2. PRODUCTION DETAILS
NARRATED BY SCOTT JOHNSON
WRITTEN, DIRECTED & ANIMATED BY FELIX MASSIE
SOUNDTRACK BY JOE PAINE
Production company;
University of Wales, Newport.
Production Company - filmography
Keith Reynolds Can't Make It Tonight (2008) ... Production
Company
Astronauts (2005) ... Production Company
Pubroom Paranoia (1996) (TV) ... Production Company
3. FILM STYLE
GENRE: DARK COMEDY –BLACK COMEDY TAKES TOPICS AND SITUATIONS THAT ARE
COMMONLY HELD AS SERIOUS AND EXPLORES THEM IN A COMICAL WAY. BECAUSE OF
THIS APPROACH, BLACK COMEDIES OFTEN CAUSE THE AUDIENCE TO LAUGH AND FEEL
UNCOMFORTABLE SIMULTANEOUSLY.
TOPIC: LIFE & SOCIETY
STYLE: FLASH ANIMATION
4. NARRATIVE
KEITH REYNOLDS CAN’T MAKE IT TONIGHT FOLLOWS THE FIRST TWO BITS OF TODOROV’S
THEORY AS IT HAS AN EQUILIBRIUM, DISRUPTION AND NEW EQUILIBRIUM.
THE EQUILIBRIUM IS THAT IT STARTS OFF WITH A REGULAR GUY GOING INTO WORK TO
SEE IF HE HAS GOT THE PROMOTION HE WANTS.
THE DISRUPTION IS THAT HE ENDS UP KILLING THE GUY THAT GETS HIS PROMOTION.
THERE IS NO NEW EQUILIBRIUM BECAUSE IT FINISHES ON A CLIFF HANGER AND WE DON’T
REALLY KNOW IF HE OVERCOMES THE DISRUPTION THAT WAS CAUSED.
5. NARRATIVE CONTINUED…
LEVI STRAUSS’ THEORY IS THE USE OF BINARY OPPOSITES.
THIS IS USED IN KEITH REYNOLDS CAN’T MAKE IT TONIGHT
AS THERE IS A GUY THAT GETS THE GIRL AND THE
PROMOTION AND THEN THERE’S KEITH REYNOLDS WHO GETS
NEITHER.
THIS IS SUCCESS VS FAILURE
6. REPRESENTATION
STUART HALL- DIFFERENT AUDIENCES RESPOND TO FILMS DIFFERENTLY DEPENDING ON
THEIR CULTURAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUNDS.
•DOMINANT READING- THE AUDIENCE UNCRITICALLY ACCEPTS THE MEANING OF THE
FILM
•NEGOTIATED READING- THE MESSAGE IS PARTLY ACCEPTED AND PARTLY REJECTED
•OPPOSITIONAL READING- THE AUDIENCE REJECTS THE MESSAGE
