Editing and gender

Editing and representation

Really good overview- thanks to whoever wrote this



Continuity editing


Elliptical editing



More elliptical editing



Montage 1
How many other editing techniques can you spot in this?



Montage 2 - A montage about montages
- What rules of Montages are laid out in the lyrics?




Transitions



Jump cuts



Breaking the 180 rule



Parallel cutting



Long takes


The psychology of Editing



Compare this long take(start 59 seconds in) to this fast cutting (start 2 mins in).


What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach?
Now use your knowledge to analyse how editing constructs gender in these clips:

Primeval

Rome

Stereotypical reps of race

http://mossbournemedia.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/stereotypical-representations-of-race.html

Audience theories - summary

Nice and simple:

http://www.slideshare.net/andywallis/media-terminology-21657022

You need to watch this every week

... for a modern take on the upper classes. The real upper classes.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04smrqh

sexuality task

How is the representation of SEXUALITY constructed in this extract? 

http://youtu.be/kUpufL8cKhM

Remember to refer to elements of camera, sound, editing and mis en scene in your answer, throughout. 

Watch four times in class and make notes. Complete response (three sides minimum) by Monday. 

Age extract - homework

How is the representation of AGE constructed in this extract?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs9vN5kvAmw








Refer to mise-en-scene, editing, sound and camera in your answer (ALL THE WAY THROUGH!)

Disability in the news - still a problem...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29917990

Disability extracts

The Street

Coming down the mountain

Secret diary of a call girl

Casualty

Must watch movies (according to Miss Steventon)

1.    Citizen Kane (1941) - ANY Orson Welles film

2.    Withnail & I - comedy

3.    Blade Runner (1982) - sci-fi, excellence.

4.     Apocalypse Now (1979) - American epic war film – Francis ford Coppola

5.     One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) – Drama – Jack Nicolson at his best

6.     Amalie - Any Jean-Pierre Jeunet film, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, feel good films, all amazingly shot.

7.    Dr. Strangelove- Comedy - ANY Stanley Kubrick film (2001- Sci-Fi, The Shinning-Horror, The Killing- Thriller)

8.    Pulp Fiction - ANY Quentin Tarantino film (Reservoir Dogs, Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill and Inglourious Basterds)

9.    Big Lebowski – ANY Coen Brothers films - Fargo, O Brother Where Art Thou?, True Grit and many more.

10.  Vertigo - ANY Alfred Hitchcock film

11.  Some Like It Hot (1959)- Comedy - My favourite Marilyn Monroe film.

12.  Breakfast At Tiffany's – Rom-com - Audrey Hepburn

13.  Taxi Driver –  Martin Scorsese, check out a very young Jodie foster – Any Martin Scorsese film there are too many to mention!

14.  The Descent - Very clever in terms of making you feel claustrophobic!

15.  Buried – Some great close up shots.  Most of the film is from the point of view of a man who has been buried alive. I challenge you to watch this without getting shivers.

16.   Alien – So many films reference this, it’s a must view. - A Ridley Scott,  masterpiece.

17.  Brazil – Robert De-Nero like you have never seen him before. Also a Terry Gilliam film great director, 12 monkeys, Monty Python's Life of Brian, Time Bandits, also amazing!

18.  Being John Malkovich – Great Narrative.

19.  Big fish – Tim Burton – Another great director. – My other favourites are, Edward Scissor Hands, Beetle Juice and Mars Attacks

20.  Fight Club

21.  Little ms sunshine – Quirky Fun

22.   Raiders of the Lost Arc – Classic Action

23.  This is Spinal Tap – mock-umentry

24.  Memento – Thriller, Amazing Narrative.

25.  Let the Right One in (2008)- Horror/Drama

26.   12 Angry Men -  Drama

27.  Blazing Saddles – Comedy - ANY MEL BROOKS FILM

28.  The Graduate – Classic Drama

29.  The Usual Suspects – Thriller

30.  Trainspotting - ANY DANNY BOYLE FILM

31.  Donnie Darko – Sci-fi/Thriller

32.  Night of the living dead – Horror

33.  Howls Moving Castle- if you like Disney you have to see a Studio Ghibli, film there are so many.

34.  It’s a Wonderful Life – Mandatory viewing for the Christmas period.

Some of my favourite films

Film List A


You can't go wrong with those films. Here's a few Miss Steventon missed...

ANYTHING BY STANLEY KUBRICK.

Plus:

Thriller/ action

Hard-boiled

Heat

Don't Look Now

The Wages of Fear (French; finest exercise in suspense, ever. The first half hour is boring but worth the wait).

Rope (Hitchcock)

The Godfather I, II, and III

The Beat that my Heart Skipped (French)

Chinatown

LA Confidential



Horror

Psycho

Halloween

Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974, NOT the new one)

Rosemary's Baby (wow)

The Shining

A Nightmare on Elm Street

Alien

An American Werewolf in London

The Wicker Man (original with Christopher Lee, NOT the new one)



Messed up

Seconds  (1969, John Frankenheimer)

Lost Highway (David Lynch)

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch)

Performance (Nicolas Roeg)

Synecdoche, New York


Romance

When Harry Met Sally (hilarious)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (stunning)


Comedy

Trading Places

South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut

Team America: World Police

Anchorman

Rushmore

Napoleon Dynamite

The Naked Gun



Classics

Sunset Boulevard

The Big Chill

Casablanca