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Film 4

When Film4 started the name of the channel was origionally FilmFour and was the second channel to channel 4, it was launched on the 1st of november 1998. You started off having to subscribe to the channel via sattelite through the sky platform on satellite television via the Sky platform, digital terrestrial via ITV Digital (until the platform went into administration in 2002), and most UK cable services. It cost £5.99 or £6.00 a month (depending on platform), eventually rising to up to £7. The launch night, which was also broadcast on Channel 4, was hosted by Johnny Vaughan and the first film to be shown was What's Eating Gilbert Grape.

Film4's sister channels:
channel4, more4, E4, Kerrang, Kiss, Magic, Q, Smash hits & the box.

Film4's main ambition was not to focus on broadcasting blockbusters, but now  they mainly focus on showing the main big Hollywood movies. Film4 appreciates a niech market and has 'themed nights' or film seasons for example, 'Double trouble' would include 'Bad boys', 'Men in black', 'white chicks', or they would ferature films around a genre e.g. 'action night', they also do themed nights for certain directors or actors. Channel 4 owns Film4 Productions (Channel 4's film production compay), it shows many of its in-house productions.

Occasional non-film (but film-related) programmes are also shown.

Wherever possible, films are shown in their correct aspect ratio. No digital on-screen graphics are superimposed. Under UK broadcasting rules, it was able to screen most films unedited and in earlier timeslots when it was a subscription channel, but these concessions were lost when it became free-to-air, and more adult material is now confined to after the 9pm watershed. Some films are also now edited to make them suitable for pre-watershed screenings, a decision which was criticised by viewers on the channel's now defunct internet forum.

Controller of Film4: Tessa Ross


Tessa Ross: She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen's New Year’s Honours List for her services to Broadcasting. She is the Controller of Film and Drama at Channel 4.
Born - 1961 in London, England, UK
In May 2009 was named by 'Time' magazine as one of the hundred most influential people in the world.
By 1984 C4 had co-produced over 20 feature films for the special slot Film on Four.

Because there was a guaranteed TV premiere for these films they could afford to take more risks in terms of both their content and their treatment of this than mainstream films.

 

Moarch Of The Glen.

Editing for monarch of the glen.

Age stereotype:

This is a Long take as the clip lasts for 15 seconds, the clip panns slowley across the scenery and the working men, the men are not working at a fast busy pace, they are working more sidately and in casual clothes. This represents the age as they have alot of time to complete this on, they are organised and don't realy have to focus to much, this shows that they know what they are doing and that they can afford to work in a laid back manour but still work effitiontly.

Regional identity

Regional identity:
accents in exam - identify charicter (pitch & tone)
nasel tone - northen
lack of vouls - southen
(estory english origionated in londen in the cockney accent but has spread accross england)

T.V drama's always link to londen

North:
-think that southeners are soft
-poor

Cockney
-untrustworthy
-dodgy car dealerships
-own pub's
-bubbley

Yorkshire
-farmers
-cricket
-stupid
-tense persona
-tweed caps

Jordy
-Trust worthy
-chavy
-out going

Scouser
-curley hair
-annoying

Welsh
-Barry island
-Rugby
-Gavin and stacy

Leicester
-Chavs
-Slang
-Big ears (Garry Linekar walkers adverts, links to leicester)

Brum
-stupid
-rural jobs
-friendly tone
-heavy metal



City    vs     Country
.loud & exiting       .Relaxing
.Concrete/bland      .Sites and views
.Stressfull (noise)   .Boring





Some Londeners talk in RP, mostly southern londen and posh outer counties.

Sexuality steriotype

Sexuality steriotypes in media on Prezi

Male Gaze

The male gaze :

This is concept in what the audience see how the way how people are presented throughout the media.

*How the men will focus on women

*How the women look at the women

*How women will look at themselves.

Feminist theory

Laura Mulvey thought of the term of 'male gaze' in the year 1975. In what the film audience will have to view the charicters from the eyes of a hetrosexual male.

- Camera hangs on the curves of the female body, and events which occur to women are presented largely in the context of a man's reaction to these events.
- Relegates women to the status of objects. The female viewer must experience the narrative secondarily by identification with the male. 

Theory's feedback:
Some of the women that look upon the male gaze do not like the idea as they could find it demening by the way they will be looked upon but then again you get women that like the attention to there body and accept the concept of the male gaze. The gaze can also be directed toward members of the same gender for several reasons, not all of which are sexual, such as comparison of body image or clothing.

Categorising Facial Expressions
Women - Marjorie Ferguson (1980)Chocolate Box - half/full smile, lips together/slightly parted, Teeth barely visible, Full/ three-quarters face to cameraInvitational - Emphasis on eyes, Mouth shut with a hint of a smile, Head to one side or looking back at the cameraSuper-smiler - Full face, Wide open, toothy smile, Head thrust forward or thrown back, Hair often wind blownRomantic or sexual - Includes male/ female 'two-somes', Dreamy, Heavy lidded, Overtly sensual/ sexual
Men - Trevor Millum (1875)
Seductive - Similar to cool/level, Eyes less wide, Expression is less reserved, but still self-confidant, MilderCarefree - Nymph like, Active, Healthy, Vibrant, Outdoor girl, Often smiling/grinning
Practical – Concentrating, Engaged in business in hand, Mouth closed, Eyes object directed, Sometimes a slight frown, Hair usually short style or tied back
Comic - Deliberately ridiculous, Exaggerated, Acting the fool, Pulling facesCatalogue - Neutral looks of a dummy, artificial, wax like, Features may be in any position- but most likely eyes wide open and a smile, Looks remain vacant and empty with personality removed.

Jonathan Schroeder 1998
To gaze implies more than to look at- it signifies a psychological relationship of power in which the gazer is superior to the object of the gaze.

Narrative codes

Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes was a semioligist; basically he was paid to look at the texts to decipher how they were put together. He described it like a ball of string, texts may be..
open - unravelled in lots of different ways
closed - when there is only one obvious thread to pull on.

Threads you pull on to try and unravell meanings are called Narrative codes and can be catagonsed in five ways.

Action code – something that implies something is going to happen
Enigma Code – something within a story makes you hink whats going to happen
Semantic Code – anyhing that siggests a particular often additional meaning by way of connoation
Cultural Code – relyson audience knowing same thing – body of knowledge
Symbolic Code – binary opposites

Binary Opposites - Levi Straus
He believed that the world was split into a series of binary opposites. Essentially only one thing can be defined in relation to something it isn't. E.g. a hero is only a herp is there is a cowardly option.

Ideology
An organised collection of ideas. An ideology can be thought of as a comprehensive vision as a way of looking at things, a belief which helps explain the world around us