Monday 30 January 2017
Friday 27 January 2017
Frued screenplay evaluation
To show Frued's theory I attempted to write a screenplay giving Freud's Ego, Superego and ID characters. I choose a screenplay because i find it easier than making a film. I think the screenplay went well because I managed to introduce the three characters quite clearly, which shows Freuds theory, as you can easily identify which character is what from Freuds psychoanalysis theory. However it didn't go aw well as hoped as i did leave it late to start the screenplay, so I didn't give myself that much time to create a final piece, so the narrative and character development is rushed. If I had given myself more time, then i could have fully developed the characters, showing clearly the ego, ID and super-ego.
This is a screenshot of my final scene. I tried to show the Ego (Bobby) finding a balance between the super ego (Paul) and the ID (Lar). This scene feels very rushed because of the amount of time i left myself to write it, i didn't allow myself to go into much depth. I would have like to have shown a much bigger effect that the ID has on the ego, however I rushed over their friendship and the activities that the Lar get Bobby to do. Instead of the original plan to have Lar get Bobby into alcohol and drugs and have him flying off the handle to show an extreme of the ID, i had the ID convince the Ego to skip class and not do extra circular activities, however i feel like this still shows in a small way the ID because of its nature to have its imitate desire fulfilled, it wants to skip class, so it does, no waiting for a different class or anything. I also wished i had shown the Super ego in a better light, as it is shown to be an over bearing parent, the original plan was for the super egos, job as a police officer to be better involved in the story instead of casually mentioned.
There is also a lot of dialog in my screenplay as opposed to action. I could have described and set each scene better in detail instead i focused on the characters and there was not much description setting each location. Without much description in the scene it can be hard to interpret camera angles and lighting into it. I didn't really consider lighting when i was writing, so most of the scene don't mention lighting. I tried to incorporate what i could of camera angles for example, this scene when Paul is looking out of the window, i describe what he is looking at so that can be interpreted as a close up of them, however i didn't do much of this throughout he script.
If i were to do this again, i may have picked Lacans Lack instead, because after researching it better, i understood it better than Frueds ID, Ego and super ego and i might have been able to go in slightly more depth with the lack. What is good about my screenplay is that it is in the correct format with numbers marking the screen, the dialog, action and characters placed in the correct places and the headers correctly used. I did't get much chance to edit and spellcheck the work, so what i did god was quickly do it, which means i could have easily missed out on some typos in the work. Next time i will leave myself more time to do the editing.
Thursday 26 January 2017
screenplay update
I am halfway through my screenplay at 1500 words, 6 pages. To stop going too far over the word count 2500, the story is going to be short with not a lot of detail on the narrative. I want to get across the main Frued theory, so i have introduced the ID, Ego and Superego. I think i have done this well as you can tell which one is which. However i am unsure of where to go with it. The original plan was to show the extreme of each freudian character. But now that the end is not that far away i think i am going to have to change it to instead of the extremes of the ego (Bobby) always following the Superwgo then just following the ID. I think i am going to skip to near the end so that when the ID is introduced it creates the balance instead of Bobby later on in the sorry needing the balance because of the extremes.
Tuesday 24 January 2017
Screenplay plot
Main character
Ego
Name: Bobby
Age: 19
Gender: male
ID
Name:"Lar"
Age: 23
Gender: male
Super-ego
Name: Paul
Age: 40
Gender: male
Bobby is a normal young adult about to begin training for the police academy, who lives with his Father Paul. Paul is a Policeman who has always been strict on the rules. Bobby has always avoided by the rules, kept his head down and leaves a boring life, trying to live up to his fathers expectations. When he meets "Lar" he learns to let go and have fun, he introduces him to parties, drugs and girls but when the fun goes to far and he is risking his future, when is enough, enough.
Short film, showing the three characters. Aiming for a 30min film should be around. Aim is 2000/2500 words.
Start- Introduce Paul and Bobby and showing Paul as the super-ego
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Middle- Lar's effects on Bobby
End- Bobby balancing life with Lar and Paul.
Ego
Name: Bobby
Age: 19
Gender: male
ID
Name:"Lar"
Age: 23
Gender: male
Super-ego
Name: Paul
Age: 40
Gender: male
Bobby is a normal young adult about to begin training for the police academy, who lives with his Father Paul. Paul is a Policeman who has always been strict on the rules. Bobby has always avoided by the rules, kept his head down and leaves a boring life, trying to live up to his fathers expectations. When he meets "Lar" he learns to let go and have fun, he introduces him to parties, drugs and girls but when the fun goes to far and he is risking his future, when is enough, enough.
Short film, showing the three characters. Aiming for a 30min film should be around. Aim is 2000/2500 words.
