Representation

How are women represented in this trailor?
In The Hunger Games trailer, Katniss is represented as a physically strong youg female which is quite subversive as usually the males are the heroes whereas she is strong, independent and tough. She is also presented as a brave fighter, fighting along side the boys; this will surprise the audiance. She's also self sacrificing as her sister was selected to play in one of the hunger games which involves a lot of killing but she put her self out and went in the games for her. This bravery is more of a masculine quality normally in heroes of action films. However, on the other hand, she does have a slim body shape and a pretty face which is more conventional (typical) for female characters in action films.

How are men represented?
In the Hunger Games the male (Peter Mallark) is like the sidekick to the girl which is also quite subversive aas usually the men are the strong ones who take the lead. Peter is seen as quite mentally soft and nice which is usually how females are represented in films.There's also a love triangle between the hero (Katniss) and two love interests, Peter and Gale which puts the male characters in more female roles.

How is the political hierachy represented(president snow and his army)?Why?
President Snow is seen is seen as cold as cold and that synergises with his name which is President"snow"which you only see when it's cold. This name Snow also has connotations of whiteness and he is a white male and top of the hierarchy which is normal for how films represent race. There is a mixture of races taking part in the games but the black and minority characters are more likely to die. Katniss and the two boys are both white which is conventional for action heroes and does not portray a realistic view of the world.

The film represents the reality tv genre that is popular with audiences in the 21st century.This is ment to critisise TV shows of people competing against eachother all for a prise and entertainment for the people who watch it at home. Younge people are being played and being sacrificed over the shock on the evil rich ordiance which is very cruel and wicked thing to do.waisting human lifes.

Moana institution research

1) Write the story line of Moana in no more than three sentences.
Moana is a sea travelling euthusiast and the only daughter of a chuief in a long line of navigators. When her islands fishermans can't catch any fish. The only way to heal the island is to persuade Maui to return Te Fiti's so Moana went on a brave journey across the percific ocean.

2)What film genre is Moana?
The film genre of Moana is fantacy adventure

3) When was the film released in the UK?

The film Moana was released 2nd December 2016  

 4)Who were the stars who provided the voices in the film?

- Auli'i Cravalho-Moana

- Dawayne Jhonson -Maui

-Temuera Morrison-Chief Tui

-Jemaine Clement-Tomatoa

-Nicole Scherzinge -Sina

-Loise Bush-Toddler Moana

5) Who were the directors for Moana?

The directors where Ron Clements and Don Hall

6) What other films have they directed? 

Ron Clements

- The princess and the frog

-treasure planet

-Hercules

-Aladdin

- The little mermaid 

- The great mouse detective

Don Hall

-Big Hero 6

-winnie the pooh

-weird world

7) What was the production budget for Moana? 

150 million

8) How much money did the film make at the worldwide box office?

the film made $637,822,114

9) What is the Walt Disney company?

The walt disney company ,commonly known as disney, is an american diversified as a multinational mass media entertainment , head quarted at the walt disney studios in burbank, Califiornia.

10) What other companies and brands are owned by Walt Disney?

-Pixar

-Licasfilm

-Marvel entertainment

and more

11) What famous film franchises are owned by the Walt Disney company?

-magic kingdom:1971
- Epcot:1989
- Disney's animal kingdom:1998
12) List three other Disney animated family films.
- Beauty and the beast
- The little mermaid
- Aladdin
13) What are the three most successful Disney films ever?
Fantasia
The lion king
The jungle book
14) What do audiences expect from a Disney film?
They may expect all Disney films must be family movies that have good morals to them.
15) Why might a family be happy to watch a new Disney film? 
They know from the other Disney films that the next one will be fun and be good and apropriate to watch with their family
16) Read the IMDBuserreviewsforMoana. Copy and paste three user reviews for the film into your blogpost – one good, one bad, one in the middle.
good

Easily ranks among the best from the Disney Studio, and a very worthy successor to Mulan 1998, a similar story equally well done.

Oddly also seems to be best work ever from Dwayne Johnson, perhaps not the first name I would have associated with "voice acting," but a star turn nonetheless.

If you want to be picky -- which is the reviewer's job, after all -- the momentum slows a little at the top of the third act, but the ultimate themes of redemption, forgiveness and self-discovery at the finale are an absolute joy.

bad
Oh... my... word...

