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Analysis of a title sequence

Analysis of a title sequence 

Robert DeNiro’s Jake LaMotta is a coiled animal, caged like a note on sheet music: fierce, balletic, and balanced to its function. The ropes of the ring are frames, like bars of music. Indeed, “give me a stage where this bull here can rage… that’s entertainment.” A row of people sit, silhouettes in judgement, while flashbulbs pop and die with the slow pace of the events about to unfold.

The opening of Raging Bull bears something uneasy, yet refined and languorous. The opening sequences has the perfect music here, it’s “Intermezzo” from the opera Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni as well as incredibly visualized soundscapes, beautiful black-and-white cinematography, and a sophisticated yet gritty production design.

Instead of moving in tandem with or in the same direction as the action, the music runs against the scene, playing in stark contrast. The Cavalleria rusticana makes the scene celestial, dreamy, elevating LaMotta’s furious display to the level of graceful performance. This technique of placing classical music against a scene of action also slowed down, in black and white is used to stunning effect.

The introduction to LaMotta is through movement, through extremities: his hands, his feet, bobbing and weaving through air and smoke. Faceless, nameless, alone, an instrument of choreography, De Niro’s LaMotta embodies both the star and the never-was. His slow hooded dance is a performance of masculinity, a show of strength and ambition, a threat of violence doused in elegance. His power as a man is the crux, the focal point from which the story pivots.
We believe this scene, LaMotta shadowboxing in the fog, to be the beginning, but hindsight tells a different tale.

 Link to title sequence video:http://www.artofthetitle.com/title/raging-bull/

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Evaluation question 2

How Does Your Media Product Represent Particular Social by Joe Armitage on Scribd

Evaluation Question 5

How did you attract/address your audience?

In our media product, we attracted and addressed our audience by using a certain genre (sport/drama) which would appeal to the viewers we want for this film. We aimed for our viewers to be from the age of 15 to 40 and expected it to be a male audience however because of the drama side of things we knew it would also attract a female audience too. As well as we also conducted a questionnaire so that we could address our target audience and find out which type of people liked and how we could improve our film to suit our target audience.

I felt that through the results of the survey showed we reached our target audience as the average age of people we surveyed was 21 who is our intended target audience and the reviews we got back from them were brilliant and just what we wanted.  One of the people who we surveyed said “I think the film appeals to a large audience as the storyline in emotional as well as entertaining” which is exactly the view we want on the film and even the people who we didn’t expect to like said “not the film I would normally watch. It sounds like emotions will be running high during and will be intense scenes” which shows that even though they may not watch the film their look on it is exactly the look we want to give to our target audience.

What we could improve when we looked back at the feedback of the people who we surveyed is how “violent and abusive” the film is and maybe next time if we were to film it again could tone the level of violence down and maybe chance the storyline a bit more to suit a wider audience.

Evaluation Question 3

What kind of media institution might distribute your media product and why?

 A media institution that might distribute our media product is Curzon Artificial Eye, a film distributor that releases critically acclaimed films to discerning UK audiences. And have released more Cannes Palme d’Or winners than any other distributor including 4 months, 3 weeks and 2 days, the class and the white ribbon, they also have some of the world greatest directors including Michael Haneke, Lars von Trier and Abbas Kiarostami.

Curzon Artificial Eye would be a good distributor for our film as they are a small company who distribute with a low budget but are still able to put a film out for many to watch nationally possibly giving the film a chance to make it big and giving the actors a chance to become upcoming stars. big distributors such as Sony would not distribute our film the actors and producing of the film. Furthermore, Curzon Artificial Eye have released many popular dramas such as through the wall and unknown girl however as far as I am aware they haven’t released any sports films as they are an uncommon genre. But distributing our film could branch open a new genre for the company as well as it helping us, this could work out very successful for both of us and would be a perfect distributor for our film.