CINEMATOGRAPHY BLOG TASK ANALYSIS!

 

CINEMATOGRAPHY BLOG TASK ANALYSIS:

Find the opening sequence to a film or TV drama of your choice on YouTube and embed the video in a blogpost called 'Cinematography blog tasks'. 

Write an analysis of the cinematography in the opening sequence. Highlight your use of media language and try to cover camera shots, angles and movement using the terminology we have learned in lessons.

Initially, when the scene starts it starts with a dolly shot, as it walks to the subject which is the "missing poster" and it zooms while its walking towards it. When the narrator starts to tell the story about the "single drop of sunlight", Birds eye view shot is used where you can see everything from the top. When the women come to grab the glowing flower, a medium shot is used. A long shot of the setting is used when the narrator starts to talk about what's happening now "centuries past". There is close up of the protagonists faces like the king when he is talking to his sick queen. Extreme close up of the flower when the women are singing to it. Over the shoulder shot is used when the soldiers come looking for the flower. There is a tracking shot as the camera follows the lanterns that the family lit up going up.

How does the camerawork give the audience clues about the setting, narrative and character?

The camerawork gives clues about the movie in general because most of the extreme close-up shots were the evil women's face. The close up was mainly shown towards what she was doing so that the audience know that it is a very important part to the storyline. The dolly shot at the beginning gave the movie a very questionable (enigma codes) view because this is a Disney movie many people would have thought that this is very fairy-tale like however with the starting of this scene with the "missing person" poster it shows that there are two parts to the story that the audience needs to pay attention to. The long shots were used to show the settings and surroundings because two parts of the story was going on at once the long shots helped the audience to identify which part was about the princess because the setting was bright and colourful and which setting was linking to the villain and the hero.

Find and analyse one film or TV still image. Add the image to your blogpost. 

3) Analyse the camera shot/angle in the image and what it communicates to the audience. Remember to highlight the media terminology you use.

The medium close up shot of jasmine looking at Aladin when he comes as a "rich prince" shows the audience how changing someone identity can still make them recognisable by their 'true love' The medium close up shot shows how much power each character holds.