Collective Identity Theories

Francesca Poletta & James Jaspar 

Collective identity is born in outsiders meaning the outsiders create the identity of the group although the group do have to somehow obide by or enforce this somehow. For example, if young people are the collective, adults are the outsiders so they create the identity of the group e.g Youths are all loud an wear tracksuits.

David Snow

There is non definite definition of collective identity. 'One-ness' is what you think you are and is uniquely you and 'We-ness' is what you share with other people (Attributes or experiences)

Tafjal & Turner

Everyone has different social personalities which means they have different personalities depending on who they are with. ('Multiple social identities)

Sheldon Stryker

People we interact with shape our identity 'identity negotiation' and 'social expectation' apply.

Mikhail Bakhtin

This theory purely suggests that throughout life people change for example our music taste

David Gauntlett (1)

You have to create your identity throughout life and we do this by lifestyle choice (Active/Not-active) In essence everyone wants to live their own lives but we end up up living an experimental life meaning we try out new things and see what suits us and then end up with our identity.

David Gauntlett (2)

Through parents, the media and other influences we are constantly told to create our identity but this is hard to do.

Audience Theories

Richard Dyer 

'Utopian' - perfect world, idealised world 

audiences want media products that show them the Utopian world as they are more dramatic and interesting to watch to see what happens. 

The Frankfurt School

The Hypodermic Needle Model

audiences are manipulated to be told how they think about a film as the audience is passive. 

Blumler & Katz 

audience is able to choose what media that they want to view depending on the mood of the audience member, as they try to fulfill there needs. 

• entertainment and diversion: escapism 
• personal relationships/social interaction: identification with characters to discuss media texts
• personal identity: compare your life with the characters and situations 
• information/education: find out and learn about  what is going on in the world 

David Buckingham 

young people use the media to make sense of their experiences of being able to relate to others and organising their daily lives. The media is a wallpaper to pass boredom in their lives, most of the time they see the media as being meaningless. 

Character Auditions

I researched audition tapes of real actors so that I was able to see more into the whole filming world and how they really get people to cast, when doing my research it gave me an idea to do my own audition tapes so that I was able to cast all my characters for my film however I already found the perfect people to play the characters in my trailer. 




Before any actor or actress gets a role they need to audition for the role and tell the company why they are the best person for the job. These are some examples of audition tapes from celebrities that are now famous and have done very well with their careers. To get the best actress or actor for the job the production company needs to interview and audition multiple people to see who is able to get the best out of the role as filming a film can be a very stressful job as when they mess up their acting this can become a problem for the whole film.

Key Scenes

·         Roxanne's feet walking away when they get a certain distance away the shoes change (showing that the character is changing from one person to another) This will be a mid-shot and the first pair of should will be some sort of 'Vans' trainer, then the second shoe will be Doc Martens followed by heels. This scene will show that although it is the same person (Because they are walking the same, same sized feet and nothing else changes other than the fashion) there is a wide variety of diverse personalities hopefully because there will be such a dramatic change in the fashion. 

·         Sat in the same location (In Erin's bedroom) but the small objects and the mood changes to show the separate characters personalities, the shelves in the background will be constantly changing. This, along with the first scene that I mentioned will hopefully inform the audience about the different characters all forming from the one main character of Roxanne.

·         Looking into a mirror Roxanne can be applying makeup as her personality is beginning to change and she realises that she does like this type of look anymore. Starts off with her applying mascara (normal girl make up) then looks over to foundation and puts loads of it on to show the sudden change along with then applying lipstick. This will show the different characters and the difference in people (as everyone is slightly unique than another).

·         There will be a scene at school which will be showing that the characters are all normal people and that people that suffer from MPD are just the same as everyday people. Where they are able to establish relationships with other people that are in the school and can find similarities with other people who do not have MPD and show what the character did before everything went wrong and she murders her friends.

·         To show the relationships of the characters in the film there will be a scene of a ‘date night’ where the characters are at their happiest the characters that will be shown on the date will be the lesbian couple challenging stereotypes of couples and that no matter the sexuality all couples are the same, whether they are happy or sad (this relationship is the happiest one which enforces the idea of happiness in love).

·         Along with this there will be a variation of different shots to show the contrast in different characters. 

