Facial Expressions.

Marjorie Ferguson, 1980 

Chocolate Box: half or full-smile, lips together or slightly parted, teeth barely visible, full or three-quarter face to camera. Projected mood: blandly pleasing, warm bath warmth, where uniformity of features in their smooth perfection is devoid of uniqueness or of individuality.

 Invitational: emphasis on the eyes, mouth shut or with only a hint of a smile, head to one side or looking back to camera. Projected mood: suggestive of mischief or mystery, the hint of contact potential rather than sexual promise, the cover equivalent of advertising’s soft sell.

Super-smiler: full face, wide open toothy smile, head thrust forward or chin thrown back, hair often wind-blown. Projected mood: aggressive, ‘look-at-me’ demanding, the hard sell, ‘big come-on’ approach.

Romantic or Sexual: a fourth and more general classification devised to include male and female ‘two-somes’; or the dreamy, heavy-lidded, unsmiling big-heads, or the overtly sensual or sexual. Projected moods: possible ‘available’ and definitely ‘available’.

Trevor Millum, 1975

 

Seductive: similar to the cool/level look in many respects - the eyes are less wide, perhaps shaded, the expression is less reserved but still self-sufficient and confident; milder versions may include a slight smile.

 

Carefree: nymphlike, active, healthy, gay, vibrant, outdoor girl; long unrestrained outward-flowing hair, more outward-going than the above, often smiling or grinning.

 

Practical: concentrating, engaged on the business in hand, mouth closed, eyes object-directed, sometimes a slight frown; hair often short or tied back.

Comic: deliberately ridiculous, exaggerated, acting the fool, pulling faces for the benefit of a real or imaginary audience, sometimes close to a sort of archness.

 Catalogue: a neutral look as of a dummy, artificial, waxlike; features may be in any position, but most likely to be with eyes open wide and a smile, but the look remains vacant and empty; personality has been removed.

Calvin Klein Notes

- Tanned body

- Eyes are closed

- long legs, on tip toes as well as wearing hells

- hair it wet and messy - sex look

- lips are parted/sexy

- body is sweaty or oily indicating sex look

- her stance, legs are open which show power/strength, hands are on hips, in control but venerable at the same time

- the male fantasy

- gritting teeth, sex

- in pain, looking away, doesn't care

- disappointed?

 

- Tattoos

- muscular body

- stern facial expression, pouting lips

- necklace/pendant , gay?, makes him less naked

- toned abs, shiny/greasy body, gym?

- masculine hair cut, skin head, rough/crop

- defined cheek bones, thin, high

- stubble, masculine/manly, attractive to women

- tan line, shaved, feminises him, makes him look like a boy rather than a man

- pulling boxers down, seductive, too posed

- fist is clenched, aggressive?

- bicep, muscular

- tan, un-manly. girly

- red background - lust/hot/danger/blood

- bar, prop - gym, pull up bar?

- manicure hand, not as tightly clenched

- gaze, trying to seduce

'Paul' notes

Notes on the Blogs

-  same kind of humour as the film

- trying to get the public more involved in the film

- to show how well and funny actors get along

- incentive to watch the film

- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost fans would enjoy watching the blogs

- the blogs would be put on the DVD as extras or bonus features which is an incentive to buy the film

- audience participation - cast answers the audience questions on the blogs

- the blogs will promote the film as they will be extras on the film when it is released to buy

- we find out about the cast and the crew

- documents production

- teaser to the audience

- find out what the film is about, although they are conscious of giving to much away

Video

Rushmore

Is Max a normal teenager?

After watching the montage of Max and his hobbies at the start of the film Rushmore, I believed Max was a good, smart boy who would never do anything wrong.

At the start of montage we see a journal of some kind where there are stickers of bees covering the front page. This could represent Max as being a 'busy bee' because of all the clubs he is shown to have been involved with. Also the other saying - 'the bees knees' could show that Max was very proud of himself and sees himself as being the best at everything. This is not typical as a teenager as most stereotypical teenagers would be shown as lazy and not to be involved in many activities like Max. Although it could just simply show his interest in the bees keeping club.

In each of the shots of Max he is always wearing his school uniform or part of it. The uniform is a traditional Ivy League uniform although he wears a red berry in most of the shots as well.  This, to me is not very typical of a teenager - a teenager would be wearing different clothes for the activities.

He is head or founder of every club which is not very normal and seems to want to fit in, when actually he is standing out to the rest of the people. The first scene is of him as a member of the Yankee Review. In this shot Max is shown in the middle of the other students; standing out. We are also shown that he is the publisher of the review which shows us he likes to be involved and be an important role to the activities. Yet most stereotypical teenagers would not agree to be the in such a high role for clubs. Another example of Max being the center of attention and authority is when the shot is shown him President of the french club. He is dressed with a red berry and sash of him, which tells us he is every enthusiastic; which is not what a normal teenager would not be wanting to get very much involved unlike Max.

Another usual hobby of a typical young person would have would be coin and stamp collecting. This is associated with more older people rather than youths; as it is quite a relaxing and single hobby. This tells us that maybe Max likes to do this for his own enjoyment as there are no other members of this group.

