Music

Just found a great song for the first scenes.

Muse - Time is running out

Locations for Practical Work

Locations:
In-front of Media Department. Brick wall.
In-front of Dining Hall
(Maybe in Front Office?)
Hotel room? Grand Hotel Eastbourne??)
Stairs in old X-ways house / Music department

Idea

Film Noir

Characters:
Blond Women
Detective
Bad Person x2

Couple


Logos, Names of Actor and Producer
A dark street (you hear people shouting)
you see two shadows fighting
you see a couple in pyjamas on the bed and you can still hear the people shouting. the women stands up.
you see her going down the stairs
see opens the door. (door lightens the fight) one man runs away the other man falls down, dead)
you see only the hand of the man,man dies
woman is screaming
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you see someone, the detective, smoking. “so, what happened”
women talks to detective, the neighbor door opens. than you can see only the shadows. the door is closing. you see the woman. a shoot from her feet up to her face. male gaze shots.

In my writing part of A2 I would like to discuss something like "Representation of women and men in advertising" I thought about some ads of L'Oreal. They are always with beautiful, young, successful and famous women for example with Eva Longoria or Beyoncé. Women want to but products of L'oreal because these celebrities symbolizes fame and glamour and women want to be like that.

It's the same with Tiger Woods, Thierry Henry and Roger Federer. They are famous and strong and men want to be like this. So these 3 sportsmen are perfekt for the Gillette ad.

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PS: I found a really good video about television.

The Killers

A few days ago, I watched "The Killers" directed by Robert Siodmak. It's a "Film Noir" movie and its amazing. The whole movie is in black and white. You can see a lot contrast and shadows are everywhere.

A really interesting thing is that every time a person gets killed, you can't see it. There are incredible shots, they show that someone is dying but you can't see blood or anything else.

The movie shows some good stereotypes. The always relaxed 'cool' guy and a sexy woman.

Today i found some videos on youtube with typical men or female sports.

Ballet - in my opinion a sport for women, but in this video performed by a man.

Kickboxing - a sport for men, but in this video two girls are fighting.

I'd love to open my film with two scence like this.

Film Noir

I just watched an interesting reportage called 'The Rules of Film Noir'. It shows the power of women in the 'Film Noir' films. Voice overs and some really good sequences from different movies. The reportage explains for example why the shots are so dark and how the style of the Film Noir films changed.

I think I could use a lot of the techniques for my practical work and I think I'll try to analyze a full Film Noir Movie.