MEDIA THEORY INTEGRATION
...is something I did not expect myself to be saying while working on a film project, but thanks to my media studies class, I'll be saying it a couple more times just in this blog post as I explain what media theory I shall be integrating into this film opening!
Our opening mostly consists of a trade between our main character and the antagonist or the scene. Our main character, while they are a secret agent spy who is incredibly intelligent and resembles the traits of James Bond, this character is also quite silly and clumsy (at least that's the persona that they put up). So, to show this, we've put a lot of humor into his actions, making them awkwardly come into the scene and appear as an inept, unsuspecting deliveryman. We've even put a good bit of humor into their dialogue during this pretty scary situation.
However, we needed something more, something physical to show his character. So, while we were looking for briefcases to use for the exchange our characters would have, one of my team members brought up a baby blue colored brief case that they have. We struggled to think how we could even use it, but we connected it to our protagonists characteristics and now, we had our physical symbolism.
This connects directly to the symbolic code, where the protagonist's personality and his briefcase are juxtaposed with the dark antagonist's personality and the general vibe of the scene. The color juxtaposition we chose here is similar to Barbie's character in the Barbie movie where she looks completely different from everything else in Urban America because she's a doll dressed in pink.
So, the Symbolic Code, will be the media theory we choose to integrate into our film. It will help the audience understand the personality of our protagonist and will build them out into a more rounded character overall.
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