Over the last 2 lessons we watched 2 videos in class about Film Production and the roles involved and each member of the teams job and contribution to the project. the first film focused on the things that make a
film, i.e. the Language of Film and Television, this video explained about mise en scene, Cinematography ,genre, editing and narrative structure.
Mise En Scene is anything that appears on the screen (props, lighting, characters, settings, costumes etc)
Cinematography is anything to do with camera work like angles, motion etc.
Genre the Genre is the kind of film, many films have similar features/annotations and connotations, films with similar features are stereotyped into different groups, these groups are called Genres, e.g. all Horror films have the same sort of of features, like dark scenes, spooky atmospheres etc whilst Comedies tend to be very light hearted, brightly lit and funny and other genres have their own unique traits.
Editing is putting the film clips together, in a way so it looks good and creates the desired effect, e.g. continuity editing makes the footage flow freely so it doesn't look jerky and poor quality, a jump cut however is used to jump between 2 separate scenes and is often used by the editor to create a stark contrast between scene locations.
Narrative Structure the narrative structure of the films story, most films tend to follow Todovorov's theorem of all stories having a beginning, a middle and an end. (correct terminology being an equilibrium, disequilibrium and a new equilibrium or an equilibrium restored) however not all films or stories comply with this exactly, but most of the time they do.
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