To update first piece of semiotic analysis
To start referencing the documentary, music video and short film
Wednesday, 30 September 2009
Semiotic analysis updated
Semiotic Analysis- one music video
The music video that I am analysing is called “The Ashes” by Tai Mahmud. A music video helps put a name card out to the audience about the artist. The image of an artist is mainly defined and put into place by the quality of their work. The mise-en-scene in this music video is quite normal to any other music video. The location that it is set in is partly an alley way, for a few seconds the location is a studio where the artist is saying the lyrics as you would do for a practice run. Another thing that i noticed in this music video which is different because not many other music videos include are images or few second shots from a different video and include it in theirs.
The effect is different and it explains the words through the images in a different kind of way. So instead of leaving the hidden meaning for the audience to figure out it is shown through the pictures through secondary data. In my judgement because in the video the main location is the alley way to me it symbolises that feelings and thoughts are narrowed and small not heard kind of thing. In the diegetic world when your in an alley way your alone whether your walking through it or just stood there, only your thoughts are seen as begin important to you no one else matters at that point. The character who’s in this music video is the producer of the work. The costume is casual wear like a hoody i don’t think the costume was meant to be of a high class and i hardly think it was the important thing to think about when it came to organising the video shoot.
The main prop is the mic that is placed in the music studio.The lighting and colour are normal and have to fit into the diegetic world to maintain verisimilitude because bearing in mind the shots are taken in an alley way. Other bits of the video the colour and lighting are of a very high quality. The lighting in the alley way is also a lot realistic to a normal everyday day outside etc. If the lighting was changed to dull boring colours like black and white then the audience will automatically know that the colour doesn’t look right and because of this won’t attract their attention much.Moving to the next stage which is camera shots , angles and movement etc, most of the shots were more or less the same. There are medium shots that closely show the artist singing the words.
The connotation that is here is that the words are important and have great meaning behind them that maybe the reason why a medium shot of the artist is done.On a general note the movement is that the camera stays in one place and doesn’t move, but throughout the video the character walks facing his back to the camera and for a few steps the camera picks up the steps and changes it’s movement. I noticed that quite a bit of editing has been done in the video too. This maybe so the other snap shots that have been included will have to be included at the right time and space in time to the video instead of just being misplaced somewhere in no order. If this was done it would clearly show to the audience that full work hasn’t been put towards the video.
Roland Barthes used these two words connotation and denotation to analyse images that can be then be applied to music videos as well as other visual texts.Semiotic Analysis- one short video (Left 4 Dead)
Short fim is an international academic term used to mean a contemporary non- commercial motion picture that is shorter than the average commercial feature film.
They last less than 45minutes long and they can be any genre. The main feature of a short film is that it will emphasise mood over narrative structure. A wide range of students will make short films for their courses they are doing. Making a short film for them is a calling card to the film industry so they can see what skills they have. John Hardwick who is a director of short films pop videos and adverts says that “short films are more comparable to poetry than to plays. In the same way that poetry can bend language and suggest meaning, short films are able to explore the vocabulary”.
I analysed a channel 5 short film called Left 4 Dead.
The beginning of the short film there is a still medium shot of a news presenter reading the daily news. The medium shot is done to show the audience the location and so the dialogue he’s speaking fits in with the rest of the storyline. After this scene there are other shots done of real life situations to show the audience that this is really happening today. These clips build tension that’s why the person who edited the film only made these few clips last a few seconds in total. After these shots the camera pauses on a metal gate from a low angle, this makes the audience think what the next shot is going to be or who’s going to appear. A young girl appears and jumps over the gate at this point her body language shows the audience she’s up to something awkward.
Then she slowly moves across while she’s creeping across her facial expressions tell the audience she’s in search of something and what she’s doing she wants it to be kept quiet and I can tell this because of the type of footsteps she takes. A location shot is done it shows a bit of a rough field with lots of unwanted items, this will give the audience a bit of a rough idea of what the rest of the short film is about. The next character that appears is the same age range as the first person who was filmed this matches my point earlier when I said that students tend to make short films more to help them with their courses etc. A close up of the gun that the female character is holding this connotates that it’s an important item that’s the reason for it to be a close up view and at this point when the prop is viewed the atmosphere changes around the audience they start to think what type of a film it is.
