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Welcome to Media Studies!
Session 1 The Film Industry
Session 2 TV Drama
Your Media Studies Class: Ice breaker
Find as many people as you can who have seen the film on your paper and ask them three
questions about it. Once they have answered the questions you must remember their name!
If you have not seen the film on your paper you must ask general questions about the film and remember the names of the people who have
answered.
Frozen Toy Story My Sister’s Keeper Star Wars
Pulp Fiction Gone with the wind The Green Mile Paranormal Activity
Inception Casablanca Grease The Sixth Sense
Shrek Twilight Die Hard Psycho
One flew over the cuckoos nest
Honey I Shrunk the Kids
Mission Impossible Scary Movie
Romeo and Juliet Goonies Skyfall Jaws
Pitch Perfect ET The King’s Speech The Notebook
Jurassic Park The Fault in Our Stars 21 Jump Street Mean Girls
Learning Objectives
• To understand the key units of the Media Studies course
• To explore genre within The Film Industry
• To analyse a film clip critically
CHALLENGE: What do you think the Media Studies course will include?
AS Course
Foundation portfolio
50% overall
Audiences and institutions
50% overall
Practical Coursework:
1. Magazine cover
2. Contents page
3. Double page spread
All assessed via an individual blog.
Exam on the following:
1. TV Drama (50%)
2. The Film Industry (50%)
A2 Course
Advanced Portfolio
50% overall
Critical Perspectives
50% overall
Practical Coursework:
Horror movie trailer
Magazine cover
Poster
All assessed via an individual blog
Exam on the following:
1) Reflection on your own production
2) Postmodern Media
What is the purpose of genre?
CHALLENGE: Name films that cross more than one genre or several genres
Film Analysis Group work
Close up Extreme CU Medium shot
Long shot High angle Low angle
POV Eye level Tilt Establishing shot
Pan Tilt Crane Zoom
Editing – Cut Dissolve Wipe Reverse shot
Sound- Dialogue Music Sound effects
Mise-en-scene – Props Actors Costumes Sets Lighting
Close Up (CU) Shots
• A close up shot of a character usually takes in their head and shoulders.
• It can be used to emphasise how important a character or object is.
• It allows the audience to build a relationship with the character
Extreme Close Up (ECU) Shot
• An extreme close up shot usually focuses on a part of the face (often the eyes or mouth)
• Used to convey emotion to the audience
• Often used at key
points in the story
Medium shot (MS)
• A mid shot shows the body from the waist up.
• It shows some background and whole body language.
• Focus on character – what does it allow the audience to know?
Long Shot (LS)
• Full body is shown.
• Used to show location or relationships of characters.
• Often used as a first shot at the start of a particular sequence- why might this be?
High Angle Shot
• The camera is positioned above the person or place.
• Designed to make the audience side with the characters in shot
• How does it present these subjects?
Low- Angle Shot
• The camera is positioned below the person or place.
• How are these characters presented?
Point of View (PoV)
• The camera becomes the character and shows us exactly what they are seeing, as they would see it-
• What is the purpose of this?
Eye Level
• A neutral camera angle
• Represents a real person standing up, watching the scene-
• What does this allow us as a viewer to do?
Establishing Shot
• Generally a long or extreme long shot at the beginning of a scene
• It is used to indicate location, time, relationships or theme
Pan and whip pan
• Pan: (panorama) camera swivels left or right on axis. Used for:
Showing scene
Following movement
Show POV as head turns
Guiding attention
• Whip Pan: very rapid pan. Used for:
Rapid head-turn POV
Style
Tilt
• Tilt: camera swivels up or down. Used for:
– Showing scene on different levels
– Following movement
– Show POV as head moves up/down
– Establishing shot e.g. ext: tilt up high building CUT int: room in building
Track/Crane
• Track (dolly): camera on wheels. Can track in/out, left/right, slow/fast.
• Crane: camera on crane so can move in/out, up/down space
• Helicopter shot
Zoom
• Zoom: use of zoom lens to create illusion of camera moving in/out. Can zoom in/out.
Editing
• How the shots are arranged in sequence
• Involves choice of length of each shot and of the kind of transition between each shot
• Montage: in Europe can simply mean editing; but also generally used to mean a rapid succession of shots- in film, what is this used for?
Editing – Wipe
• Wipe: shoot A peels off to reveal shot B. Horizontal/vertical /digital wipe.
• What is the effect of this?
Editing – Shot-reverse-shot
• Shot-reverse-shot: a technique where one character is shown looking at another character. The second character is then shown looking back at the first character.
• Normally an over the shoulder POV • What impact does this have?
Sound
Sound can be:
• External diegetic: coming from the story space
• Internal diegetic: what character ‘hears’ inside head
• Non-diegetic: coming from outside the story space e.g. soundtrack music, voiceover
Lighting
• High-key lighting
– Bright lighting with little shadow
– Attractive faces
– Connotes normality
• Low-key lighting
– Key light dimmed
– Shadows
– Connotes unease, evil
– Feature of ‘film noir’
Mise-en-Scene
• Composition (the organisation of actors, objects and space within a frame)
• Sets
• Props
• Actors
• Costumes
• Lighting
Mise-en-Scene – American Beauty
How does the clip confidently convey the
genre of the film?
CHALLENGE: Use evidence from the clip and explain it carefully.
Homework
• Watch a clip of a film of your choice which belongs to a specific genre
• Write a 300 word analysis of how it confidently conveys the genre of the film
• Focus on:
• Camera angles
• Mise en scene
• Lighting