Evaluation

Danica Ebers                                    

                                                

Evaluation

When I created my script there are many things that I had to consider the main one was my macro which was the representation of gender. In the script I decided to create a sequel of the Holiday. The reason why I wanted to create a sequel was because I had many ideas to represent gender though men in making the females sounding strong and more masculine. When I look back to my 9 key frames against my script I can see that my script is stronger as I explored gender more and showed it more with the language that I used. I also looked in depth the characters that I wanted for my sequel I wanted a feminine man and a more masculine women. So when I started to write my script I watched different romantic films and picturing the characters saying the lines in which I had planned.  In my 9 key frames I tried to show gender via the images. I decided to picture more of the field in my 9 key frames as I felt it showed more about gender. As the first picture I took was Kate Winslet (Danica Ebers) standing alone which this is a masculine thing to do. So I thought it was a good way to show gender and how females are more masculine than men. I decided to look in to showing gender with though the costumes wearing a tight jacket shows a very feminine man, as men generally tend to wear large clothing. The camera angles I used in my 9 key frames I tried to make the women look more masculine by having her bigger in the shots than the man. The weather in which I had on the day was really good it was snowing, and in most romantic films snow is generally the weather, as it is cold and it is nice to have someone to hold at night and be close to.

 In my textual analysis essay the main part of the essay was the genre I wanted to get across was romantic but with a small amount of comedy in my script. I had to pick specific people that I felt fit the actors. Also I had to look at the locations on which I wanted to focus on. I wanted to focus on the field part of the film as I felt it hit all of the right parts, it was very romantic. Also I got to see what it was like with the costumes in the locations.  Also when I looked at the pictures back of I can see where I needed to change parts and the many things that changed from when I took the pictures was where I took the pictures I felt  that I needed to change the part I had it. When I took the first pictures it wasn’t snowing but when I took the final pictures it had snowed. But when I thought about it snow is a very romantic part, when I look to the first holiday film there was snow and I thought it was really romantic, also I think that snow brings out a lot of emotions. With this I feel that the audience might connect with the characters.

The location report I felt helped me because it made me think about the locations that I wanted to get from the location. There were many things that I had to think about when I was writing my location report such as how safe the location was how accessible the location was for the actors. So when I was thinking about my key frames I had to look at my location report and decided which location to take. When I had constructed the key frames I then thought about the location report and how it helped it me to look deeper in to location and what parts I wanted to shot for my key frames. When I wrote my script I was picturing parts of the script on the key frames and where exactly I wanted certain shots taken and how I wanted then taken. But I think I could have spent more time in looking at different locations, and maybe shooting more places like in the office scene.  Then it would have been able to show the  femininity in Jack Black proposing to Kate Winslet.

The script was my stronger part out of the 9 key frames as I feel it achieved all of the purpose of making it a romantic film.  I feel it meet my macro of the representation of gender. I also felt that when I read back on my script it had a really story to it and I had so many other ideas to add to the script.  I had many locations in mind when I was writing my script but I am glad the way in which I done, I took my photos first before I wrote the script so then I could picture the location and the actors on the set which I had picked. The key frames are when I went out again and I took the photos again but this time I had the actors in the costumes and the props on the set. I felt that it all came together really well.