Preliminary Exercise 3B: Introduction to Genre Conventions Bubble Organizer

Now that I know what mise en scene is, I would be doing a bubble diagram. The objective of this assignment was to apply my understanding of how mise en scene codes and their relationship to the genre conversations of a film. Genre in film are categories that use narrative or stylistic components to define films. This is very important to the audience because it helps to determine the characters, plot, setting, and tone. The three genres that I am interested in are horror, comedy, and romance. Horror is intended to scare its audience by having some sort of physical violence or psychological terror. Comedy is intended to make its audience laugh. It’s mostly used to amuse or entertain its audience by exaggerating the situation in a humorous way. Romance is when there is a love story between characters. I am interested in these genres because it gives me a lot of room to work in.

The media text that I created was a poster. I try to add some cool designs to attract my audience. The goal of this assignment was to create a bubble diagram to illustrate mise en codes for a specific genre. This was to describe how the codes of mise en scene comes together to create a meaning or the audience. Me and my partner picked the genre horror, which was a great help for us since we are planning to do a horror movie. We were able to focus on each element of mise en scene, making it easier for us to analyze mis en scene in a media text. We learned how specific colors demonstrate danger, for example red being one of them. We also learned our strengths and weaknesses. For example, my partner focuses more on the research. While I like to focus on the design. This is how we split up the project. Overall, the project was a great help to focus on each concept of mise en scene, but also getting to know my teammates.

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Preliminary Exercise 5: Introduction to Color in Film - Secondary Colors

As I have mentioned in the previous blog, color in film is very important. Color is separated into multiple categories such as, primary colors, secondary colors, warm colors, cool colors, and black/white. Today I would be focusing on secondary colors. Secondary colors are green, orange, and purple. Color in film is used to evoke certain emotions from the audience. Could sometimes be used to juxtapose against one another to send a message, creating dramatic irony. Colors help to elicit psychological reactions, draw the attention to the importance of the details in a frame, set the mood and tone, and represent character traits. For this part we got scenes from various movies that had the lighting as secondary colors. We analyzed the colors and explained as to why the cinematographer would add this specific color. We also made to sure to explain what the color was supposed to evoke from the audience. Such as if the scene was supposed to convey a pity, sympat...

Preliminary Exercise: Introduction to Storyboarding: Camera Angles

Hello everyone, During media studies class we have been focusing on the importance of camera angles. Camera angles marks the specific location at which the camera is placed to take a shot. This evokes a different experience and sometimes emotion. Camera angles includes low angle, high angle, overhead level, Dutch angle, eye level, hip level, knee level, and ground level. A high angle shot is where the camera looks down on the subject from a high angle. This shot emphasizes the subject vulnerability, or their lower status compared to another subject. This can be used to imply danger or tension. A low angle shot would be the opposite of this but can be used to evoke the same feelings. This camera technique is when the camera angle is positioned below the eye line of the subject, pointing upwards. This can convey vulnerability or power or a mixture between these two. For this assignment I had to draw an example of each camera angle and include some det...

Research: Introduction to Camera Framing PowerPoint

Greeting everyone, During media studies we have been learning about camera framing. Camera framing refers to how you place or position subjects and objects in shots, like composing an image. Camera framing is very important to filmmakers because it makes the shot more pleasing to view. This helps to keep the viewer's focus on the framed subjects or objects. When camera framing a shot you need to to consider the size, relationships, and balance. The type of camera framing shots we learned were single shot, two shot, three shot, four shot, crowd shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot, and insert shot. For this assignment, we had to create a PowerPoint. We had to research information about each specific shot. Then we needed to find these types of shots from a movie. We had to analyze the importance of the shot it had in the film. The movie I chose to analyze single shot was a scene from smile. The single shot includes a women standing right i...

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