Diary
15/11/2018
Today I opened up all of the survey results in a spreadsheet and went through and analyzed the results. It took me quite a while as I had over 170 responses and therefore needed to make sure the results that I talked about were representative of all of the results. I used the premade Google Forms graphs for the quantitative answers and listed the main points from the qualitative questions. Now I need to analyze three clips from Edgar Wright movies to talk about in my video essay.
Inform our own idea...
The people who watch all of these shows I have looked at are all different age groups. Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway is one of the shows with the broadest range of people watching, the reason this show is like this because of Ant & Dec and also the show has a big range of content.
The findings suggest that if we go with the Saturday evening, ITV, 7 pm as this is one of the most popular times for viewing TV as a family. At this time people will put the TV on and just watch whatever show is on. For the group, this shows us that we need to make sure that our show doesn't collide with a popular show as everyone would just watch the show. If we did have to show our show at the same time as a popular show we would have to make sure we were appealing to a different target audience.
Based on our idea we now need to research our target audience to find out what they would want from a show, we need to think of ways we can make our show different from others. We need to research what the shows we want to borrow ideas from do and how they are really successful. ​
Unit 9: Auteur Film
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Synopsis...
Vincent Vega and Jules Winnfield are two hit men on the hunt for a briefcase, of which the contents were stolen from their boss. Things go smoothly until one of them makes a huge error. Butch Coolidge is a boxer who's been approached by Marsellus and been told to throw his latest fight. When Butch ends up killing the other boxer, he must escape Marsellus. Pumpkin and Honey Bunny are two thieves who have decided to rob the restaurant they're currently eating at. But the restaurant doesn't turn out to be as easy as the other places they've robbed. This movie follows a four strand narrative.
I found this film quite difficult to follow because of the four strand narratives and being three hours in length it was difficult to keep engaged. However, this film does give lots to talk about...
The director uses lots of small stories to engage the viewer, making the viewer wonder how all the stories combine to build the bigger picture. This film is also non-linear. Lots of sources online say they wonder how the film did so well as films with a narrative like this and lots of little storylines don't tend to do so well. ​
The reason the director did so well with this film was that he managed to cram so much into one movie. Quentin Tarantino's techniques include the following, he uses most of these in each of the films he has made, and this is what shows the audience that the film is his rather than directed by someone else:
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The Trunk & Hood POV Shot
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The corpse POV
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Long takes and tracking shots
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The 360 shot
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The God's Eye POV
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The use of Black and White
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The Map Shot
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Foot fetish
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Close-ups
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The mirror shot
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Dance Scene
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Torture Scene
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Bathroom Scene
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The car scene
Definition
The auteur is defined as a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its unique signature. An auteur must have created multiple films which have several different techniques. Examples of Auteurs include Woody Allen, Steven Soderbergh, Clint Eastwood, Alfred Hitchcock, and Ridley Scott. An example of someone who is not considered an auteur would be Stephen Spielberg as he directs the Hollywood Blockbuster movies which means guidelines have to be met and he can't go and adding too much of his own ideas. An auteur often has the same crew working for them throughout multiple films. An auteurs films will generally appeal to a smaller audience as they may be different or weird.
Bibliography
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Synopsis...
6 criminals set out to try and steal a diamond. While trying to complete the robbery the police turn up and they find out they had been setup. They shoot from the scene to get away, in doing this 2 of them get killed. The rest manage to get away and end up in a warehouse. They then believe that one of them is a undercover cop.
This film was funded by the money from the sale of his script Natural Born Killers. In this the criminals all go by code names and the audience never find out all of their real names.
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As this was Tarantino's first film it did not contain all of his signatures. The ones included are: the trunk and POV shot. This film has a lot of close up shots - the idea of this is to add tension. Most of the shots are bland and don't have things happening in the background, this could either be lack of budget or him wanting to focus viewers attention. This film contains a lot of flashbacks, for example when they are in the warehouse and it flashes back to when they are escaping the robbery. There was also quite a few car scenes in the film.
Django Unchained (2012)
Synopsis...
Django Unchained was the third film that we watched by Quintin Tarrintino, it shows a bounty hunter. He comes across a slave named Django whom he captures. After capturing Django he wants to find his wife. Schultz offers to help him if he chooses to stay with him and be his partner.
I thought the music used was very prominent in this film and works very well with the clips which are overlayed to it. Quitin Tarintinos styles are shown very clearly in this film. I like this film the most out of the three that we watched because it was a lot more engaging to the others that I looked at. This film was quite violent and it was uncomfortable to watch at times especially when the black slaves were being hurt. This did put me off but I still found it more interesting than the other films that we watched. I think the scenes were meant to be comical, which did come across sometimes but this wasn't necessarily my sense of humor.
