Denotations and Connotations

This is the poster for the third series of Geordie Shore which is set in Cancun as you can see in the red border. It is a modern programme in which a set of 9 lads and lasses from Newcastle are put in a house which results in arguments, drama and a lot of drunk and sexual behaviour.

Denotations: A group of young people standing on a beach in a hot country.

Connotations: We can see that each character standing on the beach is individual as they are all wearing different clothes and standing in different postures and positions. In contrast we can see that they are a close group of friends as they all stand close together with some characters leaning and putting their arms on or around other characters. In the middle of the picture we can see one of the lads sitting in a wheelchair with a cast around his leg which shows us that while the group of friends are in Cancun, this particular character has injured his leg through immature behaviour. We can see this as he seems to be wearing tight blue jeans and a red cape, a sort of superhero costume. This would deem to be immature so we can see that the injury on his leg has been self inflicted. We therefore presume that the rest of the group are also immature and this is further backed up when we can see the lass on the far left is holding a pinhata.

Semiotics

Semiotics:
- the study of signs
- also of anything which stands for 'something else'

Denotation - what we see when we look at an image (what it is)
Connotation - what we understand from this image (what other meanings it has)

Film language: Opening Scene Task

Film Language: Opening scene task

Film language helps us understand characters and why the film is being shown a certain way.

There are four different parts to it:

• Camera
• Sound
• Editing
• Mise En Scene

Camera - FAM:

• Frame
• Angle
• Movement

Sound - MCDOVED:

• Music
• Contrapuntal - contrast
• Diegetic (what actors can hear)
• Offscreen/Onscreen
• Voiceover
• Emotion
• Dialogue

Editing - TOP:

• Transition
• Order of Narrative
• Pace

Mise En Scene - CLAMPS:

• Costume
• Lighting
• Actors
• Makeup
• Props
• Setting

Up:

Camera - There is a long shot when the couple are walking up the steep hill and then when they are on the hill, they look up to the sky at the clouds and the scene uses birds eye view to look at the couple lying down looking up and then it uses worms eye view when they look at the clouds.

Sound - The music has the same tune the whole way through the scene, however changes speed and pitch depending what is happening in their lives. There is hardly any diegetic sound - we never hear the couple speak. However there are some sound such as the camera taking a picture right at the start, the thunderstorm and the jar smashing - the actors can hear key points in the scene.

Editing - The scene covers 50 years of a couples life in just 3 minutes. It shows time passing when the wife is doing up her husbands ties and the jar money keep smashing.

Love Beats All - an outline for a film with the genre Rom-Com

This is the Rom-Com film outline that we presented to the class and after receiving some high scores, we were very pleased with what we had come up with. The pun intended title that I came up with was given generally a lot of credit for and this, as well as the unique mix of characters featured, pushed our scores highly to make them fantastic. We also received some criticism with our presentation however, as people had picked out that we hadn't written too much about how we were going to market and advertise our movie. I feel that if we were to include more information and ideas about marketing that we would have recieved near-to-perfect marks.

Genre Picture Task

We were given another genre for the genre picture task and the genre that we were given this time was sci-fi so we took a picture of someone with a street cone on his head to try and show a supernatural human. The picture does look like the genre would be sci-fi but it doesnt look that realistic if you were to say that it was an alien. Next time, to make sure the picture looks more realistic, we shall put a better effect on the image to make it look effective.

Genre picture task

We were given a genre picture task, in which we took pictures to show a certain genre. The genre that we were given was disaster so we took a picture and tried to show a motorcyclist stuck in a tree. Unfortunately, a lot of people thought it was funny so mistakably thought the genre was comedy. Next time, to make sure it is seen to be disaster instead of comedy, is to maybe show that the person in the picture is actually stuck and we could use an extra prop and show that the motorcyclist has a gun to make it look more serious.