media module 6

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Globalisation

I consume some global media such as friends, Simpson’s, and Lost etc.
I watch US TV programmes such as the O.C. and CSI. I visit American sites such as google and other search engine but the most common thing I use is msn to talk to people. I watch Bollywood film just as much as Hollywood and I don’t think that the Us dominate the media.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Warner Bros institution


Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. or simply Warner Bros is one of the world's largest producers of film and television entertainment.
Warner Bros. includes several subsidiary companies, among them Warner Bros. Studios, Warner Bros. Pictures, Warner Bros. Television, Warner Home Video, DC Comics and The CW Television Network.
It was founded in Hollywood CaliforniaUSA in 1918 by Harry, Jack, Albert and Sam Warner.
Sam and Jack Warner produced the pictures, while Harry and Albert handled finance and distribution in Newyork.Warners also joined the mad race to buy and build theaters.

The first logo used was a static shield with the letters WB on the bottom and a picture of the Warner Bros. studio on the top. From 1929 to 1933, the logo seems to have been completely abandoned. Occasionally, however, (mostly in features from 1929 and 1930) a First National film would bear the old animated logo for that studio. During these years, feature films opened with the main title along with the vitaphone logo. The Warner Bros. logo was used from 1931 to 1933 on the title cards of cartoons. The Warner Bros. logo re-introduced in live-action films around 1934. The current WB logo shows a reflection of the WB studio, which then slowly spins away from the camera revealing the WB logo. The music in the background of this card is "as time goes by", popularized in the 1942 Warner Bros. film Casablanca.

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Pyschoanalysis and symbolism in film


The scene im going to be analysing is called HE'S COMING FOR YOU in the film called END OF DAYS .
The scene begins with a shot of an underground tube station it then cuts to the inside of the train where the protagonist called Christine seems to be anxious and distressed and she also seems to be running away from something. The fact that it is set underground could symbolise hell. When she sits down she seems to be calm but when a weird man comes and stands over her she gets nervous, the shot used is a low angled shot of the man looking down at her this makes her look helpless. The weird man has a cheeky grin on and starts to say he's coming for you and starts to giggle. when she touches him he breaks like glass this symbolises that the world could end and its all down to her and this makes her scream.

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Auteurs

Quentin tarantinoLead characters usually drive General Motors vehicles, particularly Chevrolet and Cadillac. He often frames characters with doorways and shows them opening and closing doors. Much of the violence and minor character dialogue is off-screen in his films. Briefcases and suitcases play an important role in most of his films such as Pulp Fiction (1994), Reservoir Dogs (1992), Jackie Brown (1997), True Romance (1993), and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (2004). He makes many references to cult movies and television. He regularly works with Harvey Keitel. His films usually have a shot from inside a car trunk. Frequently casts Tim Roth. His films will often include one long, unbroken take where a character is followed around somewhere. Widely imitated quick cuts of character's hands performing actions in extreme close-up, a technique reminiscent of Palma. Long close-up of a person's face while someone else speaks off-screen Often plays a small role in his films . Frequently casts Michael Madsen and Uma Thurman. Frequently uses Mêlée weapons, such as the samurai sword that Butch uses in "Pulp Fiction" and the bride uses in the Kill Bill movies, also the stake attached to a jackhammer used by George Clooney in "From Dusk Till Dawn". His films usually have Extreme violence.

Auteurs



Tim Burton

He makes Black-and-white Gothic styled films.
Frequently casts he uses are Jeffery Jones, Paul Reubens, Micheal Keaton,Winona Rider, Helena bohem Carter. Johny Depp is used frequently in many if his film such as Edwood Scissor Hand’s, the Corse’s Bride, and Charlie and the Chocolate factory as is Lisa Marie in many of his films such as Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow and Planet of the Apes, Plot often focuses around a misunderstood outcast. Frequently uses composer Danny Elfman. He features dead or dismembered dogs. He often likes to open his films with a quiet night time snowfall. Many of his films feature townspeople who misunderstand and/or distrust the lead character. Often shows scarecrows in his movies. His movies always opens with a personal version of the studio's logo. Usually includes fantasy elements in his films. Often looks into the main character's past through a series of flashbacks .