Start- Introduce Paul and Bobby and showing Paul as the super-ego
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Middle- Lar's effects on Bobby
End- Bobby balancing life with Lar and Paul.
Friday 20 January 2017
Mulvey in films
Mulveys psychoanalytic theory of the male gaze in film is only proven by Megan Foxs role in Transformers, this scene where she is trying to fix a car, by camera angles alone it shows the male gaze. When she is looking into the hood of the car the camera lingers on her body in many of the shots, when the camera goes to shoot her talking it pans from her waste up to her head, as to show her body to the audience. During the scene when she is doing things to the car to camera will often wonder to show her body movements instead of a close up of what she is doing in the car fro example. The mise en scene of her outfit is also very revealing, the actress is waring a crop to and shorts, although it could be argued that she is wearing such an outfit as the location of the film is in a warm state of America, however the males in this scene are wearing long jeans and in most scenes a jacket, this shows that the film is shot from a male perspective as the woman is objectified, whereas the males hold a key role and importance in the scene.
Mulvey Scopophilia
Laura Mulvey, looked at film as something that fascinates us, it engages this us on an emotional level. So Mulvey coined the phrase the "male gaze" (in her 1973 essay called "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema") meaning that films and literature present a way in which women are seen from a masculine point of view, objectifying them to capture the pleasure of male audiences. As Mulveys theory suggests that films are made from a heterosexual male point of view, women can only watch films from a secondary point of view until they start watching films from the perspective of men which lead them to start looking at themselves through the male gaze, which leads women to start objectifying other women. She points out that the roles females have in films are not important and are only there for something to look at, the women in films because of the male gaze cannot be better or more powerful or complete than the malesand thus placed in sexually degrading roles, an example of this is women are mainly placed as nurses not doctors, or weak and constantly needing a man not independent as opposed to males who are strong and in control of the events of a film. Mulvey also looks at Scopophilia which means "Pleasure in looking", this term originally comes from Freud. Movie making and watching movies both involve watching the film, when we are watching a film in the cinema, we are sitting in a dark room, to focus on the action on screen, of characters who don't know they are being watched. Mulvey has said "men are active, independent and in control of their own destinies while women have the role to satisfy the male gaze"
Thursday 19 January 2017
Lacan in films
This scene from the 1931 possessed, shows Marian looking into windows of a train seeing all her desires, what she currently doesn't have. This shows Lacans lack clearly as Marian sees what she wants, what she has a "lack" of. The way that the train shows is the desires, it is mine en scene of what could fill what she is missing. The placement of the people dancing, Marian watches them from the outside as they dance through the train and finally kiss at the last window. It frames the action perfectly because it focus on how she want romance to feel fulfilled. At the end the train conductor says it's best to look from the inside out, this is showing that in order to feel fulfilled and fill what she has a lack of, is to get on the train and experience it, so she feels in order to be complete getting on the train is the way to do it, however once she is on the train it doesn't mean she will get any of those things, so she will need to continue searching for what she needs to feel fulfilled.
Wednesday 18 January 2017
Lack Jacques Lacan
Jacques Lacan believed that "lack" and idea that he came up with that he uses for a reason for when desires arise in a person. Desire is a relation to being to lack. The lack is the lack of
being properly speaking. It is not the lack of this or that, but lack of being
whereby the being exists.“ The lack aims to fulfil a desire in order for us to feel more whole, however the lack can never be filled, when we get what we originally desire we want more, one of the best examples of this is found in the grizzly man documentary, Timothy Treadwell has a desire to live amongst bears, the documentary in made from found footage and interviews of people who knew him. The documentary ends with Timothys death after he gets killed by a bear. Timothy comes close to being able to live amongst the bears and then he goes on to mention how he would like to morph in a bear, this shows that his desire was close to being completed and then he reached for something else that was impossible. This is a good example of the lack because it shows how people reach fro something that they can't achieve in order to try and fill the "lack".
The missing piece a children's book by Shel Silverstein. It is the story of a circle looking for it's missing piece, it rolls through life looking for it's missing piece and it finds other pieces that doesn't fit but eventually it finds a piece that fits perfectly, however when that pice filled the gap it could no longer sing, so the circle let the piece go and carried on looking for a different piece. This shows Lacan's lack perfectly, as it shows how no matter what we are still missing something or as Lacan would say we are lacking.
