Screen Shot Analysis

I have chosen to analysis the close up for the TV series Hustle,

This shot is a close of the woman's facial expressions, she is smiling, probably to show that she has a solution to her problem. Seductive smile, she could be lying.

Her choice of makeup, neat and the colours look expensive. shows she is rich as well as good looking.

The way she is looking at the camera shows that she might be plotting something devious and not showing her true self.

Here are the notes placed in to a practise paragraph for the mock exams.

The use of the close up shot has been used to show the significance of her facial expressions toward the event that has been taken place; I feel that the director chose to do this scene in this particular way in order to collaborate the message behind her seductive smile. It has an impression of the audience because when they recall the previous event, it shows a helpless woman looking for her ring in a frantic manner, after the hysteria, she suddenly comes out with this seductive smile towards the camera as if to say, she has used herself as a way of saying I am not telling the truth, and by using her gender she is able to cause a fuss over the ring in order to get attention. Within society, people are considering that this type of stereotype of women is considered to be acceptable, even though it is not what women are really like.

Editing

Editing in media is every important...

During the turn of the last century the idea of the moving image with no cuts was spouse to have been revolutionary, however by having no editing it was just a long line of film, it was not until Sergei Eisenstein with his theory of montage; which is a collection of different shots of a movie placed together, which changed everything.

Now a days lots of films use cuts and other forms of editing to shorten or make the film better than it all ready is.....

For you guys i have analysed a short clip from the movie "Clockwork Orange" fight scene; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-zRtT5jPLA, and had looked at all the different shots;

1. So far during the fight scene there were on average over 20 different cuts and screen angles alone, I think it is due to being able to show all the different shot with out using a split screen, but it also works best this way because you do not lose and action scenes.
2. each of the shots are reasonable length for the gang fight scene because you can see all the different fights from each of the characters and not miss a single bit.
3. most of the cutting points are at the point were some of the suspense is rising and to show the high tension and when you think the bad guys are going to win but it gets turned around in the ending scenes.
4. Some of the scenes are a bit manipulated, but there is some points were you do wonder if it will happen or not, because of the positioning of the shots, but that could have also have been done due to the story broad and the plot.
5. The rhythm of the editing is mostly to show the high tension, the different stages of the fight and who is in the lead in the fight.
6. The shots were mostly are relativity objective and functional because all of the shots are linked, to the fact that these two gangs do not get along and do fight and all the different scenes and angles of the fight which are all together.
7. Most of the major editing is on the action aer the fight scene but there is some cuts at the beginning of the clip.
8. The style of editing the clip has is, sequence shots because of all of the shots and cuts are linked together and flow from the first scene up until the last.

Sound Is Beautiful

When studying media you need to now about sound and how it works...

Pope who work in the filed of media find that the creation of sound with moving images are a work of genius, sound can establish and enhance a scene in your mind, and it's place in the world and it impacts what we feel for a character.

By listening to this piece of music from the movie sound track I find that depending on whether there is a image to view or not you always have your imagination to view you can easily create you own view of the music's interpretation from you imagination.

Even though film an television affects the audience, but sound has an even bigger impact, it can be obtained through dialogue recorded on location, diagetic sound or music, non- diagetic and sound effects.
most of these were recoded on the set but things like the non-diagetic and the sound effects, are added after they have recorded.

Diagetic sound;
Is the sound or music that is recorded on the set .e.g. talking and street sound.

Non-diagetic sound;
Is when the sound is later added through the editing process, which can also be used to add atmosphere, to the clips.


Here is a table to show three ways of showing sound in TV Dramas;













Thanks for reading my media work on media sound and have a nice day.

Advert Analysis

When analysing media adverts,you need to know two simple words;

• Denotation - is the strait forward meaning.
• Connotation - is the extra meaning to the denotation.(personal)

Here are two examples of analysing with the use of denotation and connotation;


This one is from the Evian advert;





























This next one is from the Go Compare advert;

 

Stereotyping

In the world of Media there is a lot of stereotyping...

...For example in crime dramas there are;

• Criminals are represented as black or white, middle age men with a lot of pride and power, often drug dealers and gangsters. Some stereotypes of criminals are in CSI, Luther and Sherlock, most of the criminals are probably wearing hoods.

• The victims are represented as either men or women, depending on the crime (e.g. murder – both), with either a high or middle class, and they are not from a particular background, due to it again depending on the crime. The victims can be in some way stereotypical, but to some existent, they are not because there is a wide range in the type of victim and the type of crime they are involved in.

