self evaluation

Attainment = 2
i think that i could achieve better overall by trying harder at all aspects in the subject.

Effort =3
i think that i can try harder to organise myself and getting work completed on time.

Punctuality=2
sometimes i arrive a little late, i have to improove by getting to lessons on time.

Submission and quality of homework=3
i need to improove the quality of my work and get it handed in n time. i can start by spending more time on my work. however i feel i did do weel in my independant study, and that i did put a lot of effort into my coursework.

Ability to work independently =2
i am able to work independantly for example for my independant study i went to the library and did not get any gudance on how to go about writting my essay

Quality of writing =3
i think my overall quality of writting is ok. when i try hard it's not so bad but i have to watch out for little errors such as spellings, i can improve this by proofreading all my work.

Organisation of Media folder=2
i have my media folder which has everything in there, but i can organise it more and put divders to section off my work so i know what is where and that will save me from the hastle of looking through my whole folder to look for a certain sheet.

Oral contributions in class =3
i could contribute more in class, and take part in class discussions. when i do like the topic i do get into it and contribute, but i should do it more.

Quality of coursework =2
i think my independant study went very well for my 1st draft. i was happy because mr.munro said it has the patential to be a very good essay. even though i didnt spent to long on it and it was last min i did put a lot of effort into it, and did spend ageeeesss on it.
Standard of Module 5 blog (Year 13s only) =3
i could improove the blog by putting more pictures to make it more attractive and do my blog work in more detail
Standard of Module 6 blog (Year 13s only)=3
same for med 5 blog ..

3 improvements

improove my blog= when there is blog work set.do it in detail
improove punctuality= make sure i am there in time whenthe lesson starts.
contribute more in class= take part in class discussions more.

Multichannel homes snub terrestrial children's TVMark SweneyThursday March 22, 2007

CBeebies: leaving ITV1 and BBC1 terrestrial children's output in its wake.
An Ofcom report said that between 2002 and 2006 the viewing of children's programmes on BBC One and ITV1 has descreased by half.

Channel 4, ITV1, the BBC, GMTV, S4C and Teletext, found that between 2002 and 2006 viewing of children's output in multichannel homes on ITV1 dropped from 12 to six hours per year; and from 18 hours to eight hours on BBC One.

The volume of children's PSB programming aired - including CBBC and CBeebies - has only declined from 2002 to 2006 from 12,771 hours to 12,340 hours.

However, on the main five terrestrial PSB channels there has been an 11% decline across the same period.

Last year BBC Two and Five provided the greatest number of hours per year of children's programming with 1,453 hours and 1,337 hours.
multi-channel homes there has been a 36% decline in children's viewing of children's programmes on the five terrestrial PSB channels, from 47 hours per child per year in 2002 to 30 hours per year in 2006.

However, there has been an increase in the proportion of children's viewing of the children's genre multichannel output - including both commercial and BBC digital channels - from 56% of total weekly hours viewed in 2002 to 82% in 2006.

Viewer opinions about the delivery of programmes with educational benefits were mixed; for example, viewers believed that programmes that stimulated learning were not well delivered.
Ofcom's report used information provided by the broadcasters' audience measurement body BARB and, for the first time, its own PSB Tracker, which asked around 7,500 viewers the extent to which they believed broadcasters had achieved PSB purposes and characteristics.

my view

Children prefer to watch digital channels as they offere a wider range of children's programmes to watch from catroon to educational learning programmes this shows that digital tv channels meet the childrens needs. from this raticle it was said that there had been a decreasing amount of viewers for childrens tv on terestrial channels, and it was also said that the learning programmes were not up to standard this could be the reason to why vierwers ratings have decreased.

Laura Mulvey- visual pleasure and narrative cinema

Lara Mulvey, a feminist film throrist wrote a seminal article called ‘Visual pleasure and Narrative cinema’ which was published in 1975 and is one of the most widely cited and anthologized articles in the whole of contemporary film theory. .
She did not undertake facts and figures but made use of Freudian psychoanalytic theory which focuses on ‘ subject positions’ and how they are constricted by media texts. Laura Mulvey can link to Freud who followed the psychoanalytical theory, as he believed in the unconscious mind. Similar to Laura Mulveys theory and her stating that women are felishized, Freud’s argues that there has to be a phallic object to replace the penis for example it can be an umbrella.
There is the infant male- who is attracted to his mother unconsciously and profoundly jealous of the father. And then there is the infant girl who is aware that she does not have a penis “penis envy” wherby the boy will be anxious to why the girl does not have a penis there fore he is scared that he may loose it. Freud says that boys then fetishize over other body parts of the female through phallic objects. He also believe d that the audience is constructed as male therefore the woman is forced to look from the male perspective and the process of scopophilia (which is to look) and parts of her body will be fetishized usually through a phallic object. This agrees with Fredu’s theory as he to is agreeing with the act that Women are there to be looked at and objectified, and also that the audience is encouraged to identify with the make as they drive the narrative forward.
Mulvey argues that various featured of cinema viewing conditions facilitate for the viewer both the voyeuristic process of objectification of female characters and also the narcissistic (admiring yourself in a sense of self identification) process of identification with an ideal ego on the screen.

