Shreyam's Media Coursework Blog 2 - Mr Halsey

WWW: Your blog is fully up to date and your reflection on the mise-en-scene recreation is exactly what I want to see in an LR task. I completely agree regarding the attention to detail in terms of movement and expression and you’ve also summarised the importance of mise-en-scene effectively. EBI: The area to focus your attention is the level of depth and detail to your analytical tasks. For both the film poster analysis and mise-en-scene tasks you rarely write more than a few sentences of analysis. For the top grades at A Level you will need to offer a lot more detail, exploring a range of meanings or perspectives and drilling down into the detail of the way media products are constructed.  LR: Create a blogpost on your Media 2 Coursework blog called ‘Blog feedback and learner response’, copy this feedback in and then complete the following learner response. Reflect on your first month of Film & TV Language.  What aspect of Film & TV language have you most enjoyed studying? I h

1) Find a film clip on YouTube that uses sound in an interesting way. Analyse the use of sound, making sure you use the key language we have learned about sound in film: Diegetic sound:  Hulk's roar, punch/hit noises, dialogue, glass shattering, objects being smashed Non Diegetic sound: Music Sound bridges: Music is intense while hulk is chasing black widow, then fades away when she escapes from his sight. Music gets intense again when hulk finds her and when Thor fights him. Dialogue: Black widow is anxious when she speaks Thor is desperate when he speaks The pilot sounds frightened when the hulk jumps towards his plane

1) Type up your feedback from your teacher. WWW: Great choice of images! - they all seem to be memes waiting to be made! Parallel and contrapuntal elements are very clear and the soundtrack is very well selected for communicating meaning. EBI: One bit of feedback for future projects - images with agency watermarks always look less effective so something to bear in mind for future projects. 2) Type up your feedback from fellow students - you can summarise key points if several students give you similar feedback. WWW: You met the brief and used very funny images EBI: The pacing was slow 3) Now  reflect  on your work and write your own evaluation of your video. Write a 'What went well' (WWW) paragraph and a paragraph for 'Even Better If' (EBI) underneath the rest of your feedback. WWW: I met the brief perfectly. EBI: Whilst I did technically meet the brief, more effort could've been put into my work. For example, I could've used more images or even videos to spee

  https://youtu.be/7o6kzzUjMTo I used sad images for one half of the video to represent parallel sound as the music is sad but i used happy images for the rest of the video to represent contrapuntal sound

1) Still image analysis Look at the still images on slides 33-37 of the Film Language Powerpoint linked above. Copy the images into your blog and answer the following questions for each image: 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?      First picture - Low-key lighting Second picture - High-key lighting First picture - Low-key lighting Second picture - Low-key lighting First picture - High-key lighting Second picture - Low-key lighting Third picture - Low-key lighting Fourth picture - High-key lighting First picture - Low-key lighing Second picture - High-key lighting 2) Film noir research  Film Noir - French for "dark film" - Coined in 1946 Includes cynical heroes, stark lighting effects, frequent use of flashbacks, intricate plots and an underlying existentialist philosophy Prevalent mostly in American crime dramas of the post-World War II era Defined by tone rathe