REVISION FOR QUESTION A

QUESTION ONE

Representation

Discuss the ways in which the extract constructs the representations of ... using the following:

Sound 

• Diagetic - Heard by the characters.
• Non-diegetic - Narration and background music, not heard by the characters.
• Synchronous - Goes with what is happening on screen and can be seen by the characters. 
• A-Synchronous - background sounds that cant be seen but go with what is happening on screen.
• Foli-Sound - Sounds such as gravel and doors.

Mise-en-scene

• Costume/Make-up - How does it help to show the area of representation.
• Setting/Location
• Characters/Accent
• Props
• Body Language
• Lighting
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Editing

• Cuts fast/slow
• Montage
• Parallel

Camera work

• Movement
• Angles
• Composition
• Shot Type

Check list for TV analysis

Sound

• Diegetic - Heard by the characters
• Non-diegetic - Background Music, narration, not heard by the characters
• Synchronous - On screen , hear by the characters
• A-synchronous - Off screen but heard by the characters
• Foli sound - realistic everyday sounds, (squeaky door, gravel etc)

Camera Work

• Shot types - 
• Establishing Shot
• this is the opening shot of a programme or sequence. Might be an extreme long shot or long shot, establishes location
• Master shot
• A shot that includes all the action in a particular sequence establishes spacial relationships of the character involved.
• Close upshot
• A shot that includes the whole head of a character. Used to direct the viewers attention to a significant facial expression or to an object that might have significance within the narrative.

• Mid-shot
• Long shot, wide shot, two-shot, aerial shot, point of view shot, over the shoulder shot and variations of these.
• Ariel shot
• A camera shot taken from an overhead position. Often used as an establishing shot.
• Extreme close up 
• A shot where a part of a face or body of a character fills the whole frame/dominates the frame. Also can be shot of an object where only a small part of it dominates the frame. 
• Medium Shot
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• Two shot
• Point Of View shot
• Over the shoulder shot
• Overhead shot 
• Reaction shot
• Camera Angles
• High angle
• Low angle
• Canted angle
• Camera Movement
• Panorama
• Tilt
• Track
• Dolly 
• Crane
• Steadicam
• Zoom
• Handheld
• Reverse Zoom
• Composition
• Framing
• Rule of thirds
• Depth of field
• Deep and Shallow focus
• Focus Pulls

Editing

Mise-en-scene

• Setting/ location
• Where the narrative unfolds - where action takes place
• Interior design
• The mood/atmosphere
• The characters background, surrounding, status and circumstances.
• body language/ facial expression/screen time
• Props
• Complete a characters dress by adding more particular detail and refining our picture of the character - High spec laptop, a porsche, fur coats, Branded hooded top, weapon.
• Costume and make up
• The period of time the social group belongs to.
• membership of a specific group.
• social class and status - one of the main sources of information regarding the characters in their dress - whether it is a tidy v-neck sweater, a tailored woman's business suit, or an unkempt jacket.
• Cultural background
• Character traits, personality, values, assumed behaviour and attitude.
• Changes in costume indicate changes in character e.g rich to poor, taking off clothes as lowering defences.
• Clothing might also be a trademark.
• Lighting
• three point lighting standard scheme for classical narrative cinema. In order to model an actors face or an object with a sense of depth, light from three directions is used.
• Quality of light is perceived hardness and softness. A hard quality has dark shadows with sharp edges, while a soft quality has lighter, diffused shadows.
• High-key lighting - A lighting scheme in which the fill light is raised to almost the same level as the key light.
• Speech
• Regional dialect
• elaborated or restricted language
• specialised use of vocabulary
• accent
• Standard or colloquial