Thursday 26 September 2019

Star persona


I was originally overflown with inspiration following the prompt "Femme Fatale". The deadly mixture of sexual power and femininity meant one name and one name only: Manav. In order to achieve something that was vaguely femme fatale, I watched make up tutorials on mimicking Audrey Hepburn's minimal yet striking look. We needed to give him deep set eyes, red lipstick, thick eye brows and eyeliner. Blush and highlight were encouraged. The wig, to Belle's disagreement, felt like it fit in with the femme fatale image, especially when tucked behind Manav's ear.

Monday 16 September 2019

Movie posters

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Blade Runner
-Hints at science fiction, spaceship looking vestibules in the bottom half of the picture
-Harsh white/yellow lighting (stripped) behind man suggests action (bombs?)
-Female character, smaller, behind male, smoking. Femme fatale. (darker lighting)
-Young adults to 35

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Scary Movie 2
-Intertextuality to Horror classics
-Cinema setting, parody 
-"Absolutely Hilarious" -Comedy 
-over 18s as gore is implied and women look promiscuous 

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Uzak
-industrial background, implies harsh reality of life
-hooded man in foreground, implies going through tragedy or hardships
-monochrome also hints to these points
-Foreign cinema, so mostly people above the age of 30

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I'm not scared
-Edge of hole takes up half of the poster, symbolising  the mysterious threat impending (hinted at in the title.)
-The blue sky could imply the equilibrium before the main story plot of the movie.
-18 and up as it's horror

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Sin City
-red is only pop of colour, with word "sin" it connotes to ideas of blood, drugs and sex
-All the characters in the top half of the poster are in power stances with a low camera angle.
-Bottom half, a silhouette of a man walking casually in rain is edited in
-Woman holding gun implies action codes
-18+ as violence and "sin"

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Pirates of the Caribbean
-Close ups of faces on top third, main characters, already established, familiar to audience
-sinking ship with tentacle link to tentacle man next to it, hints to plot as well as subtitle "dead man's chest"
-Adventure fantasy
-established as a family movie, pg 13

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Bride and prejudice
-Intertextuality in name, rewarding feeling from understanding
-poster split in half horizontally, showing audience difference between characters and backgrounds.
-Romance about  cultural differences?
-12+

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Million Dollar Baby
-monochrome apart from names (star power)
-Woman with her back to the camera, harsh lighting shows muscles on back, power, strength
-man's face next to her's, disappointed? 
-man's face behind her, also disappointed?
-sport drama?
-15+