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Film & TV Language: Mise-en-scene blog tasks

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  1) Find a distinctive   still image   and write an analysis of the mise-en-scene. Use each of the aspects you've learned in the lesson. The actor's costume is wearing a suit with little to no imperfections appearing, this connotes a superior status or maybe highlights his professional abilities. His facial expressions connote insanity due to the blank "thousand-yard stare". The room he is in could also connote that he is alone as the colour represents something similar to a solitary confinement room in a prison and the little scratches in the room may connote that despite being all orderly there are some flaws that this character may have. The lighting in the room uses high-key lighting as it really emphasise the grey depressing background which is parallel to how the actor looks/feels in this current scene. 2) Find  TWO  films or TV extracts on YouTube from different genres (e.g. horror, sci-fi, costume drama). Embed them in your blog post and write a comp

Film & TV Language: Mise-en-scene recreation practical task

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The scene I chose to recreate is: In our scene recreation, we will have a total of 3 characters for the two main characters we have "Gustavo" who will wear "formal" clothing such as a suit and "Hector" who will wear "casual" clothing such as a polo shirt as he is in a wheelchair and cannot move so his clothing choice is very fixed, and the final actor is the "Henchman" who will wear a bomber jacket to seem threatening as he is helping euthanize  "Hector". In the scene, there is a wheelchair with a bell rigged to an IED, since we cannot get a wheelchair or IED we will have to improvise with a normal armchair with a Wii remote strapped with string a nine-volt battery and an aux cable wrapped around a bell. The setting of the scene should be some sort of home or care home but the closest thing we got was one of our friend's houses which has big enough to fit all of us. We will have a glasses case with a syringe and a bottle o

Film & TV Language: poster analysis

Film poster 1: "Blade runner" Narrative: According to the slogan in the top right it seems that humans have created something that has endangered their entire species and now they must take over again. This may be a dystopian sort of movie where in the future humans are no longer the ones in control. Genre: A ction, thriller Target audience: Young adults/adults  Film poster 2: "Scary Movie 2" Narrative: Based on the denotations it seems that the movie is about people who go to see a movie that is supposedly "scary" but the denotations show that this may be all "fun and games" as the title is called scary movie and the irony of this is that the movie looks more like a comedy. Genre: Comedy, "horror" Target audience: Yong adults/adults Film poster 3: "Uzak" Narrative: The poster denotes a man who lives a lonely life in an isolated village, the establishing shot connotes that he is all alone by himself and he now has to live