narrative structure

Complete the definitions below, giving an example of a SCP for each. 

You must provide a detailed explanation for each term, following class discussions and independent research. This will be vital for the assignment.

Importance of camera angles for the director:
Having a creative decision for creating an effect for the audience.
Indicates the importance of things by using shots, varied angles could even dictate the scene such as a dialogue scene between two people.
Change of shot helps the audience to divert their attention to the key parts of the scene making them wonder what may be happening.
Extreme long shots are used often times than not in order to display an entire scene.
Framing involves two elements:
The shot size: How far away a person or object is from the camera
Camera Angle: Where in relation the camera is to the person or object that the director wants us to focus on.

Series	The X files
Single drama	Game Of Thrones
Crime drama genre	NCIS
Soap Opera genre	Eastenders
Sitcom/Comedy	Big Bang Theory
Linear narrative	Malcom in the middle
Nonlinear narrative
Flashback narrative	Titanic
Open ending narrative
Closed ending narrative
Realist narrative
Anti-realist narrative

1. The effect that this shot has on the audience is that a landscape is being displayed by the director showcasing the place in where the story is set help setting the scene.







2. This shot here is to dramatises this scene by showing an entire army or cult showcasing power in the movie scene, giving off the vibe to the audience that there's more to this than just a setting but much more.




3. This is a medium long shot that gets the director to showcase two characters or more as there's an exchange between the two by showing both of their bodies off in the shot showing the setting as well as the events giving us a good understanding of where and what the scene is.




4. Often used on characters the medium shot is the shot that shows the top half of an object or character's body showing importance to that one character. The director wants the audience to focus on this specific character by creating this shot to emphasise how important this character is.

5. Here the director uses a medium close-up shot to dictate scenes such as conversations, and angles used in this shot often dictates who's leading the conversation in this scene.





   6. Close-ups  are often used to show a character or object's faces to show importance or even to show some expressions of an important character normally used in fight scenes to capture emotion and tension.




  7. Big Close up again to show a key moment in a movie scene that allows for emotion.
















9. Over the shoulder shot shows two characters mainly an interaction of sorts between two important characters where both people are displayed of importance.

 10. A low angle shot often shows weakness from someone that is looking up towards someone else it's a displayed respect.





11. Looking at a high angle often indicates that there is a more superior character in stature or that something is happening above, this angle makes the audience interpret weakness from the characters in a scene, often making them feel small.








Coverage shots mainly consists of all other shots that include close ups medium shots, POV shots,       Reverse shots and more.












FOUR BASIC CATEGORIES FOR CAMERA MOVEMENT:
The pan and tilt
Dolly or Tracking
The Boom or Crane
Steadicam


FUNCTIONS:
To reveal dramatic information by enlarging the viewer's field of view
As well as able to narrow and focus on attention on significant characters or objects
Expresses a dynamic sense of movement that makes a sept pr scene more sensuous and dramatically exciting for the audience.
It also helps visualise thematic ideas to the audience.


PAN:
Simply used in a pivot movement left and right, it's also used to help the frame accommodate character movements. PAN shots needs to be brief otherwise if too long it can become mores disengaging. A variation of a PAN shot is an "ARC" shot where the camera pivots around a 360 degree turn. The dramatic effect of an Arc shot will help draw attention to the character, giving us an indication of what's going on. Depending on how slow camera movement is it could also be used as a confusion shot helping exaggerate confusion from the character.

TILT:
This is the method that has the camera move up and down and vice versa it's a shot that's used to help create attention to new areas of a scene giving a better perspective of things.

DOLLY OR TRACKING:
The camera is on a tripod and base physically travels through space, allowing for motion perspectives such as maybe a chase scene or a conversation scene between two or more characters.

BOOM/CRANE:
Trying to cover a shot overall from a birds eye view. By mounting the camera on a boom ore a crane it creates a powerful, dramatic effect by revealing the scale of the scene's action that any other camera movements can't achieve a backup option would hence be a drone, as it can also achieve the same goals.

STEADY CAM:
Attached mainly to a person often used in a documentary being a mechanical steady and jitter free solution to help keep the action in the frame, allowing for anything smooth and less movement issues.


LENS MOVEMENT:
Is the movement also considered as camera movement.


FRAMING STYLES:
TIGHT FRAMING: A lack of space around the subject and gives a sense of constriction. Often a close-up.

LOOSE FRAMING: Refers to a shot that has a great deal of open space around the subject and also gives us a sense of isolation or freedom. All to do with mis-en-scene, isolation can often be seen from one characters perspective and freedom from more than one.

DEEP FOCUS FRAMING:
Objects or characters remain in frame overall in a sharp focus that positions them near and far from positions near and far from the camera. It still has a moderate close up of a character that displays focus, on the characters facials and more.

