Secret Millionaire

Hey guys,
i watched 'the secret millionaire' on channel four last night & it looked into homlessness & the different aspects within it. i thought it might help with the representation of our character & allow us to give him more depth which will enable our audience to create a different reflection of the said 'vagrant' and empathesis with his character.

Representation:
In the documentry style program it shows the audience the reality of life behind closed doors. The rawness of some of the stories told were really home hitting, such as the crisis one woman had to deal with due to financial troubles in the current climate & the distructive reality of alcoholism & drug abuse. This allowed me to believe that behind every face is a seperate story. This made me think we really need to have a powerful & believable story behind our own vagrants eyes which will allow the audience to feel sympathy towards him. In tomorrows lesson we could mind map some ideas to create the depth to one of our main charcters, yeah?!

Imagery/ Style:
Seeing the potrayal of the people in lat nights program gave me a clearer idea into how we need to make sure our vagrant looks realistic & not to be too stereotypical with how we style & dress him. I know we will be relying on Barthes cultural code for this part of the narration but there are our factors within the mise en-scene, setting & props which should also reflect this. Last night, you could see that the homeless people are not that different from you & I. yes, they are rougher looking at times, slightly dirtier (what do you expect?) but not always outrageously hairy & long nailed. We could try & be more clever about the way we reflect him, such as through habits formed, from either drugs or drink, make a key feature of his eyes because we all know the saying & just style him carefully as we don't want it to look tackyyy.

Over & Out, Caity x