The missing piece meet the big O is the second book by Shel Silverstein. It tells the story of a missing piece looking to fit, however it can't find a place to fit until one day it did and they rolled together but then the pice began to grow and could no longer fit. It wen't back to being a missing piece, then one day it meets a complete circle called the big O and it tells the missing pice it can roll on it's own. SO the pice tries to roll but being a triangle it couldn't very well but after time it's edges became softer and rounder and eventually it becomes it's own circle to roll on it's own. This shows Lacan's lack because we search to fill what we think we have a lack of but when we find it we change and we grow so we need to continue to fill the lack.
However this animation isn't too good because in the end the missing piece becomes a circle, in which represents becoming a whole, with no lack. but the Lack according to Lacan is always going to be there because when we get what we think we want, we want more.
The mirror stage happens between 6 to 18 months of a infants life. Lacan later developed the mirror stage, he that this stage is representing a permanent structure of subjectivity instead of a moment in an infants life. When an infant sees itself in a mirror for the first time it creates a self identity, in which it identifies an "I". Lacans mirror theory was inspired by phycologist Henri Wallon who observed animals and human looking into their reflection for the first time. He found that humans and chimpanzees recognised their reflection but the chimps lost interest quickly, where as the humans became fascinated, he explained this by noting that in Genesis, God created man in his own image and so as humans we appreciate the the higher quality image set infant of us. When we look into the mirror for the first time, when we identify who we are, we create a expectation of which we can never live up to, leading to the "lack"
The missing piece a children's book by Shel Silverstein. It is the story of a circle looking for it's missing piece, it rolls through life looking for it's missing piece and it finds other pieces that doesn't fit but eventually it finds a piece that fits perfectly, however when that pice filled the gap it could no longer sing, so the circle let the piece go and carried on looking for a different piece. This shows Lacan's lack perfectly, as it shows how no matter what we are still missing something or as Lacan would say we are lacking.
The missing piece meet the big O is the second book by Shel Silverstein. It tells the story of a missing piece looking to fit, however it can't find a place to fit until one day it did and they rolled together but then the pice began to grow and could no longer fit. It wen't back to being a missing piece, then one day it meets a complete circle called the big O and it tells the missing pice it can roll on it's own. SO the pice tries to roll but being a triangle it couldn't very well but after time it's edges became softer and rounder and eventually it becomes it's own circle to roll on it's own. This shows Lacan's lack because we search to fill what we think we have a lack of but when we find it we change and we grow so we need to continue to fill the lack.
However this animation isn't too good because in the end the missing piece becomes a circle, in which represents becoming a whole, with no lack. but the Lack according to Lacan is always going to be there because when we get what we think we want, we want more.
The mirror stage happens between 6 to 18 months of a infants life. Lacan later developed the mirror stage, he that this stage is representing a permanent structure of subjectivity instead of a moment in an infants life. When an infant sees itself in a mirror for the first time it creates a self identity, in which it identifies an "I". Lacans mirror theory was inspired by phycologist Henri Wallon who observed animals and human looking into their reflection for the first time. He found that humans and chimpanzees recognised their reflection but the chimps lost interest quickly, where as the humans became fascinated, he explained this by noting that in Genesis, God created man in his own image and so as humans we appreciate the the higher quality image set infant of us. When we look into the mirror for the first time, when we identify who we are, we create a expectation of which we can never live up to, leading to the "lack"
Tuesday 17 January 2017
ID, ego and superego in the film, emperor's new groove
ID- Kuzco/ devil
Superego- Pacha/ angle
Ego- Kronk
In the film emperors new groove, you can argue that there is more than one superego and ID. The first ID is Kuzco the emperor that gets turned into a llama and the superego is Patcha. This is clear from the scene where Pacha and Kuzco meet for the first time. In this scene Kuzco wants to build a pool house on the hill where Pacha and other families live. Kuzco doesn't care for the consequences his desire is to build this home and he is not waiting for the families to move our showing he wants immediate gratification. Pacha is the Superego as he is trying to convince Kuzco that building the home is the wrong thing to do, he is trying to set a moral guideline which Kuzco (the ID) is not listening to. Not only does the dialog show the traits of the ID and superego but the actions of the characters, the way that Kuzco smashes his model house on top of the model hill crushing all the houses show that it is clear what he wants and he doesn't care how he gets it, showing impulse. Each on the other hand picks up one of the house and tries to fix it, before kuzco knocks it out of his hand, showing that Pach knows what Kuzco is doing is wrong and that he is thinking about the effect on society that it will have. because part of the superegos traits is that, it's moral guidelines are based on society and trying to fit to society needs. You could also say that there clothing helps show the personality traits that they represent like Kuzco is wearing red and gold, the gold showing that he is selfsish and greedy like the ID, with he red showing that he is wrongly influenced not fully evil but defiantly bad. Pacha not he other hand is wearing green and brown, colours that are Earthy and green is though of to be a happy colour, it shows that he tries to be as moral as he can by making everyone (society) happy.
