- Who is being represented? In what way? By whom?
Male - Masculine, father goes on a journey to save his child
Female - Feminine, mother stays at home cares for the children and her husband
- Why is the subject being represented in this way?
- Is the representation fair and accurate?
the father then decided to take upon the journey being represented as a hero to save his family.
Media Languages and Forms
- What are the denotative and connotative levels of meaning?
the connation is child being possessed, family move into a haunted home
-sequel to the first chapter
- What is the significance of the text’s connotations?
INSIDIOUS - '
proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with very harmful effects'
- What are the non-verbal structures of meaning in the text (e.g. gesture, facial expression, positional communication, clothing, props etc)?
clothing - the characters are wearing dark clothing to emphasise the genre -horror
- What is the significance of mise-en-scene/sets/settings (CLAMPS)?
Lighting - key light on the characters faces and filler lighting to soften shadows - under lighting+ low key lighting.
Camera Framing- long, close up shows that the film consists of a family; able to see the facial expressions of the mother who is scared and is protecting her child.
Stereotype of women - loving protecting feminine side.
Review: The movie picks up right where the first left off, and really gives you the back story of the family and why they are going through everything they are going through.
Setting - dark room - shows how they are trapped.
- What are the dominant images and iconography, and what is their relevance to the major themes of the text?
baby chair - family, the child is affected too
bed - the child keeps waking up from nightmares
- What sound and visual techniques are used to convey meaning (e.g. camera positioning, editing; the ways that images and sounds are combined to convey meaning)?
Narrative
- How is the narrative organised and structured?
- How are characters delineated? What is their narrative function? How are heroes and villains created?
- What is the role of such features as sound, music, iconography, genre, mise-en-scene, editing etc within the narrative?
- What are the major themes of the narrative? What values/ideologies does it embody?
Genre
- To which genre does the text belong?
- What are the major iconographic features of the text?
The use of black and red immediately tells the audience that this is a horror movie
The use of red in the number 2 and SI is effective as it stands out, connotes blood, horror.
- To what extent are the characters generically determined?
- To what extent are the audience’s generic expectations of the text fulfilled or cheated by the text? Does the text conform to the characteristics of the genre, or does it treat them playfully or ironically?
- Does the text feature a star, a director, a writer etc who is strongly associated with the genre? What meanings and associations do they have?
Media Institutions
- What is the institutional source of the text?
- In what ways has the text been influenced or shaped by the institution which produced it?
- Who owns and controls the institution concerned and does this matter?
- How has the text been distributed?
Media Audiences
- To whom is the text addressed? What is the target audience? (Demographics, Psychographics)
- What assumptions about the audience’s characteristics are implicit within the text?
- In what conditions is the audience likely to receive the text? Does this impact upon the formal characteristics of the text?
- What do you know or can you assume about the likely size and constituency of the audience?
- What are the audience pleasures, uses or gratifications? (Refer to theory).
- How do you, as an audience member, read and evaluate the text? To what extent is your reading and evaluation influenced by your age, gender, background etc?
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