A tracking shot is done when she starts running along the pavement this clearly states that she’s hiding from the people around that area for what ever reason. The pace builds up when a third male character is shown in the film. The lighting and colour are all real for the diegises because you have to have an appropriate location for such a powerful short film that has a lot of meaning behind it.
One Documentary- Walking with Dinosaurs
Documentaries often seek to persuade and inform the audience about any set topic. The key concept is representation mainly because it has two ways to mediate a piece of media text. They also use real production techniques that are used on a day to day basis. A very quick start into the kind of location that the documentary is set in. Walking with dinosaurs is a science/natural history documentary. The reason why I know it’s this type of documentary is because the key features included are some kind of wildlife and it goes into detail about this particular theme. It also features a narrator who does all the speech for the documentary to give an outline of what is happening and on some cases to give his/her opinion. Because the documentary starts of quickly into the location it therefore is showing the audience the actual anchoring commentary in other words this is the place we are in. It starts off with a medium close up of a dinosaur and after a few seconds the narrator starts speaking and describing a little more about the dinosaur that is on screen. When he starts talking abut his large plates on his back the camera straight away increases the zoom.
This clearly illustrates that the plates are the important part of the dinosaurs body because that’s what part is being explained in detail. Non diegetic music is used to show verisimilitude and so the audience know that it’s a real. In the middle of the documentary a high angle location shot is made, this is to show the audience what type of place the dinosaur lives in. Throughout the documentary the camera work continues to maintain the structure of the close up medium shots. The movement of the dinosaur is shown at zoomed level this is to make it more real, exciting and dramatic for the audience so thy emphasise with what is being said by the narrator. Mike Edwards (2003) suggests that we make modality judgements about how realistic or how shocking a media text is.
The music video that I am analysing is called “The Ashes” by Tai Mahmud. A music video helps put a name card out to the audience about the artist. The image of an artist is mainly defined and put into place by the quality of their work. The mise-en-scene in this music video is quite normal to any other music video. The location that it is set in is partly an alley way, for a few seconds the location is a studio where the artist is saying the lyrics as you would do for a practice run. Another thing that i noticed in this music video which is different because not many other music videos include are images or few second shots from a different video and include it in theirs.
The effect is different and it explains the words through the images in a different kind of way. So instead of leaving the hidden meaning for the audience to figure out it is shown through the pictures through secondary data. In my judgement because in the video the main location is the alley way to me it symbolises that feelings and thoughts are narrowed and small not heard kind of thing. In the diegetic world when your in an alley way your alone whether your walking through it or just stood there, only your thoughts are seen as begin important to you no one else matters at that point. The character who’s in this music video is the producer of the work. The costume is casual wear like a hoody i don’t think the costume was meant to be of a high class and i hardly think it was the important thing to think about when it came to organising the video shoot.
The main prop is the mic that is placed in the music studio.The lighting and colour are normal and have to fit into the diegetic world to maintain verisimilitude because bearing in mind the shots are taken in an alley way. Other bits of the video the colour and lighting are of a very high quality. The lighting in the alley way is also a lot realistic to a normal everyday day outside etc. If the lighting was changed to dull boring colours like black and white then the audience will automatically know that the colour doesn’t look right and because of this won’t attract their attention much.Moving to the next stage which is camera shots , angles and movement etc, most of the shots were more or less the same. There are medium shots that closely show the artist singing the words.
The connotation that is here is that the words are important and have great meaning behind them that maybe the reason why a medium shot of the artist is done.On a general note the movement is that the camera stays in one place and doesn’t move, but throughout the video the character walks facing his back to the camera and for a few steps the camera picks up the steps and changes it’s movement. I noticed that quite a bit of editing has been done in the video too. This maybe so the other snap shots that have been included will have to be included at the right time and space in time to the video instead of just being misplaced somewhere in no order. If this was done it would clearly show to the audience that full work hasn’t been put towards the video.
Roland Barthes used these two words connotation and denotation to analyse images that can be then be applied to music videos as well as other visual texts.Semiotic Analysis- one short video (Left 4 Dead)
Short fim is an international academic term used to mean a contemporary non- commercial motion picture that is shorter than the average commercial feature film.
