Evaluation 1 - 2 post apocaliptic films

Mise En Scene
-LOCATION



Our location for my film, Wanderer, is set in Kirkby in Ashfield, Nottingham, and was filmed in the winter of 2016, and the start of 2017, We choose to film here due to the location is very close by and is easy to access, also the location is very run down and has graffiti on all walls which adds to there feeling of the area being derelict and over run. Also at the location there is an abandoned factory in the back drop with a unused train line which we begin to walk down in the film. All these features add to our choosen genere

(Bucther Works, Sheffield)

The Film, Threads, is also located in England, Sheffield. Which is close to Nottingham, and is a post apocalyptic film, based on the earth ending due to a nuclear war. this is very similar to ours as our characters are also fighting for survival and looking for life, the film, Threads had had a huge influence on where to locate our film.


In our film, we varied our props used, we did this to emphasize the differences between each characters, and let the audience decide on there personalities and there objectives in the post apocalyptic setting, this gave our audience the chance to give there opinion on our characters before they seen there true colours. We tries to show each characters objectives through there weapons for example,  our main character had a Beeman hand gun, this show the audience he was a more dominant character and the richer of our characters, where as our hunter character has a rounder's bat and wore a mouth muzzle, this gave the impression of terminator and he was out there to kill other survivalists. He also wore a black leather jacket with other black clothing, this imminently gave the character a dark personality and the audiences first impression is he was the bad guy in our opening, how ever we also had a navy seal which was used to show there still is a sense of safeness, and there are still people out there to restore the world.


we greatly varied our camera angles, to show the more superior character (low angle shot) this instantly gave the audience a hint to the more dominant character, we also used many tracking shots in our film when our characters where walking, this was used to speed up the walking process and keep the audience focused, this also gave a clear image of the characters walking style, and the audience could decide on there personality.


our lighting was very dependent on our ti me of film as we really wonted the light low but with the sun still visable (dusk).

Male Gaze Theory

Are Women Still Objectified?

• 1970's Hollywood, male driven society industry.
• Audience and makers mainly male of specific genres.
• Laura Mulvey - Laura Mulvey's Male Gaze theory. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema was an essay written by Laura Mulvey. An essay which coined the term “Male Gaze” which soon went on to become a very well know and discussed theory. In film, the male gaze occurs when the audience is put into the perspective of a heterosexual man.
• Medium always shows women in the view of a male perspective, this shows male dominance.
• Male Gaze = perspective of audience.
• Producer, audience and male character's point of view women in the film. this is shown by props, eye contact, facial expressions that may or may not be choreographed or rehearsed and is just the male characters response.
• Producer = mostly a man, camera lensing affect taking a masculine point of view    

                                 -meaning that we will view women from  a male perspective.
                                 -shots linger on a females body, curves and assets, reducing them to know more
                                   than eye candy for a heterosexual audience. 

• Male audience = prime desire to look at the human body. Humans get sexual pleasure from naked bodies.
• Male characters = women are there to be looked at - to draw audiences attention. Guys in audience and in film sharing a joke on womens body, gestures and actions. Men have power over women.
• Female form serves men for visual pleasure. 

Foley Artist

  What is a Foley artist?
Foley artists use creativity to make viewers believe that the sound effects are actually real. The viewers should not be able to realize that the sound was not actually part of the filming process itself. Foley sounds are added to the film in post production after the film has been shot.
  Who was Foley?
Jack Foley established the basic modern techniques for becoming a great sound artist as his techniques are still used today.
  Why are Foley artists needed?
without Foley, a film sounds empty and hollow - the actors seem to be talking in a vacuum. The sound recordist, if they did a good job, has given us the dialogue and excluded everything else, but our films needs more than this for the picture to come alive. we need to hear little sounds of clothes, furniture etc.
  Give examples of how Foley artists traditionally achieve their outcomes and how is it completed nowadays?
Increasingly, many simply Foley sound fx are done without Foley artists, the sound effects are stored electronically and performed by the post production sound engineer on a keyboard while watching the visual. Doing it this way is much cheaper than renting a Foley stage and paying Foley artists to create the Foley sound effects.