Minority Report clip

 1) Pick three aspects of camera movement in the Minority Report clip. Identify the type of camera movement and write about why the director chose to use that camera movement in the scene and what effect it has on the audience.

tilt; When the guy was on the bed the camera slightly started to tilt up and down and also to the side, showing what positions the guy was in due to the intense things happening which lead to danger and horrific things going on. 

pan: This image shows how bothy of them were fighting and and how the movement moved to both left and right. this created the feeling of action, how the characters were doing things in speed which had the pan movement follow and follow the action.

two shot: This movement viewed two of the characters together in the frame clearly, showing there whole body and what they was doing. This movement suggests there was something tragic about to happen, due to the way things were going on. 

2) Pick two aspects of editing in the Minority Report clip and write about what effect it has on the audience.

The affect it has on the audience is strange as everything in this video happens so intensely and maybe can lead the audience confused as they do not know why they are all after the guy, everything in this clip happens so fast, many people maybe couldn't of been able to catch up. 

3) Finally, revise last week's work on camerawork by picking out two shots or camera angles in the clip that communicate meaning to the audience.

two shot: This can show 2 characters simply in the frame clearly, showing there whole body.

pan: how the person follows the exact direction such as left and right or up and down following there exact movements.

Extension task

Linked above is a video from Studio Binder on camera movements - read their webpage on this topic and you'll learn about this in even more detail.

You can then look at their section on editing. 

Blog feedback and learner response

 

Y10 blog feedback October 2024

WWW: A positive start to Media Studies – well done for completing mostly all your blog work! Your fruit bowl is creative and well designed and showcases your technical ability. Your Mise-en-scene blog post where you analysed the opening of the Stranger Things clip is detailed and this is the level of analysis required for this subject

EBI: Ensure you use the Snipping Tool to screenshot the camera shots of the shots that you identified in the Doctor Who clip. Also, complete any extension work for the blog posts if you wish to ensure you receive a top grade in the subject.

LR: Create a new blogpost on your Media blog called ‘Blog feedback and Learner Response’. Copy and paste this WWW/EBI feedback into your blogpost then complete the LR tasks/questions below.

Please go back and complete the outstanding blog posts above. Reflect on your first month of Media. What do you feel is your strongest piece of work so far? What is your weakest? What specific skills or knowledge do you need to develop over the rest of the course?

My strongest piece of work is mostly completing all of my work, and how my fruit bowl is very designed and creative and it showcases your technical ability.

My weakest work is not snipping the camera work to screenshot the camera shots that i identified on the doctor who clip.

I need to develop my camera shots knowledge and improve my ability of doing it and focus on how im going to do the course work.

Camerawork blog tasks

Medium shot: At the start of the video it shows the woman introducing herself as former prime minister. This shows us just half her body and just her head and torso. From this we can infer from the audience that she is well respected and has an important reputation as she shows proof that she is former prime minister. AS a result the audience can infer she is intelligent and acknowledges everything.

Close up: At the scene 2:44 the video call transitions to a man typing intensely on the computer. The camera focuses on his fingers and keyboard making this scene more intense. During this scene we can see that people are in a hurry and there in a mission. To add on this makes the audience focused, interested,  and confused on what’s happening as everything in that scene goes in speed.

Medium long shot: In the scene 0:52 It shows the prime minister talking through the computer but facing her back to the audience whilst she is speaking. This makes the scene seem realistic as we can see the layout of her computer and monitor and how organised her table is during that scene. The audience can infer that she is an organised and responsible person due to the layout of her desk. 

Camera angle: At 3:07 the women is quickly typing and the camera angle goes to low to high making this scene look very serious. This is because the angle on this scene shows her hands then her progressively to her face. This makes the audience think that the women is trying to solve a situation around her surroundings.

Mise en scene: In this clip of doctor who we can see characters dressed in suits and some in casual as there costumes. We can see the prime minister wearing casual clothes such as a grey jumper. As the audience they can infer that she is trying to hide her identity perhaps due to a high profile or public recognition because there is no clue of what could happen.

All of this just shows how intense everything is and how things happen which do not make sense and its very confusing. This also shows how many of the camera movements mean a lot of things with people introducing themselves as things and how the back round matches what goes on in the scenes.

Introduction to Media - index so far

 1) First blog task - 10 questions

2) Denotation and Connotation

3) Introduction to Photoshop: fruit bowls

4) Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things

5) Camerawork: shots and angles

6) Camera movement and editing

7) Blog feedback and learner response

DOCTOR WHO

 1) Pick three camera shots from the Doctor Who scene and explain what type of shot it is and what meanings or effect they have on the audience.

zoom: focal length of lens arranged to make subject appear closer or further away.

crane: camera attached to crane- can pan track or swoop in or out us required.

tilt: camera tilts up and down from fixed point.

2) Pick one camera angle that is used in the scene and explain the effect it has on the audience.

zoom: it zoomed into the characters facial expressions and also went further away to see the view from the back round. 

3) Pick one aspect of mise-en-scene from the scene and explain what connotations are being communicated to the audience.

Extension: In stranger things we see one of the characters mum in a low angle shot.This suggests to the audience that she is a leader and dominate as she looks very powerful from the low angle as she is older and can have the authority to control things.

Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things analysis

 Create a new blogpost called 'Mise-en-scene: Stranger Things analysis'. 

1) Choose THREE aspects of mise-en-scene (e.g. costume, lighting and setting) and write a short paragraph for each about the denotation and connotation and what is communicated to the audience.

For example: 

Costume: The character at the start is wearing a white lab coat. This suggests to the audience... he might be testing things on something or people such as objects.

Lighting: flickering lights , all darkness

Setting:  dark ,dull ,shady ,scary, shadowy, brooding , nightmarish 

Props: bike , games

Actor placement/movement/expression: shocked ,worried ,scared ,nauseous

The costume shows they was testing something in a lab and something might of went to far which lead to them being in danger and failed there testing on objects or people. Something failed in there lab as the guy came running out in his clothes with fear on his face.

The lighting shows how its flickering; how there was a rapid change in light output of a lamp.

It also shows how all the lights started desolating and my vision faded from seeing the light as everything became intense in a sudden change.

The setting was brooding, shadowy and nightmarish as all the light slowly started to fade and the back round started to change to scary and dull because of how they changed to different areas.

The props were bikes as they used it to go home and used it to get to there friends house. They also had a game they all played together which showed them something and lead to something really bad for them as they kept assuming things happening.

There expressions were anxious as they didn't know what happened, and what was going on due to all the flickering lights and noises. They all slowly became frustrated as weird things kept happening and leading them to danger. There movement with them running away not knowing what's behind them and what could happen.

fruit bowl

I use the colour pallet pastel to colour my fruit bowl with the paint bucket to make the different fruits multiple colours and see how it looks all together.

I used multiple colours from the beauty and beast front cover, to make the fruits a range of different colours and see if it'll show the match of the colours from the cover of the picture.