LIGHTING CONTINUITY:
Is about the creative choice to maintain or willingly not maintain lighting consistency throughout a sequence of shots. The reason behind deliberately ignoring the continuity is to achieve better lighting-simple as that.

Less: it shows

Kony 2012 and Food For thought. My thoughts on both.

Kony 2012:
This documentary was an engaging documentary personally for me to watch, as it uses techniques such as, archived footage to show realism, as well as interviews to get people who've experienced it which touches the audience, in a way that shows what these people have been through and can get the audience to relate to what has happened within the story.  Other techniques include the documentary having direct address and the stories of two men that changed the world by trying to capture a world renowned criminal. It caters to a global audience, making it an advocate for a global change as it's an issue that the world got involved in. By methods of direct address the documentary's narrator Jason Russell is able to get the world to take action by persuading the audience to get involved in making Kony famous enough to be captured. Using a hollywood take on the documentary made Kony 2012 stand out for me as a viewer as it was something that in a documentary has never really been done before, making the documentary more engaging fun as it had a story to tell in the shape of an intriguing film with a message to the world, which is what got me into the documentary further. The introduction of characters and other people is something that helps us as the audience get more attached to the story and people, as we can feel the events that they're going through as we progress through the story.

Food for Thought:
A much more smaller audience will be catered towards this looking on a more national or local change as a small business is forced out of business due to changes being made to Covent Garden. The producer uses techniques such as interviews with the owner, to get their story as well as thoughts helping the audience understand why the shop has closed down. It uses old pictures and shots of different locations, to fill any empty shots that feel as if they need to be there in the documentary. The music is slow so that it doesn't cater to younger people who may not own a business as they look for something faster and more engaging. Realistically the take was a normal documentary that encapsulated the uses of interviews mainly with one person which I found boring as I also wanted to know what others had thought as well as the general public giving me a more attached feeling, as for someone that's not owned a small business I'm not sure as to how the feelings are but as someone who's apart of a smaller organisation, I can understand the story. However for someone who isn't in that position it's clear that they're not going to be interested in this documentary as their not the audience that understand what's happening.

Glossary

Glossary-
Non-diegetic: It's the audio in the movie or any form of media that's played in the media that can't be heard by characters but only the audience.

Diegetic: It's the sound in a form of media that can be heard in the form of media that can be heard by characters. For example music playing from a radio.

Score: it's the name of the track that's been created for a specific film

Mood: It's the after effect of the songs, making someone feel something.

Ambience/(t): It's the term that's used when, its sound captured from the outside of noises such as crowd movements or even naturalistic sound, like birds chirping.

Hyper Real: It's the term used to explain exaggeration such as when a gunshot happens in terms of sound how does it exaggerate a scene? Like ricochet effect for example to emphasise gunshots or death.

Synchronous: Synchronous is the term that describes, sound in a a movie that often works well together and mixes in a fitting manner.

Non-synchronous: Is essentially the name of the term that is the opposite of Synchronous where the sound and sfx don't all work with the scene and sounds different.

Naturalistic: It's the term used to show sound being inspired by naturalistic sound such as dialogue.

Functional Dialogue: A spoken conversation between two characters that often involves short and sweet sentences, that includes instructions showing a relationship between the two characters.


Sound Bridge: A sound bridge is a type of sound editing that occurs when sound carries over the visual transition in a film. A diegetic sound effect that drifts into the next scene and links scenes in the films together. They're often seen as non-synchronous.

Sound Motif: When we get a recurring theme and is a part of the score. Helps us to expect something coming when that "motif" is played as it's recognisable.

Research task

TASK 1

*continuity*

Task 1: Understanding 'single camera production'

a) Define 'single camera production':

It simply means that there is only one camera in use throughout the entire project.

b) Identify the advantages and disadvantages of single camera production (refer to examples where you can):

Advantages -An advantage of this is that, it's easy to manage as you only have to worry about one camera. -Cheaper as there's no worries for more equipment. - Shows more realism. - One camera person (crew) less of an investment in the crew. -natural shots -time consuming in a good sense. (MULTICAM) -Multi cam is used in a studio based setting and is often used at the same time.  -Footage is edited in real time, saves us more time. -Lighting is perfect as it's above and controlled immediately.  -Filming would be quicker. -Filmed in real time allowing for any authentic footage.  -editing is all done in post production but there's more to work with.   -variety of shots in one huge take.  -Even if one camera fails, there are more to work with.

Disadvantages -Normally will take longer than standard production as there are a lack in cameras. -Editing times will increase as editors would need to work on having one piece of footage. -Edits have to be on point -Only one take per shot.  -Filming just takes longer.  -One camera shuts down it's over for recording until there's a replacement.  -Move and Re light.  (MULTICAM) -Every camera needs a person to control one camera a piece. The more of a crew would be needed. More money would also need to be involved.

c) How does multi-camera differ to single camera productions?

