Media language-notes-understanding the use of sound and editing

What sound or edit has been included	Why has it been included
Screen time- The girl is on screen at pivotal moments in the plot. When the mood changes, when the action begins/ends.	This allows the audience to identify her as the guide in the film. It also allows us to emphasise with her as an innocent victim.
Change in tempo music starts slow, then speeds up until it stops and there is complete silence.	Mood of diagetic music is parallel to the plot. Music slowly dies out until silence- this is done to enhance the screen time.
Speed of the transitions and the type of transitions changes. Slow fade cuts           straight cut at fast pace.	Speed enhances the chock for the audience and, also creates complete confusion so that when the bodies fall apart and drop, the horror is far greater.
Sound effects and volume when people are being killed	“Slash sound” “squelching” enhances the volume. Realistic music echoes- changes the pace from being calm to the action starts. The echoing is foreshadowing the ghosts plus it sounds like being underwater.

editing practise

This was me practising to edit videos. I gathered multiple clips and combined all of them into one video. I learned how to fade clips and how to transition from a birds eye view to a POV. Although the editing is not great, I now understand the basics of editing and hopefully in the future be able to completely master it.

angle practice footage

This is a task that I had to do on Adobe Premiere.
This task was to help me learn all the camera angles used in movies/commercials.
I know the editing isn't the best but i was able to do some fades and the transitioning fits in with the music.

Mise En Scene

Mise En Scene: French term meaning what is put into scene or frame.
 It communicates essential information to the audience such as the time and place.
 Mise en scene includes everything you see in-front of the camera.

Costume - Tells us the time period/society/culture.

Lighting - Highlights characters/objects, can portray the mood of the scene.

Actors - Shows emotion towards the / relationship towards other characters.

Makeup - Acts as an indicator to the characters personality/status/job

Props - They can highlight the genre or reveal a key part of the story line.

Setting - Can manipulate an audience by building expectations and taking a different turn.

Lighting:

Low key/ uses only dark lights, produces sharp contrast of light and dark as well as shadows and silhouettes.

High key/ more filler lights are used, lighting is natural and realistic to our eyes, produces bright sets and a sunny day. Typically uplifts the mood.

Natural/ uses natural lighting from the surroundings.

Positioning within a frame:

Directors will position actors at key points to help the audience understand how important a character is to the scene/movie/episode and/or how powerful they are at this very moment.

An example of this is if the actor is on the side of screen is typically not as important or is not as powerful as the other actor (in the same shot) who is in the centre of the screen.
Another example is in a poster where two characters are sitting next to each other but there's a bit of distance between each other. We would then assume they could be a couple that have fallen out with each other. This would then indicate to the audience that this film will be a romantic comedy.

summer holiday work

Deutschland 83’

At the start we see real footage from the Cold War in 1983. Showing the audience, the following events are based around true events. The clips are slightly blurry and haven’t been edited to be clearer, in my opinion this highlights the age and authenticity of the videos. In order to highlight the authenticity and era of this drama.

In the trailer, the director shows many close ups, for example the close up of the three men walking in a row. In this frame you can only see the feet and legs of the men, this has been done to create questions in the minds of the audience. The curiosity persuades the audience to watch the series as intend by the director.

Throughout the video we see a contrast between the east and west via the costume. In one frame the lead actor wears a German soldier’s uniform whilst on the other side he wears an 80’s red puma t-shirt. The formal dull uniform placed against the casual red shirt creates an obvious contrast in order to highlight the character’s skill at changing drastically when undercover.

Between the contrasting shots, a line has been edited to join the two scenes together, this line is most likely a representation of the Berlin Wall.

An 80’s disco track is playing in the background reflecting the era the series is set in. When the tempo of the song and voice of the narration increases in pace the clips shown have been edited to do the same. This is in order to represent the rapid action in the short but frequent frames from Deutschland 83’.

There is a lot of harsh white lighting featured in this trailer. Possibly to indicate the harsh reality at the time, as the cold war in 1983 was at its peak.  In other frames, eg. Where the lead actor is swaying whilst hugging a young woman the lighting has a blue tinge. Blue could represent peace and tranquillity amongst the chaotic action shown in the rest of the trailer. Both the blue and the white are cool toned colours, again representing the Cold War.

semiotics

Media Language

Semiotics-

The study of signs.

Also means anything which stands for something else.

Denotation- 

What we see when we look at an image

Connotation- 

What we understand from looking at an image

Connotation of this poster-
A women standing on top of a mountain
There's a sunset
The title has a badge of fire behind it
There's writing on top

Denotation of the poster-
The badge catches on fire just like the subtitle wording
The writing on top say "so I make myself stand" which is what Katness is doing
The cloud behind you is in a shape of a mocking bird
She is holding a bow and arrow which is her specialist weapon in the games

Genre

Sci-fi

                            

The purpose of using science equipment such as a microscope, plasma ball and a tube with a liquid inside is because,  I believe sci-fi films are really scientific and a lot of sci-fi fans wold appreciate the little details such as labeling the liquid "cure" and a piece of paper saying "virus" under the microscope. I decided to take the pictures with a bright background.  made sure there was a girl in the pictures as I want to attract . If I could take pictures again i would make the person in the picture improve her facial expression.

War

                 

The other genre given to me was war so I decided in the first picture to have the actress to shoot water out of the bottle, as if she was shooting a gun as well as to take cover like what soldiers would do in an actual war. The second photo I decided to have her laying down on the grass to re-imagine a war scene. The final image I made the actress take cover and hide her face because I wanted to represent the fear the soldiers has when participating in a war.

DISTINCT

A dark gloomy setting which was set in the evening. Two different places are presented, a shed and a restricted area.The theme appears to be love with a women worrying about something and good vs evil. We can tell this by the glowing mysterious man on the right-hand side. Guilt is presented with the boy holding a camera having a distraught face. There are many significant props. The baseball bat, bikes, walky-talky and a gown. The main characters are presented in the poster. All but one of the characters are white and from the looks of the people they were all born in America. 3 Girls 7 boys. There are letters going in alphabet order on the left hand side. A moon glistening in the top right.

MOOD Board

TV- Game Of Thrones (whole series)



Video Game- Whole COD series



Radio- Radio 1


Internet- Instagram



Film-Chitty Chitty Bang Bang



Music-Tranquility



Magazine- Match Of The Day



newspaper- Daily Mail



Advertisement- Budweiser (wassup) advert

LIAR

I like this video because its about football. The hosts in this show are Arsenal fans just like me and the podcast is very opinionated and they cover the whole footballing world. There's only one camera and the hosts behave like the audience are involved in the conversation. The thumbnail has bullet holes in the glass which is foreshadowing the "shots being fired" in the video.
The host on the left started this channel with one of his friends. Their aim was to give the fans an opinion of football and not just pundits who have to be careful to what they say. Aftv the company who publishes the podcasts every week on Youtube also have their own football team who take part in the Blud Bruvvas season.
The targeted age group tends to be 14-26 and follow football almost everyday. Their audience are football fans from and support clubs all over the world.
The podcast is not targeted to a certain ethnicity as the two hosts are English and Jamaican and the camera man is also from Jamaica. They do however have a all male cast for this podcast as their targeted audience are mainly men.