Analysing- Film

Camera

• Zoom in on the different signs representing parts of the life Trey could end up taking unless if he escapes this violent life.
• When the camera zooms in on the boys faces in the classroom it shows the anger within them building.

Mise en Scene

• Street scene, shooting, blood and violence everywhere showing the conditions these young kids live in.
• Street corners are covered in rubbish and wild dogs are running around spreading disease.
• The costumes the actors wear are very dull and dirty to show how poor the area is.
• The lighting is dim and a bit dark to show that these areas are bad or there is trouble around.
• The actors are very stereotypical in how they speak for 1990's and really help connect the audience to the feelings of the characters.

Sound

• Voiceover at the beginning - offscreen.
• The music is very slow and steady kind of like mystery music.
• Sound offscreen of a helicopter to show the violence in the area, along with police sirens.

Editing

• The cut to the stop sign with a loud boom to represent the violence in the area.
• Dissolves from blood to kids drawings.
• Dramatic cuts between the posters sounding like gunshots.

First Editing

My first editing session on Premier Pro, using the James Bond theme. I had a basic play around with Premier Pro, however this is only the beginning of something bigger.

Camera Shots

Big Six

The Big Six media industries consist of:

• Comcast- Universal Studios, DreamWorks, NBC.
• Disney- Disney, ESPN, Marvel.
• TimeWarner- Warner Bros, Cartoon Network, DC.
• News Corp- Fox, ITV, National Geographic.
• National Amusements- Paramount, Nickelodeon.
• Sony- Sony, Olympus, Tristar.

The total worth of all these companies is a staggering total of $430 billion.

It will become the Big Five because Disney is buying out News Corp.

Comcast-

• Produced Xfinity Wifi network as a new brand to the Comcast family.
• Largest network in the country with 350,000 hotspots.

Disney-

• Disney pays a staggering amount of $71.3 billion to acquire News Corp and to receive all of their assets.

TimeWarner

• Warner Bros studios continue to produce popular and trending films to this day and recently raked in $5 billion in box office receipts alone.

News Corp

• The most recent thing that they have done is allow Disney to buy out all of their company in order to make a hefty return on their profits and to save the company from going bust.

National Amusements

• The Head of National amusements (Summer Redstone)  and head of CBS (Joseph lanniello) are in a financial and court battle to take control of National Amusements.

Sony

• Sony are continuing to push to create top movies through its company Tristar and also to produce technology such as the Playstation to compete with its rival Xbox.

Semiotics

• The study of signs.
• Also of anything which stands for 'something else'.

Denotation- What we see when we look at an image (what it is)
Connotation- What we understand from this image (what other meanings it has)

1.
Denotation- Spencer is standing at the front with Las Vegas behind him. This is the modern time period.
Connotation- He is the main character and he is a powerful man, Las Vegas is a powerful place and to be smaller than him shows he runs the city. The idea behind good vs evil is hard to tell from this picture, because this makes him look like the bad guy from his expression on his face and the medium close up shot making him look tall and powerful. However he is the good guy and this is a picture aimed to confuse the audience and leave them wanting to watch the show.

2.
Denotation- The name ballers is the title.
Connotation- A 'baller' refers to someone with a lot of money and uses women for their personal gains. This is another way the show Spencer could be the bad guy, and how the director confuses the audience.

Photo task

Romcom:
The idea that we portrayed in this picture for Romcom is the classic love scene between a man and women. The bright colours in this scene with the yellow indicate happiness within this scene and the sunlight is used to influence the romance within the scene with the mood of calmness and warmth to indicate love.


For the man to lift the girl into the air this shows love and affection which is a key ingredient in making a Romcom film.

For this we portrayed the idea of Sci-Fi by using the most simple way possible, by showing a scientific picture. In this scene we have a scientist that has discovered something remarkable within his work, something that could later have terrible consequences. The lab coat and the test tube present this idea perfectly. The dark colour create a sense of tension along with the shocked face on the scientist.

Hybrid

Hybrid- a combination of two genres for e.g romcon, action, adventure.

Newspaper

     

From the eyes of the British media they immediately show a negative picture/example of Trump therefore making the British public have an instant opinion of him even though they don't properly know Trumps ambitions or beliefs. This is why the British media influences the public because of these type of headlines. Therefore with any big news we are forced to have an opinion that is the same as the media even though we haven't considered other aspects of the argument ourselves.

This is then manipulating the public and makes us believe in things that may not always be the right answer.

Steve Neale

• Steve Neale stated that genres may be dominated by repetition, but are also marked by difference, variation and change.

• The idea that these genres change, develop and vary as the borrow from and overlap with one another.

Deutschland 83

 The director of Deutschland 83 highlights the impact of the divide between the East and West through the camera shots on each individual character.

The main character who is the spy is scared because he has never experienced life on the other side. The director understands this and emphasises the fear in the spy's eye and directs the camera towards this to draw out the emotion within the scene. The director uses close shots on faces to show emotion as to what is happening around them. For much calmer scenes or scenes of landscape the director uses long shots to set the scene for what is about to happen.

To then set the mood, the director makes the scene kind of dark and mysterious to show the uncertainty for the spy in enemy territory. This is also used when the bad guys enter the scene, however it changes to a brighter scene when the good guys enter. This shows the theme of Good vs Evil.

Film Poster

1. Audience

The Actor

• Dwayne Johnson is a high profile celebrity and many of his films are action based. He is also in many films suited for young adults and adults.

The Background

• The details are very violent and show a lot of panic and destruction. Mostly this level of intensity is usually an interest to adults as its not suitable or inappropriate for the younger generation. 

Introduction

L: The music used in one of his new hit singles Stargazing. He uses a mixture of close up camera shots and long shots to emphasise the power being shown in this video.

I: Travis Scott's record label.

A: The video is aimed at the younger generation. Also aimed at people that remember the original Astroworld Theme Park in Houston.

R: Travis Scott, Trailer for his new album, Creates a short music video teasing his new album and one of his new songs. In the video the space theme represents the song title and the idea he is Stargazing.
The video location is in very abandoned places to symbolism modern culture.



My Favorite forms of media are:

• Music Videos- I like the whole Modern rap and Hip Hop scene with artists such as: Travis Scott, Migos and Kanye West.

• Advertising- I am into the whole advertising campaigns that are creative and original. Mainly from my favorite brands such as Supreme, BAPE and Off-White.

• Internet- The whole concept of the internet influences my personality and culture, through many forms of social media such as Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter and Youtube. All of these create the modern culture that is around us and helps make my lifestyle.