Lesson 7 exploring your choice of text
- 1. BIG PICTURE Developing skills in textual analysis KEYWORDS Editing – Cinematography – Mise en Scene – Sound – Diagetic and Non-Diagetic – Iconography – Denotation and Connotation LEARNING OBJECTIVES Develop skills in reading media texts and taking focused notes about specific issues SUCCESS CRITERIA • A presentation on detailed close analysis of scenes from a media text of your choice Take your seat. Bag under your desk. Have your equipment and planner out. Unit 1 - Representations • What are you looking for in a media text when you are talking about • Editing • Cinematography • Mise en Scene • Sound
- 2. TELL ME STUFF! TAKE ME THROUGH IT… LET ME HAVE A GO… DO I GET IT? 1 2 3 4 5 6 SETTING THE SCENE JOINING UP LEARNING LINKS TO LAST TIME PASSING ON KNOWLEDGE GUIDED PRACTICE & MODELLING INDEPENDENT PRACTICE – APPLYING THE SKILLS TO NEW SITUATIONS ASSESSMENT & FEEDBACK PULL IT TOGETHER JOINING UP LEARNING LINKS TO NEXT TIME
- 3. You need to show off what you are able to do to analyse a media text – to pull it apart and explain how it works • We've looked at a range of issues and I want you to put them together in a piece you can work on independently on something you have chosen • My model work was on Episode 1 of Season 1 of the Channel 4 series Utopia. My work is on the blog under this presentation
- 4. What are you looking for? Cinematography – the use of the camera – choice of shots – camera movement – focus – light and shadow (which crosses over with Mise en Scene but is talked about in Cinematography too) Editing – the movement from shot to shot. Invisible editing – image matching – shot/reverse/shot POV editing –parallel editing – moving locations – changing time Sound – everything you hear – Diagetic sound is made within the world of the text – if you were in the scene you would hear it. Non-diagetic sound is background music and voiceover – it's there for the audience. Ambient noise is the scene- making background (traffic? Running water? Shouting and crowd noise?) Mise en Scene - what you see on the screen Iconography – significant images loaded with meaning
- 5. • Semiotics – the study of signs and meanings • Your analysis is about understanding what's going on and how the audience will make sense of it in a 'micro' sense – not focusing on the story first but focusing on the technical aspects first and showing how they build meaning for the audience • Denotation – what something is – the definition – is interesting but connotations – what different things can mean to audiences – is really where it's at.
- 6. • Choose episode 1 of season 1 of a TV show and choose some scenes from the show that interest you • Create a presentation about how different technical aspects of film making- cinematography, editing, sound and mise en scene – make meaning for the audience Task Episode 1 Season1 so you don't have to explain where we are – you don't have to be distracted by talking about what has been going on and who everybody is – you can just get stuck in to detail
- 7. BIG PICTURE MY LEARNING How did this lesson fit into your other lessons? What is my top take- away from the lesson? Have you contributed to the lesson? Will you be able to improve next lesson? Do you know what you need to go away and do? o Keep up with new vocabulary o Keep looking and watching as students as well as fans – what are you starting to notice when you watch films or TV, or play games, or watch music video...