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Coursework: Summer Project 2018

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1) Research: Film trailer analysis  You need to write detailed  250-word close-textual analyses  of six film trailers in your chosen genre. For each film trailer, focus on a different aspect of media language, and embed each one on your blog: Film trailer 1: Narrative and genre How is narrative and genre communicated quickly and clearly to the audience? 1) The Conjuring  In this trailer, enigma codes are utilised to portray a sense of mystery, this is shown in the middle of the trailer where the investigators are trying to discover the evil spirit that has taken over the house and the people within it which causes the audience to possess numerous unanswered questions and feel an urge to find out what happens next (Roland Barthes - codes). This has a typical hero and villain story line as the heroes are the ghost hunters/paranormal researchers and the villain is the evil spirit taking over the house and possessing the people within it (Vladimir Propp - seve...
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Lighting: Still Image Analysis Questions: Identify examples of  high  and  low-key  lighting. Say which depict  top ,  back  or  under lighting . What  effects  are created by the lighting in each image?                                                                                     This is an example of low-key lighting applied to convey a contrast between light and dark. The use of chiaroscuro gives connotations of mystery and secrecy as the character is mostly shadowed.Furthermore, back lighting is used to create a silhouette indicating the character to be enigmatic as they are placed more in the shadowed area.          This is also an example of low key lighting...
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Sound Analysis: 1) Choose a 60 second piece of music - ideally from YouTube and not something that is likely to be blocked on copyright grounds. 2) Using editing software (Windows Moviemaker is fine but Adobe Premiere is available on Media PCs) produce a  one-minute montage of images and video.  Half the images need to be  parallel  to the music and half need to be  contrapuntal . Think carefully about how you can best select images and video to have a significant impact on the audience. 3) Upload the finished video to YouTube and embed it in your own blog with a brief description of what you've created.  Note:  due to videos being blocked on copyright grounds, please also save the exported video file (e.g. MP4) into your student folder on the M: Media Shared drive. In this video i conveyed the difference between parallel ad contrapuntal sound by applying a happy themed soundtrack throughout the video. I then added happy a...
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