History of Media
The first post of the blog should be learning about the history and evolution of media. For this I relayed mainly on different youtube videos. The Evolution of Traditional to New Media by Jo Marchianne Pigar A Brief History of Media – Dan Gillmor by O’Reilly These two videos are the ones which summed up…
The Meaning Of Media
To study Media Studies, it is important to first understand the meaning of Media. From the Language of Media to the Institution, for this I referred mainly to this YouTube video The Media Insider
Film Codes and Conventions
Codes : Codes generally means signs and symbols in a film which creates meaning. These codes can be divided into two main parts. Technical and Symbolic. Technical Code means how an equipment or a gadget is used in a film to convey a message. For example, the camera work in a film. Symbolic codes show…
Why Film Opening?
In A1, we get to choose what project are we going to work on the whole year. We get two choices to choose from, a magazine cover or a film opening. I, as stated previously, chose film opening. The main question is, what is a film opening? It is a way which the film production…
Editing
The general meaning of editing can be as simple as Editing is the process of selecting and preparing writing, photography, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information. But that is not the only thing we need to know before analysing and using the editing skill in our film opening. There are many effects and methods used…
Sound
The second component in this is Sound, one of the most main component is Sound. Although film is sometimes thought of as a purely visual art-form it also relies heavily upon audio. Even in the days of silent film, movies were usually screened with live performances from musicians who would play in time with the…
Mise-En-Scene
Since my task is to create a film opening and Mise-en-scène is an integral part of every frame in a film, I deem it necessary for me to know what Mise-en-scène is, and therefore, I am uploading this post, explaining Mise-en-scène, so that I know what the frames of my film opening should consist of.…
Film Opening Analysis-1: The Dark Knight (2008)
Since my project is based on film opening, I thought it was important for me to know how what I have learned so far is used in film openings. Therefore, I decided to analyze a film opening. While this is my first film opening analysis, it won’t be the last, I will do a few…
Film Opening Analysis-2: A Quiet Place (2018)
My first analysis was based on the 4 elements, camera, sound, editing, and mise-en-scenes. This analysis is based on the codes and convention of film and for this I chose A Quiet Place (2018) because this film had to portray emotions and deliver the story to audience without any dialogue, and although they used subtitles…
Film Opening Analysis-3 : Parasite (2019)
My main reason to choose this movie was to show how a great story can be portrayed even with a language barrier, this movie is so symbolic, with so much meaning behind every single shot, prop, and every character, that it requires more than one watch. The genre was also what intrigued me, thriller and…
Audience Theories
For whom do we make our media for? Sure, we can say the product is for us to enjoy and some people make their product for their own enjoyment. This is not the most cases, for the main reason many people make a product is for an audience to consume it. Now, What is an…
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