Tuesday, 20 September 2016

Match the definitions -

- Low angle - Makes the subject look large and powerful. The camera is below eye level.
- Point of view - Shows what a character would see. Draws the audience into the action.
- High angle - Makes the subject loo small and powerless. The camera is above eye level.
- Medium shot - Shows no more than half the subject. In the case of a person, for example, The shot would be from the waist up.
- Extreme wide shot - Establishes where the scene is set. Provides a lot of information, but not a lot of detail.
- Over the shoulder - Frames the shot with another person. Makes he audience feel as if they are watching the action.
- Wide shot - Shows all or most of the subject, leaving room in the shot for some background to be included. This shot allows actors room to move around the frame without the camera having to follow action.
- close up - Shows the subject filling most of the shot. Provides a lot of detail, for example, an actors emotions, but does not provide background information.
- crane shot - a shot taken by a camera on a crane, a device which resembles a huge mechanical arm.
- ariel shots are taken from a plane or helicopter.


Focus

  • Focus is the quality - the 'sharpness' of an object as it is registered in the image.
  • Depth of field refers to the extent to which the space represented is in focus
Deep focus makes appallingly clear the number of people collected for transportation to the concentration camps in the pianist.

Shallow focus - The camera focuses on objects in the foreground, so the background is blurry, it is often used to separate a character from their surroundings. 

Differential or selective focus - used to describe those shots where the confuse is neither deep or shallow but on a chosen plane or object

rack focus - focus change from one object to another, by lens movement rather than by a cut 

                                                                                   Camera movement 

Dolly shot - tracks area laid on the set to permit a smooth movement of the camera, which can them follow a moving person or object

Tracking shot - a shot taken from a moving vehicle 

Dollies are used less than they used to be since the invention of the steadicam, which gives a smoother, less jerky result than a hand held camera, but has a flexibility a stationery camera 

reverse tracking - tracking shots are usually made on a slight angle from the side of the subject; occasionally a following shot will be shot from behind.

pan - this described how the camera is swivelled from side to side
track - the camera moves alongside/towards or away from its subject.
zoom in and out - this is when the camera focuses in or out of a subject. zooming in qa can create tension.

                                                                           Sound theory 

  • Rhythm -  strong, regular repeated pattern of movement or sound.
  • Fidelity - a match of sound where it is supposed to sound like something but a similar sound is playing to give off the same effect
  • Parallel contrapuntal - when the sound we hear matches hand to hand the scene in the movie 
  • time - sync + async 
  • diegetic volume - all the sounds youd expect to hear in a movie/video 


                                                               Mise - en - scène

This refers to all the things that are pute in the scene as well as the way that we are shown them.
Or put more technically, it means the arrangement of visual weights and movement within a given space.

Framing - refers to the relationship of the subjects in shot to the frame.

tight framing - is usually used for close shots. The composition is so carefully balanced and harmonised that the people photographed have little or no freedom of movement 

Loose framing - usually in longer shots the composition is looser and freer within the confines of the frame so that the people photographed have considerable freedom of movement.

The rules of thirds - The points where the vertical and horizontal lines cross are aesthetically please spots to place subjects or to have perspective lines coverage.

- set design
- costume
- props
- composition 
- lighting 
- and the general visual environment 

2 comments:

  1. Good information here Amit - is this your textual analysis post? If so you need to apply all of the things you have learnt to a clip and textually analyse the clip itself. Make that into a second blog post.

    If this is your introductory post to the different elements, then please showcase your work using a Web 2.0 tool (Prezi, Emaze, Piktochart). Make sure you also mention connotation and denotation.

    Thank you,
    Miss Crader.

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  2. You've made some good notes, but there aren't enough posts for Section 3.

    I've summarised what posts need to be included, this will help with your revision.

    Connotation, denotation, textual analysis (codes and conventions) - (powerpoint was uploaded)

    Camerawork, Editing, Sound and Mise-En-Scene – You've made some good notes, but you must analyse a trailer/3-4 minute film sequence of your choice.

    You created a flat pan for the front cover over a new magazine (I think you picked sport). On this piece of work you need to discuss:
    Layout, house style and colour scheme – (powerpoint was uploaded)
    Photography and captions (anchorage and polysemy)
    Font (serif and sans serif) and typeface (font style)

    Jingles, music, sound effects, presenter and mode of address
    You had a small radio project – again this is on insight

    Genre theory – We looked at Daniel Chandler and other theorists.

    Representaiton theory – Gender, Sexuality , Disability , Regional identity, Ethnicity, Social class, Age

    Narrative theory – Todorov etc

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