Notes for the 11/11/10 :)

Media Notes  

One way you can tell a different type of genre is:

• Camera Shots
• Camera Angles
• Camera Movement
• Editing

Sound   

• Digetic - noises you would expect to hear.
• Non-Digetic - outside of the narrative e.g. sound effects, music.
• Mis-en-scene - everything you see on the screen.

Different types of camera shots  

• Close Up
• Medium Shot
• Long Shot
• Panning Shot
• Tracking Shot
• Split Shot
• Birdseye View 

Genre, Character, Story  
Messiah:
Music - freaky, weird - non-digetic.
Evil character - close up on his face. 
Police - symbolising there has been a crime.
Crime scene - white sheets have been put down.
Tracking shots have been used. 

Historical Drama:
Military uniform - war.
Different language used - bogtrotter. 
Boss - symbolised by shouting at other characters.
Not as mant close ups used than in the Messiah. 

War Drama:
You can hear their feet trudging through the mud symbolising a digetic sound.
Gun shots - symbolising the war. 
Military clothing - war - army - soldier.
Tracking shots used as the aeroplanes are followed through the sky.
A lot of close ups used.

Galactica:
Panning shots used as we see the space ships soaring through the sky.
Space.
Spaceships.
Space clothing - symbolising where they are.
Space centre - used to analyse the spaceships.