Sunday 22nd November 2015
Course Module - BCOP100 Contexts of Practice Lecture - Lucy Leake
Poster Research Unit
The whole poster reminds me of a circus act, the text, the font's, the layout of the whole page, in particular the dominant image along with the rest of the page makes me think Johnny is the performer on stage, he has come here to entertain us which he successfully does through his music. The ring of fire in the background makes me think about he's the lion. the flames are the same colours and shapes as a lions mane, a fierce animal.
The text for the poster is clever as well "Walk the Line", it not only enhances the film title for the poster but it also linked me back to the fact that Johnny has everything that he could possibly have but he chucks it all away to drink and drugs. He starts to loose everything and he has written a song called I walk the line, the lyrics "Because your mine, I walk the line" really powerful and it links me back to the fact that he has a wife and children, he has everything yet he still wants June, he always goes back to her.
Every one of his gigs started with the words "hello I am Johnny cash". You could almost say that it was his conversation starter or when he said those words you knew he was ready to perform/entertain everyone. - link this to the power of the mind once you heard those words you knew already what was going to happen.
The colour red within the poster makes me think about the romance within his life, again reinforced by the ring of fire as he finds himself in a vicious circle around love, he has a wife and children but the love of his life is June.
June herself looked incredibly glamorous throughout the film, when on stage with Johnny as they two of them played the nights away but also in the scenes where she was just out shopping, with her family and when she was in bed with Johnny. This got me thinking about representation of women within a particular film, we see camera shots as the two of the main characters Johnny and June, they are continuously glancing at each other, the camera has deliberately been placed to see the two main actors as they look at each other in fetishistic ways. Laura Mulvey believed that women were seen as erotic, portrayed across to entertain a male audience, also she wasn't always aware especially at the start of Johnny looking at her.
Tie into the american dream, Power of the mind - Psychoanalysis
Course Module - BCOP100 Contexts of Practice Lecture - Lucy Leake
Poster Research Unit
I started to think about the Superego, ID, and Ego within films, prior to last weeks lesson, I have always had a keen interest in Westerns, the way that they are shot to bring the audience back to the times of the old west, fantastic characters, scenery. I have managed to work out who the Superego, ID and Ego are within films. I have previously watched the film FightClub which was a awesome film in my opinion and it tied into this specific theory really well because us as the audience would consider Brad Pitt to be the ID, Ed Norton (lack of ID) as being the superego, they work together to create the FightClub, however, we could argue that the ego would be Tyler Durden as we are torn between the two characters which towards the end incidentally becomes as one.
I decided to have a glance through my film collection at home so as to jog my memory and come up with a few ideas to talk about, since I have watched many films I felt that I would be able to connotate and talk about the content a lot easier, being able to understand always been interested in Johnny Cash, especially how the lyrics for his song link back to the issues that he has had throughout his life, this lead me onto wanting to watch the film "Walk the Line - 2005 Film"
Walk the Line - 2005 Film - Summary
Starring Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon - Film by James Mangold
Start is set in 1944 - Farmhouse - Children - Children are called Jack and JR - Jack who was using the log machine dies as JR abandon's Jack to go fishing
Germany 1950's - Johnny worked for U.S. Airforce and he writes his songs throughout his time of being out there. - He begins to sell things door to door when he arrives back home, whilst out in the town he spots a record shop, decided to make a band and practise playing songs and creating there own music so as to audition.
Him and his band auditioned wearing black - He sung the songs that he had written himself and he made a real record, changed the mood for the film as he was happy with the achievement. His first single Cry Cry Cry came out, they got recognition, played their first concerts, began touring places, despite his touring life, he begins to struggle with his time as he is always on tour, finds it hard to make time to see his wife and family. Starts flirting with other girls on tour, begins to drink and take drugs, messes his life up, mind is all over the place (psychoanalysis).
Johnny and June start singing together, but before long they are arguing again, they always come back together.
Towards the end of the film he falls out with everyone around him, he loses his wife, children and he begins to fall apart which is portrayed through anger, crying and having no-one to talk too, some of his band members follow his path and start to drink and take drugs. Slowly with the help of the love of the life, he begins to pull his life back together and starts writing and playing a lot more frequently, including playing at the Folsom Prison, he makes a family with June and he starts to interact with everyone around him, positive outlook on life, even him and his dad make a conversation.
June disposes of cash's drugs throughout the film which leads to her writing "Ring of fire" which the two of them perform live on stage shortly afterwards.
Cash discovers that most of his fan mail is from Prisoners, they are impressed by his outlaw image, the fact that some of his songs talk about crime, drugs and drinking, he then goes with June to play at the Folsom Prison.
June disposes of cash's drugs throughout the film which leads to her writing "Ring of fire" which the two of them perform live on stage shortly afterwards.
Cash discovers that most of his fan mail is from Prisoners, they are impressed by his outlaw image, the fact that some of his songs talk about crime, drugs and drinking, he then goes with June to play at the Folsom Prison.