These are the key scenes that will be used in my trailer to make sure that I am able to get the story across to the audience. They are all very different from one another as they are all in different locations which will start interest for the audience along with all of the characters being in a different situations which makes the audience think about what will happen next and get them interested in my film. The key scenes will be recorded so that I am able to use them in my trailer when producing it. 

Trailer Props and Locations

This is a list of all of the different locations and props that might occur in my trailer.

Write a list of props you will need for your trailer;

• Spare sets of clothes for the actors/actresses that are playing two characters (which are Sophie and Will) make sure that they have the correct costumes to play the personality of the character
• Fake blood for the murder scenes and make things look realistic for the audience.

• A weapon used for the murders of the characters.

• Glasses for Ava who will need them for her character

• Make up, again used by the characters and will show the change in the characters personalties.

• Music Albums/DVD covers to show the change in taste by the characters and what the different personalities enjoy.
• Cigarettes for Vivienne to use during filming (character change again)

• Black Hat for Evan to wear
• Ring for engagement

All Props link to all of the characters differently as each character has their own role and events that they need to carry out throughout the trailer. 

 

Write a list of locations for your trailer;

• Park that some of the characters will be using as a way to show that the characters change.

• Erin's House is another location where the characters feel comfortable, this is where some of the main scenes will occur

• Sophie's house where the couple of Rose and Ava are comfortable and at their happiest in the relationship

• Road side as this can be where the protagonist changes or meets up with other partners
• Mental hospital (school) where Roxanne ends up going to help her get better.

• Interrogation room where she is asked questions about the murder.

• School where some of the relationships started.

Audience Feedback

I showed my target audience my teaser trailer/pitch and asked them what their own personal opinions were on it my asking them the questions below. I then recorded their anwsers so that I could show a range of different skills by uploading the interviews up on soundcloud. All of the people that I interviewed fit in with my target audience.  

Hello, 

How old are you?

"17"

What is your occupation?

"Student"

What is your favourite genre of film? 

"Horror or Thriller"

Would you want to watch my film in the cinema? 

"Probably it would be a film I would go and see with my friends."

What is your favourite part about my Teaser Trailer/Pitch?

"Where the characters change from one to another and it is a big plot twist."

What is our story?

"Im guessing it is to do with a relationship that goes wrong?"

Can you relate to the characters?

"I can relate to the female character who is in the relationship" 

How could I improve on the story that I have?

"Make it a clearer change between the characters when they walk into the camera view."

I could not get the person from the interview to be in a video so I transcribed what they had said. 

Trailer Presentation

                                  

I made a pitch so that I was able to show my ideas for the trailer that me and Sophie will be making it shows my character profiles and the actors that will be playing them, then some title ideas for what I could call my trailer along with my ideas for the narrative of the trailer and the final plot synopsis.

Theorists

Genre Theory: 

Rick Altman
Semantic Elements - visual or sound, clues and signs that help the audience notice the genre (for example darkness). Syntactic Elements - themes and plots, they are harder to find and see but make up the story.
Steve Neale 
''difference in repetition'', take familiar ides from a range of different films of the same genre (psychological thriller) and puts them all together. genre evolution: the form finds itself, the classic, stretching the boundaries, parody and homage.

Narrative Theory:

Tzentan Todoroz
Equilibrium, Disequilibrium, New Equilibrium
Claude Levi-Strauss
Binary Opposites
Vladimir Propp
Character types; villain, doner, the helper (magical), princess, father, dispatcher, hero (anti-hero)
Roland Barthes
Open and closed questions, narrative codes: action codes and enigma codes.

Representation Theory:

Angela McRobbie
Men and women represented through stereotypes, traditional gender roles
Laura Mulvey 
'male gaze' - women are either the 'virgin' or the 'whore' - dichotomy (a contrast between two things that are different)
Stanley Cohen
That groups in society are demonised causing moral panic.

These theories are for genre, narrative and representation who have evolved the ways that producers of films and audiences look at films now and how they looked at them in the future.

Teaser Trailer - The Pitch

I made this video to try advertising my trailer to my target audience and I will be asking my audiences opinions on what they have seen and see what I can add and change to make it more suitable for my audience. The teaser trailer involves all of the main characters and shows the sorts of costumes that the characters will be wearing, the teaser trailer/pitch shows parts of the story of my trailer.

