RESEARCH AND INFO FOR 2ND PART OF C.I

- watch SALT

- Research Angelina Jolie, dominance as a high class, well known famous actress, talk about higher class, being more watched and favoured by audience. talk about success of SALT and how angleina was chosen rather than (man) to play main role in this film. Suited her well, personally find it successful. Hegemonic and Marxist theory about being in higher status to provoke success and us as followers. We always go for the movies which represent the famous, biggest, successful stars.

-watch MILLION DOLAR BABY

- Hilary Swank her success and films compared to angelina jolie. Her playing a role of boy in 'boys don't cry' positive or negative representation?.. make us feel she is more capable of playing this kind of role..

Talk about her not being believed as successful, and her determination and hard working leading to big success. Coaches view of girl fighter, as a girl not being able to do anything, weak and fragile - goes with the typical stereotype of women (housewife, find theory).

http://www.karateforums.com/women-and-the-martial-arts-vt33669.html

Women face prejudice in the martial arts in many forms. The most easily recognizable of these is the "bully." The bully is the aggressive male or female who does not feel that women belong in the martial arts or feels they have something to prove, respectively. Their beliefs are demonstrated by their behaviors: snide comments, demeaning remarks and physical abuse. These men want the women gone from the training hall and they will do what they think is normal to get rid of the women. These bullying behaviors can even be observed in tournament judges, who will occasionally dismiss female athletes, refuse to allow them to compete against males or continually ignore the woman. ("Training Women in the Martial Arts," 60-61).

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1556431368/ifroggycom00

CAROL A WILEY

It is this reality that women will continue to see. Martial arts are good for self defense, but the most powerful thing women can learn to do from the martial arts is empower themselves. Sure - if every woman in the world stopped practicing the martial arts today, it would not destroy society. It might even be relatively unnoticed. But, by discouraging martial arts, we are discouraging something much more important. We are telling women through social cues that it is not okay to stand up for your self. It is not okay to be independent from men. We are telling women it is okay for men to abuse them, rape them and subjugate their wills. (Wiley, 73).

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193054684X/ifroggycom00

TRAINING WOMEN IN MARTIAL ARTS - Jennifer Lawler

FEMINIST THEORIES:

http://www.uh.edu/~cfreelan/courses/femfilm.html

-social

-historical

-economical

-political

-media language

-institution

-genre-

-audience

-ideology

-narrative

-representation

Current Linked production stage

I have done some filming at the championship which took place a few weeks ago. I filmed some shots of Bella performing in both technical and fighting competitions. Both shootings were successful, I feel I just need to pick out the best shots through these clips and edit them to make them shorter. I also filmed some short interviews of other competitors (girls and boys) regarding Bella's performance. Some of my interviews can be cut short but I feel I need to create some more specific questions, and get some short clear answers to fit the time limit of my documentary.

I also need to film Bella's life at home and ask her to be more clear while I am interviewing her. I will do this through half term. I will also do some more filming during some classes.

I have a narrative and message I am aiming to convey through this short documentary. I want to the audience to gain the idea of Bella's life as a martial artist and create a positive message towards women in martial arts. The type of shots and filming style I am using to help me consist of the link below:

MMA 5 MIN MARTIAL ARTS DOCMENTARY

Avatar Secondary research

Avatar and Disability Review

is Avatar an Insult to the Disabled?

There are many articles, blogs and disability chat room posts floating around the Internet that say yes, the movie that has made over $200 million in ten days is a big insult to the disability community for two major reasons. The first reason being that the fantasy film - and the key word here is fantasy - does not give an accurate portrayal of life with a disability. The second, surprisingly less important, reason is that Sam Worthington, who plays paraplegic Marine Jake Sully, is not actually a paraplegic.

Section A Exam Paper Questions

1. How do the two media products represent women in the music industry?

Media product 1, the Mobo awards represent Estelle as an iconic award winner. She is selected as the first award winner of the night. Her music is played and all eyes are on the subject. Throughout her speech she mentions the names of other famous music artists, mainly who are men, which could result to her quotation about being at 'a glass ceiling in the UK urban music industry'. This connotes that the struggles she took to achieve this result to where she is right now as she mentions in her speech, ''it took me a while to get here''.

The official website for Estelle displays a variety of ways to advertise Estelle's music. There are images of her with other popular artists such as Neyo, which would attract the audience and help to promote Estelle. There is also a bold advertisement of a movie due to be released, 'For colored girls'. This connotes that because of Estelle's black origin and her success in the music industry, it is a good platform to advertise movies relating to the black origin, which also is protaining to women.

2. How and why do programmes such as the MOBO awards appeal to niche audiences?

The MOBO awards being the first awards show in Europe to celebrate urban music appeals to a new younger generation of viewers. It is broadcasted live on BBC 3 and BBC 1, which is an institution made for a younger audience. The MOBO awards is a programme which is aimed at young adults. The main website includes information about young artists such as Kano, Ms Dynamite, N Dubz e.c.t, who are all young voices of today.

3. What are the advantages and disadvantages for performers of using the internet as a marketing tool?

The internet is a very broad and convenient tool used for advertising and marketing for performers. Audiences are able to listen to the artists music and purchase their albums online with just a few clicks. People are also able to purchase tickets for concerts and other franchise products. There are also links to social networks such as Facebook; a popular widely used site where people are updated with the latest news about artists and performers.

531 Word Disability Essay

Disability Essay

The representation of Disabled people in the Media often resort to stereotypes. Explore how disability is represented and how new media may be changing our views.