They last less than 45minutes long and they can be any genre. The main feature of a short film is that it will emphasise mood over narrative structure. A wide range of students will make short films for their courses they are doing. Making a short film for them is a calling card to the film industry so they can see what skills they have. John Hardwick who is a director of short films pop videos and adverts says that “short films are more comparable to poetry than to plays. In the same way that poetry can bend language and suggest meaning, short films are able to explore the vocabulary”.
I analysed a channel 5 short film called Left 4 Dead.
The beginning of the short film there is a still medium shot of a news presenter reading the daily news. The medium shot is done to show the audience the location and so the dialogue he’s speaking fits in with the rest of the storyline. After this scene there are other shots done of real life situations to show the audience that this is really happening today. These clips build tension that’s why the person who edited the film only made these few clips last a few seconds in total. After these shots the camera pauses on a metal gate from a low angle, this makes the audience think what the next shot is going to be or who’s going to appear. A young girl appears and jumps over the gate at this point her body language shows the audience she’s up to something awkward.
Then she slowly moves across while she’s creeping across her facial expressions tell the audience she’s in search of something and what she’s doing she wants it to be kept quiet and I can tell this because of the type of footsteps she takes. A location shot is done it shows a bit of a rough field with lots of unwanted items, this will give the audience a bit of a rough idea of what the rest of the short film is about. The next character that appears is the same age range as the first person who was filmed this matches my point earlier when I said that students tend to make short films more to help them with their courses etc. A close up of the gun that the female character is holding this connotates that it’s an important item that’s the reason for it to be a close up view and at this point when the prop is viewed the atmosphere changes around the audience they start to think what type of a film it is.
A tracking shot is done when she starts running along the pavement this clearly states that she’s hiding from the people around that area for what ever reason. The pace builds up when a third male character is shown in the film. The lighting and colour are all real for the diegises because you have to have an appropriate location for such a powerful short film that has a lot of meaning behind it.
One Documentary- Walking with Dinosaurs
Documentaries often seek to persuade and inform the audience about any set topic. The key concept is representation mainly because it has two ways to mediate a piece of media text. They also use real production techniques that are used on a day to day basis. A very quick start into the kind of location that the documentary is set in. Walking with dinosaurs is a science/natural history documentary. The reason why I know it’s this type of documentary is because the key features included are some kind of wildlife and it goes into detail about this particular theme. It also features a narrator who does all the speech for the documentary to give an outline of what is happening and on some cases to give his/her opinion. Because the documentary starts of quickly into the location it therefore is showing the audience the actual anchoring commentary in other words this is the place we are in. It starts off with a medium close up of a dinosaur and after a few seconds the narrator starts speaking and describing a little more about the dinosaur that is on screen. When he starts talking abut his large plates on his back the camera straight away increases the zoom.
This clearly illustrates that the plates are the important part of the dinosaurs body because that’s what part is being explained in detail. Non diegetic music is used to show verisimilitude and so the audience know that it’s a real. In the middle of the documentary a high angle location shot is made, this is to show the audience what type of place the dinosaur lives in. Throughout the documentary the camera work continues to maintain the structure of the close up medium shots. The movement of the dinosaur is shown at zoomed level this is to make it more real, exciting and dramatic for the audience so thy emphasise with what is being said by the narrator. Mike Edwards (2003) suggests that we make modality judgements about how realistic or how shocking a media text is.
Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Presentation to Gain Audience Feedback
Here is a powerpoint presentation that i have made as part of the feedback that i will get from my class. By getting the feedback i will know which idea may be best to do and why that idea is more preferred.
Monday, 28 September 2009
Ideas questionnaire
Ideas Questionnaire
Idea 1: Political Religious Video
To give knowledge
Idea 2: About a Girl
Short film (Monologue)
Idea 3: Music Video (Bhangra Dance)
Purpose to entertain
1: From my three ideas which one would you say is the best one and why?
Idea 1
Idea 2
Idea 3
2: Which one of my ideas do you think will be more interesting to work on?
3: Do you think there’s anything else I need to include for any of the three ideas?
4: Are there any props that I may need for each one of the different ideas that I may not have come up with?
