Critically Evaluating Fiction Films On Womanhood And Society's Misconceptions In An Essay.

Analyzing Fiction Films and Their Portrayal of Women

Critically evaluate your finished film, detailing its strengths and weaknesses. Remember to include your work on sound design. State why you think your film is suitable for the student film website above and explain how you have followed their guidelines.

In this article we would analyze fiction films based on womanhood and the ways in which they are shown in the films and the ways in which their lives are affected and especially in which they are portrayed in the movies. In this article we would analyze how such misinterpretations can affect the lives of the women in various stages and in their daily lives in the society. I have conducted my own research and have found 2 to 3 movies which I have selected as the first movie – Ten Minutes starts with the emotions of a boy and girl and the ways in which they help their love nurture for each other while they decide they would want to relocate to New York.

I feel that this topic fits perfectly in the movie segment which we are discussing in class because the movie is one of the largest aspects of the media industry.

Evaluation of the movie – Bridget Jones Diary

It includes single women in their 20’s and 30’s navigating their generation’s challenges of balancing demanding careers with personal relationships (Ferris and Young)           "Bridget Jones Diary" (Helen Fielding, 1996) is quoted many times in the Chick Lit where the author writes about a British Heroine where she experiences various trials with her career, family, her image and others. The main aspect of Chick Lit is also based on the similar aspect where a female protagonist struggles for her independence and success in a society which is focussed on men.

The villain in Bridget Jones’s diary is Julio who has a motive of acquiring wealth and he also involves with Bridget’s mother. He is filled with annoyance for Bridget because he is a younger man whom her mother gets involved with where he would plan to use Bridget’s mother for his criminal scheme. Julio manages to take some funds from Bridget’s mother by using her where her mother manages Bridget by stressing on some emotions like You cant loan your mother a few pounds (Fielding 234).

In these cases the villains pair up with the guardians of the heroine like Bridget’s mother in this case. In these cases the women had to overcome issues with the villains where Montoni was a villain in the case of Emily in Chick Lit where he marries Emily for wealth and locks his wife in a tower where he leaves her to die and scares her that she would be left in that building to die if she does not give him her wealth.

Critically Evaluating Bridget Jones Diary

The villains in these topics are able to manipulate the women through artificial love knowing that these relationships can get them wealth which they have desired. The villains caused some type of a stress in the relationships which Emily had to encounter. In the final aspect of Chick Lit Emily unites with Valencourt by overcoming the issues which are caused by Montano.

This movie is about a boy friend and a girl friend. It is about the emotions which bind them

together and the emotions which lets them think about each other. It is also about the feelings every person has but does not express for some kind of fears which stop them from expressing them. This is a movie where the man calls the mobile phone service company and speaks to the customer service representative. He tells her that his girl friend has called a number that afternoon and asks for that number where the customer service representative says she can’t give that information out. The man keeps trying for the information but with the constant answer of the woman he decides to tell her what happened. He tells her that his girl friend was leaving to New York the next day to take up a job and when she has asked him to accompany her he was thinking whether he should go.  During that time she uses his phone to call a friend to pick her up and she leaves. The man starts feeling lonely and he decides to call her.

With the Customer service representative denying giving the information the man tells her the story of his dog which went missing and the way they missed it and he also tells her that he was experiencing a similar condition at that time. The man gives out the numbers from 1 to 10 and the representative gives a yes or a no when the no is correct.  This way he gets all the 9 numbers with 1 no. being left out. He finds his way out in calling all the numbers from 1 to 0 to try out for the last digit and he succeeds.

A lot of things can happen in a short time like 10 minutes and that is the point of the entire movie. 10 minutes changes the way the representative feels and she decides to help him and it changes the entire idea with the way he tells the story of his dog which went missing some years back. 10 minutes might look like a lot to someone and might look like nothing for someone but when things get accomplished in 10 minutes it might become a life changing moment for someone where they get exported to another time and culture.

Sound Recording for Fiction Films

The entire world depends on the time and its limits with which we live. Time looks like it is a large entity which is present and lets us live with it however there is one thing which we do not understand which is time goes away but we remain in the same position. This is what happens with most of us in almost all the aspects of life. We might wait for certain things to happen but we do not take the charge of the entire situation. There are sometimes when we think is that we do not take charge of the situation

In the second movie we would evaluate the film Bridget Jones Diary in view of the literature called as Chick Lit. Even in this movie different types of elements are present which happen in the most of the people’s lives and the aspects which are related to single women who manage various tasks and responsibilities in their lives like the mixed demands of lives and relationships which become a bit demanding in their lives.

Films of fiction types are largely influential and they are also heavily balanced by the gender roles which exist in the society. These films constantly look out for a change and innovation however they hold a strong foundation wh ich spawns from the accepted traditions of the society’s culture which includes gender and the notions about gender.  This aspect gives us a lot of insight into awareness of the film industry and the misguided portrayals of the women. There is also a strong faith that a leading lady cant bring in much sales in the tickets as much as a leading man does in the film.

In the case of Bridget she experiences modern persecution where she gets stuck in a career which is not rewarding and her resolution includes a promise which she makes to herself that she needs to improve career and find new job with potential (Fielding 3). Bridget struggles to establish herself in a position in the office with the other employees. Bridget goes through incidents which lead to some issues however she does not give up and she constantly tries to be committed to her work as a job with the greatest potential. Post Feminist fiction does not confirm to a set of beliefs about the way women are or should be (Mazza 19).She also faces external pressures from her family to find herself a husband. In this case Bridget is a victim where she wants to improve in the eyes of men (Austen, J 2003).

Conclusion

The weakness of the women in the society is portrayed in the movie to a large extent and this should be avoided as a whole in the films as this would tend to dominate the entire film industry and the ways in which the society would start looking at women as a weaker potion of the community. 

In order to do the perfect sound recording I have focused my attention in the selection of the prime lenses which were critical and were used in filming but there was no need to sync in audio. For synchronization processes in some of the films which we have made we have used simple non digital wooden clapper in order to create the audio spike. This has allowed the Editor to do the DOP – Director of Photography to line up and start the audio with the visuals. I have used handclaps to create the transients which can be matched with the correct frame in the two films which could help the time coding to be right and I have ensured saying that there could means of portable recorders with reasonable specifications which would perform adequately well in such films.

The sound recording was checked with the latest sounds and effects which are generally created in the movies in order to enhance the audio effects draw more crowds. Sounds in films can either record sound accompanying picture which is physically recorded onto photographic films where they are not usually of the same type but there carry a distinct picture with respect to every sound clipping which is generally made. Sounds in films can process analog and digital sounds which might record all types of signals either optical or magnetic where the latest technologies were made to sound on disc which would mean that they would have a separate sound track on a separate phonograph sound.

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