Camera shots Film

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF4DWljYcac

The first shot is a crab shot which starts close to the ground and the characters move closer to the camera this denotes to the audience that these characters have more power and are more important because we are looking up on them. Next the camera arcs round and quickly edits into a medium shot of the man.
After that the camera slowly zooms into the prison this anchors the audience to the prison because it make you feel like you are going into the prison. This shot would of cost quite a lot of money because they would of had to pay for the equipment to allow the shot to take place.

Semiotics

REMEMBER. Signifier's aren't only visual, they apply to sound as well.

Semiotics is the study of signs.

We look at three types of "signs"

• Symbolic - The learned codes. E.g numbers, letters and punctuation marks.
• Iconic - Resembling or imitating the signified. E.g photo or realistic sounds.
• Indexical - Where something is directly connected to the signified

Media

In class today we were looking at media as a whole and what is it and what the media is. Within class discussion we were talking about everything that make up the media from, Newspapers to the internet to T.V. One word that is very important in media is medium. Medium is something that is in the middle, media denotes this word because the media is in the middle of something happening and people finding out. For example, someone famous dies, the media is in the middle of that and it reaching people. Also we were looking at what is the media, this is individual aspects that make up the media.
To conclude, in this lesson i found out what the media is, what it does, how it does it and how important the word medium is in the subject media.

Juxtaposition Second lesson

In the second lesson of media studies AS level, we were looking at juxtaposition. Juxtaposition is the contrast between two things. These two elements can be very different or have a slight relationship. Within the lesson we were assigned to create a juxtaposition and then evaluate it. I chose to look at the contract between big and small, i collected two pictures. When evaluating the juxtaposition, we were looking at aspects such as what the background signifies, what themes are present within the picture, what the foreground signifies and also to look at the powers that this juxtaposition represents.

First Lesson

In the first lesson of media we had an introduction into what we are going to be doing in the rest of the year. The teacher told us that we are going to have a exam in June. We were set homework to set up a blog so that we can write about what we do in each lesson.