A girl wants to go where her dad won't let her, wants to do what her dad won't let her. Hmm.. sound familiar? Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Poca... Pocahontas, Mulan, Brave and just about every modern Disney. Let's look at gender then Disney, seeing as you're OBSESSED with it:

Male characters: Dad - scared, repressive, short-sighted, wrong. Demi-God chap - selfish, conceited, vain, ineffective, emotionally repressed, thief. Crab - as above (I'm assuming he's male). Coconut Pirates - murderous but ineffectual (I'm assuming their male).

Female characters: Moana - bright eyed, aspirational, quick learner, visionary, empathetic, brave, strong, amazing, indefatigable, indomitable, perceptive. Granny - as above plus supernaturally gifted. Earth Goddess thingy - was only trying to kill people because the male character had robbed her of her precious.

Yawn. Increasingly Disney is working as a SJW - righting perceived inbalances in society. They have obviously perceived a gender imbalance biased towards males in society and have therefore produced their own version of the world where the gender imbalance is biased heavily and totally towards the females. Everything else in the film is nice .

17) Read this Guardian review of Moana. How many stars is the film given?
The film Moana is given 4 stars.

18) What does the Guardian reviewer think is the best thing about Moana?
They like how this film is howaiin and how the cast are from their aswell.

19) Read thisEmpirereviewofMoana. Why does it say Moana is similar to Frozen?
like Frozen it's a progressive Disney movie that nimbly dodges outraded tropes

20) What do you think Moana and Frozen have in common? Write down three things the two films have in common.
In both films they both go on some sort of adventure, they're both musicals and just like Frozen the main character is a girl

21) Having researched the film, why do you think Moana was so successful at the box office? 
I think it was so successful because of how the whole cast was howaiin .

22) Embed the trailer for Moana in this blog post and write three things in the trailer that would make the audience want to go and see the whole film.
-it's a happy film with nice musicals 
-The animations look really good
-They have funny characters in the movie trailer

23) How many references to Disney can you find in the trailer?
They have around 3 one at the  beginning when they show the production company and they also show it on top of the film name moana and at the very end.

24) Find a film poster for Moana using Google Images and paste it into the blogpost. Find three things on the poster that would make the audience want to go and see the movie.

The audiance may like the back ground
They may like how comfertable the main characters look in the main image
The may also like the interesting font they used for the title
25) Does the Moana film poster have the Disney logo on it? Where on the poster does it appear?
the logo appears on top of the film poster on top of the title

Reviewing or production work- Assignment 2

1) what are the typical conventions you have used:
I have used an age rating on on the bottom right corner and its small so that it creates synergy with other film posters. I've also used a nice bold title which is on the top third so it can catch the viewers attention,the title is just like an college font which suggests the film is based on a high school and i have also used a ratings which most film posters have i used 5 star ratings in the films the "director" has previously done which tells the viewers that this film going to be good as well. For the central image i have used 3 high school girls and you can tell this because they're wearing their school uniform.It also says how the film is "Coming this summer" which is another typical movie poster convention and i put my one just on top of the title because the viewer focus quite a bit in that area.

2)What is the genre of your film and how what your target audience know by the choices you have made?:
the genre of my film is teen/comedy and the target can probably tell because the main image is of three high school girls and teenagers go high school. The back ground of the film poster is pink and the colour pink has connotations of being girly and girls can be quite mean towards each other. The title is "Greenford-Heights" and the bit that says "Heights" might refer to how they're rich teenagers.You can probably tell this film may be set in a school as they're are wearing school uniform.

3)What institutional information have you used to try and sell the film and how does this appeal to the audience?;
For the ratings i did 5 stars for the previous film the director has rated which might make the audience want to see this film as this may be a success as well and on the bottom left of the film poster it has 3 production companies which are quit well known which will also draw the viewers in as that'll  make them think that the film is good.

4) synergy between your story board and trailer:
the story board has synergy to my movie poster as the title at the end "Greenford-Heights" is written in the same thont and also has the same background colour as it does in the movie poster, the story board also has synergy with the movie pioste as it has the same three main images on the movie poster and you cant tell they're the same characters as they have the same hairstyles and the background of that is also pink in the story board and in the film poster.On the film poster the one of the production companys was "Lionsgate" and in the story board it has lionsgate logo aswell.

5) What representations have you use in your film?:
Even though this film is for boys and girls this will probably get alot girls attention as the movie posters main images are three girls. This'llprabably atract mostly teenager as the movie pister has three teenagers as the main image . This film may take place in a high schoool as theyre wearin school uniforms and this school has all mix nationaltys as in the main image in the film poste has three girls from three different bbackgrounds.