Definitions

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Shot Reverse Shot And Match On Action Media

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Film Opening - The Fall

This opening to a film is just outstanding, it is clear that by far the effort that has gone into producing such a wonderful peice of filming. Even though it is a proffessional peice of work with more than triple the amount of cameras we have on offer, there is no reason why I cant take this as an inspiration and still make the audience feel in awe and tranced just like this opening.

The complete slow motion leaves us tranced as every tiny emotion is not only witnessed by the audience but  felt as it seems to capture us so intently. The way the movement of hat is used to make the title disappear into the mist just as the character emerges, creates this unbelievable start of confusion and wonder. As more characters start to appear and objects in the river are shown, confusion as to what is happening is the best emotion you can give your audience, because you know they are intrigued and want to find out more, hence why the opening has to be so capturing and to why I feel this opening is so influential  to what I want  to produce.

The most intriguing part of the opening is when there is black and white smoke from the train, this shows confliction possibly, a big difference that will become aparent when continuing to watch.

But most of all the strong emotion when watching is what I want my audience to feel, I want to produce something that will make my audience WANT to watch more.

ECS as and A2 Media Studies Course Booklet

This is our Media Studies Course Booklet, in other words...

 My Bible

I have to learn all these shots and angles.

Easy...

Interesting camera angle

I was just mindlessly watching a TV drama 'The Killing' when a really cool camera angle was used. There were two characters conversing using medium shots but one character was in a shadow and a computer screen was used to shine light on the other. This gave the effect of the unknown as the character had a bold outline yet no features were seen. I found it really quite scary and useful if my motives for my opening was the genre of horror.

Latymer 'Exceptional'

This opening is very interesting as the animation and shots are very impressive, yet the downfall is the storyline. One word to describe it, CLICHÉ! It has every sort of overused idea for a film: super powers, bullies and the girl he will never (but most probably will in some miraculous twist of fate)be able to get. Not to mention that the mise en scene is the school, very inventive.

Without a doubt there are some really awful choices made, but to give them credit the animation and shots like the ghost shot and over the shoulder, ticked all the examiners boxes, just sad that the film has already been made 100 times before.

Today's Lesson

The main objective of today's lesson was to view other school's (as well as ours) openings to a film. Being very critical it was clear to see the difference between the good, the bad and the ugly. It gave me increased knowledge to what and how to produce an effect opening and definitely made me more aware of schoolboy errors. Whilst admiring inventive and complex storylines, I absorbed the many techniques used that made the opening even more proffessional, like the smooth panning and the extreme close ups.

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Representation

Whilst doing my homework on positive and negative representations of different ages within the media and TV dramas, it has become clear the stereotypes the media produce and in many ways encourage. The youth seem to all be murderers and smoke drugs to their hearts content, whilst going on drunken all-nighters which seem to always have a sticky ending. Whilst the older generation are angels in that they stay inside and do nothing (not forgetting increasing the ratings of countdown). In some context many would agree, but the closed-mindedness of older generations has encorgaged this to be over exaggerated, not forgetting the backing of tv dramas like Waterloo road when there is always a youth skipping lessons or stealing cars.

In all it has become clearer to me that stereotypes and the medias's representations have been amplified vastly, therefore not depicting reality at all.

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