Poster Design

Below are a collection of notes leading up to the final design of the poster. To establish the posters style I had to be sure of what I was setting my self for the essay. To help me aline my ideas I attended an open office meeting, there I was able to set out a plan for my essay and list the critical approches and references I will be using.

Once I decided on a layout I designed my poster on Photoshop, starting with the background, then adding layers of text on top. After peer review, I darkened the background and brightened the text layer so that the text would read clearer. I also reduced the size of the opposing Perseus' on either side to fit more formally into the composition, by being framed by the text. 

 

Essay Idea 1

The essay will compare the production of the original 'Clash Of The Titans' and the contemporary version. Theories addressed will be representation of male and female roles, psychoanalysing the way in which they act, how they look and what they wear. The development in technologies, how the original was produced (stop-motion) compared to the contemporary version (CGI). The interpretation of mythology, how each film cherry picked what they would include and why.

Essay Idea 2

The cultural text I will be analysing is 'Clash Of The Titans', comparing both the original and contemporary version. The essay will focus on the different definitions of a 'hero', what is a 'hero' and how a 'hero' is represented. Critical approaches will address the antagonists (Perseus) in both versions of the film, psychoanalysing their portrayal and how this is reflected in their heroic status.


List Of References 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BnlU_gvSJw&feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lklNRyJT8Hg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4K4I59jUTs 

http://www.nobleworld.biz/images/A_G.pdf
http://www.asu.edu/courses/fms504/total-readings/mulvey-visualpleasure.pdf
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1542-734X.00065/abstract
jt097eqPL5dI8nBxGpe8ExhA4#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://flightline.highline.edu/tkim/Files/101_PalmaMLAessay.pdf
http://www.barrypurves.com/Achilles
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHero
http://www.questia.com/read/96277756/the-study-of-sociology
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1091/1091-h/1091-h.htm#2H_4_0002
http://0775776.student.wdka.nl/herothousandfaces.pdf
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/bulf/bulf14.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGDJJohiomw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGx4IlppSgU&feature=related


Key Words - Eurocentric (location shooting), Representation, Notion, Semiotics,
Voyeurism, Scopophilia,

Task 5 - Preparation for Week 6

Disclaimer - I did not attend this weeks lecture or seminar because I had go on a trip to Wales, as organised by Animation BA.

Notes

• The author has a feminist biased and focuses on the symbology of castration of the male within film. 
• The introduction makes hints that the author may have a feminist agenda by informing the reader that the rest of the article will address the image of the woman in film. 
• 'Part 2' references Freud in correlation to how audiences perceive erotica on screen. The author draws upon two contradictory ideas (scopophilia and active scopophilia) of how audiences react towards film in a cinema space.
• 'Part 3' opens with a false premise, stating that the pleasure of looking is split between the active male and passive female. This ignores films the don't objectify women, generalising that mainstream film is only targeted towards the pleasure of men.
• The power of the gaze is very well explained by the example of Hitchcock's Vertigo, in which Mark Rutland's gave seduces Marnie into confessing her secret.
• The author makes a bold claim in the summary, illustrating that the female for is 'fetishised' on screen for the purpose of pleasing the male ego. 

--Laura Mulvey, originally published - Screen 16.3 Autumn 1975 pp. 6-18

Questions

• Is it not wise to suggest that since 1975, with the assumptions made by Mulvey at that time, that film, in terms of technology has evolved to a point that some of her ideas have become outdated? 
• "The male figure cannot bear the burden of sexual objectification" generalises that all heterosexual men are egotistic and insecure about their body image. Do you agree with this statement?

Task 4 - Preparation for Week 5