The film cyber bully was made in 2011 starring Emily Osment. The film starts with the main character Taylor Hillridge being a normal teenager having friends, good grade and a nice home life but then she gets a laptop for her birthday and signs on to a social networking site which then gets hacked and people start to bully her online and her life starts to change, people at school start to make fun of her, her friends start to leave her then she is soon left on her own and one day runs out of school and goes home where she sees a video someone put online about her and she then goes into the bathroom to try and kill herself but her friend comes round and finds her in the bathroom trying to take the lid off a bottle of pills, then Taylor goes to hospital and her mother finds her there. It then goes to Taylor’s mother going to her school to see what can be done to stop what happened to Taylor, but the head teacher says they have no control over what the students do on the their own computers at home. So then Taylor decides that the law needs to change to stop other teenagers going through what she went through. 1) How is meaning being represented at connotative and denotative levels?
Denotation: The Main character Taylor is sitting at her desk looking at her laptop with one hand holding onto the side of her laptop looking at the screen very upset and worried. Connotation: is that some has happened or someone has put something online about her or has done something to upset.
Connotation: is that some has happened or someone has put something online about her or has done something to upset her. Denotation: Again the main character is on her own in the toilets at school with a group of other girls circling around her laughing and the main character is in the middle looking visibly upset and also very alone.
Denotation: Taylor is on the floor crouched over crying with her mother hold her from behind. Connotation: This shows us that Taylor has given up hope and doesn’t care anymore and has let the words people have been saying to her get to her and doesn’t want to be here anymore and wants to die.
Denotation: Taylor sitting on her own on a bench in a locker room. Connotation: This shows us how alone she is and shows us that everything that’s happening online is really affecting her and she feels like she cannot talk to anyone.
Facial expressions used are mostly commonly coming from Taylor upset and these facial expressions grow as the bullying online gets worse, they grow with each other throughout the trailer. The facial expressions of anger most commonly come from Taylor’s mother when she realizes what’s happened and when she is talking to Taylor about getting help for everything that has happened. The Gesture of Taylor’s hands over her face lent against a tree after reading everything that has been said about her, this is a continuous thing throughout the trailer as Taylor loses her confidence and friends her hand are around her face a lot because she is closing up and becoming very introverted.
The position of bullies is at eye level with the audience which suggests that the audience could start to think ‘am i like that?’ so it makes people think that they could relate to the bullies as they see themselves in the bullies. Also as Taylor is walking down the corridor back home the camera is looking up at her following her which suggest to the audience that she is leaving to go and do something not right and that she isn’t in the right frame of mind because of everything that has been going on. And also you know that something is about to happen to Taylor.
In the shot with the bullies in the bathroom taunting Taylor this setting is in an American high school which is where the majority of the trailer is set as this is where the majority of Bullying takes place within school time or online but this can also happen in school times. The clothing throughout the trailer is just casual bright clothing worn by Taylor but as the story continues Taylor clothing starts to get more and more darker colours and more laid back this is because she starts to stop caring about they way she looks. Most of the other characters are usually in plain-like clothes to link in with there personalities. Throughout the trailer there are minimal props used apart from the central prop which is the laptop used by Taylor which is where most of the bullying takes place.
There is only one song used in the trailer is Perfect by Pink and this is played towards the end of the trailer and fades out at the end. It starts just as Taylor is on her own in the locker room. Also the audio in the trailer always feeds into each other, so there is also little voice overs from each scene as it fades into the next one.
The tone of the trailer changes from the beginning to the middle and then the end, this is because at the beginning the tone is happy and calm but then as you see Taylors laptop the tone changes instantly, this is because she starts to get bullied and her mood changes completely and that is linked into the tone, then as she starts to over come the bullying and standing up for others who are going to through this themselves. This Trailer will influence my trailer because I want the audience to really feel the emotions that are going on within the shots they are watching to make them want to go and watch what happens to the main character throughout the rest of the film.
Denotation: The Main character Taylor is sitting at her desk looking at her laptop with one hand holding onto the side of her laptop looking at the screen very upset and worried. Connotation: is that some has happened or someone has put something online about her or has done something to upset.
Connotation: is that some has happened or someone has put something online about her or has done something to upset her. Denotation: Again the main character is on her own in the toilets at school with a group of other girls circling around her laughing and the main character is in the middle looking visibly upset and also very alone.
Denotation: Taylor is on the floor crouched over crying with her mother hold her from behind. Connotation: This shows us that Taylor has given up hope and doesn’t care anymore and has let the words people have been saying to her get to her and doesn’t want to be here anymore and wants to die.
Denotation: Taylor sitting on her own on a bench in a locker room. Connotation: This shows us how alone she is and shows us that everything that’s happening online is really affecting her and she feels like she cannot talk to anyone.
Facial expressions used are mostly commonly coming from Taylor upset and these facial expressions grow as the bullying online gets worse, they grow with each other throughout the trailer. The facial expressions of anger most commonly come from Taylor’s mother when she realizes what’s happened and when she is talking to Taylor about getting help for everything that has happened. The Gesture of Taylor’s hands over her face lent against a tree after reading everything that has been said about her, this is a continuous thing throughout the trailer as Taylor loses her confidence and friends her hand are around her face a lot because she is closing up and becoming very introverted.
The position of bullies is at eye level with the audience which suggests that the audience could start to think ‘am i like that?’ so it makes people think that they could relate to the bullies as they see themselves in the bullies. Also as Taylor is walking down the corridor back home the camera is looking up at her following her which suggest to the audience that she is leaving to go and do something not right and that she isn’t in the right frame of mind because of everything that has been going on. And also you know that something is about to happen to Taylor.
In the shot with the bullies in the bathroom taunting Taylor this setting is in an American high school which is where the majority of the trailer is set as this is where the majority of Bullying takes place within school time or online but this can also happen in school times. The clothing throughout the trailer is just casual bright clothing worn by Taylor but as the story continues Taylor clothing starts to get more and more darker colours and more laid back this is because she starts to stop caring about they way she looks. Most of the other characters are usually in plain-like clothes to link in with there personalities. Throughout the trailer there are minimal props used apart from the central prop which is the laptop used by Taylor which is where most of the bullying takes place.
There is only one song used in the trailer is Perfect by Pink and this is played towards the end of the trailer and fades out at the end. It starts just as Taylor is on her own in the locker room. Also the audio in the trailer always feeds into each other, so there is also little voice overs from each scene as it fades into the next one.
The tone of the trailer changes from the beginning to the middle and then the end, this is because at the beginning the tone is happy and calm but then as you see Taylors laptop the tone changes instantly, this is because she starts to get bullied and her mood changes completely and that is linked into the tone, then as she starts to over come the bullying and standing up for others who are going to through this themselves. This Trailer will influence my trailer because I want the audience to really feel the emotions that are going on within the shots they are watching to make them want to go and watch what happens to the main character throughout the rest of the film.