1) Author: Mandy Ross
Year: 2002
Title: the Changing Role Of Women
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Place: Great Britain

2) Author: Rubin, Martin
Year: 1999
Title: Thrillers.
Place: Cambridge, UK
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

3)Author: Joanne Hollows
TitleFemminism, Femininity and Popular Culture"
Year: 2000
Place: USA

4)Smelik, Anneke,
(2001):
And The Mirror Cracked, Feminist Cinema and Film Theory.
Palgrave:
New York

sElE-dIrEcTeD rEaSeArCh !!!
Feminist horror film theory: the 1970's -1980's
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1775840
Male Gaze !
http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze09.html
Change of women's roles in the media !!!
://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library/publications/16+/strongwomen.html
How genre's have changed !!!
://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library/publications/16+/pdf/censorship.pdf
Further reasearch to how genres have changed !!!
tp://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library/publications/16+/horror.html
Horror films and most frequently asked questions !!!
http://www.xmission.com/~tyranist/horror/
Film review !!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435625/
Final girl theory (Carol Clover) !!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_girl
Horror films !!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_films
The Descent (2005)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Descent_2

10 key words from the "essential word dictionary” that I will find useful
1) Male gaze: This is the term that is used by Laura Mulvey making reference to "visual pleasures and narrative cinema" (1975). She uses this theory to describe what she saw as the male point of view adopted by the camera for the benefit of an assumed male audience.
Influenced feminism.
How I will find it useful- the film goes against the theory therefore I can debate that society has changed now and doesn’t follow the typical conventions of a slasher film as well as typical representations of women in a slasher film.

2) Laura Mulvey: 1941- feminist academic and media and film critic responsible of theory male gaze.
How I will find it useful- research more on her theory and apple how the film does not follow her theory

3) Post modernism- doesn’t follow traditional narratives, or genre expectations. Include ambivalent endings that challenge the relationship between the text and the audience.
How I will find it useful- this can be applied as the film has a distorting beginning and ending. There is also a complex narrative as there are stories within stories (an affair between both friends with one of the husbands, whilst both trying to escape from the cave).

4) Representation- provides models of how we see people (gender, social groups, individuals and aspects of the world we all inhabit. They are ideological which means that they are constructed within a framework of values and beliefs. They are therefore meditated and reflect the value systems on their sources. No representation is real only a version of the real.
Representation is the key to many media debated and is usually described as being positive or negative depending on how they are presented in the media.
How I will find this useful- this is my main focus of my independent study as I found it unusual in the film that only females were being represented. And also I found it interesting that a male passed away in the beginning of the film.

5) resolution- This is the conclusion of a narrative usually where all the problems and questions and uncertainties are solved, answering and or clarifying to that satisfaction of the audience
How I would find this useful- it didn’t follow the generic conventions of a slasher film as there was no resolution at the end that was solved by a final woman.

6) Zombie movie- a horror subgenre where the living are plagued by armies of the living dead who usually survive by devouring the living.

7) censorship- controlling the media context by removing, surprising or classifying elements seems offensive or subversive for moral, political, economic, social or religious reasons
How I will find this useful- I can refer back to how things have changed and how the Descent does not sensor gory shots

Textual analysis

The scene that I have chosen to analyse is the last scene. This scene mainly focuses on the two main protagonists. One who plays the masculine role thought the film and the other who we are introduced to strait into the film with the introduction of a bit of her background, being the loss of her husband and daughter. In the scene there is also an indication of the final protagonist being left there to die going against carol clovers theory of the final girl.

The descent follows the generic conventions of a typical horror movie. The scene is set in a cave and low key lighting has been used to portray that they are trapped in a dark, wet, cost phobic cave.

There is a close up of the first girl that we are introduced to at the beginning of the film, whereby she is under light creating a distorting look whilst her face being covered in blood which signifies danger and murder.

There is then an over the shoulder shot with the same girl but with a phallic object (rock climbing equipment in the shape of a sword) whilst this shot remains there is mysterious but yet tense full music being played in the background (non-dietetic) which creates and enigma of what is going to happen. The first girl is planning to murder the main protagonist who played the masculine role I the film due to an affair she had with the 1st girls husband.

Close up shots of the women with blood on their hair and face to show facial expressions. There is non-digitise sounds of the predators that are after them, reminding the audience that the film of about them being trapped into a cave with predators and drags the attention away from their personal issues that are arise.

There is a slow motion shot of her stabbing the masculinised woman, and this shot shows how horror movies have changed throughout the years and have become more explicit and ‘gorrey’ as they show the phallic object going through her leg.

5 UsEfUl LiNkS fOr Me To UsE
1) http://www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/gaze/gaze09.html
I will find this link usefull as the Descent is based on six independant girls. My film goes against Laura Mulveys theory whihc is based on the male gaze, as non of the women are dressed in 'skimpy little clothes' they are going against the theory by them wearing rock climbing clothes with are pretty unattractive.

2) ://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library/publications/16+/strongwomen.html
I will find this link helpful as it is about how womens roles have changed in the media, which specific examples to Buffy the Vampire slayer and Charlies Angels.This will help as it will guide me into the right direction to research on how womens roles have changes since the 1990's in both cinema and telivision.

3)://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library/publications/16+/pdf/censorship.pdf
This link would be vey helpful to me as i can talk about how the genre's have changed and more horror films are now becomming more and more gorey allowing the viewers to see the nastly parts in the film. Foe example in the Descent we get to see a girl's bone pop out of her leg.

4)tp://www.bfi.org.uk/filmtvinfo/library/publications/16+/horror.html
This will help me as i will be able to get information and extend my reasearch futher to how the genre of horror films have changed within the past. IT also relates particulaly to my film as it is a modern horror/slasher film.

5) http://www.xmission.com/~tyranist/horror/
This link will help me as it is related to horror films and most frequently asked questions