Category Archives for media one
“Damsels and Heroines: The Conundrum of the Post-Feminist Disney Princess”
Stover, Cassandra (2013) “Damsels and Heroines: The Conundrum of the Post-Feminist Disney Princess,” LUX: A Journal of Transdisciplinary Writing and Research from Claremont Graduate University: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 29. Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/lux/vol2/iss1/29 This article looks at the relationship … Continue reading
“The Princess and the Frog”
Charania, M. and Simonds, W., 2010. the Princess and the Frog. Contexts, 9(3), pp.69-71. This article suggests that “The Princess and the Frog” (2009) despite the progressive image disney has tried to project with this film, showcases disney’s difficulties in … Continue reading
Fandom
My main exposure the “fandoms” in their purest sense is on a little website called tumblr.com. Like most social media platforms, Tumblr works as a meeting place for fans to meet, discuss their idolised product/person/media and even generate their own … Continue reading
Narrative and Mystery Road
Bordwell and Thompson consider a narrative to be a chain of events in a cause and effect relationship occurring in time and space. That is, each event in the story will lead to another until it reaches a conclusion to … Continue reading
Tangerine
Although ‘Tangerine’ came out last year, it wasn’t until starting my cinema studies class earlier this year that I heard about it. IMDB’s premise for the film ‘A working girl tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who … Continue reading
Non-Narrative
Week Seven’s reading on “non narrative” was an exert from D. Bordwell and K.Thompson, 2006, Film Art: An Introduction. As a cinema studies student I’m all too familiar with this textbook and actually had completed half this reading a few … Continue reading
Broad City
Watching the last episode of season three of Broad City just picked up on this not so subtle use of mis en scene, sorry for the awful quality screenshot. This season of Broad City has been really different from the … Continue reading
Review
Take Your Chances from Samuel Harris on Vimeo. Sam used found footage really effectively in his film, it was all relevant and enhanced his portrait without feeling unnatural. His interview subject was really interesting and well spoken. The editing … Continue reading
Week Four Workshop
Formal Interview: I decided to put music underneath this interview rather than foley as I felt it more suited to a formal interview style that would take place in a studio rather than on the street. Informal Interview: This one … Continue reading
Project Brief Three: Reflection
I consider the most successful aspect of my portrait to be the sound quality. Given my subject is a musician I think sound played quite an important part in the portrait, I originally intended to use music from her studio … Continue reading