Full Metal Jacket work set 26/2/14

The Full metal Jacket?

What does the title say to me as an audience member?

As an audience member the title message I got was that the Full Metal Jacket meant the bullets that the soldiers use was acting as a jacket to protect them. I also thought as well that it shows that if you work as a team you will succeed. From the beginning of the film I thought it meant that the men would protect each other like a jacket would protect you from the cold. Then Private Pile died my mind has changed as they took the mick out of him and blamed him for being a little different and sometimes finding things hard. When they bullied him with soap, this was proven that they didn’t really like him and wanted to show to him that they didn’t want him ion there team anymore.

The characters we are aligned with through out the film are private joker, who was made the superior officer, with the words Born to kill on his helmet. We are aligned with Private Groomer Pile, in the first few scenes as we are shown that he has a mental condition. But by the end of the film we are aligned with Private Joker, as he is in charge and gives his soldiers orders and then he is shot and the story changes. When some of the other officers are dying they don’t take as much time with them they do not try and save their lives. When joker is killed they try and save him show this shows that the main character in the story has been killed.

Alignment

Alignment. 
Alignment is the different ways that a film maker can align us or manipulate our emotional response. 
Alignment is the process of identification with something or someone. Have to look at the film though the characters eyes. 
The emotional impact of film frequently depends on spectator alignment with central characters. 

Cinematography - A CU positions the spectatorship closer to the character  
Sound - Certain sounds music are used to highlight and guide our responses
Themes and content - Depending on the subject matter of the film we can be easily manipulated if the issues portrayed resonate within us on a personal level. 

Women in war. we dont generally think at a girl will kill at war, she looks very scared, with her facil expressions, you could also see as well that she looks like a young school girl, with plaits in her hair. 

We are positioned here with fear and feeling scared.

When looking at the character we can align with him as he feels sorry for killing the young girl. but war is war and if they aren't on your side they die. we are positioned with the fact that he has just killed a girl. 

Looking at the young girls face we are shown fear and pain. We are menat to feel upset, that a young girl has died. We always think that men killing women is bad. 

We are positioned with him very upset and regretted what he has done. 

We are positioned with him feeling proud of himself, that he killed someone. 

My own emotional response very angry

We are mainly positioned with a man killing a girl. 

Full Metal Jacket

Here at the bottom of my page is the table I have created when we was looking at the film the full metal jacket. Closely looking at Private Joker and Private Pyle. 

Looking at this page at the top you can see spider digram that was created  showing the spectatorship in films. 

Audience spectatorship

This is spectatorship line that I created to help me. I have the think bubble first then I have the glasses for the visual side, then I have the faces for emotional responses, then I have micro written in small to help me with the micro element. Then I have the analysis which I have drawn a whole to help me to remember to analysis all of the things that have been consided  

Here we have my notes on audience Vs spectatorship. 

Spectatorship circle

Here is the spectatorship circle 

Why did we responded in this way, this is referring to the audience responses to the film. 

The micro element is the lighting, sound, camera angles used to make you feel the way you do with the film. 

For example if the music is upbeat, it is most likely to make you feel happy, having good emotions from the film. 

The factors, these are parts which would affect your decisions on the film 

For example the age, it could be a child's film, which could impact your decision on the film. 

The emotional response this if happy, sad, upset, anger emotion that comes with watching films.   

Brokeback Mountain

When I watched the film I had many responses to the film.

• Made me feel very uncomfortable, this is because you look and think that this isn't the right way to be. It made me feel all strange inside. 
• it also made me feel angry the way they are treated. 
• It also made me feel upset and feel a little sorry for them. 

Exorcist

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Work set

Worked with Jasmine to produce to spider diagrams to answer the question.