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Preliminary exercise: Recreation task Your Year 13 Preliminary Exercise is to produce a 30-second OR one-page shot-by-shot recreation of an existing text that is similar to the production you are planning to create. Complete the following in a blogpost called 'Recreation task planning': Name of the text you plan to recreate: Bigorexia: Never Buff Enough | BBC News beat Scene/section you will recreate: Gym/ warehouse scene with the individual lifting weights, or the opening scene.     Location you will use for your recreation filming/photo shoot: most likely in the gym or may do it some form of sports hall where its a wide angle giving plenty of room to film.  Actors you will require for your recreation: someone who is at the gym and typically quite big; which I will be able to find at the gym.  Props/costumes you will require for your recreation: Not much other than weights which will allow  Equipment you plan to use: Camera and some lighting and maybe also a stead

Writing your own Linked Production brief Complete the following and post it to your blog in a new blog post called 'Linked Production brief'. Your Critical Investigation topic:  To what extent do the hyper-masculine representations in films such as ‘Pain & Gain’ have a negative effect on male audiences?  Your Linked Production brief: overall my plan for a linked production is to do it based on the documentary based on body building and what lies beneath the "aesthetics"; how intense training can actually be when an athlete turns professional and what it actually takes to maintain this lifestyle; it takes blood, sweat and tears to stay on the top and acquire the best physique in the world.   Length/size of production (e.g. 3 minutes, 5 pages etc.): My goal for the production is for it to last around 2 to 2 and half minutes to ensure that i can show all the representaion mentioned within my essay and apply them within the conventions of the documentary  Give

Introduction – need a lot more clarity here. Put your essay question above the intro and make sure you are answering the question and setting out an argument. What do you plan to investigate in terms of masculinity in Hollywood films? I would focus on the effect these representations have on a male audience. 250 words. Section 1 – historical texts / historical context. Good start – that works with the question, it will provide context for the debate. You can use material from the docudrama but I’d also use a Hollywood action film too (otherwise it’ll be too different to Pain and Gain). One of Arnie’s films from the 80s? Get plenty of textual analysis in here too. 450 words. Section 2 – Primary text: Pain and Gain. Textual analysis. Media key concepts etc. Quotes/reviews etc. That quote looks great but you’ll need to properly contextualise it. I would focus here on how much things have changed (if at all) in Hollywood films over the last 40 years. 500 words. Section 3 – Research

Introduction: “contemporary Hollywood Masculinities”- imagine if you will the many different types of men who have populated this study.   Susanne Kord depictions of contemporary Hollywood masculinities suggest that even the viewer’s find it to be a struggle; therefore means that it’s also a struggle for the We see that in modern day society, men are still considered the breadwinners – this is due to the hegemony men hold over women in the world. Section:1- Historical "pumping Iron" Pumping iron- Originally released in 1977, the bodybuilding docudrama Pumping Iron , a Bodybuilding is still a fringe for sporting activity, and the film still serves to help humanize the athletes and clarify their pursuit of physical perfection. 450 word Section: 2  Textual analysis of pain and gain 500 words  "henchmen” used their male representation to gain access to the guns but also subvert the attention away to the real reason why they need the guns  Therefore this i

(Textual analysis of pain and gain) Evidently in this it really does give of the ambience of masculism from the props on set to the interaction with the store owner; from this clip it does ultimately suggest that rock is the more dominate individual. For example from this wide angle shot the ideology of the hand shake suggest that rock is pulling the weaker shop owner around to show his dominance in the room. Furthermore the three “henchmen” used their male representation to gain access to the guns but also subvert the attention away to the real reason why they need the guns in the first reasons is to kidnap Kershaw. In summery from the clip its evident the man in the red t-shirt is weaker and for him to show his “alpha male” he got “Anthony Mackie” too shot him with the Tasers.   Therefore this is a screening of masochism and from “fight club takes a beating: Masculinity, Masochism and the politics of disavowal” and the f

Media texts What your main focus will be, E.g.: Firstly, my main focus is going to be on Pain and Gain which is a highly masculinised film and this is because of the fact that Text features well know actors that have a impact on young audience this such as Dwayne Jonson in particular.   Other media texts 1.    Steroids under the skin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2wyEJMp9HE 2.    Pumping Iron: pre 21 st century featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger. 3.    Perfect Physique: it states on IMDB “To acquire the best physiques in the world takes relentless desire, fierce drive and unwavering discipline. The struggle is real.” 4.    Fast and Furious series which features a saturated level of Masculine and has urged in my opinion the growth of masculinity because of the attraction audience Fast cars, women and action. Fast and Furious is filled with enigma and action codes that have lead them to making more and more. 5.     Daddy’s home- IMDB states “Brad Whitaker is a radio ho