Red Riding Hood- Narrative

Narrative:

• Context-set in the middle of nowhere, isolated, rural, in the past, dark woods, blood mood- typical fairy-tale setting
• Starts with a flashback, goes to 10 years later
• Love story between the main female character and the boy who is classed as rebellious and not good enough for her are secretly in love, stereotypical  forbidden love story and couple
• Girl-blonde, young, pretty, thin, always in white and light colours
• Male-tall, dark, handsome, always dressed in dark colours, rebellious
• Binary opposition- good/bad, light/dark, day/night
• Dissatisfactory world, couple were going to run away so they could be together because they weren't allowed to be in together at home, the bells stop them from running away – (something happens to kick the story off)
• The wolf kills the main girls sister
• The girl is told she is going to marry someone who she doesn't love because he has money, although the sister was in love with the man. The main girl is told she is going to marry him because she was the pretty one out of the two sisters. The mother doesn't want her daughter to marry for love, because she didn't get to either. 
• Hybrid-werewolf
• The mother loved someone else, like her daughter and still tries to stop her from being with the person that she loves and tries to make her marry the person that has always liked her who has money. The Sister tho died, was actually related to the person she loved although she didn't know, and this is why the mother would never let the sister and the Man with money be together.
• Family secrets and dysfunctional families- the mother had an affair with the father of the boy she is trying to get her daughter to marry.
• The film uses conventions of werewolf films and presumes that the 12 year old that are watching it, know and accept the conventions and folk law about werewolves
• 'Who is the werewolf?' is the main question throughout the film
• People in the film look to religion to find the answers on how to save their village but the religious man tells them not to trust anyone-'there is no knowing what somebody is capable of'
• The village is told that they should be weary of people who are outsiders, a bit different from everyone else, or people who don't fit the norms of society as they could be dangerous
• The main character(the woman) is made to be a victim of society and put in a vulnerable position and put at risk to try and save the village from the werewolf because everyone found out that she could talk to the wolf and so is used to get the wolf out and try to kill the wolf
• religion is shown to not solve everything as the religious man brought into the village to try and save them, gets killed and so does the villages own priest- cannot defeat evil
• Real/original red riding hood story comes in 3/4 way through the film, with bits of the script and acting taken from the original story(eating and drinking grandmother)
• Young vulnerable female, in the middle of nowhere, with no help around is in danger at the mercy of whats around the corner. 
• Climax of the film/ main battle is between the wolf, who turns out to be the father of the main girl, and her and the man that she loves. the man that she loves comes to try and protect her from her father and stop him from turning her into a wolf as well. this is the battle between good and evil because even though she was always told that he was never good enough for her, he is the only one that comes and protects her and saves her. 
• The film is the portrayal of a modern family- you cannot look to your family for trust and reliability, your family are always keeping secrets and you don't know everything
• The main female character (the female protagonist) is the on that kills the wolf and saves the village. 
• resolution- from the wolf being killed is the village going back to normal even though the wolf is dead.
• she goes to live by herself in the wood because she is the 'other'
• Romance- the film tells you to go with your heart and go with the person that you don't and not to listen to the people around you
• References to other fairy stories throughout-Intertextuality

genre conventions links

http://heathenmedia.co.uk/sledgehammer/2011/10/20/genre-%E2%80%93-codes-and-conventions/
Indie/ Alternative rock
http://www.slideshare.net/lindax9/indie-genre-conventions-28038996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_T
'Throughout much of its history, alternative rock has been largely defined by its rejection of the commercialism of mainstream culture, although this could be contested ever since some of the major alternative artists have achieved mainstream success or co-opted with the major labels from the 1990s onwards (especially since the new millennium and beyond).'-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock
http://heathenmedia.co.uk/sledgehammer/2011/10/20/genre-%E2%80%93-codes-and-conventions/

Hiphop 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Brown
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2805782/Chris-Brown-looks-glum-court-hearing-despite-getting-good-review-judge-ups-community-labor-four-days-week.html 
http://www.slideshare.net/Flora1993/conventions-of-rb

pop music 
http://www.slideshare.net/zahraaliyah64/conventions-of-pop-music


rockstars 
The era of stars treating hotels as a combination of drug den, brothel and racecourse (Led Zeppelin's John Bonham once rode a motorbike down the corridor of Los Angeles's notorious Continental Hyatt House – one of the more printable Zep hotel stories) http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jun/03/rock-stars-hotels-caroline-sullivan 

http://uk.complex.com/pop-culture/2014/02/the-craziest-things-that-happended-at-chateau-marmont/led-zeppelins-john-bonham-drove-a-motorcycle-throu 

