Today's task was a difficult one but it was good to see so many of you giving it a go and coming up with some good information. It is surprising how much information can be communicated through what a film shows an audience. Remember that nothing appears in a film by mistake - if it is meant to be there it must be there for a reason! HOME LEARNING
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Today we examined how film makers communicate with their audience through what they decide to show them. We discovered that it was possible to deduce a lot about a character from just what was shown - as is the case in the opening scene to Seven where we are introduced to Morgan Freeman's character and very quickly come to know an awful lot about him despite the lack of dialogue. This is called MISE-EN-SCENE. This literally means "put in the scene" and includes anything that you can see on screen - but not what you can hear. We will spend the next lesson also considering further uses of MISE-EN-SCENE and how meaning is communicated.
Today you spent the time applying the knowledge gained on Friday about the use of sound in film. You each worked on your own version of this Prezi and should have a completed copy saved. I hope that the language is starting to make sense to you and that you are becoming increasingly comfortable at using it to describe what is going on with sound within moving image texts. HOME LEARNING Today we looked at sound and how it is used in film. I have included the notes on the terminology that we started to discuss and have also added the two film clips that we used at the end of the lesson to discuss the use of sound and the effect that it had on the audience. See if you can watch the clips and use the language in the presentation to discuss what is happening. It is important that you understand and can use this language and these ideas for Question 2 of Section A of your upcoming examination.
Today we started reminding ourselves of what constitutes camerawork in preparation for the second question on the media studies exam. You all did very well finding examples of the elements of camerawork and considering how they are used to manipulate and effect the audience. We will continue this work in future lessons when we consider sound, editing and muse-en-scene so that we can look at how to answer question 2 in the exam. I must also apologise for missing out a lesson which would have proven very useful in helping you to write the Question 1 response that I asked to be done for today. I have now included the relevant material in this blog post which includes an example of the structure, some sentence starters and and example of part of a response to the question and the clip. I hope that this will make things a little easier and please take a note of the amended home learning so that we can use the responses in a lesson for peer and self-assessment and getting to know the mark scheme.
HOME LEARNING
Today we looked at the range of films that could be included under the Action/Adventure umbrella. We started to look at the main elements that make up the Quest, Disaster, Fantasy, Swashbuckler, Historical and Thriller sub-genres. The film clip in your exam could come from any of these sub-genres - or a hybrid of more than one - and so it is important that you become familiar with them. HOME LEARNING Intervention time for controlled assessmentWe used today as an opportunity for those people who are owed some time for the controlled assessments to make up some of this time. Hopefully people made the most of the time - especially if you only have one hour left to complete everything. I will be working very closely with those people who are way below their target grade on the production and hope to see rapid improvements. If there is anything that you can do outside of school to prepare yourself for these extra sessions - such as taking much overdue photographs - then please ensure that it is done.
Cover work for 11th December 2013TASK
Cover work for 10th December 2013Very few screen stories take place in real time. Whole lives can be dealt with in the 90 minutes of a feature film, an 8 month siege be encompassed within a 60 minute TV documentary. There are many conventions to denote time passing, from the time/date information typed up on each new scene of CSI to the aeroplane passing over a map of a continent in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Other devices to manipulate time include:
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