Different theorist ideas & Applying some of these theories

Fiske 1987-A code of realistic camera work, cinematography is the shaky camera. The stable camera (mounted on a tripod/dolly) disappear from the audiences deception. Shaky handheld camera is realist because of intertextuality with home movies, news footage and fly on the wall documentaries. Stable camera is high budget drama therefore unrealistic.

Derrida 1981-Jacques Derrida proposed that a text cannot belong to no genre, it cannot be without a genre. Every text participates in one or several genres, there is no genreless text.

Levi strauss developed the concept of bricolege. he saw any text as constucted out of socially recognisable "debris" from other texts. He saw that writers construct texts from other texts by a process of:

-Addition

-Deletion

-Substitution

-Transpostion

Different Theories

Throughout our media lessons we have been concentrating on the subject of theory within the media and broadening our knowledge of it. Theory is linked either to a name for a group of similar theories

e.g Structuralism

Roland Barthe-mythologies

Claude Levi Strauss-binary oppositions

Stuart Hall-encoding-decoding

Gerard Genette-transexualities

or is it the theory of one person

e.g Laura Mulveys theory of "The male gaze"

"Within Feminist Media theory"

My blog will be a document of my research and include information based on the film trailer, me and my group will be creating for our A2 media coursework. I consider this blog to be a diary entry of my updates, and present summaries of any idea's we come up with. My group consists of 5 people, which include Me, Alex, Shanyse, Holly and Nick, this in my opinion is considered as an advantage as we will all have a mixture of idea's, that when combined together will help us create an eye catching, interesting film trailer, that represents our film genre. Through much discussion we have decided to base our film on the genre Thriller. This was due to the fact that we were inspired by a variety of film trailers, and films that we have watched during our research, we believed that thriller trailers always kept the audience in suspence, which made it more exciting to watch, therefore we believed this was the best suited genre for us. We all came up with different idea's for a plot, but Holly suggested we use the storyline from a book, aswell as the idea of using intertextuality, although we are still brainstorming different ideas. I thought that the film trailer for the movie 'Taken' was a perfect example of an action packed thriller, most my group, apart from Nick, hadnt watched it, so we both suggested, we was a group should watch it. Although we all had decided to analysis 'Taken' we thought it was best we all anlayze 2-3 different film trailers of our choice, so that we have a wider knowledge of the thriller genre, because some thriller films can break the Thriller conventions.