Wednesday 10 April 2013

Analyse media language in one of your coursework productions - Music video plan

Camera:
  • Varied  use of shots
  • Long shot with a straight angle and panning used to show desolation
  • Close ups with eye level angle used for capturing emotion
  • Mid shots with a staright angle used mainly for performance purposes - to capture gesturing, body language and emotion
  • Mid shots with high angle to show character as vulnerable while capturing body language, costume and emotion
Editing:
  • Mainly used straight cuts to keep pace and to make the cuts clean
  • Used a dissolve cut between scenes
Lighting:
  • All external shots used natural lighting - realism
  • Internal shots use low key lighting to keep it looking natural and realistic
Sound:
  •  All sound is non-diegetic, the only sound used is the music track
Mise en scene (setting, costume, colour, props):
  • Setting - External field shots connotes a sense of lonliness and desolation which fits with the song and the band name so there is a strong theme throughout.
  •  Props - Using a field for the external shots also meant that no props were used in these scenes which creates a contrast between these shots and the internal shots where quite a few props were used. The letter was a vital prop because it laced the narrative of the video together. Props were used to make the internal set to make it look realistic.
  • Costume - black lacy dress, docs and leather jacket - a mixture of feminine and grunge was used, conventional for the genre of music and the style of the song. The make up was also very conventional and typical of a female rock genre artist.
 Special Effects (visual, sound and lighting):
  • Speeding up/slowing down shots - The timings of the shots are changed to fit them with the pace of the music as well as to create atmosphere.
  • Colour - The 'cold steel' effect used for the flashback scenes differenciates the scenes from each other. It is a convention that is sometimes seen in films for the same purpose. 

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