Last year's NEA BFI winner

The WINNER in this category is ‘SAMHAIN, INTRO’ by Louis Loze-Carey. This production has a very stylised opening shot with visually cinematic compositions throughout, well considered framing, and movement that captures the tone of this engaging thriller very well - as we move from story set-up to suspense and danger. The filmmaker shows a strong awareness of the relationship between camera movement and story tone, and the production has been very well planned and executed. Congratulations!

Audience

Representation

Representation from Great Baddow High School Media

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-48628678

Textual analysis

Lots of good in depth textual analysis of film language from Yale university

http://classes.yale.edu/film-analysis/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFUKRTFhoiA



BOYZ IN THE HOOD AND GHOST SHIP

 

This clip is excellent for all the areas you have studied up until now - symbols, denotation and connotation, narrative, representation and audience. It is also great for DISTINCT. Write an intro on these for Boyz in the Hood and then:

Please analyse in terms of how camera, mise en scene, editing and sound give meaning to this clip.

Remember:

Camera - FAM
Mise En Scene - CLAMPS
Sound - MCDOVED
Editing - STOPS



Watch the first six minutes and apply your knowledge of camera, sound, editing and mise en scene to textually analyse the clip and the meaning that it created.
In your answer consider:

• semiotics/symbolism in a lot of the shots for eg the Stop sign
• Sound / music, dialogue and sound effects
• What is the clip saying about race, how?
• What have these children seen that you wouldn't expect them to have seen at their age?
• How does the shot go from street to classroom?
• What are the pictures on the wall?

Matrix  opening sequence consider: - colour, binary oppositions, male/female - good vs evil



UP Consider how they show the passage of time, sound, mise en scene and camera.



CAPE FEAR - camera and mise en scene

Editing

STOPS - Screen time, Transition, Order of Narrative, Pace, SFX 

If you're ever stuck with what to look for in the EDITING section, consider these questions:

1) How much cutting is there and why? 

2) Are the shots highly fragmented or relatively lengthy? 

3) What is the point of the cutting in each scene? To clarify? To stimulate? To lyricize? To create suspense? To explore an idea or emotion in depth? 

4) Does the cutting seem manipulative or are we left to interpret the images on our own? 

5) What kind of rhythm does the editing establish with each scene? 

6) Is the personality of the filmmaker apparent in the cutting or is the presentation of shots relatively objective and functional? 

7) Is editing a major language system of the extract or does the artist relegate cutting to a relatively minor fraction? 8. What style of editing does the clip represent and why?

 

Editing key terms from Kristin Connell

Sound

Camera

Mise En Scene

Mise en-scene from Great Baddow High School Media

Genre task

Genre task from

Genre

Genre task from Great Baddow High School Media

Introduction to theory! 

Here is your first theorist (out of 19) that you will need to apply, analyse and evaluate. 

Steve Neale says - genres may be dominated by repetition, but are also marked by difference, variation and change the idea that genres change, develop, and vary, as they borrow from and overlap with one another. You can also have hybrid genres for eg. Scary Movie, Hot Stuff, Zombieland...

Semiotics

Semiotics from Great Baddow High School Media

Introduction to Media Studies