Ghost ship

There is upbeat, classical music at the start this starts of by being parallel to the mood however by the end it becomes contrapuntal to the mood. It is parallel at the start as it gives a false sense of security to the audience. This makes the ending even more shocking. The start of the opening starts off at a slow pace and lots of dissolve cuts. This is also done to give the audience a false sense of security as the scene starts of calm. At the start the camera moves around the boat showing it all to the audience. This further gives them the false sense of security as they have been shown the whole boat and they would think that nothing could go wrong. This also further emphasises how many people were killed to the audience as they understand how many people were on the boat. Before, the machine with the wire is shown the opening has high key lighting. This further emphasises that there is nothing wrong on the boat, this makes the ending more shocking. However, once the machine is shown there is now low key lighting. This makes the deaths more intense and scary and it matches the horror genre trope.
The opening of up has non diagetic, orchestral music throughout the whole opening. The music gets quite and much slower when sad things happen such as when Ellie is told that she wont be able to have a child. This is done to emphasise the sadness for the audience. At that scene the lighting gets much darker and becomes low key, this contrasts to the rest of the clip. This further emphasises the loneliness. The transition to that scene the camera moves from the nursery to the hospital. This shows the audience how much they wanted children and therefore emphasises their sadness.
Inside the prison there is brighter lighting than when he leaves the prison. This shows to the audience that him getting out is a bad thing due to what he is going to do once he is out of prison. The music is quiet as he leaves the prison and then it gets loud again once he is outside. This is done to show that now he has left prison he is going to do something bad and it would have been better if he stayed there. When he walks out of the prison it is filmed in one take until it cuts to outside the prison as the door shuts behind him. This is to emphasise him leaving prison and that he will not come back.
It starts with a non diagetic indie rock song over a montage of the teenagers having fun. This song is used as it represents that they are having fun and that they do not need to care about anything. The fast paced montage is also used to emphasise this. The start is also set in an upper class american neighbourhood. This is done to show why the teenagers don't care about anything and to show how easy things are for them.


The opening of the matrix has low key lighting. This is done because it makes unclear to the audience who the antagonist and protagonist are. This makes the escape much more intense. When trinity first starts to beat up the police it goes in slow motion. This is done as it shows how powerful trinity is and to make the fighting look cool. When she jumps the camera does a 360 around her to further emphasise this. During the fight every punch and kick is at a hyper realistic volume to further emphasise Trinity's power.

practise footage

For this task we were learning to use premier for the first time. We were given footage and audio and we had to edit to together the video and

Mise en scene

Camera angles

genre/ photos

The genre for these pictures is musical. One of the pictures is set inside a room with a piano and the second one outside. They are both in bright lighting and weather, this shows the happiness of the genre. These both present happy themes to go with the genre. The first picture the main icon is the piano, this represents the musical genre as someone is playing the piano and becoming a musician. In the second picture the main icon is the microphone, this once again represents the genre. The narrative of both of these pictures is of someone becoming a musician. For these pictures to be improved they could feature different angles, longshots and close ups.

The genre for bot of these pictures is action. Both of these pictures is set outside in gloomy and dark and weather, filled with clouds. Both of these has dark lighting to show the death in an action genre. They both have the themes of action and death as they feature death and fighting. Both of these pictures feature no icons and are just people using there fists to fight. These pictures have very little narrative. For these pictures to be improved they could feature different angles, longshots and close ups.

Semiotics film poster

From this poster I can denote the white girl in at the center of the poster. The colour white as well as the young girl give the connotations of purity and innocence, which represents the girl. Another denotation is that the girl has red eyes. This has connotations of blood and anger and also lust. 

Another denotation from this poster is the moth covering the girls mouth. The moth gives connotations of freedom as the moth could fly away. However, it could also give the exact opposite connotation of the girl being stuck and controlled by someone else, as a moth could be trapped in a glass by someone more powerful just as the girl is being controlled by someone more powerful. Also from the moth I can denote a skull sign on its back. This has connotations of death and danger, which like the moth is surrounding her. Another denotation from the moth is that it is a dirty yellow colour. The dirty yellow has connotations of caution, showing that the character will need to be careful due to the danger engulfing her. The dirty yellow can also have connotations of decay and sickness, this also significant as it could represent that what the character is going to go through will be sickening and almost decay at her personality.  

Another denotation is the colours in the poster (the white to the left the darkness to the right). The connotations if white is the purity and innocence of the main character and how that she is good a person. The connotations of the  darkness to the right represents death, danger, fear and bad things that are going to happen. The darkness is engulfing the main character which shows that the darkness is surrounding her and bad things will happen to her.

    Another denotation is the close up the shot of Clarice. The connotation

Semiotics notes

Semiotics

Semiotics is study of signs. It also means anything which stands for something else.

Denotation- What we see when we look at an image.

Connotation- What we understand from the meaning.

Halls theory- audiences can have different reactions to a media text, whether it will be a film, documentary, newspaper or an image. POLYSEMIA.

Preferred reading- How the creator wants the audience to view the media.

oppositional reading- where the intended meaning of the media is opposed by the audience.