His social life is connected to his clubs and hobbies and through the montage he is only seen with one other boy, who looks a lot younger than him. Teenagers normally socialize with the same age group as them, yet Max is with younger boys and girls. Also in the Kung Fu shot the other smaller children have higher ranking belts, yet Max is on a yellow belt, showing that he is probably not very good at the sport or lower than him.

Through examples from the collage of shots in the beginning of the film Max comes across as a busy OCD boy, shown in the clip of the Lacrosse Team; the 'jocks' are watching intensely at the game, like any other young teenage boy would be doing, yet Max is organising the equipment. From this he seems to wanting to be older; more like a parent or teacher than a young boy.

Essay

Compare how Hot Fuzz and This Is England appeal to a British Audience

As the films are both directed by British directors this helps to improve the interest of the films to the target audience. Hot Fuzz is directed by Edgar Wright and This is England by Shane Meadows, who both used their on experiences to created their films. Also, as the directors are British both film companies are. Warp Films, which is a independent working title company helped This is England, whereas the famous Universal film company helped with the Hot Fuzz film.

Experiences from the directors helped massively to make the films personal and also to help the British audience understand better. Wright added a lot of his dreams and child into the film through the extreme events that happen. Wright 'imagains himself as the target audience' which shows us that he is only thinking if his own opinions and making his film personal to him, although this works well in the film; as he is British and therefore the British public comprehend with him.
On the other hand there is a contrast between the hopes and dreams of a young boy and the reality of another. Meadows experiences are very personal and based on part of his childhood in the 80's. This is highlighted in various interviews with Meadows.

There is also a difference between the budgets of the films, as Hit Fuzz had a massive 8 million pounds budget to bring the infant dreams into real life through effects and special features, yet on the other hand This Is England has only a budget of 1 million. Although this is a lot less than Hot Fuzz it improves the authentic appearance of the film.
The casting is also very important to both films. In This is England as the finical plan was very low Meadows could not afford famous actors that most British individuals would know. Yet this made the film realistic because the actors were unknown at the time. This is why the film was popular as it seemed that the actors were just normal people being filmed. Yet with Hot Fuzz there is a large amount of well known actors that are known to be good at acting together, for example Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. They have both been in a film together before - Sean Of the Dead; which was a huge success with with British Public. As it was such a good outcome the Wright would know that it would interest the population as well.

The humour within the films are both a big impact to each film. The actors in Hot Fuzz create the humorouss side of the storyline. Wright uses exaggeration with special effects to create the film similar to action packed films such as Bad Boys II. The humour from this is mostly for the people that have watched these types of films although there are other various areas for people that have watched programmes such as Midsomer Murderers. The 'typical' country speaking people in the film is humorous because they are took to the extreme. Therefore the viewer will know about the different accents of the British people.
Although This is England is found funny to the viewers because of the amount of swearing from a young boy and also the 'mickey taking' comments towards the characters are humorous to the watcher, because they would have known about these things when they were younger. Yet both the films have alot of swearing in them which people find amusing as it is took to an extreme. Hot Fuzz takes parts of the film to far, although This is England does not as it is funny through reality.

Stereotypes within the films a lso improve the films assuming part. The typical 'skin heads' in the 80's are found funny; even though people did dress like this. The thought to people of looking back at what parts of Britain dressed like - for example shaven heads, Doc Martin boots, Ben Sherman shirts and braces, makes people understand now that they did look funny compared to the present tense. With This is England the stereotypes of the police are took very supreme. The police in the film are shown as not caring or lazy to do anything. For example when a group of youths are brought into the station in the countryside the officer asked if he really wanted to process all the crimes - showing that they are not that bothered. This then links to the real police and the image the general public have over them making it humorous for the watcher.

Both films are located in England - which improves the target audience as the watchers will know where each film is set; from influence of the accents. Hot Fuzz is set in two different places, first, shortly, in London and then in the countryside in Gloucester. Although most of the inside scenes in Hot Fuzz would have been filmed on the set; which would have cost a lot to film. Whereas This is England could not afford to have sets so it was cheaper to film if they used the right locations already. It was also difficult for the director to film outside as the location and landscape had to be correct for the 80's. There should be no satellites or anything that would show the film was filmed after the 80's as the film would loose its authenticness. The film is set in Nottingham shire which is a lot different to the settings of Hot Fuzz as this was back streets towns while Hot Fuzz was clear countryside set in the present tense.

The films do have there similarities and differences, although i think the films conclude on This is England explaining a message of the directors childhood and of people that also had the same experiences. Yet Hot Fuzz was only made, really, for entertainment reasons for those of us who enjoyed the previous films of Simon Pegg and Nick Frost and also the people that enjoy taking things to the extreme that create the film humorous.

Prelim Magazine Evaluation

 For my prelim task I designed a front cover of a school magazine and contents page. I used photoshop to create the final idea which i found difficult at first but managed to work well with the programe. The magazine I desighed had to have a mast heading, mid-shot photograph and text.

Below are my intial ideas which i planned before going onto photoshop to create them. The magazine i thought up had a target audience of 14-18. I decided to keep my magazine simple, yet noticable and use blue, black and white as my colour sheme as i think they worked well with each other.

My contents page was also simple so that people cause understand clearly where the information was that they wanted, yet i also added images from the school to brighten the page up.

I decided i would us a picture of a student holding a revsion text book, to go with my heading - 'Are You Prepared'.