Sight and Sound

Sight & Sound is a British monthly film magazine published by the British Film Institute (BFI).It has been publishing magazines since 1932, and management of the magazine was handed to nascent BFI in 1934.

The magazine reviews all film releases each month, including those with a limited (art house) release, as opposed to most film magazines which concentrate on those films with a general release. Sight & Sound features a full cast and crew credit list for each reviewed film.

Sound Effects

VOICEOVERS:


This voice over reflects what Raymond is going through in the film, he is deceived by all the other characters. This is especially from his wife, Bridgette who carries out a love affair behind his back with the detective.


Obviously from this, you can see this are the voice overs before they are edited into the trailer. You can see that we have got voice overs from all of the characters so the audience can connect, but also see their side of the story. This sets the narrative up, so the audience can find out what happens and why, and how it all started- this gives background knowledge to intrigue the audience in.


The voice over coming from the character of the Detective, establishes the setting where it is filmed, the time period and location. This is important for the audience, as they will expect from this to see period items and clothing- also characters that are seen in 50s Film Noir. We have been influenced by "The Great Gatsby" when Nick Carrawy introduces the film location and time period.

This voiceover was voiced by Mr Schillingher, he put on a London accent to convey the sort of accent of the film and he also described the plot for the film.


MUSIC THAT WAS CREATED BY JACK CUNNINGTON FOR "RENDEZVOUS"




We recorded these in the music block in our school. We used the instruments such as piano, guitar, drums and bass.

Empire

EMPIRE is a well known film magazine owned by THE BAUER - the largest privately owned publisher in Europe, publishing in Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom as well as in USA and Mexico.

The purpose of EMPIRE Magazine is to: "To provide indispensable insight into cinema, from recent blockbusters to classic films."

The audience for EMPIRE is mostly made up from ages 15-44.

So films that are on the covers for this magazine would be perfect for our film "RENDEZVOUS" as the target audience is from 15+.

 

Target audiences for EMPIRE is made up of E Unemployed, students as the age range starts from 15+

 

 

 

 Mainly for this audience, I would think that the target audience for both this film and the magazine article are aimed at 18+ male audiences, but also females.

Props List

In Film Noir there are many props that serve as iconography for the audience, these props are what the audience looks out for when watching the film.

In our teaser trailer we want to involve all the sort of iconography that the audience would be looking out for when watching the teaser. This will attract audiences into watching the film as they will know from the iconography what type of genre of the film it is.

LIGHTING:

The use of low/high key lighting can represent the character and their status or if it is a negative or positive portrayal of the character. 

CHIAROSCURO:

Chiaroscuro is an Italian artistic term used to describe the dramatic effect of contrasting areas of loght and dark in an artwork, when applied to film noir it helps give the picture detail, depth and helps draw attention to certain objects, characters and parts of the face.

VENETIAN BLINDS: 

Blinds are used in film noir to highlight the secretive nature in the plot, that they are hiding in the darkness. 

SILHOUETTES:

The image of the person, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single colour, usually black, it's edges matching the outline of the subject. In film noir it creates a sense of mystery, stealth and of the unknown. 

CIGARETTES (SMOKE):

Cigarette smoke can be used to good effect in film noir, adding white to otherwise dark scene. Nearly everybody smokes in film noir, it seems to be a natural thing for the detectives and even the femme fatales to do.

Film Magzine Research

Ideology

The values and beliefs perpetuated by the majority within a society may be described as DOMINANT IDEOLOGIES --> usually that of a
. WHITE
. EDUCATED

. HETEROSEXUAL
. CHRISTIAN
. MALE-CENTERED
perspective










LEVI STRAUSS theorised that all narratives were based on conflict through finding the BINARY OPPOSITIONS in texts where dominant ideology can also be found.

Ideologies are not fixed- they change and mutate. Dominant ideologies tend to 'swallow up' and absorb any threats to the order.

Hegemony- this process by which dominant ideology was able to naturalise aspects of how society is organised and this was achieved through control of cultural practises.

According to Stuart Hall - there nay be other ways that other part of the audiences may read the text this can be through an oppositional reading. Or that the film itself has oppositional ideologies... the text is constructed to represent a different viewpoint od life and society; these views are an alternative to mainstream views.

However, in our film it will have dominant ideology due to the lifestyles of the character's.

Young female vs old female
love vs hate
unfaithful vs faithful
male vs female
rich vs poor

Risk Assessment

A2 Media Risk Assessment from rosieallen1997