Wednesday, 26 January 2011

The filmimg procces

we had started filming on sunday the 5th of december.
our location of the movie was at the cheswick park during mid day we did succesed to do so and the shoot started off as expected and was completed within two and a half hours smoothly although the the weather was not how we imagend it to be as we wanted it to be dusk or foggy to build a diffrent atmosepher and feel to the movie but i hope that could be done through the editeing procces. it was great experince filming  and useing the knowlegde learnt from the media lessons was a huge help for us as we applied it to the filming such as the use of camera , the angles and postions that could be used to create the film we want. the charcters that we used fo r the shooting were great to work with and it was alot of fun   

verbal languge of 5 days

 5 DAYS

there is a varity of verbal language used by the chracters in the episode of 5 DAYS 

The first one is used during the flight the verbal lanuguage was a voice of screan of the captian of the plain  states to ajust belt seats due to landing which was a diagetic sound.

verbal language was used to connect to shots toagther and to introsuce a new charicter this was when the the working class mother of three asked her own mother for the time it connected to a new shot where a women is shown answering the question the time date in a very diffrent situation introduces a women that seems like a journalist as she states that she doesn't have any news for to day and if there is it will be informed.

Connecting shots were used many times during this episodes through verbal language for example when the mother is in the car with her childern and the topic turns to flowers, the mother states " we know who like his flowers" as soon as this has been said the shot jumps to a old man watering flowers this suggest that  he is theone that loves flowers. 

like this there were many other verbal language that lead a narrtive thoughout the episode and this is used frequantily and in very intresting ways.

The language that genrely  used in the drama was an britesh london accent. there are many types of lanuguge  used by diffrent people like the women that had just landed from the plan was on the phone probably to a friend as she had used slang when she said the work offer she has recived  was offering her 47K.

Analysis of tv drama

BYKER GROVE
 
Byker Grove is  30 minute long british tv drama featured on BBC. This is a light childerns drama amied at teenager's set in a school. we had only watched  the beginning 5 minutes of  the episode in class the opening  demontrate the show is quite fast and upbeat.the episodeintroduces chracters in a very entertianing way, this is done through verbal language, it starts with a charecter talking and before the sentence finishies the shot changes to anather shot with a new chracter finishing of the sentence from the last shot  this carries on for a few shot and in every shot new chracters are introduced and this is done through editeing. I found this very intresting and entertianing  this is also shows that byker grove has a strong element in the show of verbal language  like most tv dramas have. There are also many aural language used in this show many were diagetic such as the diologes but it also had element of non- diagetic sound and this was purticularly shown when the oriantial music was played on the background when the little boy looked over the writen language shown onscrean of the poster of the karte club this also estblishes the target audence of the show due to the many hints are given to the audence as young audence are seen as passive rather than active thinkers.


WHITE GIRL

white girl is a one of film episode showed on the BBC aswell. this is a very diffrent type of tv drama to byker grove as, it is easly recogniable in the beginning few minutes, it seems to be a very serious and a dramatic drama rovolving around social issues.The opening of the this drama show was foucsing to much on revealing the main charecter from a far distence a girl is vagueily seen on a small bike and aproches the screan when the figure of the girl is now vivedly seen as she passes the frame onscrean. this also indecates that it is a film show. the setting and the props on this show the staues of the white girl, the small bike the  small flat with so many members in the familyand the clothes worn by the charecters  were looked quite cheap and normel this is also established by the car that the family traveled looked quite old which indecated  that the family was from the working class.

the drama had diagetic and non diagetic sound in this episode one of the non diegetic sound that was heard waswhen the family ran away from the man and there was a upbeat song playing to show the feeling and  mood of the scene it gave a feeling of freedom although it was not heard by the chracters.


THE BILL

the bill is a police drama and this is shown through out the show because of the costumes and the chracters used in the show as children are not seen onscrean it is mostly middle age peaple in uniform discusing a crime in a confrence room. the target audence for this type of show would be mainly the middle and older generation that would watch a drama for a purpose and get a message.the verbal languge used by the chracter is quite formel  intense  also the verbal language is more dominating a visual language is also used in this episode to show the feeling and expresion of the chracters.
I am sorry sir for not coming to you after school was because couldnt stay  at school to do the work as i didn't have my notes to do my work with and also because the 6th form center computers were not working and the library computers were all booked. i did come to your room to tell you but i didn't find you so therfore came home and i will reasure you  that my blog will be upto date today.

im very sorry once agian sir.
TELEVISION DRAMA

there are many diffrent types of  british tv drama shown

ongoing
series
episodes
continuing drama
promotion of real life


In the first lesson of tv drama in class we was introduced to many new vocabulary used  to analyses media content in the tv drama these were.

Form:
A  shape structure fo the text often linked to narativ structalist thearist. Tordorou argues that all stories in tha media content have a same basic structure such as the length of the episode.

Style:
a distictive look of the media text. apiticular tv drama often displayed on individual style which can be identified by spicific choices in techniquial codes.

Genra:
  this is a french word that means a "sort" or "kind" which is used in grouping programes which may have simmeler form/structure or a partern of elements eg police drama.

