Glogster

Camera Movements

The camera moves sideways , like a crab does

The camera stays in the same spote but pivots left or right

The camera stays in the same spot but title up or down

Also know as tracking , the camera moves backwards or forwards

Dexter

As you watch the Dexter title sequence write down you initial thoughts on what it is communicating to you as a viewer.

• Image look horrible

• The music is interesting

• The thing aroung him

• Psycho

• Every day routine

• Music = ironic updeat but creepy

• Odd

• Contrast between shots - dark , and music - upbeat

• Makes you think of blood and guts even though there is none

• Shows potential weapons - blades , scalpels , coffee , grinder

• Scalpel to cut steak - maybe he's a surgeon

Mise - en - scene

Lighting -

• Dark lighting , day time lighting at the begining , amn in the room but still day time , low light , dark in side light out side.

Props -

• Showing strick , tissue , meat , eggs , knife , orange , lacss , flossing string . coffee maker.

Setting -

• Wakes up in bedroom , Shaves in bathroom , Cooks in kitchen , Flosses teeth in bathroom , Walks outside.

Costume -

• He's topless whilst getting ready (shaving, making coffee + breakfast, whilst flossing, whilst putting shoes on)

• Puts on shoes and ties them Puts on his top (looks like he's suffocating himself)

• At the end when he walks out of his house, he is dressed in white which makes him look innocent.

Facial expressions -

• Smiles: makes him look like he knows what he's doing
  

• His eyes are mysterious and eyebrows are bent
  

• His face is focused forward and it makes him look like a killer.

Performance -

• Shaves his neck like he's cutting someone's throat
  
• He ties his shoe laces as if he's strangling a person
  
• He cuts the orange like a murderer
  
• The first thing he does is kill a mosquito
  
• He cleans the blood from his neck with a tissue
  
• When he was putting on his shirt, he acts like he's suffocating himself
  
• He uses floss to clean his teeth

Make Up -

• His eyebrows are thick, his face is fresh - different colour from his beard
  
• His face is greasy and his lips are shiny

Camera Shots , Angles and Movement

Low - camera looking up at subject , making it look bigger.

Canted - camera is title to make subject lok slanted.

High - camera is looking down on subject making it look small.

Eye level - camera is pointed directly at subject.

Brids - eye / Aerial - extreme high angle , looking straight down.

Lesson on thursday 21th May 2009

Textual Analysis of TV drama Title Sequences.

Objictive :

• To perform textual analysis on a selection of TV drama title sequences.
• To consider the ways in which moving image texs communicate meaning.
• To be able to plan and write a textual analysis eassy on a TV drama title sequence.

STARTER:

What is the purpose of a title sequence? Note down some ideas.

• Introduce the shows
• Tells us the genre / sub-genre of the shows
• Tells us location / setting of the shows
• Information about charaers
• Warning that the shows about to start
• Gives the shows a recogniseable identity
• Can give info about tone / style / pace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho69_sCkwyI

1. In this ways are teenager represented in this trailer?
Drunk, Sexual, Violent, Riotous, Druggies, Loud, Immature, Destructive, Fun,
Don't care anything, Stupid, Anarchist, Shameless, Disrespectful, Not bothered,
Ignorant, Slaphappy, Party, Energetic, Dirty.

2. How are these representation constructed?

• The music + Loud + Fast + Paced
• Setting - Pub
• Clothes, Hair, Actions, of actors
• Narrative.
  

3. Do you think the representations are realistic? Are they stereotypical Are they positive or negative?

Exaggerated.