2+-+Elements

All information has been taken from Cineliteracy and Skwirk

Basic screen elements
The basic screen elements are the key skills needed to understand and make moving images.

  **Activity 1: Basic screen elements glossary** Identify the key characteristics of each craft skill area and then write your own definition of for each area.
 * ~ Craft skill area ||~ Basic screen elements ||
 * **Design** || * Setting: interior/exterior
 * Props
 * Costume
 * Make-up/hairstyling
 * Colour ||
 * **Camera** || * Focus
 * Zoom, track, tilt, pan
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Close up, mid-shot, wide shot, long shot
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lighting and shadow
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colour/black and white ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Performance/actors** || * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Shape/size
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Gender
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Race
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cultural background
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Age
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Movement ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Sound** || * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Diegetic/non-diegetic
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dialogue
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Music
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Effects (fx)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Silence ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">**Editing** || * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Transition: cut, fade, dissolve, wipe
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Other visual effects
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Structure
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Pacing ||
 * Cineliteracy** **activity sheets 2.2a & 2.2b can be found at** []

Due date: Wednesday 20 July 2009

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,0);"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Break into five groups to design a poster that targets one of the key elements of film. Each poster must include:
 * Activity 2: Posters** <span style="color: rgb(255,0,0);"> **(extension activity)**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Name of skill craft area
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basic screen elements
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Basic screen elements fully explained with examples

These posters will be on display throughout the unit this semester. These will be used referred to and used as an aid when analysing a film. These require your full attention and a 5-star quality finish.

Due date: To be advised

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> **<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,0);">Activity 3: Basic screen elements - matching activity ** Match the basic screen elements with the definitions.


 * 1. Setting || A. a shot in which the camera was tipped up or down ||
 * 2. Prop || B. the location for a scene ||
 * 3. Zoom || C. a shot that shows a panorama ||
 * 4. Tilt || D. all the words spoken by the performers – to each other or, sometimes, to themselves or to the camera ||
 * 5. Pan || E. to alter the lens so that the object being filmed appears closer or further away ||
 * 6. Dissolve || F. the screen slowly darkens to an opaque image-free screen which can be any colour but is usually black, white or grey ||
 * 7. Mid-shot || G. two shots overlap so that the second shot slowly becomes visible under the first while the first slowly disappears ||
 * 8. Track || H. a shot in which the camera is on wheels and physically moves sideways, parallel to the action ||
 * 9. Dialogue || I. an editing transition where the screen slowly reveals images ||
 * 10. Fade out || J. a shot in which you see half a person ||
 * 11. Fade in || K. short for ‘properties’: every object on the set ||
 * 12. Wipe || L. a single continuous piece of filming ||
 * 13. Shot || M. where one picture replaces another by appearing to push it off the screen ||

Due date: Wednesday 22 July 2009

This PowerPoint looks at how film makers use film techniques to convey a message.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,0);">Activity 4: Basic screen elements - Film techniques pp **

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0,0,0);">media type="custom" key="4127095"

Use the **Cineliteracy activity sheet 2.2b** to analyse the film techniques used in the opening scene from the movie **X-Men**. You will closely examine how the features of __design__, __camera__, __performance/actors__, __sound__ and __editing__ have been used to convey the director's message.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,0);">Activity 5: Basic screen elements - X-Men **

You are required to also: • discuss the elements in the frame, the use of colour and lighting and how that helps the meaning of the image be understood • count the number of shots in the excerpt • count the number of close-up, long shots

Due date: Friday <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 24 July 2009

Additional terms include:

<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,0);"> **Mise-en-scene** (pronounced meez on sen) is French for ‘put in the scene’ or ‘staging’. It refers to all the visual elements in the frame. Mise en scene refers to all the objects and characters in a particular frame. More specifically, it refers to the composition of the frame. When you use the term mise en scene, you are discussing where the composer or director has placed all the elements of the scene within the frame. <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The mise en scene encompasses: <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the image on the screen and the visual composition of the image (colour, light, texture, scale, tension, proportion)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">cinematography - camera placement (movement/angles/shot type) and lighting
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">visual design (how it looks) - setting, location, set design, props, costume
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">the character or individual.
 * Diegetic sound** is that which arises from the narrative and that all the characters can hear.


 * Non-diegetic sound** is the means whereby the filmmaker talks directly to the audience over the heads of the characters, as it were, to set the mood or warn the audience that something nasty is about to happen. For example theme music is likely to be non-diegetic, but music from a radio switched on by a character is diegetic.

In this activity you are required to describe the mise en scene in one of the images from film below.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(255,0,0);">Activity 6: Mise-en-scene **

You must identify: • the image on the screen and the visual composition of the image (colour, light, texture, scale, tension, proportion) • cinematography - camera placement (movement/angles/shot type) and lighting • visual design (how it looks) - setting, location, set design, props, costume • the character or individual.

This is your major activity for the Elements section. This is to be presented on an A3 coloured poster and split into sections. It must include a heading, subheadings, pictures and must be of 5 star quality.

Due date: To be advised Word count: 100 words

John Peterson, The Lakes P-9 School 2009, Year 9 English Movie Madness