Media Awards - Homework

My favorite productions from the media awards was Labrat, which won the best cinematography production. I think that this was the best for me because it clearly met the criteria for the whole of film language. As you could see through out the whole of the production, it used a variety of medium shots, extreme close ups, close ups and long shots. A great long shot was used when the main protagonist was punched in the face by the other, as it showed what type of atmosphere it was in and where it was located, e.g. it looked like a rough area so dangerous people might be located there. Also, I know that he was the main protagonist because throughout the whole production it would show medium close ups of him and he was the only one talking. There was a sound bridge through the whole of the production. This is because it started off with the main protagonist talking to the camera and then the voice of his had overlapped through the whole production when he was talking about his life. Also, at the ending, there was a contrapuntal sound going across different clips of someone making some sort of drink in the lab.

As you can see, there was quite a lot of different film language terms in this production, so this is why I believe this was the best.

My second favorite production was 'The Experiment'. This is because of the panning movement which was used a lot in this production. I think that the panning movement was used because it wanted to show the audience what type of area she was in and how big it was. It also created suspense because it looked like it was in the middle of no where, where the main protagonist had no where to go. Also, the girl in this was the main protagonist because although we saw many different camera shots, you realized she was the main character because she was the only person that was in the production that you could clearly see. This one also had a sound bridge across the whole production. This was the same as the first production because it had just the one person talking throughout the whole production. This play was filmed outside and was it was filmed during autumn time because you could see many leaves on the ground.

4 Questions - Fran Unsworth

What has been your biggest media project that you have had to work on?

What's the most difficult thing you find to do in the BBC?

Why did the BBC come to the conclusion of getting rid off Jeremy Clarkson?

Has there ever been an extremely controversial case that you have been assigned to look at?

Editing Task

As you can see, the scene that I have picked is from the first Spider-man movie, where Spider-man and the Green Goblin had their first ever battle. I have picked this particular scene because it shows a lot of different things happening at the same time which I will get onto below.

As you can see, in the beginning of the sequence, it instantly shows many different type of straight cuts but isn't going to be picked up by us the audience because these straight cuts happen every time with out us even noticing. At the beginning there is also an unexpected jump cut that takes place, when the character talking in the wheelchair to Harry Osborne moves quickly to the main protagonist, who is down below. I know that he is the main protagonist  because the camera shot of when it shows him, is a medium shot which obviously shows that he is going to  be the main protagonist as it shows that he is being the centre of attention. There are also shot/ reverse shots happening when it goes to the people on top of the balcony, to the people who are standing down below.

After the first minute of this scene, it shows the explosion which was a long shot and was a tilt because it showed the camera going up and down. Also, it showed that the explosion wasn't the main thing that was going on in this scene, the audience were more interested in spider-man coming to rescue. So it showed more of the main protagonist than it did of the actual people that are in danger. Since the camera is doing a shot/reverse shot of the main protagonist and the people in danger, this shows juxtaposition as they're showing more of the hero, where as they should be showing the incident that's going on since that is actually more important.

Half way through this clip, it shows a three way shot of the main protagonist, the villain and the princess who is being waited to be rescued by the hero. I know this because it shows that the princess is on the part of the balcony, that has a huge crack through it and is about to snap and fall all the way down. The action code of this is the villain coming to the balcony on this hover board (the prop), which suggested that something bad is going to happen as he was going in at such pace with a evil look through the villains mask.

When it shows that the main protagonist was running to put on his costume, there was some background music which was parallel and diegetic as it was going at a fast tempo which suggests that the protagonist was in a hurry and didn't have any time to wait and think. However, it also symbolizes the villain as he was trying to destroy the whole balcony with the innocent people as quickly as possible so he can move away from the setting as soon as. 

Another part, where it is half way through the clip, it  shows that the main protagonist was trying to rescue the princess from the balcony, however that got delayed because on his way up to the balcony, he saw this little boy who was shocked by this gigantic hair balloon falling on top of him. Therefore, the main protagonist had to help him first so he doesn't die or get injured. This could be a montage of Spider-man, the main protagonist, helping different people because it is showing different straight cuts and shot/reverse shots of him and the people who needs the help.

