Inglourious Basterds

Nation's Pride (film within a film) intertextual references to Battleship Potentia

Saving Private Ryan- D day scene used as a contrast to Inglourious Basterds

Saving Private Ryan 

REALISTICALLY GRAPHIC

Allies VS German

Death

Continuous Chaos

Men look dirty, dishevelled/unwashed/unshaven

Handheld editing

Realistic

Death means something- the shock of death is apparent to the men

Just Allies perspective

Fear/terror of death

Audience point of view- feel as if we are in the film

Death is common and a part of the job

Inglourious Basterds

COMICALLY GRAPHIC

Allies VS German

Death

Very clean and pristine

Static shots

Death just happens

Hypereal

Both perspectives are presented

More tactical

No fear of death

As an audience we are kept at an ironic distance

Death is common and part of the job

Inglourious Basterds- Quentin Tarentino

First few shots in Inglourious Basterds are very similar to the Sound of Music (Alps Surroundings) Chocolate Box camera shot.

The searchers (1956) Ending scene- a character framed in a doorway

-Family Guy- Hitler and Eva

-Parody- Uniforms (designed by Hugo Boss)

-Inglourious Basterds plays with what happened in WW2, hypereality 

-Use of spaghetti western music

Chapter 3- German Nights in Paris

References to Leni Reifenstahl (german doc. director and friends with Hitler, brilliant film maker)

G.W Pabst (german director)

Max Linder (comic actor, silent era)

Sergeant York- directed by Howard Hawks (1941)

Van Johnson- Amercian film actor and heart throb, 1940's and 50's

Popular culture references to the era

2 cameo's- British Information film 

       Operation Kino

Intertextuality- Blaxploitation (music) 

                                Motor Cycle Movie (music)

                            Spaghetti Western Music

                           The Searchers (the door)

                                   The Sound of Music (scenery)

                                                       Foot Fetish (Tarentino uses it in all his films)

                            David Bowie- Cat People

                                         Battleship Potentia- Nation's Pride

Use of real people- Hitler and Churchill - both parodies

Postmodern Elements- subtitles are yellow (Hugo Stiglitz)

                                          starts like a fairy tale- once upon a time

                     music is the main element

                                                                      bar man has hand on gun under the bar- mexican stand off

                                                               Samuel L Jackson voice over- public information film

                                            Harvey Keitel- voice near end of the film

                      Unconventional war movie

Chapter 4- Operation Keno

Am i surprised how the scene ends? Surprised how some of the basterds die, didn't expect that

Perception of a tense scene

Left behind shoe links into Tarentino's foot fetish, one way or another his fetish is apparent in all of his films (pulp fiction- foot massage etc.) pertanent to Tarentino

Death of basterds in tavern scene links in with his other films (pulp fiction)

Goes against normal conventions of a film (heroes always survive)

basterds deaths aren't really commented on... why? 

Bridget Von Hammersmark's shoe links to a fairy tale- Hans Landa - prince charming

Magnificent Seven and Dirty Dozen- consistent in genre in some respects

Mexican stand off- country and western

fatalistic aspects?

Projection Box Scene

Fredrick and Shoshanna- pay attention to the finer detail, ie: costume, effects, music

Didn't expect Shoshanna to die, especially the way she did

Shoshanna is shocked to when Fredrick barges into the projection box, but it shows his true personality.

Fredrick in White: pure, innocent, hope  (uniforms designed by Hugo Boss)

Shoshanna in Red: danger, sex, passion, romance, death, blood

Contrast between colours and characters (good vs bad)

Music as Fredrick climbs stairs is generally an action code (could be used in war films and propaganda films) normally action (in whatever form) will follow this kind of music

Shoshanna's death is emphasised through the use of slow motion as she is a main character, makes her death seem less graphic, the way it happens depicts an almost bitter-sweet romance as her a Fredrick die together and he is the last thing she see's. 

Contrapuntal music after she shoots Fredrick, shows us she feels remorse and feels bad for what she did.

Fredrick Zoller

Nice man

Bit of a lothario

Sociopath

Powerful

Unassuming 

Nazi (by assocication angry/bad tempered)

Has to compose him self alot- during and after the killing

Schizophrenic 

An introduction to the exam

G325 an introduction to the exam

Creativity

Creativity

Creativity

Band Name: New Colours
Album Name: Only if you Persist

Final thing...

I think i've been a little creative with what i've produced, as i've chosen the font, positioning etc. and the colours which tie in with the image, but the image, the band name and the album title were all made up from random searches on flickr, quotes and wikipedia, which created a huge boundary which limited my ability to be creative.

