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Preliminary Exercise:Film Color Preliminary exercise

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This week my teacher covered the lesson color in film . The objective of this lesson was. Color in film illicit certain emotions from the audience and build harmony or tension within a scene to create a key theme.  Colors aids in setting the tone and mood for a film .Color’s manipulation guides the audience toward the purpose of the author to create an overall theme. Three codes used in a film that illustrates color are color hue, color saturation and color value. Hue is the color .Color saturation is the intensity of color whether it be 50%25 %or 100%. The percentages determine whether we see a pale or bright color .Three characters of film are protagonist, main character and hero. A cinematographer is responsible for color in film. A cinematographer is a person who creates the color scheme.  The primary goal of this exercise was to create and analyze symbolic meanings of colors in film. The media we created was a color wheel organizer .I used PowerPoint and word to create my media pr

Preliminary exercise 4 :Analyzing Setting for National Lampoon European Vacation

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Setting in a film is what establishes the mood by showing the audience the physical and emotional lives of characters. It refers to the time or place that the narrative occurs in .The key characteristics of a film are : Time period, location , climate /season , landscape , moral attitudes or codes of behavior ,culture , social and economical. Setting is an important Mise en scene element because it easily recognizes and makes it understood for what the director is intimating .The physical properties , along with the narrative , influence how the actors move , how the camera is placed. Critical Reflection The objective of this exercise is to analyze the setting for National Lampoon European Vacation. The type of media product our group created was a PowerPoint of the analysis for the short clip. In the clip portrayed Americans in Europe on a vacation .The Americans kept crashing into several European cars, bikes etc . While the Americans wrecked and apologized the Europeans were very ki

Introduction to Mise en scene Codes Organizer slide

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  This preliminary  exercise we learned about elements of miss en scene . Colors, lightning , composition , set design , acting , setting , and clothing are all elements of miss em scene . Our teacher assigned us to do an introduction to mise en scene codes and genre conventions of moving images . We worked in pairs and had to choose from the following genres action , horror , sci fiction , high school , drama , comedy and crime .

Preliminary Exercise 3B:Introduction to Genre Conventions Bubble Organizer

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 The objective of this assignment was to apply my understanding of how mise en scene codes and their relationsip to the genre conventions of a film. Aa film genre is a stylistic or thematic category for moton pictures based on  similarities either in the narrative elements, aesthetic approach, or the emotional response to the film. Three film genre stand out the most to me . They are action, comedy and romance . Action film is which the protagonist is thrust into a series of events that typically involve violence and physical feats .Comedy film genre of film is which the main emphasis is on humor.Romance films are love stories, or affairs of the heart that center on passion, emotion , and the romantic , affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their loves takes through courtship or marriage . These three genres are my personal favorite because action I get to see high energy and fast paced events into play . Comedy shows a dramatic performance that is humoro

Preliminary Exercise: 3A Mise en scene Codes and Genre Conventions Bubble Diagram

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Elements of mise en scene  This week our teacher covered elements of mise en scene . Mise en scene is the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play. It can be considered as one of the four basic elements in art, along with color, line and texture. Mise en scene helps build the mood and atmosphere for the audience .The director's choice of mise en scene has a significant effect on how the audience perceives characters and their environments. It is the key to a film's style and overall tone .For the audience its intensity , it’s mode of feeling, and to invite the viewer to feel deeply too. There are five elements of mise en scene: composition , sets , props, actors , costumes , and lightning .The technique has been used by directors since 1913. Mise en scene has also been use in film criticism since the 1970s when Roland Barthes wrote an essay about the meaning of a particular shot from Jean Renoir's 1938 film.