Sound Homework

Dialogue - Speech, the way we talk so with accents or dialect = helps with establishing characters and relationships.


Voiceover - Omniscient narrator, shows the backstory and is subjective or objective when it comes to perspective.


Music Score - Heightens emotions, establishes atmosphere = describes a character and helps scene changes.


Sound Effects - Sounds that are not dialogue or music, it creates a sense of reality = increases mystery, suspense or comedy.






Diegetic = has a physical origin in the film world.
Non-Diegetic = doesn't have a physical origin in the film world.



Examples:


Dialogue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2CEGhwMjkQ


Voiceover - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZErtwynT0g (because actors have to voiceover the characters)


Music Score - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WtDmbr9xyY


Sound Effects - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Co3A3fLBo





Contapuntal Sound - Strongly contrasts with the mood or tone of the scene.
Parallel Sound - Matches with the mood or tone of the scene.
Exaggerated/Pleonastic Sound - Heightens emotion or meaning in a scene.


Examples:
Contrapuntal - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0EXHvbsnJ8
Parallel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI-oATQBTXI
Exaggerated - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1VL-y9JHuI

Audio

Voice
Music
Sound Effect

20Hz - 20,000Hz = what humans can hear
Wavelength/waveform
Waveform - Sine wave
Measure

2 channels - L & R

2 microphones:

1. Onboard Mic - Voice and Ambiant - on camera
2. External Mic Shotgun Directional - just Voice - on boom

Sound from different areas

Widetrack - Ambiance

VU Meter









PPM Meter












Voice - 5.5PPM Programs
SFX - 3PPM.     Programs
Music - 4PPM    Programs

Ads - 6PPM

00:00:00:00 - Time Code

Analysis of To Kill A Mockingbird

To Kill A Mockingbird

The genre of To Kill A Mockingbird is Southern Gothic because it is based in Alabama in the 1930s and talks about quite dark things, like the rape and court scenes and the idea of the haunted house and a "monster" living inside of it. It also has the theme of racism throughout the whole story which was common in books from the 60s.

The target audience for this book is young adults who are interested in society and the way people think and act towards different people, especially the relationships between white and black people in Alabama in the 1930s. Stereotypically the book is more aimed towards women because stereotypically women are more interested in that topic than men are.

Poster Project

This is the finished product of my poster. I have aimed it for a young adults/adult audience because it's quite bland and simplistic with muted colours. It is a poster for a book and so I wanted it to be focused on the image of Louis Theroux as he is the main focus of the book, which is a non-fiction book about people he meets while making his documentaries.

This is a book poster like the one I've made which is very simplistic and easy to read. It relates to a target audience of all ages as it is so simplistic.

This is another poster for a book that is slightly less ssimplistic because there is a lot more writing and graphics than the first one. This poster is easily distinguishable because it has one of the 'characters' on it like my poster but unlike the first one. This poster is mainly aimed for children and teens but we know this because we know the Harry Potter books are for that age range.

 This is another simplistic poster for a book which shows the main theme of the story on the front cover - heirarchy. The red character shows the more dominant class (the bold colour), the yellow shows middle class (more muted than the red) and the blue shows the working/lower class (very muted and in the background). This is mainly for adults in terms of target audience.

What is Media - Shot Types

Types of Media:
- Print (books, newspapers)
- Interactive (phones, video games)
- Internet (social media, websites)
- Radio (broadcasts, audio books)
- Film/TV (movies, television)

Film Language:
Microelements - cinematography, sound, mise en scene, editing
Macroelements - genre, narrative, representation

Cinematography - What you see, camera, colour, depth of focus, framing and compositon, shot sizes, angles, movement.

Shot Types:
 - Extreme Long Shot (XLS) - shows the whole scene, emphasises an expense of space, isolation, grandeur or spectacle.

- Long Shot (LS) - closer than XLS, but still shows the complete scene. Often used to establish a location, giving the audience the ideas as to where the action will take place.

- Medium Long Shot (MLS) - gives the audience a good view of the character, especially body language and their relationship.

- Medium Shot (MS) - gestures, expressions and details of physical apperance are now more visible.


- Medium Close-Up (MCU) - focusing on the face. Often used for newsreaders.

- Close-Up (CU) - can see facial expressions more clearly and can underline personality and emotion of the character.

- Big Close-Up (BCU) - shows all the detail of a subject. From the middle of the forehead to just abive the chin.

- Extreme Close-Up (XCU) - a lot of detail, used to create mystery and tension.

Induction

So, my name is Jaimie Clarke and I am obsessed with documentaries and films in general. I wanted to do this course because I did Media as an A Level last year, and loved looking at why people watch films and then love making short film with my cousin.


I wasn't at the first two induction days and at the third one, I loved seeing how to edit things and I became very intrigued. I instantly clicked with most people in my group and that was nice compared to at sixth form.


Looking at the course, Im hoping for it to be better than sixth form - because sixth form is trash, and for it to be more production.

Editing

Frame  ▭
25fps for video in England
upper (odd) and lower (even) fields/second - scanning of the frame
Jaggies - pause or stop a video playing on a certain frame - you're seeing the fields and the behaviour of the fields.
Interlaced - two fields coming together.
i - interfaced
p - progressive
height of frame - 1080
width of frame - 1920
16:9 aspect ratio
HD
25fps for video in England (50Hz - frequency for how often the frame is scanned)
P.A.L
Phase
Alternating
Line
Creating a bin


Changing the colour of the bin


Adding more bins