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.