Covections:
The characteristics and the ingredents of a piticuliar genra and that make the drama regogniseable maybe shown by the language theme or form.



VISUAL LANGUAGE:
 this was the techniqual areas of the content  shown onscrean such as the camra, lighting, mise en scene and this clrealy interlock between the non verbal language shown. it includes semiotics a thory and the study of signs and symbols, especially as elements of language or other systems of communication, and comprising semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics.
VERBAL LANGUAGE:
The verbal language is a prior to the sturcture of the tv drama and it is often the vehicale for carrying  a narrative to what is shown to the audence onscrean. This is also used to target  the prefrence audence of the tv drama.

WRITEN LANGUAGE:
 this is any media text featured in writen form presented onscrean, it help the audence identify the genra and target audence of the drama.

NON-VERBAL LANGUAGE:
The non verbal language is convayed through gesture pose, stance and mannerism this also includes the two and the three dimentional space.

AURIAL LANGUAGE: A verbal language or text that make the sound mix. this may include atmosphere tracks, voice oversincedential music. all these sounds come in two diffrent forms, diagetic and non diegetic.
Diagetic sound are, which can be heard by the chracters in the drama eg: diologes
Non-diagetic sounds: are sound that can not be heard by the chracters onscrean eg: background music, voice overs.



 these were some of the many new and intersting things we have learnt about media through the lesson so where now we are easly able to recognise these in media content that we are shown.











Tuesday, 25 January 2011

 RESEARCH



psycho is a psychological thriler movie

this movie was realised  in the 1960's directed  by alferd hetchcock and writen by joesph stefano. the movie was played by anthony perkiens, janet leigh and vere miles.

the flim psycho is very succesful movie made a great blockbuster and still talked about although this movie is appealing to everyone but the target audence for this movie would be the young adult probably from the age of 15+ the movie is mainly amied at this age and above because of the genre, as its a pschlogical thriller. also the casting that is been used in the movie like anthony perkiens, janet leigh and vere miles. they also set a target audence as they will  be attracting young women and men as these actors like anthony perkiens was adored by women in the 1960's.

This movie starts of with a very slow claim piano tune wil its show variouse differnet shots of the house from the profile shot of the wall hangings, to the wide shot of the bedroom.than anthony perkins is showen when the volume of the music decreases and than gardualy the voice over of anthony perkins this is heard and caried on throughout the whole opening. while he performed his daily routines from the morning while he explains what and why they are done. during this time veriouse of shot have be used and the mos interesting on was, when his reflection of his face is shown in paintin hanging while he is in the toilet.this shot is helpful for the audence to understand  character as this help to show that film is not as simple as it may seem.The
character is understood that thier is something diffrent about him this is even showen through the voiceover when he speaks out about his daily rutain and as a man takeing so much care of himself and using so much products it isnt quit normel.this is shown piticularly in the last shot when Anthony Perkins speaks saying that he may seem as normel to anyone but he just is'nt, the way he looks to be. while he is taking his mask this shows he is reavleing himself verbaly via the voiceover and his action of removing his face mask
and showin who he is.

Tuesday, 19 October 2010

let me in

How do the film makers use the camera to tell the story?

there are many ways in which the directer uses the camera to tell the story. one of these ways were that in the middle of the story we find out the man that was portrayed as a father to the vampire, Abby. this was than corrected through the camera  shot in the movie when Owen was in Abby's  house. as he gets in he asks about her father and Abby replied by saying "he isn't my father" while Owen picked up a picture of Abby and the young boy with glasses, also the photographs seems very old via this the story was told by the camera and not by dialog, that the little boy in the picture was the person that lived with her but he wasn't her father but a guardian of Abby.

In one other scene the story is told via the camera was when the police officer was attacked by the Abby (vampire). the officer reaches out to Owen to help him and this shot was taken by the view of the character Owen that is looking down at the officer. Owen that walks forward and reaches his hand out in a dilemma between the door handle or the life of the officer, where than he decides to pull the door shut and this shows the commitment he will be making for the rest of his life for Abby yet again this was not spoken in the movie but illustrated by the camera.


Is the camera used objectively or subjectively?

there were many different shot in the movie that were used both objectively and subjectively

one objective shot was of the wide shot of the underground were Abby(vampire) was with a man and also when he he attacked by her.

anther objective shot was shown, when Abby claims the tree( wide shot) and then jumps down to attack the women( birds eye shot).

a subjective shot were when  Abby was angry with Owen and started to blead this shot was seen through  eyes of Owen.

one other subjective shot was oven under the swimming pool, as the boys outside the pool were being killed although this shot was not from the point of view of Owen but it was only showed the scene under the pool and not of the action outside the pool acting as a protective shield away from danger which Owen and the camera only showed what Owen could see.

how does the Mise en scene reflect the theme, genre and ideology of the movie? 

the Mise en scene directly effect and show the theme and the genre of the movie, this is told through the sets as many of the scenes are very dark and dull giving a secretive and scary feel, especially when there were disclosed  conversations. The clothing of the character of Abby as it would be impossible for a small girl to to not be cold in the snow and to be walking barefoot.it helped to show the genre of the movie horror. also the daylight was hardly shown in the movie most of the movie was made during moon light.