12 Jacob Gay: 2016

Saturday, 29 October 2016

Production Company Logo Design

We asked a number of questions to students who had just reacted to a super hero film. These questions would relate to the films plot and and the conventions of the genre. The overall response was lacking detail but we did get the answers that we were looking for. The scene we chose was from "the Avengers Age of Ultron" and was the introduction of the characters with them all fighting in a very iconic super hero scene. They all use different powers to fight their enemies which allowed us to come up with different sorts of questions involving the plot and their preferred type of character. This could help us decide what type of hero we want our film to be based on and what she or he has to go through in an opening scene. We will use this feedback from these 4 students and see if we can try to meet their expectations of a super hero film. However, we do believe that following in their idea of a super hero film may be unpractical and not original so some concepts and ideas will be monitored and changed to fit our skill and what we think will be original within the genre. They seem to like characters with adavanced technology like "tony stark" but creating something like that in our student film seems difficult and there much easier ways to make a good superhero films. When they talked about love and swearing, thought this was actually a promising point and we decided that we will not use any sort of love story and keep dialogue simple and appropriate to the situation. Over all we are using their opinions to certain extent but the majority our film will folow their profile of the superhero genre.

Sunday, 9 October 2016

Gender/Racial diversity analysis

Within the film Age of Ultron, diversity and social acceptance is heavily present with many characters from many different cultures. Having one of the main super heroes as a women is very different in the movie genre of superhero films. In the first film we have black widow who is very strong and skilled female spy who uses her looks to distract enemies. In the second film we see her start to fall in love with one of the other characters which seems to follow the convention that the girl always falls with the main male hero. Even with black widow we really don't see her as a super hero due to her only set of skills being good at martial arts but not actually having any super powers. This however does follow the conventions of super hero films.

While in comics the range of female super heroes is very abundant. That then all changes as we are introduced to Scarlett witch. A character who has very strong super powers, does not have a love interest and isn't a hopeless character who needs saving. This brakes the conventions of the super hero film genre which may be why the film was so successful. Diversity between cultures is introduced with characters, they head to Europe and Africa to protect the nations and also have characters from south Korea helping them out.

The reason why this is very different from most super hero films or just films in general is that because in the past, movies have had a men as the powerful and always saving the day, now in recent years and especially with Disney taking over a huge part of the film industry, we are getting more important female characters and they are even getting their own movies like captain marvel coming in 2018. Also films like wonder woman will have a female super hero. In this film we see that while there are more important female characters, the main heroes the film focuses on (hulk, iron man, Thor, captain america) are all male but not only that they are more powerful.

Male characters are actually represented as very aggressive in this film as the majority of the male characters in the avengers seem to argue and fight each other due to the others egos. The female charters seem to stay neutral and don't exactly get involved.