Media Blog 2

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...

Coursework: Ignite presentation learner response There have been some  excellent  Ignite presentations with some brilliantly creative responses to the coursework brief.  Hopefully, the presentations and Q&A sessions that followed have highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of your coursework proposal and may indeed have prompted re-drafts of your statement of intent.  Your learner response is as follows and will take some time to do properly: Create a new blogpost called 'Ignite presentation learner response' 1) Type up your feedback  in full  including the ratings out of five for each category.  Title and tag line bith need work - very little originality there and title with exclamation mark almost suggests comedy. Good choice of images to communicate genre and narrative ideas are solid-classic horror storyline  Technical planning needs to be much more specific - don’t define the camera shot or editing ... explain how you will...

1) Type up your teacher's feedback in full. WWW: ·           The narrative fits the horror genre well – age of cast, death of a friend at a party etc. This shows you’ve researched the genre. ·          The performances are OK – unrehearsed but that’s pretty common with a preliminary exercise.  EBI: ·          Technically there’s a lot to learn for the real coursework project. The scene begins with a 33 second long shot for the conversation. Can you find me a single example of a film scene conversation between three characters that is shot in one long shot? This is where you needed close-ups, over-the-shoulder shots, shot-reverse-shot, adhering to the 180 degree rule. We are looking to reach close to professional standards so this is a huge learning point prior to the real coursework. ·          It’s good t...

1) State the genre you have chosen - horror or coming of age drama. The genre i have chosen to apply within my preliminary task is horror. 2) Choose at least five films in your selected genre and watch the trailer and one scene from each film. Make bullet-point notes on everything you watch, commenting on camerawork, editing, sound and mise-en-scene. 1) It follows (2015) In terms of camerawork, within this trailer, various close ups were applied to display the facial expressions portraying the emotions of the character within numerous scenes, a build up of non diagetic sound was utilised during these specific scenes in order to build up tension and suspense within the demographic. In terms of editing, an eye line match was applied when the protagonist was looking at the door that was slightly open which creates enigma within the scene as it allows the audience to view what the main protagonist was seeing to make them feel the emotions that...