Idea 1: Political Religious Video
To give knowledge
Idea 2: About a Girl
Short film (Monologue)
Idea 3: Music Video (Bhangra Dance)
Purpose to entertain
1: From my three ideas which one would you say is the best one and why?
Idea 1
Idea 2
Idea 3
2: Which one of my ideas do you think will be more interesting to work on?
3: Do you think there’s anything else I need to include for any of the three ideas?
4: Are there any props that I may need for each one of the different ideas that I may not have come up with?
Thursday, 24 September 2009
feedback
G324: Advanced Portfolio
Media Studies Assignment Learner Feedback Sheet
OCR AS MEDIA STUDIES H540
Unit: G324: Advanced Portfolio
Student Name: Monir, Shazana
Block: C1
Key Tracking Assessment/Homework Task:
The table below gives you feedback and understanding on how your work has been marked
against assessment criteria for A2 Media Studies.
Assessment Objectives Summative Feedback
(Have these been met?)
AO2 To assess candidates’ application of
knowledge and understanding in evaluating
their own work, showing how meanings
and responses are created. (5%)
Solid attempt to analyse the meanings encoded
into the texts but you need to use more in the
way of media terms and theories. You haven’t
mentioned what the music video you analysed
actually is.
AO3 To assess candidates’ ability to plan
and construct media products using
appropriate technical and creative skills.
(15%)
Your work needs to be presented in an audiovisual format, e.g. a narrated video intercut with
clips from the texts, a commentary laid over the
text, an MP3 podcast or illustrated PowerPoint.
Avoid posting text to your blog. Well done for
embedding the videos into your blog.
AO4 Demonstrate the ability to undertake
and apply appropriate research. (5%)
Your texts are generally well chosen but you
needed to analyse a short film, rather than a
short extract from a feature film so your Scream
analysis isn’t appropriate. You haven’t
mentioned what the music video you analysed
actually is.
The table below provides you with tutor feedback and their recommendations for key areas on
how you can improve and develop your work for AS Media Studies.
Key Areas for My Individual Development – Marked out of 50
Knowledge and Understanding (A02) 12/20 marks
• You need to outline who has produced the text, who the target audience is and what the
method of exchange for each text is. Use the Harvard Referencing System to reference your
texts.
Planning/Construction/Technical Skills (A02) 4/20 marks
• Submit your posts in an audio/visual format if you wish to achieve high grades.
· Well done for doing a video analysis of your practise video.
Research (A04) 6/10 marks
• Try to write more about who produced these texts and why (was it produced for TV, is it a
promotional video, is it a student film? etc.). Who is the target audience? Where has the text
been exhibited (theatrically, TV or web only?)?
Good effort Shazana but you need to use more media terms and theories and you need to present your
work in a Web 2.0 format.
Total: 22/50 Summative Grade: E
Media Studies Assignment Learner Feedback Sheet
OCR AS MEDIA STUDIES H540
Unit: G324: Advanced Portfolio
Student Name: Monir, Shazana
Block: C1
Key Tracking Assessment/Homework Task:
The table below gives you feedback and understanding on how your work has been marked
against assessment criteria for A2 Media Studies.
Assessment Objectives Summative Feedback
(Have these been met?)
AO2 To assess candidates’ application of
knowledge and understanding in evaluating
their own work, showing how meanings
and responses are created. (5%)
Solid attempt to analyse the meanings encoded
into the texts but you need to use more in the
way of media terms and theories. You haven’t
mentioned what the music video you analysed
actually is.
AO3 To assess candidates’ ability to plan
and construct media products using
appropriate technical and creative skills.
(15%)
Your work needs to be presented in an audiovisual format, e.g. a narrated video intercut with
clips from the texts, a commentary laid over the
text, an MP3 podcast or illustrated PowerPoint.
Avoid posting text to your blog. Well done for
embedding the videos into your blog.
AO4 Demonstrate the ability to undertake
and apply appropriate research. (5%)
Your texts are generally well chosen but you
needed to analyse a short film, rather than a
short extract from a feature film so your Scream
analysis isn’t appropriate. You haven’t
mentioned what the music video you analysed
actually is.
