Titanic film review (3)-Shannika

• The use of language throughout this review is colloquial and not complex as it doesnt use any complex vocabulary but broken down language which isn't even in the dictionary such as "Puh-leeze". Therefore the target audience is more broad as anyone with a low reading age such a 8 would be able to read this review.
• The review also uses rhetorical questions such as " Kate Winslet, one of my favorite actresses around, as a first-class dreamer who falls for the lug?" By doing this engages the reader and allows them to get involved by thinking of the actual film how it could be.
•  The mode of address of this review is in second person using the second personal prononun 'you'. By doing this also engages the reader and allows them to get involved in this review. Also using the word "you" helps communicate the review better as it brings a conversational tone to the review.
• This review focuses on the narrative and how the actual story line is the success of the film rather than the characters. He even said " These parts could have been played by anybody and then forgotten. The movie would remain the same".

Titanic film review (2)-Shannika



• The use of language throughout this review is non-colloquial. By using formal language suggest the target audience for this review is for an adult audience or those who have a complex vocabulary.
• The mode of address of this review is in third person. By having an omnicent narrator allows the narrator to tell the whole story not from a bias point of view. It also uses rhetorical questions such as "Nothing is worth $240 million, surely?". By doing this engages the reader and allows them to get involved in this review. This also helps communicate the review better as it brings a conversational tone to the review.
• This review focuses on the director as well as the two main characters Jack and Rose. In the reciew, when talking about the director it highlights Cameron's ideas and concepts of the film as well as his spending. In addition it also adds he's a "perfectionist" suggesting he only settles for the best hinting this film is good. On the two main characters it discusses the background of the characters. For example it discusses how Rose is "upper-class" whereas they discusses Jack as being "penniless". Already from this we can see there may be social class conflict and we also are presented with one of the main themes love.
• For the narrative it discusses the "genuine love of two characters compared to the sterotypical supporting characters.

Titanic film review (1)-Shannika

• The use of language throughout this review is non-colloquial and quite complex as it goes into detail using tecniqual terms. For example, "structural elements". By using formal language suggest the target audience for this review is for an adult audience or those who have a complex vocabulary.
• The mode of address of this review is in second person using the second personal prononun 'you'. By doing this engages the reader and allows them to get involved in this review. Also using the word "you" helps communicate the review better as it brings a conversational tone to the review.
• This review focuses on the narrative, the negative pre-judgement and how it actually turnt out. For the narrative it discusses how the story line is in terms of dialogue to convey the storyline and distaster. For example the dialogue in this film was seen of having "poor dialogue". Whereas for the disaster it compares it to another epic film. After the negativity right at the end it talks about what "a truley impressive feat of entertainment" the film is by the director.
• It also talks about how critics had negative thoughts about the film before it actually came out which was in the begining of the review.

Annotated Poster-Shannika

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  One of the unique selling point of this movie is the actors Jack (Leonadro DiCaprio) and Rose (Kate Winset). The two Hollywood actors names are at the top of the poster in capital letters which makes it stand out suggesting they have some kind of importance. The affect of using this is, it reinforces who the main characters are and who the Hollywood actors are. The image used on this poster are the two leading characters which is at the top, and below is the ship. By using these famous actors on the poster helps attract the target audience. For example, if those who have watched films such as Romeo and Juliet which. is a successful film with the actor Leandro would know of him being a good actor and may want to see this film. Also those who are fans of these actors presented on the poster will want to watch the film. Another selling point of this films poster is the ship and the name of the film.This is as those who are interested in history would know about this ship which was thought of never being able to sink. This attracts people who are interested in history as is is a film which is about what actually happened. Additionally the director James Cameron is a well know and respected director who now has produced one of the highest grossing films Avatar
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  The genre of the film is a romance drama and is communicated to the target audience by the character shown, mise-en scene, narrative, title of the film and themes. For example, there is a man and a women shown to have a physical connenction which suggest they could be going out with one another. The hug that Jack is giving Rose in this picture suggest that he doesn't want to let go of her.This also hints one of the themes in the story, which is love. For the drama part of the genre the target audience can see that these characters are of different class by the clothing worn. For example, Rose has a fancy looking dress on with earing and red lipstick while Jack has his hair hanging down and a normal top which is covered by Rose's dress. Also by the ship directly in the middle could suggest a problem. By the title of the film the narrative is communicated to the target audience. This is as Titanic was a huge terrifying event that everyone knew about
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  The target audience for this film is amied at 12 year olds  onwards. It also is for both male and females. The film is targeted for people who enjoy romance dramas which includes a traggic ending with conflict involved. It also is target for the fans
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  The font used throughout this poster is font Century. This gives it an affect of the time the film was set for.The main important text on the film poster is in white font. For example, the title of the film is in bold white font. By this makes it stand out attracting the target audience. Also the slogan is in white font "nothing on earth could come between them" and the names of the main characters which are written in a medium size font. This evokes to the target audience this is the second most important of information on the poster. The slogan also hints that the characters displayed are insepreable hinting the romance genre. At the bottom of the film poster is less important information that the target audience may not be interested in such as the people who helped produce the movie.
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  The poster represents the love of to binary oposites as they are from different social class. This poster insinuates regardless of who and where your from that love is stronger. This poster also represents the tragic of the film by the use of the image of the titanic ship at the bottom.