In this film Kronk is the Ego as he makes most of the decisions, sometimes with moral difficulty, as he is shown to be in charge of most of the designs leading to Kuzcos fate. This is clear in the scene where Kuzco is in a bag about to fall down a waterfall and Kronk has an angle and a devil pop up on his shoulders. The angle and the devil are what i believe to be the secondary Id and Superego as both characters are arguing and trying to make points for Kronk to either save Kuzco or let him die, as the Devil aka the ID is telling Kronk to walk away and mentions the reward of Ezma becoming empress, however the Angle wants to save him setting up the moral guidelines of right and wrong for Kronk.. This is not the only time in this film that these two characters appear on Kronks shoulders. This shows that Kronk is the ego, dealing with he reality of the situation he is put in and trying to balance the ID and superego.
Superego- Pacha/ angle
Ego- Kronk
In the film emperors new groove, you can argue that there is more than one superego and ID. The first ID is Kuzco the emperor that gets turned into a llama and the superego is Patcha. This is clear from the scene where Pacha and Kuzco meet for the first time. In this scene Kuzco wants to build a pool house on the hill where Pacha and other families live. Kuzco doesn't care for the consequences his desire is to build this home and he is not waiting for the families to move our showing he wants immediate gratification. Pacha is the Superego as he is trying to convince Kuzco that building the home is the wrong thing to do, he is trying to set a moral guideline which Kuzco (the ID) is not listening to. Not only does the dialog show the traits of the ID and superego but the actions of the characters, the way that Kuzco smashes his model house on top of the model hill crushing all the houses show that it is clear what he wants and he doesn't care how he gets it, showing impulse. Each on the other hand picks up one of the house and tries to fix it, before kuzco knocks it out of his hand, showing that Pach knows what Kuzco is doing is wrong and that he is thinking about the effect on society that it will have. because part of the superegos traits is that, it's moral guidelines are based on society and trying to fit to society needs. You could also say that there clothing helps show the personality traits that they represent like Kuzco is wearing red and gold, the gold showing that he is selfsish and greedy like the ID, with he red showing that he is wrongly influenced not fully evil but defiantly bad. Pacha not he other hand is wearing green and brown, colours that are Earthy and green is though of to be a happy colour, it shows that he tries to be as moral as he can by making everyone (society) happy.
In this film Kronk is the Ego as he makes most of the decisions, sometimes with moral difficulty, as he is shown to be in charge of most of the designs leading to Kuzcos fate. This is clear in the scene where Kuzco is in a bag about to fall down a waterfall and Kronk has an angle and a devil pop up on his shoulders. The angle and the devil are what i believe to be the secondary Id and Superego as both characters are arguing and trying to make points for Kronk to either save Kuzco or let him die, as the Devil aka the ID is telling Kronk to walk away and mentions the reward of Ezma becoming empress, however the Angle wants to save him setting up the moral guidelines of right and wrong for Kronk.. This is not the only time in this film that these two characters appear on Kronks shoulders. This shows that Kronk is the ego, dealing with he reality of the situation he is put in and trying to balance the ID and superego.
Frued, ID, Ego and superego
The ID, superego and the ego are all parts of someones subconscious. The ID is the part of the subconscious that is repressed unconscious desire, it works to try and fulfil basic needs, desires and urges. The ID is the according to Freud the only part that you are originally born with, it is the unconscious desires and basic wants. It strives for immediate gratification meaning it wants it's desires fulfilled without a delay or waiting for the desired effect. The Super ego holds our inner moral standards, our rights and wrongs. It is part of the unconscious that gives us moral guidelines to follow in order to help the ego abide by society. The Ego is the conscious part of the personality that deals with reality. It tries to control and balance the ID, which the ego develops from. The ego controls the ID to the point where the behaviour is acceptable to society and the ego measures this against the guidelines set by the super ego. The ego acts as a way to balance both the ID and the superego.
Friday 6 January 2017
Inspirations for script
Ferris Bueller's days off:
Ferris- ID
Cameron- super Ego
Sloane- Ego
Cameron is reluctant but in the end has fun as he spend the day giving into the ID
Lord of the rings
Ferris- ID
Cameron- super Ego
Sloane- Ego
Cameron is reluctant but in the end has fun as he spend the day giving into the ID
Lord of the rings
- Frodo (Ego),
- Samwise (Superego),
- and Gollum/ the ring (Id)
Frodo slowly gives into he temptation of the ring but Samwise tries to bring him back
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FreudianTrio/Film
Film studies- script ideas - frauds theory
http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-id-ego-and-superego.html
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