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Week 3: Film Viewing Practice Essay

The film "Agent Carter" is a film about a woman defying gender stereotypes to work an office job while also going on secret missions. Through the use of camera shots and angles, editing, sound, and mise-en-scene, the film constructs meaning to help the viewers better understand the film and underlying components of characters. The film uses camera shots to construct meaning. Specifically, with close shots, the filmmakers allow viewers to focus on the strong emotions portrayed in the characters' faces. This can be seen with the woman trying to communicate with Steve. The film also uses multiple establishing shots that let the viewers understand the setting of the film. This includes shots of the control room, the city, and the office. The film uses a shot of Golden Gate Bridge to inform the viewers that everything is happening in San Francisco. This shot of the Golden Gate Bridge is important not only to camera usage, but it adds to other elements of the film, like sett

Week 2: Film Elements Graphic Organizer

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Week 1: Mise-en-scene

I chose to write about the show "Friends." I chose the sixth episode of season three, "The One with the Flashback," because it is very unique compared to all the other episodes. In this episode, the characters have a flashback describing how they all met each other. The setting of the film is almost entirely the apartment and the coffee shop. These settings completely represent the characters and where they are in life at the current time. However, there are key differences in which the setting shows the progress of the characters over time. In their flashback, the apartment of the characters was not cluttered and personalized to the characters like it was later. The obvious difference in the setting helps viewers understand how the characters have grown together. The episode used the three-point lighting technique throughout all of it. The light comes from three different directions, allowing for a sense of depth. Because this is supposed to be funny and lighth

Weeks 8-9: Sound

5 Master Edits With Sound Link to our video: click  here 1. Direct Sound In our contrast edit, we chose to leave the natural sound with the video. These sounds help the viewer understand the difference between the quiet hallway and the loud classroom. It adds to the value of the contrast edit. It is a diegetic sound. 2. Sound Bridge In our parallelism edit, we chose to add a sound bridge to the entire edit. It added more meaning to the edit, evoking the viewer's emotions. The music helps the viewer understand the importance of the edit, and the relationship going on between the two scenes. It is a non-diegetic sound. 3. Post-Synchronization Dubbing In our symbolism edit, we chose to add a ding to the part of the clip when one eye turned into another. This eye signifies something important happening in our film, and it is a form of diegetic sound. 4. Music To use for our leitmotif edit, we used a short clip of music to the film every time the character was about to fal