Textual analysis final-Shannika

Titanic

The similar product that i'll be looking at is 'Titanic'. This film is a 1997 hybrid of an American drama/romance which was released on december 19th 1997, directed by James Cameron.

Titanic is a classic Hollywood movie that begins with an equilibrium, crisis, and then closure with a new equilibrium. The initial balance of the film is when an ambitious fortune hunter called; Bill Paxton is determined to dig up the treasures of the titanic ship. With his determinations he discovered many items from the ship such as a drawn picture of a girl. This then brought him to receive a call from a lady who was on the ship whose picture he found drawn of. This then brought to surface a story left untold.

The storyline is a hybrid of drama and romance. For example it has the main theme of love for the genre romance and conflict and death for the genre drama. The typical element for the romance genre seen is two binary opposites fall in love with each other. We see Rose and Jacks love for each other by their intercourse with one another such as kissing. Even when the ship was sinking and Rose could have been brought into the ocean on a mini boat she said "I'm not leaving without you". This shows her genuine care and love for this character Jack. Equally in the film Romeo and Juliet we see that these characters likewise Jack and Rose feel like they cannot live without one another. This is what causes Juliet to kill herself at the end when she mistakenly thinks Romeo is dead. However, he then kills himself when he see's she is dead. This is comparable to Jack and Rose because Jack risked his life for his loved one which resulted in his death from freezing to death. The typical elements of the drama genre in this film are the conflicts. For example, the one between Rose and her mum as her mum doesn’t agree with her talking to Jack. For example, Rose felt that her mum "looked down" at Jack "as if he was an insect”. There also is other ones such as when her mum says she has to marry her fiancé.

The narrative of Titanic is a fictionalised film based on the event of the actual ship Titanic.Throughout the movie, it is told in first and third person narration. The first person narration is told by the survivor Rose. By using this type of narration helps present a subjective point of view of the central character. This allows Rose's thoughts and emotions to be shown very precisely. However there’s also an omniscient narrator. By this allows everything to be known in the film which allows the target audience to make their own judgement on what’s happening. It also allows them to become the characters shown. This film is a closed narrative, Likewise Romeo and Juliet. This is as both films have a clear conclusion and answers the target audience’s question not leaving them to think what is going to happen next.

Titanic is in a non-chronological order. The film begins with the present which is when a treasure hunter finds items from the sunken ship and finds a survivor. Then the survivor Rose then begins to tell her story 83 years ago which is shown through as flash back. After this we are brought back to the present where she’s finished telling her story

The hybrid of this romance and drama and has a mixture of both these conventions. Rose’s character is typical to the romance genre as she is presented always wearing bright red lipstick which represents seduction, love, lust etc. Her behaviour is very outgoing for example, "Jack I want you to draw me like them French girls in just this (naked). She’s always is wearing dresses that show her cleavage which emphasises lust of her character. She wears pale makeup on the face. In the time of films story line, pale white makeup on the face was seen as beautiful. This always enforces the romance genre. However, her narrative function has elements for a typical drama. For example, there is always conflict in dramas and Rose and her fiancé sometimes have disagreements. By this sometimes resulted in physical contact. For example, in the middle of the film there is a mid-shot of Roses fiancé slapping her across the face.

In this film we are presented with binary opposisitons of the rich and the poor. This is revealed to the target audience by two of the main characters, Rose DeWitt Bukate and Jack Dawson. Rose is an upper class teenager whose expctations ae of the Edwardian society who falls for Jack who is of working or even under class. When they become friends we can see the contrast in these two social classes. For example Rose's fiance is smartly dressed with his hair brushed back whereas Jack isn't smartly dressed and has his hair hanging down. Similarly in when applying the Levi theory of 'binary opposisitons' to Romeo and Juliet we see Romeo and Juliet's family are enemies and Romeo and Juliet falling in love.  This emotion of "love" is comparable to Titanic because Jack and Rose didn't care what anyone thought and perused their feelings likewise in Romeo and Juliet.

Non digestic sound is used in the middle of the film when the characters are going to a party that Jack normally would go to. The music in this scene is used to represent the mood which is happy, energetic and laid back. This music signifies that even though Rose if of upper class heritage she is down to earth and enjoys the atmosphere of others that are from a different heritage background. There also is a lot of digetic sounds. For example, “time for me to roll with the other slaves”. The use of dialogue is very common. As it helps define the relationships between the characters.  Another example of non digestic sound is when Rose and Jack was on the ship (when he rescued her from committing suicide) the digestic music is heard is from Celine Dion which is a romantic music is played as the character Jack was standing behind Rose holding her, kissing her etc. These sounds are typical to the genre because it is used to show the romance of the films equilibrium. It also signifies the love, passion and extends of the love for each other. The mid-shot are used of jack and Rose being intimate on the ship. These kinds of shots are typical to both genres as they are focusing on relationships. This kind of shot also emphases how when the characters can they’ll try spend time with one another which reinforces the tragic drama as there time is limited together. With their close body language they seem to be inseparable which could be foreshadowing the ending as the pair seemed inseparable. In the film there were mainly cuts, shot reverse shot and jump cuts. The use of Continuity allows smooth transition of time and pace which makes the film easy to watch. Using jump cuts allowed the pace of the film to speed up which could be a representation of time and there’s a limited of time with some of the characters relationship. However, on odd occasions there were different types of editing. For example, a zoom in of Jack looking at Rose seeming to fall in love with her.