Film Language

Camera- FAM

Frame- size of shots

Angle-high, level, low, worms eye. ,birds eye

Movement- pan(right and left on tripod), tracking (camera and tripod move), static, Zoom, whip pan, drone/helicopter, hand held

Mise En Scene- CLAMPS

Costume-

Lighting-high key- light, low key- dark , natural light

Actors- Age, gender, class

Makeup-costume make up , injury's(scars cuts etc.)

Props-

Setting- place, weather, time, date, season, indoors/outdoors.

Editing- (invisible- subconscious)

Sound- MCDOVE

Music-

Contrapuntal- when the music does not match the images.

Diegetic/ non-diegetic- what you hear in the film

Off screen/ On screen-

Voice over- (non- diegetic)

Emotion Felt- when hearing something.

Dialogue- the way something is said, accent, emotion behind it.

Editing (most invisible) STOPS

Screen time-

Transitions-

Order of Narrative-

Pace-

Special effects-

Film Language, film opening analysis 

Boyz in the hood

For this task we were asked to watched the firs minuets and apply our knowledge of camera,sound, editing, and Mise en scene to textually analyse the clip and the meaning it created. 

From the first few minuets of the film opening instantly non-diegetic sounds can be heard of gun shots and muffled talking and a young boy saying 'they shot my brother,they shot my brother'' this sets the scene for the rest of the film. This sound instantly makes the audience sympathise with the situation and the young boys loss of a brother.
The first image that is seen is a stop sign, the colour red signalling danger is in focus at a level camera angle in a close up shot. The next scene is a boy around 10 years old standing on a street corner, the street appears un-kept and the time if day seems to be mid morning as soon after the audience knows they are on their way to school. In this scene there is non-diegetic sounds of street noises (cars, wind, dogs ect.) the boy is then joined by three others (another boy and two girls; all of the children are dressed smartly which appears odd due to their surroundings) the camera tracks the children as they move up the street. Digetic sound can be heard as the children have a conversation with each other.One boy brags about how is is not afraid of being shot and how two of his brothers have been shot and they survived. this makes the reader feel a sense of shock that these young children are having this type of conversations and speaking about such violence, something with children of their age typically shouldn't be exposed to. The scene then changes again, the camera tracks the children at a medium long shot moving into a medium shot as they look at the scene which a shooting has taken place. Backing music plays in the background along with background non-digetic street sounds, whilst the children look around and then continue to have a digetic conversation about what they see, the way they talk again makes the audience sympathise with them, as they sound like they are used to this type of environment. The scene then changes into a classroom, where the camera is at an extreme close up on a picture of a children's drawing of  coffins, police cars and police helicopters. The cameras focus then changes as the classroom is tracked to allow the audience to see the children and teacher. digetic sound can be heard of the teacher talking to the class, non digetic sounds are then dded amongst this of children answering the teachers question and laughing at the 'class clown'. the boy although speaks confidently whilst say in his class chair becomes shy once he agrees to stand up and teach the class after answering back to his teacher. The boy then proceeds to speak the audience can head non-digetic sounds of laughter and digetic sounds of conversations. the scene rapidly turns into a fight with two boys. the fight between the two young boys then fades into a scene of a fight between a group on men in the street, this could suggest to the audience that children brought up in this way, and who act this way will end up like these violent adults in the street. it is unclear why the older men are fighting suggesting the rough neighborhood leads to unnecessary violence with unclear  causes other than that is the way these people are brought up to think and act.

Matrix- Opening 

For this video we were asked to consider color, binary opposition, female/male- good vs evil.

 This scene is very dark, with low key light. Police officers in the scene are using flash lights to see in the darkness. Binary opposites are used between male and female roles. The male characters are portrayed as 'good' trying to take down the Female character who appears much stronger than them. However towards the end of the scene the female character seems to be worried or nervous, She is then hit by a truck, it is unknown whether she has died or not. In realistic situations she would have however she seems like a very strong character, and because this is an opening scene it is unlikely that she would die.  It is unusual for the female role to be portrayed as the stronger character.

Up

For this video clip we were asked to consider how they show the passage of time, sound, mise en scene and camera. 

 In this video clip the passing of time is shown in a very clever way. it is shown by them doing different things e.g. getting married, building a house, hobbies, getting a job, planning for a baby, then the money in the jar each day and the wearing of different outfits as they do things. It is  a very original way to show the passing of time through the wearing of different ties, which shows perfectly time going on as they age. Once they are married the sound in the background is very upbeat and happy music, which represents the happiness of their life. The music then slows when they go through  hardships such as the loss of their baby, the music then gradually becomes happier as they move on with their life, and become content with the things that they have. the music is very inspiring and cheerful perfect for such a feel good clip. the clothing which they wear is very traditional, and stereotypical for a couple who have very original dreams and  ideas such as their colorful hose. their cloths clear represent the activities they are doing e.g. zoo keepers outfit for the wife when shes working. the lighting is very high key, which keeps the video clip feeling happy and light,even during the storm shot it is not particularly dark. The camera does not seem to move much rather its the images which are being shot that moves in front of the camera however the camera occasional pans right and left in slow movements. 

Cape fear 

For this video clip we were asked to analyse camera and Mise en scene. 

           

In this scene the camera tracks the movement of the actors. The actors shown play two opposite roles, this shows binary opposites the police officer and then the criminals. the police officers are wearing a  stereotypical officers uniform and the inmates are wearing very stereotypical shirt and trousers. The lighting appears to be natural lighting, it is not to dark but still not very bright. this could represent the mood of the characters.