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Cinematography

 Find the opening sequence to a film or TV drama of your choice on YouTube and embed the video in a blogpost called 'Cinematography blog tasks'. 




1) Write an analysis of the cinematography in the opening sequence. Highlight your use of media language and try to cover camera shots, angles and movement using the terminology we have learned in lessons. 

Throughout the sequence there is a mix of Long shots, extreme long shots, medium shots, an OTS, medium long shot, establishing shots, hand held, closeups, extreme closeups, crane shot, medium shots, low angle, High angle.

2) How does the camerawork give the audience clues about the setting, narrative and character?

The setting is explored through many different extreme long shots and establishing shots that make it clear that the setting would either be a mansion estate or through many other crane shots be an urban city landscape and specifically high rise office buildings.

The narrative is also built through these extreme long shots and establishing shots as it makes it clear that the characters that we will be introduced to live or lived within that estate and now will follow their lives in the city, furthermore the very start of the sequence establishes four of the characters that we can assume are siblings as they are huddled together side by side, also we can tell from the narrative that there is a character that can be assumed to be the father figure who is always seen without his face in shot or with long shots and high angles that establish a sense of disconnect between the children and the man. Also through the use of an urban setting and closeups of newspapers we could also infer that there will be some sort of event that occurs due to this landscape that affects the central characters.

From the way the characters are shown through medium shots and medium long shots without other long shots we can tell that because most of the sequence shows the characters as being on their own we can infer that the siblings do not have an entirely great relationship with each other and are very rarely seen to be all together with the father figure.

Secondly, find and analyse one film or TV still image. Add the image to your blog post. 





3) Analyse the camera shot/angle in the image and what it communicates to the audience. Remember to highlight the media terminology you use.


The camera shot of Rick is a close up of the side of his face and a medium closeup of Negan while also having the camera at a slightly low angle. The use of the low angle establishes Negans superiority over Rick while the closeup has the audience create an emotional response to Ricks reaction and emotional turmoil that is shown on his face and helps the audience further connect with the emotions of Rick. The medium long shot of Negan further empowers the image of Negan as he is dominant within the scene taking up most of the screens space.








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