Disability in the new media has been portrayed in different ways. The representation of disabled people has been shown through some of the following stereotypes, for example ‘Pitiable and pathetic’, ‘object of violence’, ‘sinister or evil’, ‘as atmosphere’, ‘super cripple’, ‘laughable’, ‘chip on shoulder’ and ‘burden to others’. A common representation of disability used in films is the super cripple stereotype. Films such as My Left Foot and Scent of a Woman use this stereotype. The main characters of these films are both popular actors who play the role of disabled person.
In the film My Left Foot the actor Daniel Day Lewis describing referring this film as 'my plucky little cripple story' plays the role of Christy, a boy suffering from Cerebral palsy who learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot. In the film, his attitude towards his life shows that he is a determined, clever and an independent young man, something his mother realises at an early stage but his the rest of his family later discover. His ability to write and paint with his left foot throughout the movie amazes his family and others around him which pays him recognition. This connotes the stereotype of the super cripple taking part, denoting he has magical and super human abilities. Given that the audience having a contemporary social view towards this is something they would not expect to see in everyday life. However this stereotype can also be seen in present day documentaries, docudramas and television projects such as ‘Little people big world’ shown by an American institution TLC and many programmes on Channel four which cover many stereotypes of disability. In the American TV reality show series little people big world, the website provides clips where the audience can view interviews on the subjects of the media; The Roloffs are a normal sized American family, some of which who are 4 ft tall and suffer from Diastrophic dwarfism. The interviews contain personal views about the struggles and pressures of being little in an average sized world. By viewing these, this gives the audience more awareness and sympathy towards disabled people. The representations given mostly consist of the stereotypes ‘pitiable and pathetic’ and ‘object of violence’; this could be due to the institution who is try to seek attention from their audience to preferably think twice about their views on disabled people. However most representations of disabled people in the media today are positive and hardly ever negative. This is because we would not expect any kind of insult or violence from a disabled person, but the Channel four disability episode titles are something the audience may find disturbing, frightening and shocking. The institution uses techniques to describe their programmes as something you would expect from a horror film. Channel 4 body shock contains titles such as ‘The man who ate his lover’ and ‘The curse of the mermaid’ which could change a positive view to a negative view from its audience towards disabled people.

Linked production planning - Representation of teenage girl taking part in Taekwondo.

I am planning to do a documentary on the representation of a teenage girl who takes part in an popular olympic sport; Taekwondo. The audience for this documentary is aimed at everyone even if it is representing female attitudes.

I will focus on the two sides of her life, which consist of her normal relaxed home/social life and the other on her training and championship lifestyle, which i will aim to represent as very tense. I will ask her questions such as how she feels towards her training..

- Is it helping her life?

- Does she feel confident and independant?

- What she thinks of women represented in martial arts/sports movies. Are they being exaggerated? What are her favourite movies or memorable clips

- How does she balance her training and her busy college lifestyle?

- What made her join Taekwondo and what do her friends think of it?

-Will she carry on doing this sport and what are her aspirations? Does Taekwondo help achieve them ?

and so on..

I will film clips of her at training, at a very normal everyday session of Taekwondo.

I will film clips of her competing at a local championship. Focusing on facial expressions, gestures and techniques she uses to compete and prepare for her competition.

I will also ask her coach and club members about their views on women/girls competing and taking part in Taekwondo. The audience and parents will also be included in some parts.

The filming I will record of her everyday life will be out and after the club, at home or her social life. I want there to be a obvious contrast between her life outside Taekwondo and herself training, so the audience can see how she balances this sort of lifestyle.

As my critical investigation contains theories of Feminism and the Male Gaze, I will do some filming of male members fighting and interviews where they will express their views on females taking part in Taekwondo.

The props I will use to make my documentary appear more dramatic will be lighting during fighting. However I will not need extra lighting for home and indoor filming as documentaries use natrual lighting. I will use a tripod most of the time during all filming for precise filming and frames. I will need a good microphone for good sound when interviewing people during filming.

I believe that making this documentary a success will consist mostly of the editing process, which will determine the message it gets across to the audience.

My Left Foot - Film Analysis

-Made in late 1980's

-Based on a true story ; Christie Brown

- Won two Oscars. Daniel Day lewis award for best actor.

Brenda Fricker award for playing mother.

The beginning of the film we are represented with a disabled man suffering from Cerebral palsy.

We are shown that he is independant and living alone, relying on his 'Left Foot' to help him.

The representation of him when he was younger he appeared to be talented and determined but no one seemed to recognise and see this. His mother always believed in him. This was shown when he solved the question his father was asking Christie's 'normal' siblings. He wrote the answer with his left foot. He was also accused of being ''poor and unfortunate..'' by his mothers friends when she fell from the stairs. When in reality he is the one who helped her and called for help. This gives us the notion of the disability stereotypes 'Super cripple' and 'Pity and pathetic'. There are some scenes where Christie has no choice but to depend on his family's help even though he wants to be independant, which connotes to the idea of the disability stereotype ; 'burden to parents'.

Once Christie turns 17 we are presented with a more independant and mature character. Christie begins to paint and develop sexual desires and relationships but the girl he likes does not feel the same way due to his disability.

We also start to understand what Christie tries to say during the film as his emotions begin to develop more apparent to us. For example when his sister gets pregnant, their father begins to get viloent, therefore Christie develops anger and emotions for his sister and cries.