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Why this task?
• Be able to analyse to understand meaning • You know what goes in an OTS• Research into similar products (mark scheme)• Get ideas for your own coursework
Notes you can take(copy on paper)
NAME TYPE
LinearNon linearSymbolic
Interesting stuff
*take a pic when done……
After watching 15 OTS in class, we have made the following 10 observations (in bullet points):
• • • • • • • • • • •
We were really inspired by the following 4-8 OTS:
• 1 _____________________• 2 _____________________• 3 _____________________• 4 _____________________
Who will analyse what: Group member 1 Group member 2 Group member 3 Group member 4
Example:
True Blood+The thing
Dexter Evil Dead The Fall+The Walking Dead
Stuff to answer in your annotations:
• -is it linear, non-linear or symbolic? Why do you think this is? (think about purpose/genre)
• -how does the OTS prepare for the film?• -how does it create narrative enigma?• -how does it use or challenge forms and/or conventions of
the genre?• -how are the characters represented and why are they
represented in this way?• -how does the film present credits and the main title?• -What else do you enjoy about this OTS? (sound? Editing?
Camera work? MES?)
Answers• It’s a Symbolic OTS:
– To introduce theme of vampires in the south – To symbolise themes: sexuality, greed, nature, hunger, death, prejuduce, segregation, etc
• -The OTS prepares for the film by:– Establishing the subgenre (vampire)– Establish the setting (Southern America)– Establish the themes
• -Creates narrative enigma?– Who is in it? (no main characters are in it)– What will happen in the story (as only symbolic intro)– What do the flashes/flickers mean?
• -It mostly challenges forms and/or conventions of the genre?– Symbolic OTS is not usual for subgenre– Set in usual place which is realistic (usually fantasy or idealogical) which is modern – Unusual characters (in poverty/non vampires/animals etc)– No action/special effects/human victims– But it reinforces aspects such as sexuality, blood, death etc.
Answers (cont) • Characters represented and why are they represented in this way?
– Southern American lower class– Religious: in church/gospel, in white costumes, traditional, priests,
extreme – (white racists) – Trashy girls: stripping, with older men, naked bodies– Hillybilly men and children: mullets, scruffy clothes, at home/on porch,
messy/slobby, caps, tartan shirts, ripped jeans etc
• -Present credits and the main title by:– Using rule of thirds– Smaller font size cast role with bigger size for names– White to make it stand out from darker backgrounds– Title looks like it’s over a blood soaked cloth with jump cut editing
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