussed lots of ideas. We all came together and shared each others ideas and had a rough idead how and whos idea we would possibly go with. Our idea that we were thinking of going through with was Connors idea of  credits through this whole scene, heartbeats in the background, the person wakes up. Then it cuts through a morning scene (walks to the bathroom, hear the loo flushing), heads for the stairs but looses control and falls down. He screams “dammit”. He makes his breakfast, eats it quickly, gets dressed, heads out the door. Then it cuts to a paper bag floating in the air, then it lands on the persons feet. After that it cuts to the persons face and slowly rqacking to the gang in the background standing behind him, the person notices this gang so he ‘belts’ it round the corner into a valley and thinks he has escaped…he then goes round the other corner up the street and finds the gang all lying on the ground. A man which is in s fedora hat and long drench coat walks away from the dead bodies. He stops at the person and hands him a gun with a silencer, then the man walks away and a police car pulls up. after this the title appears and it fades out. My idea which was a young girl crying where credits roll across with flashing screen and middle-aged man. Images flash back and forwards from the little girl and man. Then you see the man throwing a punch then it flashes back to the girl with a burst nose. But you didn’t actually see the man hitting the girl but it gives you impression since it went straight onto the girl after the man threw a punch.  After, the girl falls to the ground and will ont move. It cuts out then about 20 seconds of zooming and fading in then out of a funeral. Ryan’s initial idea was a man running down the street and you only see his feet with baseball boots on, then cuts to black screen and says the credits then hears noises and it it all ends in disaster. And James put all our ideas into one so that everyone had a part and contributed… Then the bell went!