Walk the Line - 2005 film posters - Analysis
The whole poster reminds me of a circus act, the text, the font's, the layout of the whole page, in particular the dominant image along with the rest of the page makes me think Johnny is the performer on stage, he has come here to entertain us which he successfully does through his music. The ring of fire in the background makes me think about he's the lion. the flames are the same colours and shapes as a lions mane, a fierce animal.
The text for the poster is clever as well "Walk the Line", it not only enhances the film title for the poster but it also linked me back to the fact that Johnny has everything that he could possibly have but he chucks it all away to drink and drugs. He starts to loose everything and he has written a song called I walk the line, the lyrics "Because your mine, I walk the line" really powerful and it links me back to the fact that he has a wife and children, he has everything yet he still wants June, he always goes back to her.
Every one of his gigs started with the words "hello I am Johnny cash". You could almost say that it was his conversation starter or when he said those words you knew he was ready to perform/entertain everyone. - link this to the power of the mind once you heard those words you knew already what was going to happen.
The colour red within the poster makes me think about the romance within his life, again reinforced by the ring of fire as he finds himself in a vicious circle around love, he has a wife and children but the love of his life is June. June herself looked incredibly glamorous throughout the film, when on stage with Johnny as they two of them played the nights away but also in the scenes where she was just out shopping, with her family and when she was in bed with Johnny. This got me thinking about representation of women within a particular film, we see camera shots as the two of the main characters Johnny and June, they are continuously glancing at each other, the camera has deliberately been placed to see the two main actors as they look at each other in fetishistic ways. Laura Mulvey believed that women were seen as erotic, portrayed across to entertain a male audience, also she wasn't always aware especially at the start of Johnny looking at her.
Tie into the american dream, Power of the mind - Psychoanalysis
Why is he known as the man in black (good luck charm - he auditioned whilst wearing black, lead to him writing a song called "Man in Black" Throughout the film he was always wearing black, even in the scenes where he was with the band, or at his house.
He once told Larry King (american television and radio host), “[I've] never done a concert in anything but black. You walk into my clothes closet.
Johnny Cash - The Man In Black
Another poster that I liked the look had a dominant image of Alcohol, Drugs and Money as well as a guitar, I thought that this image was so powerful because it showed Johnny's life and the different that he had within his career.
I think that I could make use of the colours from this poster as they would link back to the idea that he is the man in black, reinforced by the wording at the bottom of the poster that says The Man In Black.
Like the font of the poster too as the white bubble writing looks like smoke, gives a great effect, power of the mind but it links me back to the issues that his smoking and drinking brought into his life. Really powerful use of font.
From analysing and glancing at these two posters, I had decided that I would like to bring lots of different elements together to re-create a new poster for the existing film "Walk the Line" Going back to the poster above, if we take a closer look at the image, the lines around the ring of fire looked to me like prison bars, I had the idea of a dollar bill, superimposing Cash's face onto the money, then slapping a picture of prison bars over the top, giving it the feel that Cash is in Prison.
References
Poster 1
Studio Number One (2006) Walk The Line (2005), Available at:http://www.impawards.com/2005/walk_the_line.html (Accessed: 22nd November 2015).
Poster 2
CallumCrewGraphicdesignTypography (2015) Johnny Cash Poster, Available at:http://cargocollective.com/CallumCrewGraphicdesignTypography/Johnny-Cash-posters(Accessed: 29th November 2015).
Walk the Line (2005) Directed by James Mangold [Film] USA: 20th Century Fox
Johnny Cash - The Man In Black
Another poster that I liked the look had a dominant image of Alcohol, Drugs and Money as well as a guitar, I thought that this image was so powerful because it showed Johnny's life and the different that he had within his career.
I think that I could make use of the colours from this poster as they would link back to the idea that he is the man in black, reinforced by the wording at the bottom of the poster that says The Man In Black. Like the font of the poster too as the white bubble writing looks like smoke, gives a great effect, power of the mind but it links me back to the issues that his smoking and drinking brought into his life. Really powerful use of font.
From analysing and glancing at these two posters, I had decided that I would like to bring lots of different elements together to re-create a new poster for the existing film "Walk the Line" Going back to the poster above, if we take a closer look at the image, the lines around the ring of fire looked to me like prison bars, I had the idea of a dollar bill, superimposing Cash's face onto the money, then slapping a picture of prison bars over the top, giving it the feel that Cash is in Prison.
References
Poster 1
Studio Number One (2006) Walk The Line (2005), Available at:http://www.impawards.com/2005/walk_the_line.html (Accessed: 22nd November 2015).
Poster 2
CallumCrewGraphicdesignTypography (2015) Johnny Cash Poster, Available at:http://cargocollective.com/CallumCrewGraphicdesignTypography/Johnny-Cash-posters(Accessed: 29th November 2015).
Walk the Line (2005) Directed by James Mangold [Film] USA: 20th Century Fox
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