Planning- THREE WAVES OF FEMINISM

A brief history: Three waves of Feminism-

1. First wave of Feminism (1830's- early 1900's): Women fought for equal contract and property rights. During this time the women realised that they must first gain political power including the right to vote. The political agenda expanded to issues concerning sexual, reproductive and economic matters. This touched off American women's suffrage movement.
2. Second wave of Feminism ( 1960's-1980's): After the second world war women started to come of their heels and participate in workplace. During the time when US was already trying to reconstruct itself, women had met their equality goals with the exception of failures.
3. Third wave of Feminism (1990's-present): It emerged to address earlier critiques of feminism. it attempted to reach out to women of colour, transgender women and sex workers. women of colour became increasingly active during this time. 

Planning- Trailer Analysis: Don't Breathe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76yBTNDB6vU 



Trailer Analysis:

The trailer of ‘Don’t Breathe’ there are many close up shots. The trailer opens with the introduction of the creator of the film; from the creators of the evil dead. Straight after a close up shot is used when the girl and the boy are made blind by the blind man and they are unable to see anything. This creates a jump factor in the audience and creates suspense for them to get eager to find out what is going to happen.  The story follows after to show what happened that brought the girl and her friends in that place. The trailer conforms to the theory of Todorov as everything is fine in the beginning and there is nothing wrong however, the equilibrium is disrupted by them getting trapped in the house by the blind man.

The film is produced by the makers of the evil dead and is directed by Fede Alvarez. It is a Hollywood film and the production company used the medium of social media and TV to promote the film trailer. It was broadcasted on TV during adverts and it is also available on YouTube when you play a video. The film was distributed in to multiplexes as it was produced by a well-known production company. The film trailer would be scheduled to be view in the watershed timing as it is over 15 content and might be disturbing for some kids to watch.

The genre of the film is hybrid: it is horror and the sub-genre is thriller as it is a story of three friends getting trapped in a house of a blind man and they are unaware of his strength. It is not completely horror because it includes thriller aspects and there are no ghosts or spiritual reference in the trailer. The blind man is shown in more power this suggests that even though he is blind he is more powerful. This is because the people who are blind they make their other senses stronger. The gender representation is typical to what we would expect to see. The blind man is more powerful as he is a male and the female is shown in stress and is unable to protect herself.

Research- Theories

Freud (1919) :

According to Sigmund Freud the personality is determined from a person’s mind in a three way structure: the id, ego and super ego. There is a conflict in each part which determines how we approach and behave in a particular situation.

Freud introduced a structure of the mind theory which includes three levels of the mind:

  ·          The conscious mind: the conscious consists of everything inside of our awareness. This is the aspect of our mind that we can think and talk about in a rational way.
·         The precociousness mind: this part of the mind represents ordinary memory. A person is not aware of the information at the given time but is able to retrieve it into consciousness when needed.
·         The unconscious mind: this is the reservoir of feeling, thoughts, urges and memories that are not included in the conscious mind. Most of the content in the conscious mind is unacceptable and unpleasant. It causes conflict and anxiety to the person and influences experience and behaviour.

Sadistic Voyeurism (1974) : Voyeurism is when someone, usually a male, likes spying on people taking part in intimate activity. What makes this sadistic is that afterwards, the character spying inflicts pain onto the one they are harming. An example of sadistic voyeurism is Michael Powell's film 'Peeping Tom' where the serial killer takes pleasure in capturing images of the people he spied on and killed.

BINARY OPPOSITES:
 Strauss suggested that understanding certain words does not depend on there meaning but much more by understanding the different between the words. So he came up with this terminology for the use of opposites i.e. Binary Opposites. These are mainly used in films, some examples are Good vs evil, antagonist vs protagonist. Many of the films include binary opposites especially the horror genre as there is always a bad guy and a good guy. This is the most common Binary opposite the audience would witness in any type of film. Binary opposites are usually the basis of the audiences understanding of the story of the film. The villian in the film creates disruption and the hero comes and saves the day. The audience sympathise with the hero as he is the one who fights the bad and protects everyone. 

Todorov's Narrative Theory: 
Todorov's narrative theory suggests that all narratives follow a three part structure where they begin with equilibrium, where everything is balanced, progress as something comes along to disrupt that equilibrium, and finally reach a resolution, when equilibrium is restored.