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Creativity

What is Creativity?

Originality, imagination, inspiration, ingenuity, inventiveness, resourcefulness, creativeness, vision and innovation.

How did you apply some of these to both your AS and A2 Coursework?

AS Magazine

Originality- My AS Magazine wasn't a carbon copy of another magazine, i took inspiration from other magazines, mainly womens fashion magazines to look at content and cover poses to re-invent and use on and in my magazine. Used my own idea for the title (Compilation), the temaplates for all of the pages, images, fonts, layout of the page etc. I came up with the name Compilation  becase i didn't want my magazine to focus on just one genre of music as i couldn't decide just one to focus on.

Inspiration- I took inspiration from women's fashion magazines which shared the same target audience as my magazine, i looked at different poses, fonts, layouts, costume, make-up to gain inspiration to use on my cover, contents page and double page spread.

Imagination- I used imagination to think about how i wanted my magazine to look, and how i thought it was going to look once i'd created it.

A2 Music Video

Originality- using our own ideas to create a music video from scratch, we had the freedom to basically do whatever we wanted to.

In terms of levels of creativity within my AS and A2 coursework products, i feel i sustained a good level of creativity with what i produced in AS, and what both me and Emma created in A2. We were allowed to do pretty much what we wanted in both products which allowed me to be as creative as possible, the only aspect which we couldn't stray from was the fact we weren't allowed to do anything other than a music magazine, and a music video, luckily the genre and all the other attributes involved were down to us, and gave us the oppurtunity to do whatever we liked within reason. The only boundaries were the fact it had to be a music video in A2 and either an opening to a film or a music magazine in AS, which didn't really prevent me from being that creative as research and planning helped me with inspiration and helped me to create ideas which i thought would be quite 'unique'. I feel the set menu of tasks made it much easier as it already gives you something to work with and research, the many thousands of music magazines, videos and genres round, it definately helped me because i knew i had a rough guideline to stick to. I personally wouldn't have preferred a free choice as i think it doesn't always go as well as planned, trying to find people to be in your video/magazine is hard enough if you don't think you know the person to fit the bill, so having to think of soething completely original off your own back seems like a much harder task than being given very loose guidelines.

Breif Description of My Coursework

At AS we were asked to produce either a magazine cover, contents and double page spread, or the opening to a film. I created the magazine cover, contents and double page spread, the genre was a music magazine of your choice, i chose to do an indie/alternative magazine called Complilation, which featured music from all genres as i didn't want to focus on just one particluar genre. My target audience was teenage girls and young women, as there aren't many music magazines which focus just on that age group. I evaluated my product though 7 questions, which i answered on a presentation which featured showed my progress, how i found the task, the technologies used and where i got my inspiration from.

http://katyedgeasmedia.blogspot.com/

At A2 we were asked to produce a music video, to a song of our choice and a digipack, which included an album cover and an advertisement shown in a music magazine. I worked with a friend, Emma and we chose to do our music video to Ellie Goulding's song Animal, and our target audience was people who like the hip hop/dance genre. We evaluated our final products individually focusing on how it was created, what technologies we used in the creating, editing, research and planning process and how we achieved our final products and and problems we had to overcome.

http://emmaandkatya2media.blogspot.com/

Exam Question 1 A

Describe and evaluate your skills development over the course of your production work

put the requirements of this question into your own words

Account in your own words/list what they are/outline them

Good points and bad points about your skills/analysis

Technologies used/creativity/researching and development skills and progress/editing-software etc.

How you have improved, progress made.

AS and A2

Examples of work you have created- prelim tasks, evaluations, coursework, practical work

You will be asked to focus in particular on one or two from the following list:

Digital Technology- equipment and software used throughout the course: photoshop, cameras, video cameras, editing software, laptops, computers, phones

Creativity- any ideas that could inspire and create better more detailed ideas, any further development on work (more examples etc) developing conventions, coming up with individual and original ideas that differ from others, editing- certain people have certain skills within editing, creative with photoshop

Research and Planning- any research that contributes to the course, websites, magazines etc. Using Blogger to write everything down and presenting work, using websites such as Prezi, Scribd to present work and look at other examples. VITAL TO CREATING. Planning- use of schedules, time plans etc

Post Production- Editing, evaluation, feedback, re-edit, re-work, improve and re-evaluate, feedback. Taking more photos, filming more scenes to get a wider variety of shots

Using conventions from real media texts- drawing inspiration from other texts, knowing what works in the real world