Sunday 25 November 2007

10 KEY WORDS:

Bridging shot: a camera shot that shows a passage or a change of a location which connects one scene to another.
This is used on the intro of my movie, where the location of the movie is shown.
Crime fiction: a television genre with the use of narratives and representation which are causing the change in social,cultural expectations.
This can be related to my movie because it is giving us a view or a representation of some black males.
Folk devil: a term used by Stan Cohen used to describe groups in society which are causing problems or threat to the society.
In the movie the gangsters which are seen as causing threat and problems in the society.
Gangster: the gangster genre, the use of gangsters in the movie and forming up gangs.
Hero: the protagonist of the movie, the main character that the audience identifies with.
This term will be used a lot in my study, as in the movie we are identifying with 50Cent who is the hero of the movie, and the whole movie is based on him.
Levi Strauss: the theorist that mentioned the binary opposition.
i will use this theory in my study because i will relate it to 50Cent being the hero and the other gangsters that become his opponents, this is shown when he was shot nine times.
New man: term used to describe a new type of masculinity.
This term will be used in my movie because most of the actors that are in my movie are black males.
Patriachy: male domination of political, social and economic values.
This term will be used because it is showing how 50Cent is ruling over the gang and how gangsters are becoming so patriarchal by ruling over.
Point of view shots: shot taken from a point of view of a person.
As this movie is a biography of 50Cent, the point of view shot is commonly used in the movie to make us identify with the character.
Sound effects: a sound which is added to a film which isn't digetic.
This type of effect is used in many scenes in the movie, mainly when there is a use of guns.

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