Hello and Welcome to my AS Level Media Studies Blog! We live in a whole media-saturated world. From TV ads to blockbuster movies to the music in your ears, you are surrounded by media messages throughout your life. This is why i have chosen media as an AS level subject as i feel it is an incredibly essential subject to take that will be incredibly useful in life!
Very little has involved the views of the young people themselves, "boys and girls who casually pick fights, have sex and keep the emergency services fully occupied." If this is the
interpretation America has received from the British media, what are the views of
young people?
76% of reporting of young people is negative.
Only 12% of crime is committed by young people.
39% of adults are unaware of the positive things young people do.
Nearly 750 young people completed an online poll for the British Youth Council (BYC) and YouthNet - 80% believed unfair portrayal in the media led to strained relations with older generations.
Stereotyping youths is a huge problem in the UK
Angry . Baggy Clothing. Dressed Scruffy. Arrogance. Being Loud. Bad Manners. Rude. Aggressive. Negativity. Bad Attitude. Abusive. Bad Relationships With Family. Big Groups Hanging Around. Crime. Shop Lifting. Stealing. Theft. Robbery. Disrespectful To Others. Misbehaving. Impolite. Ignoring Adults or Authority Figures. Offensive Behaviour. Drinking In The Street. Taking Drugs. Smoking. Early Sexualisation. . Selfishness. Swearing. Uncompassionate. . Underage Sex. Vandalism. Violence.
Andrew Johnstone is a film maker, Photographer and Web-designer who has presented his documentaries professionaly on the BBC 'inside out' on TV. He came to visit our media class in a lunchtime lesson talking to us about the baselines and starting points of film making and how Andrew himself is successful in his job to this present day.
In the slideshow above there are picture of Andy's equipment including his expensive broadcasting camera which shoots in professional broadcasting quality resolution. The camera is 4 years old. The camera includes a wide angle lens which gives the camera view a larger view span. Also the camera includes a shammy cloth where the eye rests which prevents fogging up the viewfinder.
Also there is a fluffy coated boom microphone which is used to cancel out any unwanted noise.
Most of his
opportunities were luck based as he did'nt study media at educational level but he took all the
opportunities that came his way and has succeeded greatly.
This is mine and Roberts idea storyboard of what to do for our preliminary task . we both created induvidually our own storyboards for our own originalities anf for general practise as its an essential skill to have.
The storyboard is fairly rough and did'nt take too long to finish and as they are rough drawings they don't give too much accurate detail away as we dont know exactly what the scenes are completely going to include.
Monday, 12 October 2015
Mise-En-Scene
Definition: The arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a scene and everything in the scenes (the props) has been put in there for a reason.
For example one main part of Mise-en-scene in costume/make up which can be seen directly depending which state the character is in e.g messy hair indicating that the person had possibly been sleeping rough when actually the person could of just been in a rush. So this leaves the audience guessing otherwise.
Also colours on characters clothes can identify the characters identity/background like the colour black mainly represents death and evil whereas the colour white on a characters costume symbolises good and innocence.
This film poster is completely black and white which gives us the impression instantly of dark and negativity by the main colour being black. This links to the title of the film , The 'Dark' knight rises. The main source of light in the poster is loitering over the shattered mask on the floor slightly right to the centre of the poster. This mask is obviously Batmans and that makes the audience realise that batman has obviously been hurt/beaten up by (we assume) the large/strong character walking away in the background behind Batmans shattered mask.
This is incredibly powerful as it draws the viewer into watching this movie even more. Also it is raining in the background which is another factor which adds onto the dark and negative atmosphere making the poster as evil as possible. The viewers automatically think that as Batmans mask is broken on the floor means batman has no mask to cover his face anymore indicating that his true identity has been breached (by the Bane , the character in the background). This makes us want to watch the film even more to find out what really happens. Bane is shown as dominant and superior as he is tall/muscular and walking away with his back to us hiding his own face/identity from the camera.
The Connotation of the poster is mainly making the audience realising batmans true identity has been found out by the evil chracter in the background that has presumably shattered batmans mask.
The Denotation of this poster is a dark/negative/evil atmosphere with a shattered batman mask on the ground with (presumably) a villain walking away in the background. Watch The official Trailer Here!
