Exam Content

The 4 areas of my exam-

Mise-en-scene: (everything in the scene)

• Props
• Costumes
• Lighting (back, key, fill)
• Character
• Body languageSetting
• Colour
• Denotation/connotation
• Iconography
• Stereotypes (does it challenge Tessa Perkins theory?)

Camera:

• Angles
• Movements
• Framing (positioning)
• Focus

Editing:

• Transitions
• Effects
• Speed/pace
• Length of frames
• Continuity
• Shot reverse shot
• 180 Rule
• Narrative time (screen, subjective, compressed, long take, simultaneous, replay, flashforward/back, ambigious)
• Narrative theory (Todorov, Barthez, Propp, Levi Strauss, Enigma/action codes)

Sound:

• Diagetic/non diagetic sound
• Contrapunctual
• Parallel
• Bridges

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Mise En Scene

Talk about the hidden meanings within.
Lighting - Intro fades to a bright light, starting the program.
Characters - Mum, appears to be caring and protective over her son, gets angry over the ignorant civilians. Son, begins to appear misbehaving, but we learn he has a disabilty. Dad, seems caring as he struggles to get to work and is committed to earning his money.
Costumes - autumn scene, coats scarfs hats etc.
Props - lollipop given to child, childs mickey mouse cuddly toy
Colours - Lots of red in the intro (signalling danger)?

Camera Angles/Movement

• Close ups of characters, shows the son confused, mother struggling and scared
• Cars flashing by - shows life passing by?
• Low angle shot on the floor- gives the characters' point of view/perspective
• Mid angle in the office, average view (like on office chair?)
• Long shot at the beggining show the scene at a glance
• Over the shoulder of the shop worker - this is so we see the same thing, and judge what we see the same way (judge the child to be misbehaved and the mother struggling to control him)

Editing and Transitions

• slow motion (subjective time) - intense intro scene
• Edited text saying [1993] contextualises the time zone.
• Fast Editing creates action, we see the same tense shot in real time compared to the slo mo intro version.
• cars flash by. Connatates everyones life going by, yet the mother is stuck in the middle.

Sound

• Contrast of diegetic and non-diegetic sound (contapuctual) - this produces an enigma code
• End of intro the sound gets sucked out, then we see 'true Story text' - this has impact on the viewer.
• We hear disoriantated noise and a child screaming over the top. Then a violin sequence (does this represent the relationship of the child and mother)
• The sound of racing cars and the road magnifies the danger in the scene.

Other

ideology - shows how difficult it is to cope with a disabilty and struggle with the ingnorant public
We see this from the mothers perspective, we feel sorry for her and feel for her.
Narratives - Enigma Codes and Action Codes (Barthes) - binary opposites, main mother and child > 'normal' mother and child?

Success Criteria

Overall Mark Scheme = 0/50

·         /20 = Explanation - why ideas are chosen (show clear understanding)

            Analysis - Picking out the relevant points and saying what ideas are behind chosen techniques. (camera angles/movements, angles, narratives, time, editing, transitions, sound)

            Argument – Callenging of theories in reference to other theories (if a certasin theory backs it up or not, which theory challenges it)

·         /20 = Use of examples – a range of examples (relevant and appropriate comments) /focus on the set question (representation). Using Mise En Scene to pick out the points (clothing, characters, lighting, colour, props) and say why they are used. What representations/connatations do they create?

·         /10 = Terminology – accurately used and well structured, with good spelling/punctuation/grammar. Express complex issues clearly and fluently. Sentences and paragraphs must be consistently relevant and well structured.

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Vladamir Propp's Narrative Theory.


He believed that every narrative story was built around the functions of 7 characters, these were:

• The Hero
• The Villain
• The Princess
• The Princesses Father
• The Donor
• The Dispatcher
• The Helper
• The False Hero

Roland Barthes' Narrative Theory

Barthes believed that a text was simply like a ball of string that needed to be un-raveled. He described this as a text being either open or closed. The open text would mean the viewer or reader knows what is going to happen in the story so they do not need to think or put any effort into un-raveling the story for themselves. This makes a narrative less tense and sometimes boring. The other is where a text is closed. This means the viewer/reader must unravel the text for themselves, guessing on the twist at the end or whether a character is alive or dead etc. So it leaves them on edge. Creating a better atmosphere.