Evaluation: Question 7

With Question 7 I used a software named Google Presentations, I had originally set out to use Emaze but found trouble embedding that successfully into my blog.

Evaluation: Question 6

I used a software named Bubbl for this question

 

Evaluation: Question 5

For Question 5 I have used the technology of Gliffy, a mind map software that I am completely new with.

Evaluation: Question 4

For who would my audience be for the film and why I will use two different technologies, one being WordItOut

 

I will also use another technology to express my target audience for Redemption, Slideshare.

Evaluation: Question 3

This is a voice recording of me and my group discussing what kind of media institutions might distribute my media and why. It became a commentary over the top of my actual video discussing the original question.

 

Media Evaluation: Question 3 from Oliver Revill on Vimeo.

Evaluation: Question 2

For my second technology, I have used Voki, a technology I have used and practiced with before. The Voki's name is Emma and is the character in our Thriller. Emma in Redemption Voki
This is another representation in Redemption using Voki again. Younger people's representation in Redemption:
and the final representation of Ethnicity in Redemption Ethnic Background representation in Redemption:

Evaluation: Question 1

As I will be exploring a plethora of different technologies, my first question is shown on Prezi, a software that allows presentations to be easier accessed.

Textual Analysis: Red Lights

This is my Textual Analysis of Red Lights (2012)


Red Lights is a film written and directed by Rodrigo Cortés, also famous for Buried and The Contestant. The film is a drama-mystery-thriller about following the rivalry between two people, and then one go mysteriously missing.




This is one of the first visual aspects of the film, to me it reminds me of a child making shadow-puppets on the wall, or the concept of being a puppet-master. This takes a creepy turn when contrasted the child-like anecdotes to the peep-hole like central image, surrounded by blackness.
Explaining to me, there is manipulation heavily at hand in this film.
The simplicity of the opening creates a rather interesting opening, especially as the letters randomly change in size for a frame or two, implying that something is going to change, something out of the normal is occurring, a malfunction or anomaly in the system.

This being the malfunction in names, the change in the system, the revolution.

The Red Lights then appear through a high paced scatter of the lights, white lights blur out and red lights appear, not knowing what the plot is about at this moment, I believe, as the film is called RED LIGHTS, it is an allusion to the Red Light District, notorious for prostitution and crime.
The white lights would be a representation of purity, women but at night, they change. It's an obscure interpretation but the film's plot or themes are all unknown right now.

White, blurred lights take over the screen for a brief few seconds, darkness is still overall taking over the screen but theres a few specs of light, specs of hope in this plot. This is ironic due to the name of the film being named red lights, which could back up my theory of anomalies, the normal would be these white lights that we are introduced to, red lights are the malfunctions.

 

 

It then cuts the sequence to an extreme close up of an eye (continuing the abnormality of the names of actors, etc), the focus on eyes and watching, could allude to judgment, always being watched, either the religious references of God being ever watchful, ever knowing, omniscient and the deliverer of judgment. Or, society and their judgment, similar to God, but society are fickle and could quickly decide to turn against someone, a celebrity or idol, with one news report.
The text is continuing to jitter, creating a psychological tone of the film, making the audience feel uncomfortable.
This could also explain the first picture, an eye-shaped hole. One person's perspective, unreliable, it could all link to one person and them witnessing something important that drives the plot forward.

The sequence then cuts to a woman being crucified, which fits into two theories of mine previously suggested, the desecration of women through the eyes of God, as crucifixions are primarily related to the Death of Jesus Christ and Red Light District being associated with prostitution, I conclude that the representation of women in this film will be biased to the protagonists views and perspective, whether they are a woman or not.
This women is also shown to be victimised, she is showed in the colour white inferring innocence and purity, it would be different if she was wearing red as they are the two colours highlighted in this opening so far, one showing normality and the other prostitution. The innocent woman getting executed could be a representation of the fickleness of society and their tendency to turn on the innocent, vilifying the community.

 

 

 

 





Textual Analysis: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

 

Within this Blog Post I will be analysing selected screen shots from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

The first screen shot comes seconds into the opening, introducing the director, David Fincher. The shot is of a black sea, representing the descent into shame, a sea of troubles, a natural, unstoppable, inevitable force.
The black hue to the entire opening gives a negative undertone, the colourless opening revealing the conventions of horror, murder, death and evil. Key themes within this film.
The words 'DAVID FINCHER' are capitalised, larger to the rest of the title, giving David Fincher primary credit for the film, as he is the director and famous for  a lot of different films the film wants to make clear that this is a David Fincher film.

There is light at the top of the screen, off screen but the source is unidentifiable. White being a symbol of Hope, but, as we can see, the black tone is consuming all other colour within this opening.

 
 


The second screen shot is of the title of the film, even this is getting overrun by the oil, this domination of oil is a theme throughout this opening that is an allusion to crime, crime is everywhere in the world, crime is destroying everything also, as this is a crime thriller, my theory is believable and relatable.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an ambiguous title as we are unaware of this girl, we assume she is integral to the plot, maybe the main character, or victim. As this is the first time we are made aware of the film's title (apart from prior knowledge) it is important that representations and symbolisations are instant. The text is of white again, and it is being overlapped by the black oil, this infers to me that not only the film is full of crime, but maybe The Girl gets involved within crime also.



Even though the theme is the same, following this liquid, this is an entirely different meaning, before it was destroying structures, now it is running through a keyboard like a rives, an infestation of intelligence and at the professional work place, crime is infiltrating the online area also, not only physical crime but mental crime, crime involving knowledge and data.
As this is a change in concept, it is highlighting all the different areas where crime is involved, and there's a lot of them, shown by the plethora of situations involving this oil, this plague.
This is the first hint to location I receive as the keyboard is in English, and therefore, it singles it down to Europe or North America. I would assume Europe due to David Fincher being announced as the director.

The final screen shot is of a face being covered in oil and then a match being dropped into their eye, a visually discordant sequence, definitely. This highlights the realism of violence within the film and of society, the eye is a replication of the world, and the world is getting destroyed with the plague of oil and fire.
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, according to my interpretation of the opening 5 screen shots is of crime throughout the world.

 The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, to conclude, utilises colour and visually discordant sequences in order to create certain representations effectively to its desired destination, I think this destination was a foreshadowing of the narrative in the film, which is a representation of society.