Here is an essay on Black police officers in the media;

Black police officers

Stereotyping is when you prejudge a person based on their appearance; an example in the media would be black police officers, in the film Lethal Weapon, one of the main protagonists Roger Murtaugh, played by Danny Glover, during the first film he “got the wrong end of the stick” when he first meet ( the other main protagonists) Martin Riggs, played by Mel Gibson, when he saw Mel Gibson, pulling out a gun in the police station and he ran over to apprehend him and Mel Gibson turns out to be his new partner in the force, in the later films he is portrayed a bit of an idiot and easily manipulated. Another example would be, from the TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Warwick Brown, played by Gary Dourdan, the character of Warwick is stereotyped in some ways good, however in some episodes he has been stereotyped as a drunk, a gambler and a bad police officer, mostly in the last episode he appeared in due to the story line. In a way the Lethal Weapon films in general do stereotype black officers in a bad way and as the audience we do not realise this we just find it humours to watch. Compared to the TV series of CSI, Warwick is almost deliberately placed as a bad cop in some, but not all of the episodes of the time he was on the show, towards the end of the series when it was his last episodes I became a position that he was going to become this type of person an if he had continued he would have gotten worse and worse until something bad did happen. But this is due to the plot of the last series that he would appear in because is supposed to play this type of person when in real fact this out of character for Warwick. Both of these examples do not relate to real life, because no normal cop would be easily manipulated as Roger Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon, but there is a bit of truth with Warwick from CSI, for all we know some of our everyday police officers could be gamblers.

This concludes the pointers on Stereotyping in the media. Thanks for reading.

Media Cover Analysis

When looking at Media covers it is important to learn about the way it makes you feel so if still do not understand here is my version of a cover analysis;

 This concludes my point about Media cover analysis thanks for reading.

TV Drama Analysis

When studying for Media studies, you need to know how to analyse them properly...

...In other words take Obama for instance he finds the character of Omar (From The Wire, picture to your left) fascinating.

 

 

 

 

 

5 reasons for way he is interesting;

• He is very clever, moral code, does not swear

• His interesting personality, revered in his community, respected.

• He is not you average gangster.

• Breaks the stereotype.

• His sexuality, (he is gay).

There actually many different layer, for characters that is, you mostly get the;

Crime drama layers;

• Bad guys - you get the idea with a villain.
• Good guys - the good guy is always going to be; grumpy detective, sidekick, troubled officer, crooked officer, brilliant genius.
• Victims - you get the idea with a victim.

You also get stock characters which mostly appear for the good guys;

They mostly follow the guide of;

–Grumpy detective

–Sidekick – nervous.

–Troubled officer

–Crooked officer

–Brilliant genius – just like Sherlock

 

The story behind the idea of the types of characters is that it was discovered by

Vladimir Prop which included;

–Hero – goes on a quest

–Villain – against the hero

–Dispatcher – sets the hero off on the quest

–Donor – helper

–Princess – hero's prize

 

 

Here is a table to show how different they are but still follow the same principle;

	Luther	Sherlock
Watch the clip again	http://www.youtube.com/    watch?v=H2ignoBlhpE	http://www,youtube.com/watch
Clothes/ costume	Suits, dark not muck colour, twirl coat.	Long coat, dark blue or black, blue scarf, black leather gloves, suits with no tie and open quiet low. Smart but casual (when he is depressed, jeans and a plain t- shirt)
Appearance	Down, scary,	Long coat, scarf, long dark hair, typical stereotype of a detective
Way of speaking	Average Londoner talk, can      be a bit rude,	Posh formality, rude, fast talker.
Relationship with sidekick	Mix, loyal	Calls him a friend (sidekick prefers the term colleague), interested in his past a lot.
Personality	Gets strait to the point.	Rude, narcissist.
Any thing else?		Has a good aim with a       gun.

 The main issue or problem that always truly hurts the crime fighters are;

•Drinking.

•Affairs.

•Having you child taken away.

 

Types of TV Crime dramas are;

•Eponymous (named after them)

•Work as equals

•Hero and sidekick

•Ensemble drama – CSI, The Bill.

 

 That is enough on the heroes, lets look at the others, mostly the vics and villains; 

They are transient characters (one episode or one series; get caught or they die and the crime is solved). Different each episode.

 

There are lots of binary opposits in Crime Dramas for example;

Binary opposite is the total opposite

• Conflict between good and evil
• Hero vs. criminal
• Victim vs. suspect
• Innocent vs. guilty
• Criminal vs. law
• Truth vs. lies
• Bad police officer vs.  Good officer
• Police officer vs. criminal

 

This concludes our view on TV analysis thnks for reading.