The table below provides you with tutor feedback and their recommendations for key areas on
how you can improve and develop your work for AS Media Studies.
Key Areas for My Individual Development – Marked out of 50
Knowledge and Understanding (A02) 12/20 marks
• You need to outline who has produced the text, who the target audience is and what the
method of exchange for each text is. Use the Harvard Referencing System to reference your
texts.
Planning/Construction/Technical Skills (A02) 4/20 marks
• Submit your posts in an audio/visual format if you wish to achieve high grades.
· Well done for doing a video analysis of your practise video.
Research (A04) 6/10 marks
• Try to write more about who produced these texts and why (was it produced for TV, is it a
promotional video, is it a student film? etc.). Who is the target audience? Where has the text
been exhibited (theatrically, TV or web only?)?
Good effort Shazana but you need to use more media terms and theories and you need to present your
work in a Web 2.0 format.
Total: 22/50 Summative Grade: E
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Short film codes and conventions
Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR8j6geysBk
Purpose: to show young people that a ife with drugs and weapons involved isn't a very good move or the way to live your life.
Target audience: Teenagers, young adults
Short film codes and conventions
Channel 4- Trebla
The codes and conventions of this short film that was shown on channel 4 are:
*It clip that i analysed lasted less than 45minutes.
*It was a fictional kind of documentary. It was filmed on in the diegetic world in an alley way, and real people who have experienced and seen people who are living rough and taking drugs etc.
*This short film was not animated but was live action i could tell this from the lights and camerawork, the realism was totally met and this way the audience are likely to pay more attention because real life people are sharing their knowledge about the way people live these days such as living on drugs and stuff. In my jdgement the theme that is acknowledged in this short film is the thoughts and lifestyles of youg teenagers in the streets of London today. To me i think this film is made by students or aspiring film makers because the theme relates to the student age range. It's also a calling card from the makers of the film to the film industry. I could say there's a slight bit of a monologue in this short film but it isn't because there are two different voices, but maily one voice will be talking for longer that's may be why i think it could be named as a monologue. I'd say to make and enhance this video it was cheap. The reason why i say this is because a special scene or setting wasn't needed. The location was there already because it was in the diegetic world. No extra costs were needed, jus the equipment and the people taking part in the film were needed.
The codes and conventions of this short film that was shown on channel 4 are:
*It clip that i analysed lasted less than 45minutes.
*It was a fictional kind of documentary. It was filmed on in the diegetic world in an alley way, and real people who have experienced and seen people who are living rough and taking drugs etc.
*This short film was not animated but was live action i could tell this from the lights and camerawork, the realism was totally met and this way the audience are likely to pay more attention because real life people are sharing their knowledge about the way people live these days such as living on drugs and stuff. In my jdgement the theme that is acknowledged in this short film is the thoughts and lifestyles of youg teenagers in the streets of London today. To me i think this film is made by students or aspiring film makers because the theme relates to the student age range. It's also a calling card from the makers of the film to the film industry. I could say there's a slight bit of a monologue in this short film but it isn't because there are two different voices, but maily one voice will be talking for longer that's may be why i think it could be named as a monologue. I'd say to make and enhance this video it was cheap. The reason why i say this is because a special scene or setting wasn't needed. The location was there already because it was in the diegetic world. No extra costs were needed, jus the equipment and the people taking part in the film were needed.
Thursday, 17 September 2009
Semiotic analysis homework
Semiotic Analysis- one music video
The mise-en-scene in this music video is quite normal to any other music video. The location that it is set in is partly an alley way, for a few seconds the location is a studio where the artist is saying the lyrics as you would do for a practice run. Another thing that i noticed in this music video which is different because not many other music videos include are images or few second shots from a different video and include it in theirs. The effect is different and it explains the words through the images in a different kind of way. So instead of leaving the hidden meaning for the audience to figure out it is shown through the pictures through secondary data. In my judgement because in the video the main location is the alley way to me it symbolises that feelings and thoughts are narrowed and small not heard kind of thing.
In the diegetic world when your in an alley way your alone whether your walking through it or just stood there, only your thoughts are seen as begin important to you no one else matters at that point.
