Narrative/ Representation Theory..

REPRESENTATION

What is representation?

• Representation is how something is shown and interpreted by someone.

So we realised, we are the 'producers' deciding what we show and how we will show it. How we do these things are what will represent how we want the audience to interpret it. For example, for the 'bad guy' in our trailer, we will use lighting, costume and dialogue and see him through the eyes of the main character to represent him as the 'bad guy'. If the story was being told through his eyes, the audience may not view him as the 'bad guy.

Here are a few theories that apply to us..

• 'The Male Gaze' by Laura Mulvey

A feminist theorist who published a concept driven from a seminal article called 'Visual pleasure and Narrative Cinema' with notes from Jonathan Schroeder: 'Film has been called an instrument of the male gaze, producing representations of women, the good life, and sexual fantasy from a male point of view'. 

• The 'Last Girl' Theory

This is the theory that there is a last woman or girl alive to confront the killer and the one left to tell the story. 

The final girl has be observed in dozens of films such as:
-Halloween 
-Friday the 13th -A Nightmare on Elm Street 
-The texas Chain Saw Massacre    

The characteristics of the final girl are typically unavailable or virginal, avoiding the vices of victims (sex, illegal drug use etc.)