A-Level Media Coursework Blog 1

Film & TV Language index 1)  Film Poster Analysis 2)  Mise-en-scene analysis blog tasks 3)  Mise-en-scene video recreation and learner response 4)  Media 2 Coursework blog 5)  Lighting analysis blog tasks 7)  Blog feedback and learner response 8)  Sound analysis blog tasks 9)  Sound practical task 10)  Sound: parallel and contrapuntal video feedback and learner response 11)  Cinematography: blog analysis tasks 12)  Cinematography video feedback and learner response 13)  Cinematography: blog analysis tasks 14)  Editing practical blog task 15)  Editing video feedback/learner response 16)  Editing: blog task- 750 word analysis

  Your final analytical blog task is to find a film or television clip on YouTube that you feel has been edited in a distinctive way and write a 750 word analysis of the clip. Use as much media language as you can - and remember to  highlight it . Try and use the key words we've learned for editing if possible. You can also use  any other aspects of film language  that we have studied in your analyis - just like the in-class clips where we discuss how editing combines with cinematography, sound or mise-en-scene. 0:00-1:35 minutes of this clip.  In the beginning of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, the scene starts off with dramatic tension building music with a close up shot of a persons gun and their hand coming slowly toward it in a slow cautious way to show to the audience that something is about to happen and that the use of prop of the gun can connote to the audience that there is danger and violence coming up. 5-30 seconds into the clip, the pace and use of the editing starts a

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shYHb-vrvgg 1) Type up your feedback/comments from your teacher. *Match on action at the start is spot on walking through door, could perhaps be a little smoother getting to chair. *Good framing for OTS shot/reverse shot (focus wobble aside) and follows 180 rule. *Huge issue is audio- could not hear the dialogue at all due to music volume and distortion of dialogue audio track. Very important lesson for coursework.   2) Type up your feedback from fellow students. WWW *Good 180 shot. *Mathc on action. *180 shot. *Followed 180 rule. *Shot reverse shot. *Music background. *180 rule. *180 and reverse shot really good. *Good use of contrapuntal sound. *Funny. *Shot reverse shot/ 180 rule. *Dweezer. *Match on action. *Dweezer. *Good rule of 180. *Smoothness.  *Sohail looked cute in a beanie. *Sohail is short. *Dweezer. *Good camera framing.  EBI *The audio isn't clear. *Music way too loud to hear the audio. *Sound- can't hear dialogue over song.  *Soun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shYHb-vrvgg

  Find the  opening sequence  to a film or TV drama of your choice on YouTube and e mbed the video in a blogpost called 'Cinematography blog tasks'.  1) Write an analysis of the cinematography in the opening sequence.  Highlight  your use of media language and try to cover camera shots, angles and movement using the terminology we have learned in lessons.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9GYMfLcnDY  - Friends Opening.  In the Friends opening scene there is a wide range of medium shots and establishing shots to show the viewers the surroundings of where the characters are and what they are doing. The medium shots are used for each of the characters to show and convey there personalities and behaviours to the audience so that the audience can get to know there personalities in the show better.  2) How does the camerawork give the audience clues about the setting, narrative and character? Camerawork gives the audience clues about the setting, narrative and character in Friends