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Word Count: 543 Many different aspects of film are noticeable when watching the excerpt of Agent Carter. Aspects that are most prevalent would be camera angles, editing, sound, and mise en scene. Each of these aspects contribute to different components of the film, helping create a holistic experience. Throughout the film, camera angles are relied upon to help better convey crucial parts of the film such as plot and setting. This film uses an over the over the shoulder camera shot during a conversation with Peggy and two men. Such a camera angle helps put the characters on a more even playing field which is significant in this film as one of the characters is a woman. This camera angle helps to show the audience that Peggy is equal to the men in this film. The use of an establishing shot is also prevalent, as it is used to show the audience the setting that is the city of New York. This helps convey a sense of action to the audience as New York is well known for its fast-paced lif...

I watched The Purge and analyzed the key aspects of mise en scene throughout the movie. This mainly consisted of staging, setting, lighting, and costume. Staging Staging plays a pivotal role in this movie as it does in all movies that rely heavily on narrative and dialogue. The performance style use throughout this film is most likely method acting, as the actors embody the characters and take on their personas, making the movie more realistic. The actors' of such performance often helps the influence the emotions of the audience during the film.  This is easily shown in two different instances: during the day and during the night of the purge. During the day, there is an almost safe and comfortable demeanor resounding from the characters. This changes, however, once night time roles around and the purge begins. The characters are then terrified and alert, which in turn makes the audience terrified and alert as well. Setting The setting contrast that is most noticeable...

5 Master Shots With Sound (Link) The first clip (contrast) included a non-diegetic voice-over, which was used to specify what the character was thinking and clarify the character's intentions throughout the clip for the audiences' comprehension. The second clip (symbolism) included non-diegetic sound, which is meant to tend to the hearing sense of the audience. This sound gives does a good job capturing the effect of falling into the book and then zooming back out through the transition. The third clip (Leit Motif) also included non-diegetic sound. This sound, which is in the form of music for this clip, is crucial in this situation because the clip would not be considered leit motif without the instances of music triggering the same reaction throughout the clip. Without the music, the clip would look awkward and not fit the idea of a leit motif. The fourth clip (parallelism) included a non-diegetic sound bridge, which was meant to connect the two separate cl...

I decided to take a combination of shots from the movies Get Out and American Sniper. Both movies are highly rated and personally a few of my favorites. Contrast: This scene was taken from the movie American Sniper. In this scene the main character, Chris Kyle, is shown in intensive basic training. Throughout this edit, multiple different parts of Chris's basic training is showcased to give the audience an idea of how intense the process is to become a navy seal. The last transition of this edit goes from Chris working out in basic training to working out overseas during one of his tours, which prepares the audience to see Chris in action. Symbolism: This scene was taken from the movie Get Out. In this scene the main character (who also happens to be named Chris) is talking to Mrs. Armitage, who has just hypnotized Chris. This scene shows the audience the process of hypnosis and uses the television set as a symbol, representing an unsurpassable gateway between the ...

Link: Five Master Edits Video Created by Francisco Antunez and Kaelyn Travis Contrast: For the contrast edit Kaelyn and I decided to create two different shots of a student with on showing the student hard at work and the other showing the student sleeping in class. The student hard at work is supposed to represent the typical image set for freshmen in high school. Whereas the student sleeping is supposed to represent the typical image of seniors in high school. Symbolism: For the symbolism edit we decided to take a shot of a book and transition to the Collier County Public Schools emblem (which contains a book) to symbolize the education that takes place in Collier County schools. Leit Motiff: For the leit motif edit we used a particular song (of Kaelyn's choice to clarify) to clue the audience in to the dance that was going to occur every time that given song is played. Parallelism:  Our parallelism shot begins with a shot of a person walking with white shoes. The sho...

I chose to comment on a few different angles from the 2013 movie "Oculus" from producers Trevor Macy and Marc D. Evans as I am a fan of Horror films and I was also inspired by my teacher Mrs. Henderson to enjoy a good horror film while completing this project at the same time. I also chose this movie because of it variety of angles in order to invoke equally as many emotions in the audience. Despite the movie being filmed inside I home for the majority of the film, the producers still did a fantastic job implementing different camera angles in order to incite different emotions. The first shot that caught my attention was this cameo shot which does a fantastic job showing time (one of the main characters) on a fairly neutral background. This helps enhance the emotion of the character in the frame which is what seems to be joy on the character Tim's face as he has just spotted his sister after finally getting discharged from a mental ward. This scene gave me a sen...

I decided to comment on Ryan and Cori's blog posts. For Ryan's blog posts I decided to focus on the dolly shot, point-of-view shot, reaction shot, and extreme long shot. Both the dolly shot and point-of-view shots gave me a sense of excitement as I was left wondering what was next in the sense of the dolly shot and, in the sense of the point-of-view shot, I felt as if I were in the film myself acting through the motions of the character. For the reaction shot I felt a mix of emotions, as I felt both a sense of fear and excitement which are similar to what the character seemed to feel in the shot. I also enjoyed the extreme long shot as the wide angle and overall view of the background gave me a sense of understanding as it allowed me to make more observations of the surroundings. For Cori's blog posts I focused on the head-on shot, eye-level shot, low angle shot, and cameo shot. For the head-on shot I felt a sense of excitement as it was an action packed shot and made me ...

This is a cameo shot, where a subject is filmed against a neutral background. This is a choker, where a subject is filmed at a close-up angle and usually only shows the subject's face. This is a dolly shot, which is accomplished by moving the camera as if it were on a set of tracks. This is an extreme close up, where the shot is magnified to emphasize a small detail. This is a high angle shot, where a video is filmed above the subjects. This is a pan-shot, where the camera follows the subject through a change of angles and not through a change of camera position. This is a point of view shot, where the camera is angled to look as if it was from a first person view of a character. This is an extreme long shot, where a wide angle is taken from a far distance. This is a low angle shot, where a shot is filed from below the subject. This is a full shot, where the angle is just the right size to fit the entire subject's body.  Th...

I wanted to take AICE Media Studies in order to gain a new perspective on a topic that I have no previous knowledge of. I think it will be interesting to learn more about film and see what is necessary to create films today. I am also looking forward to researching topics out of my comfort zone as I have never really looked into Media Studies before .