Preliminary task - brief

Someone must walk up to, then through a door. They then must exchange a few extracts of dialogue with another person, they then must leave.

Preliminary task - Script

(Amelia walks through the door, walks to the canteen shop)

A: Can I have 1 coffee please?

DL: yeah sure

Gets coffee, gives money, walks to her friend who’s reading a book.

A: Hey you alright? (sits down next to friend)

F: Yeah you?

A: Good thanks, can I copy your maths homework please?

F: Yeah, sure! ( puts book down on the table, gets the  maths book out, passes it to A)

A:thanks (taking the book)

Preliminary task - story board

Key Words

ABC
Audit Bureau of Circulation—gathers circulation figures of
magazines and newspapers, primarily for advertisers but also used
by students and researchers.


Aesthetic
Visual appearance, related to taste.
Ambience


Background atmosphere.


Anchorage
The ‘pinning down’ of the meaning of an image by text.


Audience
Collective group of people reading any media text. Digital
technology has led to increasing uncertainty over how we define
an audience, with general agreement that the notion of a large
group of people, brought together by time, responding to a single
text, is outdated and that audiences now are ‘fragmented’.


Avatar
An on-screen representation of the player in a videogame.


BARB
Broadcasters’ Audience Research Board—responsible for gathering
TV viewing figures.



Censorship
The practice of ‘cutting’ or preventing access to material.


Classification
Restricting access to material on the grounds of age.


Compression
Transferring data into less space and sending it from one place to
another, through encoding data using fewer units in digital coding.


Connotations
The meanings brought to a sign or symbol by the person/people
interpreting it.


Continuity
In editing, the process of disguising the construction of the scene
by making it appear to ‘flow’ as in real life. The 180 degree rule and
the eyeline match are crucial to this.


Conventions
The expected ingredients in a particular type of media text.


Convergence
Hardware and software coming together across media, and
companies coming together across similar boundaries, to make
the distinction between different types of media and different
media industries increasingly dubious.


Copyright
The owned rights of creative or intellectual property.


Cross-cutting
Editing between two scenes that are happening at the same
time—manipulating space for the audience.

Concept

our concept is that character one walks through the main office into the canteen, she then buys a hot drink from the shop in the canteen. she then walks over to her friend and they exchange some dialogue. Finally character one leaves.

Billy Elliot dancing for dad notes on camera angle and mise-en-scene

• establishing shots are used in the scenes; when Billy and his dad have confrontation, when Billy dances away from his dad and the camera showing that he is unafraid to take charge of his life and do what he wants to do not what his dad wants him to do. Also the camera vary's in establishing shots to give the audience a clear view of the cliche surroundings.
• this clip uses close ups at varied points of the clip, to show the characters facial expressions, the aggression on Billy's face to show his determination to make his dad proud. His dad as a reaction shot, to see emphasis his raw emotion
• Finally there is a medium shot at the end on Michael, Billy's friend to show the contrast in reactions of the father and the friend.

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