The character who’s in this music video is the producer of the work. The costume is casual wear like a hoody i don’t think the costume was meant to be of a high class and i hardly think it was the important thing to think about when it came to organising the video shoot. The main prop is the mic that is placed in the music studio.
The lighting and colour are normal and have to fit into the diegetic world to maintain verisimilitude because bearing in mind the shots are taken in an alley way. Other bits of the video the colour and lighting are of a very high quality. The lighting in the alley way is also a lot realistic to a normal everyday day outside etc. If the lighting was changed to dull boring colours like black and white then the audience will automatically know that the colour doesn’t look right and because of this won’t attract their attention much.
Moving to the next stage which is camera shots , angles and movement etc, most of the shots were more or less the same. There are medium shots that closely show the artist singing the words.
The connotation that is here is that the words are important and have great meaning behind them that maybe the reason why a medium shot of the artist is done.
On a general note the movement is that the camera stays in one place and doesn’t move, but throughout the video the character walks facing his back to the camera and for a few steps the camera picks up the steps and changes it’s movement. I noticed that quite a bit of editing has been done in the video too. This maybe so the other snap shots that have been included will have to be included at the right time and space in time to the video instead of just being misplaced somewhere in no order. If this was done it would clearly show to the audience that full work hasn’t been put towards the video.
Semiotic Analysis- one short video (Scream)
At the beginning of the film, a medium shot of a home telephone is shown that’s securely placed on a table. The deeper meaning to this Is that it’s showing that the telephone is the important prop at this part of the film. The second time the phone rings the camera gradually but in good speed moves up closer to the main character’s face to show her body language the second time the phone rings. The main character’s body language at the time of the second phone call is very calm, because she doesn’t see it a being something creepy. This shows the audience that this first character tries to stay positive at times. Something that has really caught my attention as watching the video. A few seconds later the phone suddenly rang again and the location was in the kitchen at this point. At the side of the worktop where the main female character seated herself near her there was a set of knives. Now when most of us see a knife in our direction we will scream that’s where the title plays a vital role.
At the time of the call the woman is cooking something on the hob, she forgets all about it because she’s speaking to this anonymous gentleman on the phone. This shows the power this man has and shows that his voice has a lot of weight to it. The camera moves all over the house being behind the woman. She has positive body language and facial emotions this shows that she doesn’t suspect something and also leaves the audience on a bit of a cliff hanger and keeps them thinking what the end result ill be. A little while after the man says something in particular on the phone, her mood changes and goes to a negative note. The camera pans forward and gives a close up medium shot, to illustrate to the audience that something is changing and something scary is about to happen. The ending bit certainly is tricky and grabs your attention especially with the sound effects.
One Documentary- Walking with Dinosaurs
A very quick start into the kind of location that the documentary is set in. Walking with dinosaurs is a science/natural history documentary. The reason why I know it’s this type of documentary is because the key features included are some kind of wildlife and it goes into detail about this particular theme. It also features a narrator who does all the speech for the documentary to give an outline of what is happening and on some cases to give his/her opinion. Because the documentary starts of quickly into the location it therefore is showing the audience the actual anchoring commentary in other words this is the place we are in.
It starts off with a medium close up of a dinosaur and after a few seconds the narrator starts speaking and describing a little more about the dinosaur that is on screen.
When he starts talking abut his large plates on his back the camera straight away increases the zoom. This clearly illustrates that the plates are the important part of the dinosaurs body because that’s what part is being explained in detail. Non diegetic music is used to show verisimilitude and so the audience know that it’s a real. In the middle of the documentary a high angle location shot is made, this is to show the audience what type of place the dinosaur lives in. Throughout the documentary the camera work continues to maintain the structure of the close up medium shots. The movement of the dinosaur is shown at zoomed level this is to make it more real, exciting and dramatic for the audience so thy emphasise with what is being said by the narrator.
By Shazana Monir
The mise-en-scene in this music video is quite normal to any other music video. The location that it is set in is partly an alley way, for a few seconds the location is a studio where the artist is saying the lyrics as you would do for a practice run. Another thing that i noticed in this music video which is different because not many other music videos include are images or few second shots from a different video and include it in theirs. The effect is different and it explains the words through the images in a different kind of way. So instead of leaving the hidden meaning for the audience to figure out it is shown through the pictures through secondary data. In my judgement because in the video the main location is the alley way to me it symbolises that feelings and thoughts are narrowed and small not heard kind of thing.
