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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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