Preliminary Exercise 4: Analyzing Setting for National Lampoon's European Vacation PowerPoint Presentation

Setting plays a huge role in film. Setting in film refers to the time and place that the story takes place in. Setting can be in limbo, realistic, and non-realistic. The setting of a story can changer throughout the way. The key characteristics of a film are cinematography, mise en scene, editing, sound, and acting. The most significant characteristics for a film producer would be mise en scene. The following would be in the order of cinematography, sound, acting, and editing. Setting is very important in mise en scene because it reveals codes about the character, creates the mood, and reinforces the genre.

The objective of this assignment was to document and analyze the elements of setting in a media text. Me and my partner created a PowerPoint for this assignment. We were analyzing a 3:36s clip from a movie called "National Lampoon's European Vacation". The movie was about an American family going on a vacation trip to London. Throughout the trip they kept on running over things, viewing Americans as inconsiderate and British as forgiving. We were analyzing the place, geography, time period, mood, message, genre, and the setting values. While analyzing

We designed the PowerPoint as a bulletin to emphasize the mood of traveling. Cooperating with the elements of setting. This assignment required us to do a PowerPoint of 3-5 slides of our analyzation of setting and include pictures. This assignment taught me that setting is much more than just indicating the time and place. The setting helps to emphasize the mood of the scene and even indicates the social and economic values. Me and my partner decided to split this assignment up by having me put the research and my partner design the PowerPoint and edit. Now that we know our strengths and weaknesses we have been cooperating very well together. We have learned many new things about setting, such as it can influence a character's decisions in a movie. This project was very helpful and a fun experience.

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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...

Welcome To My AICE Media Studies Blog!

Welcome Everyone, Today I will be talking about Media Studies. Media studies is important to study because it helps us understand the motives or intentions behind a media product. What I mean by this is that it is easier to find out the meaning of a media text or a post. For example, when I watch a movie just by the first two minutes, I already know who it was intended for and what direction the plot is going at. It also helps me to choose what media platform I use more wisely. Studying media studies taught me what someone's intended effect is for their media product. For example, when scrolling through TikTok or Instagram, you will see a variety of different users. Some just do it for the likes and others do it fun, while some want to spread awareness of a certain topic. My favorite media product are movies. Watching movies keeps me entertained and at the same time helps me to relax. I feel like most teenagers would like to watch movies because it's a way for...

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