In the last scene, where the main protagonist rescued the princess and took her to the last setting, it was all captured in one camera shot, from him swinging in the air to the part where they landed onto the ground which shows that she is safe. Also, most of that particular scene was taken at a long shot, which allowed the audience to see what type of setting it was but when the protagonists had landed, it became a medium shot which therefore suggested that the movie will be based on these two and how they will become the typical movie couple.

Cinematography

These clip is from the opening scene of James Bond 007, Skyfall. In this slip it's showing how 007 is chasing the villain in the car with his helper but the villain manages to escape at the end with a motorbike (prop) and therefore, led 007 to steal someone else's motorbike and chase him. At the beginning of the clip, the camera view started of by being at a high angle. However, when a high angle is being created, it makes the protagonist weak and small but in this scene, it didn't really show that he was weak because in that scene, it showed he had that prop (the gun) which shows the power that the gun has even when it isn't even in use. After that scene where he was coming down the stairs, the camera was at a medium close shot showing that he was going into the car. At first, the camera movement was a tilt because he was going down the stairs but when he went into the car, it was showing more of a panning movement as the car was moving from left to right, so was the camera. At the scene of the side mirrors, the camera shot was an extreme close up because the mirror was the only thing that was clearly visible on the screen. Also, when the car that the main protagonist, 007, was in was hitting the villains car, the camera angle was low which made the car seem look even bigger than it was. This is also unclear because have a low angle should make everything look like they have more power but not in this scene because the bigger car over ruled the sports Audi.

Presentation feedback/learner response

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- I explained each of the power point slides well; I gave a good reason as to why I chose these particular pictures to represent the song for both parallel and contrapuntal.

- The pictures that I chose were very clear; They represented the parallel and contrapuntal categories very well.

- Everyone was able to guess which slide fitted best into each category.

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- Even though I had explained most of it really well, I think that I went through a lot of it really quickly and should have taken my time when explaining it.

-I should have planned everything that I was going to say because on one of the pictures for the parallel slide, I forgot why I had chosen one of the pictures.

-I should have used different genre pictures for the contrapuntal slide because I feel that I over used the wrestling pictures.

Best Three
The three presentations that I thought were the best are the following:
Abayomi
Luke
Sunny.

Firstly, the reason why I liked Abayomi's presentation is because he knew why he chose every single picture in his slides and used a good range of vocabulary to explain his pictures, e.g. he used the word foreshadow quite a lot.

Secondly, I chose Luke because I think that the pictures that he used were the strongest and the way he thought of the meanings for each picture were quite original; I don't think anyone watching his presentation thought why he chose those particular pictures, which made it even more better because it made us, the audience, think.

Finally, I chose Sunny because I find that his presentation, all around, was brilliant. He went in depth with each picture, explained it well and even used one of his own pictures in the presentation and brought it into great context.

Film language: Sound presentations

This extract is of the Cartoon version of Batman and has many different media key languages which is linked with sound. As you can see at the beginning of the extract, there was an explosion of the building. Normally, you would hear the sound of an explosion. However, in this case, there was the sound of music which obviously states that it is non-diegetic and it's also contrapuntal. The reason for this is because the music track didn't have anything to do with what is being shown on screen (the close up shot of the building). 

On the other hand, the music played at the explosion was then continued onto the next scene which was of the Bat Mobile. And the music that was being played did go parallel to the car (it could suggest that Batman was in a hurry since the music was being played at such a fast tempo). It also suggests that it is diegetic. This audio that was played over two different scenes could be that it was none as a sound bridge, which shows the audience that Batman is on his way because he knows there was danger around the city.

Then as the extract goes on to the end, it then becomes contrapuntal because again, that same fast tempo music didn't really link to the part where those two people had been tied together.