Exam Question 1 b

How have you created meaning through the use of editing, mise en scene, sound and cinematography?

Write an analysis of your music video using key media language terms. These will be needed for and question 1b answer, so you need to revise them.

Cinematography

What did you try and signify through your use of the camera?

2 shot- we used this to signify to the audience a sense of closeness to the main character as well as her sister. Also, connoting a sense of being thrust into their lives so as to experience what is happening to the full extent.

Wide shot- to give the audience a wider picture of what is happening to the main character as well as connoting a sense of being lost in a wide-open space, the woods.

Tracking shot- we used this shot to follow the main character and to show the main character running away from the animals, a sense of fear and urgency.

Close up-connotes a sense of intimacy with the main character as the audience are ‘thrust’ into her personal space, even if it’s through the use of a camera.

Over the shoulder shot- used at the end of the music video to convey a sense of loss and grief and also to anchor to the audience that the main character is morning the loss of her sister. This also links to Andrew Goodwin’s theory

Mise-en-scene

What did you try and connote through your use of the setting, lighting, costume and proxemics?

Setting- The setting we chose was to then be able to connote a feeling of being lost in an open space.

Costume- we dressed the ballet dancer in black to connote the theme of death this was used as an anchorage as the death/fight scenes were also in black and white. We used black costumes to anchor to the audience the sense that the characters were evil. The masks were used to represent a feeling of abstractness, distancing the video from the conventional mainstream music video themes. This also links into the narrative theorist Propp who believed that there was a hero and villain in every music video.

Lighting- natural light as we were shooting outside, connoting the feeling of a connection to nature and in doing so connecting our video to the niche theme of nature.

Editing

How did you anchor the meanings of the camera work through your use of editing?

Edits with animals in trees- pond ripple to create a blurry effect to connote the feeling of a dreamlike sequence.

Dissolve edits of main character and her sister- used to connote a sense of being lost and again to reinforced the feeling of a dreamlike video.

Sound

Sound links to the soundtrack- The main character wakes up “don’t wake me, don’t make a sound.” She is falling asleep and waking in a dream.