http://nypost.com/2012/12/09/stairway-to-hell-4/

Byzantium conventions

We have certain expectations of genre which have to be included in order for us to believe the genre. In the Byzantium trailer there are certain conventions that help us to know that it is a film about vampires, although some aspects of the trailer go against the regular conventions of a vampire film.
In the trailer one of the main parts that has gone against regular conventions is that the vampires do not have fangs but their nails grow into the stereotypical fang shape and that is how they get the blood instead of them biting their victims. this helps the film to stand out against all the other vampire films out there and suggest that it has something new and different to it and it is not the same as all the others.
The film trailer shows that in the film there is hunting involved although it is a different kind of hunting that what you would expect from vampire film as in the trailer it shows that the women are hunting their male prey whereas in most vampire films it is male vampires hunting their female victims, this goes against the regular conventions of a vampire film.
Some of the Characters in the film are wearing the regular kind of clothes that you would expect vampires to be wearing for example one of the main women in the film is dressed in a lot of grand clothes which suggest that vampires are of a higher status as they are wearing clothes that show a higher status in society.the young girl in the film has a lot of clothes that help her to hide as she wears clothes that are big and she can cover herself up with a hood and she also wears more modern clothes which is the opposite to her mother who wears a lot of old fashioned grand clothes that can be quite reveling as she is more open in the vampire world.
The film is set in both a city and in an isolated location of the beach which shows a cross over of two worlds, as in the films it suggests that the girl is growing up and starting her vampire life but it is like she wants to try to be normal but also be a vampire at the same time and this is backed up with the two different locations as the locations are completely different. The regular convention of a vampire film is that it is set in a isolated and in a forest or in another kind of isolated location which would be the beach in this film.

question 1-Key points

Raymond Williams- 'culture is ordinary'
sub-cultures
the elite
F R Leavis
The Canon
Mass communication
popular culture-inclusive
high culture-exclusive
cultural practices
Richard Hoggard- 'Dumbed down' nature of popular culture. popular culture requires no intellectual engagement.
Blumler and Katz- uses and gratification theory 4 reasons for popular culture:
1.escapism
2.personal relationships
3.personal identification
4. surveillance
Pierre Bourdieo- 'being cultured makes your more educated, therefore have more authority and credibility'
Storey-'to be culturally worthwhile it has to be difficult'
transcendental- goes beyond space and time
Rituals
Mathew Arnold-'the best that is thought and known'

My bedroom

My bedroom is cream with all of the furniture being white and silver. My room is a medium size rectangle with a large window on the right side when you walk into the room.

The first thing you see when you walk into my room is my mirror as it is straight in front of the door as you walk in on the opposite wall. It is a full length white mirror with wooden carved ornate floral frame that is painted white. This shows that it is a girls room as no boys would have a  floral carved mirror in their rooms as it would be too girly.
My wardrobe, Chest of draws and Desk are all from the same company and are wooden and and decorative to blend in with the mirror. They are all quite girly pieces of furniture that you wouldn't see in a male room. they all have a country feel to them which links in with my bed sheets.

My bed is a low bed with a metal frame and the frame itself does not suggest a gender but the bed covers i have on do as they are usually floral and blue and white. The colour blue is usually classed as being a boyish colour but my bed sheets have either pale baby blue flowers on or it has electric blue in a floral pattern. the floral patterns of my bed sheets. The floral bed sheets blend in with my furniture as they all give my bedroom a country feel with the wooden furniture, this i think represents the way i want to live in the future, as i would love to live in the countryside.

My shelves that are above my bed do not blend in with my bedroom as they were already there when we moved in and i already have all of my furniture. my shelves are full of pictures in ornate frames that blend in with my mirror and furniture. I also have a lot of different ornaments from different parts of the world that my brother has brought back for me from his travels. I like to display all of them because it shows a part of my identity that i want to go traveling in the future, there are different statues of people from south Africa and Buddha statues from Thailand that my brother has brought back for me. I also have a mummified mummy in a tomb that my brother gave to me from when he went to Egypt. All of my pictures that i have on my shelves are of people that mean something to me, for example i have pictures of me and my grampy. I also have a picture of me and my best friends and prom date in frames because those people mean a lot to me and this shows some of the people that i Value. 

The key concepts

Codes: Rules that are set by a culture but are not the law. codes relate to all aspects of a culture.

Communication: a process through which meanings are exchanged.

Context: the situation within which communication takes place.

Culture: a particular way of life which expresses certain meanings and values.

Identity: the sense we have of ourselves, which we then ‘represent’ ‘elsewhere’: a
person’s social meaning.

Power: control and influence over other people and their actions.

Representation: refers to the construction in any medium (especially the mass
media) of aspects of ‘reality’ such as people, places, objects, events, cultural
identities and other abstract concepts. Such representations may be in speech or
writing as well as still or moving pictures. (Daniel Chandler’s definition).

Value: the worth, importance, or usefulness of something to somebody


http://filestore.aqa.org.uk/subjects/AQA-2625-W-TRB-OGASKT.PDF

coursework

 Eat drink and be merry. What my celebration meals say about me. –

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Celebrations meals i have- birthdays, Christmas, achievements

its important to celebrate achievements because it will increase your self esteem and it helps let people know that you are proud of them. 

The happiest days of my life?  School and me. –