Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Lost Notes

  • Plane Crash - disruption
  • Theories > audience + audience response

Audience
Most media texts target a range of different audiences, how true is this for your chosen texts?
Lost
  •  use of ensemble cast
  • creating lost as a hybrid genre(post modern) > thriller, action, fantasy, sci-fi(wider audience)
  • narrative structure > flashback
  • use of neutral location within the narrative
  • use of enigma code > music, camera angle, arguing etc cliff hanger.
The use of enigma codes
  •  controls what te audience see's or knows
  • proceed to solve whilst gaining the ettention and interest
  • when recognised audience gains pleasure
Characters
Jack: dominant, alpha male, heroic.
Kate: independent, takes charge, helpful, trying to be a hero, shes a prisoner, heroin, laura croft-like.
Sun: multicultural, vulnerable, frail, timid.
Jin: controlling of his wife(sun), dominant.
Hurley: friendly, speaks to everyone.
Sawyer: villian. 
 
Genre
Action > plane crash, guns, fights, chase scenes, increase tension, enigma codes
Thriller > Kate is a criminal, Radio signal
Mystery > Where are they? Polar bear, Kate flashback, flashbacks, suspense
 
Technical conventions + Specific narrative descriptions
  1. non diagetic tense droaning music, close-up shops, enigma codes, tone of voice - boy wondered off on his own + found handcuffs, father came, suspense increased, hid facial expressions + tone of voice change. Music increases pace, enigma codes : whos hancuffs are they?
  2. Disequilibrium, pace of music increases as the polar bear gets closer- long camera shot to show how lost they are, low drone indicated danger, tone of voice changes(worried) close up of sawyers face, shakey amera movement, black screen to end.
  3. disequilibrium, disgetic shouting + fighting noises- entertainment/ constructed, Villian Sawyer, Hero Jack(Propp theory) easy to read, dominant female(modern feminism), equilibrium after fight, republican guard/enemy- indicated by mysterious music.
     

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