Multi camera productions, are mainly more professional in terms of quality as there are multiple cameras shooting various shots, taking less time. Furthermore, it also aims for less time in production overall, as there are multiple cameras that take various shots from various angles, Making editing time easier. However from a cost stand of point single camera productions are better as production teams don't need to worry about buying more cameras and production costs. multi-cam includes precision, and can be shot only in a studio, expenses become a problem and furthermore, it becomes a heavy load to work around. 

d) List 3 examples of single camera shows/films (aim for different genres)

1) Missing night (2019) 

2) X Files

3) Brooklyn Nine-Nine

List 3 examples of multi-camera shows (aim for different genres)

1) Everybody hates Chris

2) Modern Family 

3) Life in Pieces

e) What is the definition of genre? Why is this important for audiences?

The genre of a form of media simply refers to what category the form of media is involved with, the genre meaning type. They can be told what genre a media form is in specifically because of codes and conventions within that media form, for example if a movie includes spaceships, laser guns and planets it's often associated with Sci-fi. As an audience it's important to look out for a specific genre, as it helps identify what franchises are often associated with specific genres, if a person likes Star-wars  they may be further inclined to watch more sci-fi movies for example.







Story format: 
Singles- Often the one episode with it's own contained story in roughly 60-90 mins. 
Serials- It tells one story over several episodes. 
Series- Has the same characters but includes different stories each time. 








Genres-

• Action
• Romance
• Horror
• Sci-Fi
• Fantasy
• Animation
• Adventure
• Historical
• Educational
• Family
• Comedy
• Thriller

Sci-fi

-- Futuristic setting

-- Out of world aspects

-- Aliens

-- Dystopian world environment

-- Spaceships

-- Planets 

-- Futuristic technology

-- Collapsing storylines

-- Main protagonists often are abducted or have affiliation with aliens. 

UNIT 31: SOCIAL ACTION SUMMER HW

Documentary 1:

“Student Suicide/BBC” 

The main purpose of this documentary  is to specifically raise awareness about suicide, being something that ends a young person’s life, and raises the audience’s awareness about understanding the experiences the families and friends of these students as well as the stories and how it could potentially be stopped. As the BBC is a media company that is completely exclusive to the UK this documentary is reaching a national audience, however due to the availability it has on the internet due to larger platforms such as YouTube, it allows for a more global audience as it becomes more available thanks to the internet being easily accessible. In terms of any techniques used,

The producer  uses an interview technique with people that had a close relation with the victims, to give the audience a feeling of what life after suicide is like capturing the feeling of what people go through and potentially telling the audience that there’s pain in the interviewee’s minds. The use of music is used to build up tension, and also to express the sadness that’s expressed within each of the stories. By using stories from actual family members as well as friends, we can see the emotion and connection that the family’s and the victim’s friends all had making us all feel sympathetic and somewhat in their shoes. Using                           archival footage to show the past and what these people were like giving the audience an idea of who they were, furthermore, voice-overs were also utilised to give off forms of narration and help shape the story in a better light for the audience.

Documentary 2- “Eyes of a child”

The main purpose of this documentary is to spread the word of poverty to the world as a social issue, that needs to be stopped and taken care of to do so the story is done and told from the perspective of a young child to give the audience more of a sympathetic feeling towards the child. In terms of any techniques that the producers use with the documentary, they like the aforementioned documentary have conducted interviews with these children that have different stories, regardless of their background and had them speak about their thoughts on their lives. Furthermore, the use of narration at the beginning starts with a very powerful first few words to get inside the viewer’s head and reel them in understanding what this documentary is about. This particular documentary is set in the UK however as it’s been distributed by a non-British company on a world wide platform such as YouTube, then this means that the documentary is available worldwide, meaning that a wider variety of audiences can watch into this documentary.

Documentary 3- 

Hungrybox: Toxicity & Retirement 

The main purpose here is to get people to realise that people considered celebrities can even be bullied or receive bad reception and in this particular documentary, Melee player Juan “Hungrybox” Dibiedma talks about his story and how he received bad press from the smash community overall and that it shows the audience that fame isn’t everything and that everyone can be seen as a villain or depicted as someone that they’re not. This also shows that no matter what background anyone’s from they're still able to achieve their dreams. This documentary is mainly available to a world wide audience as it’s been published on Youtube which is a world available platform that has amazing accessibility allowing anyone with a good internet connection to watch. Producers would use techniques such as a direct  interview segment with the players themselves, as well as a montage to get an idea of who the documentary is about essentially giving exposition of the player to the audience. 

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