Mise-en-Scene

Week 10 – Task 26 – Recap on TV drama terms – final home learning task

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We will be revisiting how to analyse TV drama next week and looking at using a variety of terms you have already come across in a textual analysis.

You need to revisit the terms from Mise En Scene, Camera, Editing and Sound to ensure that you understand the majority of them and can recognise their use and appearance in the moving image i.e the TV drama clip.

Here is the glossary.  It will also be on classroom if you want your own copy. Remember to make a folder for TV drama in google so that you can keep all your resources there.

Make sure you read it, see if you can remember a good number of them and then we can start to use them in a more focused way next week.

If you still have outstanding posts then make sure you complete them before next week and also collate as much as you can onto your Music Industry page to create a one stop shop for revision and reference when we come back to it later this year.

Well done for tackling Sound on your own.

See you on Monday – we are so looking forward to getting back to face to face teaching.

 

 

TV Drama – recap Mise-en-Scene and Camera

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Textual Analysis

Task 1

Review these two slide shows on:

1. Mise-en-Scene

2. Camera

Practice Textual Analysis

Analyse the following TV Drama clip in class and discussing how the mise-en-scene & camera communicates meaning. First of all after watching it, summarise what the clip is mainly focused on in terms of what themes, issues, social groups are represented.

In pairs, you should aim to find 3 moments when camera is used to represent a theme, issue, social group and 3 moments when MES is used to represent a theme, issue, social group.

Glossaries & Analytical Verbs

The assessment for this essay will be looking for your accurate use of terminology to describe the specific examples you are analysing. You will also be evaluating what meaning those examples communicate about the representation of the person, place or event; this means you need a range of synonyms for ‘represent’. Please use the resources below to develop your technical and analytical vocabulary:

  1. Camera terms
  2. MES terms
  3. Synonyms for Represent

Dr Who – Textual analysis

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Here is a clip for your next analysis:

Analyse how Camera and Mise-en-scene are used to represent characters, themes and events in Dr Who?

You should include:

  • 3 examples of mise-en-scene and…
  • 3 of camera (angles, framing and movement).

Remember: T (terms), E (examples – descriptions), A (analysis – meaning communicated) and S (significance to the representation of themes and characters in the sequence).

Use this sheet for taking  notes. on the sequence.

Submission

Turn/hand in your essay to Classroom.  A template is available there.

Textual Analysis – Downton Abbey

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Your Textual Analysis Essay.

Please answer the following question in 6 sentences of beautiful analysis. Each sentence should contain the following:

  1. A well described example (EXAMPLE) from the text, which uses media terminology (CLAMPS – TERM) to identify it.
  2. An analytical connective (see examples below – REPRESENTS, PORTRAYS, ENCODES, SUGGESTS ETC).
  3. Interesting and varied adjectives which describe the ideas (connotations) being communicated to the audience. THE ANALYSIS/SIGNIFICANCE TO THE QUESTION.

Analyse the ways in which mise-en-scene communicates the different life styles of the people living and working in Downton Abbey. (500 words max)

Here is the clip you should analyse:

Help! How is this essay going to be compiled?

You should use this document to help you make notes and structure your analysis.

Once you have made notes you will join forces with 5 others to create one long essay using a shared document on google docs.  One person will add in the Costume, the next will add in the Lighting, the next the Acting and so on.

The final group essay will then be submitted for comments from your teacher.

Below is the presentation on we gave you on mise-en-scene. You should use this to remind you of the areas you should cover in mise-en-scene. It may also point you to ideas think about within in the sequence.

Here is a glossary of terms to help you identify and name the feature you wish to analyse.  Here are some useful adjectives and a reminder of some alternative connectives/active verbs to represent.

Please submit your essay via google classroom and adhere to the submission deadline.  All the resources you need are in google classroom including exemplar essays

My images that uses MES to communicate meaning – designing my star

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Remember for this post on costuming and dressing a model for your allocated genre of music performer you should include the following 4 elements in this particular post:

1) MOODBOARD

Explain how you were allocated a genre to research and what you found – refer to the moodboard findings.

Embed the moodboard with images of ideas for how a performer from your allocated genre could be represented in terms of costume, facial expressions, hair, make-up, body language, gestures, props etc. Use adjectives AND describe and pick out some of the most important MES conventions for the genre.

Add in some relevant adjectives as to how that genre is generally represented – edgy, anarchic, produced, synthetic, friendly etc. Use terms Mise En Scene, Genre and Star Image (how are they represented/presented to the audience). If you can get the term ‘CONVENTIONS’ in too that would be great – those expectations, commonalities of the genre.

Made with Padlet

2) POST IT PHOTO

You then used all the research and findings to dress, encode your model as a star from that genre. Include a draft photo with the ‘post-its’ from the class in your test outfit with the comments and adjectives that the class suggested as to how your character was represented.  Reflect on how you, as a producer, used all the conventions from the genre to encode your model with the appropriate MES and the audience decoded them correctly (or not).  Did they read the star image correctly? What were their responses? List and reflect.

3) EMBED THE FOLDER OF ALL THE PHOTOS AND MAKE SURE IT IS SHARED TO THE WORLD

4) FINAL PHOTO

Final and chosen photo of your artist in costume with a commentary on how they are represented/portrayed with plenty of relevant adjectives.

Reflect on how and why that image seems to work better than the other ones from the shoot.

5) REFLECT AND FOCUS FORWARD 

Overall, reflect on the importance of using MES to convey meaning – tell a story – an image and an idea and HOW WILL THIS NOW IMPACT ON YOUR OWN PLANNING/RESEARCH FOR YOUR MAGAZINE PRODUCTION?

Mise En Scene

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Mise En Scene is an essential element of how meaning is made in Media.  Every costume, hair style, lighting state, location, prop, accessory, posture, gesture, facial expression is there for a reason – to tell a story, convey an idea and an image.