Due date: Wednesday 20 July 2009 Activity 2: Posters(extension activity) Break into five groups to design a poster that targets one of the key elements of film. Each poster must include:
Name of skill craft area
Basic screen elements
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 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 Activity 4: Basic screen elements - Film techniques pp
This PowerPoint looks at how film makers use film techniques to convey a message.
Activity 5: Basic screen elements - X-Men
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.
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 24 July 2009
Additional terms include:
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.
The mise en scene encompasses:
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.
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.
Activity 6: Mise-en-scene
In this activity you are required to describe the mise en scene in one of the images from film below.
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
Basic screen elements
The basic screen elements are the key skills needed to understand and make moving images.Cineliteracy activity sheets 2.2a & 2.2b can be found at http://www.psp.nsw.edu.au/resources/cineliteracy_vcd/documents/FA2-Activitysheets.pdf
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.
Due date: Wednesday 20 July 2009
Activity 2: Posters (extension activity)
Break into five groups to design a poster that targets one of the key elements of film. Each poster must include:
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
Activity 3: Basic screen elements - matching activity
Match the basic screen elements with the definitions.
Due date: Wednesday 22 July 2009
Activity 4: Basic screen elements - Film techniques pp
This PowerPoint looks at how film makers use film techniques to convey a message.
thelakesfilmtechniquespp
Activity 5: Basic screen elements - X-Men
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.
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 24 July 2009
Additional terms include:
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.
The mise en scene encompasses:
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.
Activity 6: Mise-en-scene
In this activity you are required to describe the mise en scene in one of the images from film below.
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