Treatment for Movie Trailer Production

TREATMENT FOR MOVIE TRAILER PRODUCTION This is my final decision on what I would like to do on my trailer and did some more planning on the name of my production company and also the beginning, middle and end of my narraive so that I would be able to acheive what I would like to do and be able to show to my audience when the trailer is complete. Along with planning my target audience and the locations/costumes of my charcters this will mean that when I come to making my actual media product I will be able to film knowing what I would like to aim for.
Production Company Name: ‘Balanced Productions’			Production Team Members: Erin Booker-Smallwood & Sophie Canning
Title of Production: From Bethlehem to Bedlam			Genre: Psychological Thriller
Synopsis: A girl called Roxanne in a relationship with Tate, they are engaged and in a happy and stable relationship. However he discovers that she has a variation of different relationship's and looks but she tends to leave the house when this happens so he doesn't discover the fact that she has MPD until the very end. Roxanne is the dominating personality but there are two other completely different personalities. Roxanne doesn't know that she has MPD but the other two do, one of the other personalities kills Tate and in anger Roxanne finds the other men that she has been seeing and kills them, until guilt and loneliness set in and she commits suicide.
Detailed Narrative Outline: Beginning – Everyone is happy and getting on with their everyday lives, the partners of the main female character. Tate and Roxanne are planning their wedding and getting ready to marry but he is beginning to learn that things aren't always the way they seem as Roxanne starts to change moods and become almost a different person which Tate finds weird and confusing but ignores it due to his happiness in the relationship even though Roxanne isn't as happy as she seems to be about the relationship.   Middle – We as the audience learn that there are many other relationships going on with the same person who in our film is Roxanne. The story becomes a world full of strange events as Roxanne ends up changing personalities and getting herself into different relationships where she is a whole different person with different clothes, personality and most of all partners. Roxanne is able to change the personalities that she wants to have until she starts to become scared of herself and nervous when she is able to change who she wants to be. End – Roxanne controls all of the personalities and becomes angry at the life she has been given and ends up becoming crazy and attacking all the people that she thought she loved. Tate and Evan are murdered and Rose survives as Ava realises she is in love.
Intended Target Audience: Teenagers as they enjoy seeing films like ours with their friends. It will be a mix of male and female audience members as both genders will be able to link with the characters. There social class will be Middle Class (due to their parent’s occupations) as they are lucky not to experience these themselves and find it interesting as they are able to learn things about MPD.	Key Characters: Roxanne – A normal everyday girl enjoys music and reading. Doesn't stand out in the crowd. Vivienne – Is a stereotypical ‘Goth’ listens to heavy rock music and is in a violent relationship and has many bad habits such as smoking. Ava – Lesbian is the happiest personality and is very girly. She is also very outgoing. Tate – Average everyday boy, met at college and is in a relationship with Roxanne. Evan – Boyfriend of Vivienne has a dark personality and has anger issues. Tattoos and piercings. Rose – Ava’s girlfriend has a good sense of humour and is very friendly. She knows about Ava’s other personalities.
Mise en scene: Music – The music that we are using is Fall Out Boy Centuries due to it having a very creepy female voice and when the song is slowed down the lyrics and the tune go very well for a psychological thriller. Lighting – there will be a mixture of low key and high key lighting due to the vast change of scenery and location that the filming will be done in. along with using natural lighting in the correct locations (outside) to show that the characters are just like normal people. Costume – the costumes are individual to the characters, Roxanne & Tate wear stereotypical ‘normal’ clothes. Vivienne & Evan are ‘goth’ and Ava & Rose are girly girls (eg. Pink and stereotypical ‘American’ girls)		Locations: Examples of locations that we could use for our filming of the trailer.   Park Erin’s House Sophie’s House Road/Street Restaurant Hospital Mental Hospital School

Title Analysis

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I looked at titles from other psychological thriller films and looked at the parts that I might be able to use when making my own masthead for my film.

Development on Character Profile

Profile

Using pictures of Sophie I created my first character profile and here is the development of how I edited and changed the picture to make it of a high quality.

Sinister - Representation

To do further research I had a look at how the characters are represented in films and certain situations that they are put into. I analysed Sinister and had a look at the characters themselves along with looking at what representation theories fitted in with the idea of creating my own psychological thriller.