In the diegetic world when your in an alley way your alone whether your walking through it or just stood there, only your thoughts are seen as begin important to you no one else matters at that point.
The character who’s in this music video is the producer of the work. The costume is casual wear like a hoody i don’t think the costume was meant to be of a high class and i hardly think it was the important thing to think about when it came to organising the video shoot. The main prop is the mic that is placed in the music studio.
The lighting and colour are normal and have to fit into the diegetic world to maintain verisimilitude because bearing in mind the shots are taken in an alley way. Other bits of the video the colour and lighting are of a very high quality. The lighting in the alley way is also a lot realistic to a normal everyday day outside etc. If the lighting was changed to dull boring colours like black and white then the audience will automatically know that the colour doesn’t look right and because of this won’t attract their attention much.
Moving to the next stage which is camera shots , angles and movement etc, most of the shots were more or less the same. There are medium shots that closely show the artist singing the words.
The connotation that is here is that the words are important and have great meaning behind them that maybe the reason why a medium shot of the artist is done.
On a general note the movement is that the camera stays in one place and doesn’t move, but throughout the video the character walks facing his back to the camera and for a few steps the camera picks up the steps and changes it’s movement. I noticed that quite a bit of editing has been done in the video too. This maybe so the other snap shots that have been included will have to be included at the right time and space in time to the video instead of just being misplaced somewhere in no order. If this was done it would clearly show to the audience that full work hasn’t been put towards the video.
Semiotic Analysis- one short video (Scream)
At the beginning of the film, a medium shot of a home telephone is shown that’s securely placed on a table. The deeper meaning to this Is that it’s showing that the telephone is the important prop at this part of the film. The second time the phone rings the camera gradually but in good speed moves up closer to the main character’s face to show her body language the second time the phone rings. The main character’s body language at the time of the second phone call is very calm, because she doesn’t see it a being something creepy. This shows the audience that this first character tries to stay positive at times. Something that has really caught my attention as watching the video. A few seconds later the phone suddenly rang again and the location was in the kitchen at this point. At the side of the worktop where the main female character seated herself near her there was a set of knives. Now when most of us see a knife in our direction we will scream that’s where the title plays a vital role.
At the time of the call the woman is cooking something on the hob, she forgets all about it because she’s speaking to this anonymous gentleman on the phone. This shows the power this man has and shows that his voice has a lot of weight to it. The camera moves all over the house being behind the woman. She has positive body language and facial emotions this shows that she doesn’t suspect something and also leaves the audience on a bit of a cliff hanger and keeps them thinking what the end result ill be. A little while after the man says something in particular on the phone, her mood changes and goes to a negative note. The camera pans forward and gives a close up medium shot, to illustrate to the audience that something is changing and something scary is about to happen. The ending bit certainly is tricky and grabs your attention especially with the sound effects.
One Documentary- Walking with Dinosaurs
A very quick start into the kind of location that the documentary is set in. Walking with dinosaurs is a science/natural history documentary. The reason why I know it’s this type of documentary is because the key features included are some kind of wildlife and it goes into detail about this particular theme. It also features a narrator who does all the speech for the documentary to give an outline of what is happening and on some cases to give his/her opinion. Because the documentary starts of quickly into the location it therefore is showing the audience the actual anchoring commentary in other words this is the place we are in.
It starts off with a medium close up of a dinosaur and after a few seconds the narrator starts speaking and describing a little more about the dinosaur that is on screen.
When he starts talking abut his large plates on his back the camera straight away increases the zoom. This clearly illustrates that the plates are the important part of the dinosaurs body because that’s what part is being explained in detail. Non diegetic music is used to show verisimilitude and so the audience know that it’s a real. In the middle of the documentary a high angle location shot is made, this is to show the audience what type of place the dinosaur lives in. Throughout the documentary the camera work continues to maintain the structure of the close up medium shots. The movement of the dinosaur is shown at zoomed level this is to make it more real, exciting and dramatic for the audience so thy emphasise with what is being said by the narrator.
By Shazana Monir
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