10/27/17

Today in class we started with a reminder that the last chance to do the be reel blogs for this marking period is November 7th.  We also started to discus how the audience of a film affects the directors choices.  We started with the interview of Jordan Peele and disused how his audience affected how he would make his film Get Out.  We talked about how he has 2 different audiences, white people and black people.  Since he wanted to make this movie about racism and the microaggressions black people face he had to take into account that some of his audience doesn't know about them.  If he were to just jump right in the white audience might not get what he is trying to say and might miss the point entirely.  This forced Peele to lead into the microaggressions so that he doesn't lose his white audience.  After we looked at the interview we then reviewed how choices the director made affects the movie.  We reviewed this by looking at the opening scene of Jurassic Park.  How the rustling of the trees, the low lighting key, and the audio all helps to depict ominous happenings and foreshadow the horror to come.  We then looked into that theme from different academic lenses.  One lens was racial studies and it used that to show how in horror films the black man always dies and the white people live.  The scholar who said this had hidden registered in this because it makes it seem that the white people are smarter than black people because the white people always escape from danger while the black people die.  We also looked at it briefly from a biological lens and how the movie showed that we shouldn't mess with cloning and bringing back extinct animals.  This could be brought to other movies like Star Wars where it could be seen through a scocial lens as a lesson that shows how good triumphs evil, or it could be seen through a film making lens to show the advancement of CGI throughout history.  Each academic feild could extract meaning out of the same piece of film just because they look at itfrom a different angle.