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GETTING STARTED WITH MEDIA LANGUAGE BASICS
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GETTING STARTED WITH MEDIA LANGUAGE BASICS
Shot types Ranged from; ECU, BCU, CU, MCU, MS, MLS, LS, ELS(aka, at the start of a scene, can also be referred to as an establishing shot)
We also cover angles like; High angle, Low angle, Mid angle, Dutch angle.
We recorded a short video or vodcast using all the different shot types then did a voice over, describing what shots we did and what effect these shots have on the viewer and how they might be used.
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ANALYSING NARRATIVE + 1ST SHOT - WARP/WORKING TITLE EXAMPLES
Tyrannosaur (Warp: Director: Paddy Consedine, Year 2011 (BBFC))
Tyrannosaur is a social realist film that struggled at the box office because of how hard it was for most audiences to watch. The opening is very strong, with lots of narrative enigma as the film makers play with our preconceptions of the proppian archetypes.
Yesterday (Working Title: Director Danny Boyle, Year 2019 (BBFC))
Yesterday is a film about a struggling musician who miraculously is the only one who remembers The Beatles after everyone else in the world forgot them. This opening isnt very strong but it still manages to convey the overall tone of the film to the viewer.
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NARRATIVE THEORY PRACTICE FILM:
Here me and the other media students wrote, filmed and directed a short film where we try to identify the stereotypes of characters and story structure used not only in film, but all kinds of narratives. We decided that this film should be a slasher because of the large number of tropes and stereotypes we could imitate, some examples we included are; the scream queen, the jock and the anti hero/ twist villain.
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